As I write this, the show is about 15 minutes in (we're at the first commercial) and my only problem with Musk's commentary about AI so far is that he conflates GOVERNMENT "regulation" with ACTUAL, non-government regulation.
EVERY GOVERNMENT REGULATORY BODY IS CORRUPT and (at this point) becomes corrupted before even opening its doors. The first federal regulatory agency oversaw the railroads, and very quickly the Railway Barons understood that the agency could be used as a buffer between the Barons and the People.
When Congress created the first U.S. regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in 1887, the railroad barons it was meant to subdue quickly recognized an opportunity. 'It satisfies the popular clamor for a government supervision of railroads at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal,' observed the railroad lawyer Richard Olney. 'Further, the older such a commission gets to be, the more inclined it will be found to take the business and railroad view of things. It thus becomes a sort of barrier between the railroad corporations and the people and a sort of protection against hasty and crude legislation hostile to railroad interests.'
From Understanding Obamacare, 2009, by Luke Mitchel in Harper's Magazine (link no longer active)
In contrast, private-sector regulators such as Underwriter Laboratories and the National Fire Protection Association -- both founded in the late 1800s -- provide (or did; the UL in particular has been co-opted by government in recent decades, I hear) honest regulation that -- very much unlike GOVERNMENT "regulation" -- benefits BOTH industry and the public. Prices stay low, safety is high, and corruption is kept to a minimum by the threat and/or actuality of competition.
Regulations are often just warfare.
Silly example but I'm tired right now...
Imagine a massive pharmaceutical company is feeling threatened by a smaller pharmaceutical company. Rather than duking it out on the free market, the big pharmaceutical company lobbies for building code regulations in the name of "safety". Big pharm isn't worried about the cost of upgrading their building, as it's a little expense (much less expensive than continued competition). The little pharmaceutical company IS worried about the regulation because their cash on hand/cash flow will thin out fast since they're new. Big pharm lobbies for other things for a full court onslaught. Small pharm can't keep up. Big pharm wins and buys little pharm. All the while big pharm got both the market share and the good optics.
Your example isn't the least bit silly, MEGAMAGAULTRA. I've seen similar things play out repeatedly up and down the political / regulatory chain from local to federal.
One of the bigger challenges is that regulators are not nearly as smart as the people they are regulating. One of the continuing problems with regulation is that it is used by the first movers and big companies to shut out competition.
Active link for Luke Mitchel's Understanding Obamacare:
http://www.lukemitchell.org/2012/11/harpers-magazine-understanding-obamacare.html
From the article:
Yes, those about to be "regulated" by Obamacare spent $150 million to help get Obamacare passed. THAT is how government "regulation" works: it pretends to help or protect consumers while instead enriching and "partnering" with the regulated industry. In the case of the FDA, for instance, this has lead to insanely high prices for pharmaceuticals, repeated FDA approval of drugs that are unsafe and often deadly, and forcible withdrawal from the market of actual safe and effective products that Pharma either wants a monopoly on or wants to no longer compete with.
What was on Elon's shirt? Could that shed light as to his true positions and motivations?
I couldn't tell what it was.
It seems like a big missed reference, not sure why nobody has picked up on it. I browsed pol and GAW all night trying to find somebody smarter than me picking up on it. You dont just wear a tshirt with gibberish on it for a supposedly important interview and the gibberish doesn't mean something. It looked like webdings or some weird script like that and I assume it is comms related