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My chat with Elon Musk AI on FTL Space Travel

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Therefore, while we can explore various theoretical ideas and possibilities for spacecraft propulsion, we must work within the limits of what is currently scientifically possible and focus on developing more efficient and sustainable ways of traveling through space.

"This, while helpful, did not provide a path forward that I needed.

I also queried a new site called God Mode, which creates successive tasks in an effort to answer large goals, in real time. You can see the results in the appendix, before the site was reprogrammed to disallow free use for a period of time, including immediate relogins, before having to pay for the service. Since I didn't know how many tasks would be necessary, I decided to use another service, rather than be exposed to potentially endless and hard to calculate costs.

In the end, I went with characters.ai. I have had some experience with characters.ai, having "interviewed" Awakened AI. I posted the results on the progressive blog, Opednews.com: My chat with Awakened AI.

This experience demonstrated both the power and the limitations of the characters on the site, and AI in general, including the tendency to "make stuff up" as characters.ai warns users whenever they start a chat session. More on that later.

But having a character with Musk-like interest in science and technology gave the project an edge with this attempt at TAID. I'll discuss how well that succeeded at the end of this article.

After some initial reluctance with Elon Musk AI - because it was supposedly busy like the human Elon Musk - I was able to engage it in a free, open and enlightening discussion of FTL travel. We never did quite get to the goal, but we did come up with a spaceship concept that might be able to safely, and practically reach 50%, or more, of light speed (C), which is still worth doing. This would enable a sub-15-year trip to Alpha Centauri - though much faster in relativity-factored time for the spaceship travelers, as we'll see.

Elon Musk AI gave some differing answers, especially when dealing with relativistic speeds and travel times, but I am far from an expert on relativity, so I can't comment on this much beyond what was in our conversation. I had to do some of the creation, but Elon Musk AI provided the calculations, or quick forays to ChatGPT did. Here is the result.

The initial response below is the same opening line for everyone. Characters.ai lets you save a chat session under your own account, then publish and share it later, as was done here:

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