Elon Musk - My Opinion on the Existence of Alien Life 

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Just what an alien would say...

He is one smart, extremely smart human being. We are watching brilliance unfold before us

You can't judge the probability of intelligent life forming elsewhere based upon our current observations. You can't even say it must not be super rare event. We literally have close to no information on the probabilities elsewhere based upon it forming on Earth. I think the only information we have is "it is possible, and it happened here." Even if we could trace the exact path here and determine the conditional probabilities, then it would only be the probabilities for one among potentially many paths to intelligent life (and we can't even do that, really at all, other than "it was a super rare thing"). Imagine a Powerball winner thinking "the odds I won are so low that I must have been chosen" when in reality a winner was eventually inevitable given the number of trials and any person that won could have thought the same thing. It could be that the odds of intelligent life forming are so low that it happened only once. It didn't have to have happened on Earth (this is where the inversion of "common sense" happens). If it had happened instead on a distant planet and taken a different evolutionary path, then the intelligent entities on that planet could also think "gee, it must not be the rarest thing if it happened here." So, the thinking of "it must be relatively common in the Universe because it happened on Earth" is faulty. Also, the thinking that any planet similar to Earth is equally likely to have life is also faulty because there are many things we don't know about that happened that are not totally dependent upon Earth's composition, distance from a star, etc. If everyone on Earth rolled a many-sided die simultaneously and your die came up "winner" or whatever, it is not possible to deduce the overall odds based upon only your observation of "winning." Unless you know more about the situation (number of trials, number of other "winners", etc) then you know next to nothing about the underlying odds. If anyone has a counter to this, I'd like to hear it. Probability problems are interesting because they are often counter-intuitive and invert our "common sense". What I've written is, I believe, so fundamentally true that I'm surprised that more folks don't discuss it in this context. It should be the basic framework of the probabilistic discussion. I've seen a counterargument as "but come on, do you really think we were that lucky?" but that is a faulty one because you are assuming the "we" (meaning Earthlings) and so you haven't yet understood the overall logic. It's very egocentric thinking. I think this might be glossed over in discussion by people that should know better simply because it is not an interesting solution to consider, but it is the simplest one.

If there is life on earth, there is life everywhere in the galaxy. Where there is water, there is life. And I imagine that earth is not the only planet with it.

They could just be too far away or too long ago. Spacetime is inconceivably huge. The odds of two civilizations arising, being able to communicate, and being close enough to communicate while both still exist, may just be too low.

We are still trying to secure intelligent life on earth ! R

What about signs of other beings before man on Earth?

Our existence gives a sign that there may be some alien life thriving beyond the cosmos.👽❤🙂

There are billions of galaxies we can’t even communicate with, so there is a very strong possibility that intelligent life is or has happened beyond our reach, that has to be considered.

The Earth has existed for 4.54 billion years, with consciousness emerging just 0.0066% into its history around 300,000 years ago, and while human knowledge has grown exponentially, the rapid and accelerating advancement of alien civilizations makes it highly unlikely that human consciousness and alien development phases would coincide, preventing coexistence.

To do that, we have to redefine the laws of physics and/or physiology

Addoro,quando ride 🕊🫂🥰🪷♾️❤️❤️‍🔥

This year will be crazy also we will meet this year the first one type off alien.😊

@1:16 "since civilization started " When did civilization start? Has civilization completed getting started? Maybe that's where we have to get to.

Does the burning ash leave the fire to start another? Does it burn out in the air? Or never leave the fire?

The aliens are fattening us up before they eat us

I find it perplexing when individuals assert that we are alone in the vastness of the universe. Our understanding of the universe, including concepts like gravity, time, and space, remains limited. Dismissing the possibility of extraterrestrial life appears as a display of extreme egotism. Just as historical figures once believed Earth was the center of the universe, assuming humanity holds a singular position seems equally shortsighted. Even esteemed figures like Elon Musk, despite their expertise, may overlook this broader perspective. Our inability to detect extraterrestrial life doesn't negate its existence; perhaps alien life exists abundantly, even within our own planet.

Who explained consciousness to Musk as a limitation? Why did Musk agree to believe it?

I have to think that aliens exist but that does not mean they are like humans nor are they likely visiting our rock.

Archeology.. what is Elon's opinion on Peruvian tridactyl mummified bodies (govt sent a special police unit to disband doctors and archaeologists gathering in Peru in April, 2024).. other tridactyl bodies, one with breastplate are being investigated by the Mexican govt. Why do these tridactyl bodies (3 legs and 3 toes) look human?

Civilisations started way back 10.000 years ago…. Come to India we show it in our temples and scripts

we are the aliens, we are what Graham Hancock said .. a species with amnesia

my aunts fight over perks

We are all guests on this planet you may be in $1 million Beverly Hills mansion or a Slum It doesn’t matter you’re still a guest and your stay will be short Until the next world

How does he *know* the dinosaurs didn't have spaceships? "If aliens exist my rockets are super-passe." Why is he blatantly ignoring military admissions?

We haven’t been able to fully send a satellite out of our galaxy yet. We are not intelligent enough to understand the universes’

oh hello dear human beings fellows, shall we do some things like other human beings do to have fun tonight ? just like...regular human beings that are absolutely not aliens under disguise ..ok ?

I think I see the formula here: First, laughingly and completely disregard any evidence which *_MIGHT_* indicate we are being visited by more-advanced non-human intelligence and refuse to look into the subject further, because of course it's all "laughable". Second, ask "where are all the aliens?" Finally, conclude we are alone in the universe because you don't see any evidence otherwise. Nice bit of circular reasoning there.

Wrong! 7:20

There probably were other conscious beings, but we exist at a different time. Aliens don't exist.

Elon is a deep thinker for sure.

Any Alien life out there would laugh at what we class as intelligence still walking out of the caves lol 😂

maybe Russia knows about aliens

If aliens exist in this expansive universe, i would say that human beings on planet Earth are the example of an alien civilization.

no sumerians anymore... who you been bombing in iraq for decades?

Dogs are aliens , we feed them house them , care for them. 🐶

He's speaking from a bound to Earth viewpoint because he doesn't have the capability of UFO technology that has been witnessed by many... He doesn't know in otherwords..... Just like most who can only guess... He thinks he knows everyhing but clearly doesn't.. I think he's interesting person but clearly doesn't know everything just because he's rich and good at certain technology which is in a corporative monopoly sense because of the pattent system and corporate control of technology... Obviously there's a better way and much better capability.... Having seen UFO's myself, I can certainly say they are not from here and much more advanced... Elon avoids the subject and tries to dumb it down for simple minds as if just because he's a rich billionare technolgiest that only he can only understand it..