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I love the sweep of this, it's inspirational. But I do have my doubts whether the regime would criticise these goals of Musk's if he were doing them while obedient to regime values. If he was just building cars the state can spy on and remotely control, and putting satellites into orbit to spy on us, they might just coopt his Mars aspirations to glorify the greatness of the regime.

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Agreed. If you look at the companies Musk owns and operates -- many of them are part of the Transhumanist, anti-human future, particularly Neuralink and XAI. We do need to praise Musk when he supports life, but we must also censure when he sides with the death cult.

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I agree. I tried briefly to address that point near the top of the article, but it deserves a long-form piece. I wrote the following and will expand on it at a later date: "This is not the same thing as technological utopianism or effective accelerationism, which present grave challenges and opportunities for humanity. To be clear, Musk may be of that sort. For purposes of this article, though, Musk is relevant because heтАЩs like Magellan, or the Mayflower voyagers, or Louis and Clark, or Chuck Yeager, or just plain old homesteaders moving West in 1830s America, not because he may also be like Ray Kurzweil."

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