The ‘Uncanny Valley’: The Tech Elite on the Epstein Files, Musk’s Mega Merger, and the Cryptocurrency Scam Complex

Leah Weiger: Talk about it. Yes. definitely.

Brian Barrett: Yes. It’s just this network. This fills the web.

Leah Weiger: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, these are the tech giants.

Brian Barrett: Yes. Even in 2019, I think some of these people were in active contact.

Leah Weiger: amazing. So, speaking of Elon, he’s also been in the news this week for something completely different, aka turning xAI into SpaceX, officially creating the world’s most valuable private company. We have to talk about it.

Brian Barrett: Yes. I know you love…this combines your two favorite things.

Leah Weiger: Oh yes. definitely.

Brian Barrett: Artificial Intelligence and Elon Musk.

Leah Weiger: Uh huh.

Brian Barrett: Leah, can I also interest you in a possible third favorite?

Leah Weiger: Oh, hit me, Brian.

Brian Barrett: Can I interest you in data centers in space?

Leah Weiger: So that’s what he promised, right?

Brian Barrett: Yes.

Leah Weiger: I’m actually very interested in data centers.

Brian Barrett: Oh, good.

Leah Weiger: Molly Taft, our wonderful climate correspondent in the Science Desk, completely converted me on how important it is to engage with them. I hate them, but I’m very interested in them. So he wants to build a data center in space. What does that mean? What is the ground solution? Please clarify all these matters.

Brian Barrett: Well, basically, yes. So Elon Musk’s idea is to combine SpaceX and xAI. And just to back up a second, SpaceX is probably Elon Musk’s most popular, non-controversial company.

Leah Weiger: It’s his rocket company.

Brian Barrett: Yes. It’s his rocket company. They basically privatized NASA, partly because NASA capitulated. Anyway…

Leah Weiger: no.

Brian Barrett: The future of American space truly depends on SpaceX in many ways.

Leah Weiger: If Jeff Bezos is listening to this podcast, he just has–

Brian Barrett: Sorry, Blue Origin. Yes. Oh, my God.

Leah Weiger: internal.

Brian Barrett: Terrible day. The original blue is there too. So, on the one hand, you have this kind of future of space travel in the United States, and on the other hand, you have xAI, which is Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company that continues to strip women without their consent.

Leah Weiger: It is also X, formerly known as Twitter.

Brian Barrett: Yes. And now they will all be the same.

Leah Weiger: Ex-Twitter employees, did they make a lot of money from this? What is happening? How are all these companies now the same thing? None of this has anything to do with each other other than Elon Musk.

Brian Barrett: So he would argue differently. And so the argument he’s going to make is that for AI to get to where it needs to be, wherever it is, and undress more women faster, for it to get there, there’s literally not enough energy on Earth to make that happen. So what you have to do is go out into space and harness the sun’s energy to power artificial intelligence. And who’s really good at getting out into space and harnessing things? SpaceX.