Does @elonmusk even want to go to Mars? “2024 is the year when Elon stopped believing in Mars.” - @peterthiel Mars was never just about science; it was a plan for a whole new society. In the latest Interesting Times with @DouthatNYT episode, Peter Thiel tells a story about a meeting with Demis Hassabis from DeepMind, where Demis told Elon his AI could follow him to Mars. That moment made Elon go quiet, and Thiel thinks it took him a year to process what it meant. If woke A.I. and the U.S. government can follow you to Mars, then maybe Mars isn’t an escape anymore? So maybe you have to fight those things on Earth instead of escaping 🤷‍♂️