ClaimsElon Musk

“then the outcome for humanity will be the sum of human will, the sum of billions of people’s desire for the future.”

Elon Musk, interviewee 7 September 2018 Joe Rogan Experience #1169 with Elon Musk (Transcript) (Singju Post) archived copy

Prediction Philosophy, ethics and society

If billions of people adopt cognitive enhancement, humanity's outcome will be the sum of billions of people's desires for the future.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Conditional speculation with no horizon.

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Elon Musk, “If billions of people adopt cognitive enhancement, humanity's outcome will be the sum of billions of people's desires for the future.” (said 7 September 2018). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0def5d1598fd, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0def5d1598fd

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