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Feb. 19, 2025 - The David Knight Show
16:04
Elon Musk's AI god: Summoning Global Governance
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CEO of NVIDIA said, look at that.
They put in like a thousand of these GPUs.
I've never seen anybody get this much done as Musk's organization is doing.
He said it truly is remarkable how quickly they put this data center up in Memphis.
And right after that happened, he went on with Jordan Peterson.
And the two of them were talking about that data center that is now, it was just the last 48 hours, I guess.
That they released Grok 3 and said that according to benchmarks, it is now the number one AI. They keep leapfrogging each other with each new release.
But this is what was said between Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk.
You said you were up until four in the morning?
Yeah, actually a little more like five in the morning.
Okay.
We got to the...
The XAI Data Center or Super Computer Center training from...
Beginning installation to start of training in 19 days, which is the fastest that anyone has ever gotten a supercomputer to train.
And is that in that new building off to the side?
That's in Memphis, actually.
It's in Memphis?
Yeah.
So that's where you were?
Yeah.
I see.
Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, you're bringing what?
Perhaps that's where our new God will come from.
Yeah, no kidding.
No kidding.
Perhaps that's where our new God will come from.
He said.
And Jordan Peterson, yeah, right.
No kidding.
No kidding.
You know, Elon Musk has famously said, with AI, we're summoning the demon.
Now he says it's the new God.
Meet your new God, a demon.
And we know that.
We know what is happening with this.
And that is, you know, people, whether you're a believer or not, you should be concerned about this.
Because this is about what we've been prepared.
They've been preparing us with this.
You want to talk about predictive programming and preparation.
Think about how we have been prepared for this pretty much every science fiction thing.
I remember back in the 1970s when I was first exposed to mainframe computers and things like that at college.
Think about how we have been prepared for this pretty much every science fiction thing.
I remember back in the 1970s when I was first exposed to...
You know, mainframe computers and things like that at college.
And at that time, it's this big computer complex.
At USF, we had IBM mainframe.
It's very expensive, and they would keep track of every...
Byte of memory that you would use and every fraction of a second of CPU time that you would use.
They had this one giant computer, and it handled all the administrative as well as the academic work for two universities, USF, and then there was another small university somewhere.
And so all of the engineering and computer programming and math students would use it as well as all of the accounting stuff.
And we would all stand in line.
And, you know, wait for the deep thought, you know, access to this thing.
And I thought, this is so perverse, you know.
I hate the centralization.
It's one of the things that really drove me towards libertarianism.
This futility of centralization.
You know, a lot of people who've escaped a communist society, boy, they can smell it a while away.
Well, in a sense...
We had this all-important, all-expensive computer that we all waited and served, and we're all sitting there waiting for the computer.
I said, this is so perverse, the computer ought to be waiting for us.
And so when personal computers came around, it's like, that's the way it ought to be.
I ought to have this computer sitting there doing no-ops, waiting for me to interact with it rather than the other way around.
So this whole centralization stuff, but the reason I mention that is because we've been conditioned.
From science fiction, from entertainment, we've been conditioned from our interactions with early mainframe computers.
Oh, this thing is like tens of millions of dollars!
And it's so precious, and it's so expensive, and it's so intelligent.
Look at how fast it can add numbers.
Now, it's got some other tricks.
But folks, it is still artificial intelligence.
It's not real intelligence.
The problem has always been that people would look at Something coming out of the computer and give too much weight to it, too much importance to it, defer to it, as I pointed out last week.
They've done a study with AI, and they found that people, you know, it's a combination of it being an authority as well as the pressure of a group.
You know, it's not like the Ash experiment as well as the Milgram experiment.
They found that 65% of the people would change their answer.
And even if they didn't change their answer, it gave them a great deal of unease to go against the computer.
And so they said, this is very dangerous.
There's a lot of conformity built into this.
We want to worship something like that, that has answers, right?
The heart is an idol factory.
We're always looking for idols to worship.
You know that, I know that, if you're honest.
You know, is it going to be a sports figure?
Is it going to be this or that?
Well, when it comes to intellectual pursuits, it's very easy, because we've been told all of our life.
That computers have got the answer.
And if they don't have the full answer now, they're going to have the full answer pretty soon.
And that is exactly what Elon Musk is telling people with the release of Grok 3. Welcome to the Grok 3 presentation.
So the mission of XAI and Grok is to understand the universe.
We want to understand the nature of the universe so we can figure out what's going on, where are the aliens, what's the meaning of life, how does the universe end, how did it start, all these fundamental questions.
We're driven by curiosity about the nature of the universe, and that's also what causes us to be a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.
In order to understand the nature of the universe, you must absolutely rigorously pursue truth, or you will not understand the universe.
You will be suffering from some amount of delusion or error.
So that is our goal.
Yeah.
So, how do you understand the universe?
You're not going to look at the book that the creator of the universe gave us, the Bible.
You're not going to do that.
No, instead, you're going to ask Grok, and Grok is going to find out all the big questions.
You know, where did the universe come from?
How does it end?
When does it end?
All the rest of this stuff.
Where are the aliens?
Not if there are aliens, but where are they?
And, most importantly, what is the meaning of life?
Professing to be wise, they became fools.
You know, Douglas Adams did Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I could not help but think about that as he says, well, we have Grok 3, and it does have a deep thought mode, and you can find out the meaning of life in this thing.
Many millions of years ago, a race of hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings got so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life that they commissioned two of their brightest and best to design and build a stupendous supercomputer to calculate the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Oh, Deep Thoughts.
We want you to tell us the answer.
The answer to what?
The answer to life.
The universe.
Everything.
We really like an answer.
Something simple.
We have to think about that.
Return to this place in exactly seven and a half million years.
Go back to Memphis in seven and a half million years.
We want to know the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
And that's what Elon Musk has said.
This guy's a huckster if there ever was one.
Come on.
He is so full of sci-fi BS. He doesn't even understand what a parody he is.
We're going to summon the demons.
We're going to find the meaning of life and all the rest of the stuff.
But look, there is a real concern because of what I said.
The fact that most people will defer.
65% of the people are going to go with whatever AI says.
And, you know, they don't understand garbage in, garbage out.
They don't understand biases and so forth.
And he has rejected, he says, oh, we've got to pursue truth.
Rigorously pursue truth.
But he rejects the truth of the Bible.
He rejects the truth that we see all around us, that we are created.
Perhaps he explains that by the aliens.
And so then the question becomes, Is the Bible the way that the Creator has spoken to us?
And I think if you look at it from so many different angles, you can look at it historically.
You can look at it prophetically.
They don't look at it at all.
And so this ought to concern even the unbelievers because of this imitation of intelligence and because you've got hucksters like this transhumanist demon.
You want to summon the demons?
They're in the White House, okay?
This is a guy who wants to use Neuralink to hack into your brain.
This is a guy who says you must join with artificial intelligence or die.
You must become a cyborg.
He and Peter Thiel are pushing the singularity, folks.
This is where they're headed.
And he's part of the mRNA stuff as well.
Genetic modification, you name it.
He ticks every one of these boxes.
And so it's become much more convincing.
And you're going to have to be much more discerning.
And you have to teach that to your children and your grandchildren.
It's kind of interesting to look at how loved and how hated the Musk and Trump are.
And I think a lot of it has to do with the attitudes of both the left and the right towards money.
Many on the left are envious, and that breeds a hatred.
Many on the right are covetous, and that breeds love of this money.
Neither one of these things are where we want to be, folks.
So they look at these billionaires, and it's like, oh, that's great.
They must really be smart, and maybe I could be a billionaire someday, too, especially if we get a $5,000 check from Doge.
Now, both of these extremes...
Are falling off the horse on one side or the other.
I remember when I was in high school, my dad used to always get Business Week, and I used to read it more than he did, actually.
And I remember there was one story that really stuck out with me.
And it was one guy who was coming from Europe.
They called it urosclerosis.
Urosclerosis said...
Europe has so many regulations.
It's like hardening of the arteries.
It's choking it to death.
And that's really the problem in America as well.
It's not getting rid necessarily of bureaucrats because, as Elon Musk said, we want to minimize government, but we want to maximize governance.
And so it's not going to be a victory for us.
If we are no longer regulated by bureaucrats with their massive paper files and their 3x5 cards like you saw with the sensors in Germany, they have this big wall of folders of papers in them that they've been keeping track of with people.
Now, instead of folders with papers stuffed in them and 3x5 cards, you have the efficiency of the computer.
And artificial intelligence to maximize governance.
So that's not going to be a victory for us.
But getting back to the story about Europe and eurosclerosis at the time.
And this would have been back in, I was in high school, so that would have been early 1970s.
And this one guy illustrated it perfectly.
He said, it's the attitude of people in Europe versus the attitude of people in America.
And really what it...
Reflects today is the attitude of the left in America versus the right in America.
And so what he said was, the Europeans will see somebody that has a very, very expensive sports car, let's say a Ferrari.
And they see it there, and they're likely to key it.
Just take their key and scrape it along the side, because they hate those people who are rich.
They have no aspirations to become rich.
They envy it.
And they hate it.
He says, whereas in America, somebody sees a Ferrari and they look at it and say, one day I'm going to have one of those.
Covetousness and the love of money, which can be the root of all evil.
Money is not evil.
It's the love of money that is evil.
And so, you know, when we look at this on an individual level, what do we do with this?
I mean, we can't change political parties and we can't change Washington.
So what can we change?
Well, with God's help and a lot of work, you can change yourself a little bit.
You're not going to change politics in Washington.
And so, we've been told that godliness with contentment is great gain, right?
And what does that mean?
What is godliness?
Well, that means a reverence for God.
Being focused on God.
Being focused on God as your provider.
Being content with what He provides.
Resting on his promises in the future, that breeds contentment.
And so, that's also in 1 Timothy 6, that's where you have the phrase repeated, the love of money is the root of all evil.
And he also says, we don't bring anything into this world, and for sure we're not going to take anything out of this world.
And that really needs to be our understanding, because it's true.
It really is true.
He also says, don't fall into the trap of foolish Harmful lusts that drowned men.
Now, you know, we look at this in both the left and the right.
What do we see them lusting after?
Well, the left has basically given up on money.
They're envious.
They hate it.
But they've got a lot of lusts, don't they, in terms of all these sexual aberrations.
That's where they spend their time.
But other people can spend their time chasing money, loving money, chasing power.
And, you know, doers.
We're doing stuff.
People like Elon Musk.
And they will drown in those harmful lusts.
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