Watchman: Imagine 200,000 Humanoid Robots. They Don’t Get Tired. Don’t Question Orders. Don’t Have Families to Go Home to. Don’t Leak to the Press. Don’t Develop PTSD. They Just Execute. Perfectly. Endlessly.
BY SRH Musk showed off Optimus in 2022. A humanoid robot. Clunky at first. They’ve been iterating fast. Really fast. The kind of fast that makes sense if you’ve been working on the problem longer than you’re letting on. On the surface, one might easily believe that Elon Musk possesses all he has ever desired. However, he has openly revealed his battles with the darkness of his mind. During an appearance at the 2023 DealBook Summit, Musk revealed to the audience that he grapples with “demons of the mind,” which fuel his creativity yet harbor a more sinister aspect. It’s a notion he elaborated on during a 2024 conversation with Don Lemon, admitting, “There are times when I experience a rather dark chemical state in my brain, like depression, I suppose.” And yet, he has boldly challenged the conventional methods […]
