ETA: Ninja’d by @SunUp.
Yes, @Steve_MB, @SunUp, and @Smapti just above got the allusion. It’s about split personalities at war with each other. Musk is evidently doing two separate things in pursuit of conflicting goals with a self-destructive outcome. With a lot of collateral damage.
It’s not about ethnicities.
In retrospect that allusion was a bit too subtle / out of context and probably flew over many readers’ heads. I should have been more explicit given the touchiness of the plain-language reading. Or picked a different allusion altogether.
Thank you for raising an eyebrow. Thank you also for not throwing rotten tomatoes nor summoning a mob with pitchforks.
Or maybe something anyone born in the last 50 years might know about 
I hadn’t the faintest idea. (born in '75). I sometimes feel like I’m the only one here who has never seen Star Trek.
BURN THE HERETIC!!!
Hey, I got it. Not that that means anything except you were clear to at least one dork.
I’m older and also had no idea what it meant, but I assumed @LSLGuy was talking about something I just didn’t know about, because he’s a good guy. 
I say @pulykamell should watch a carefully curated list of OG Star Trek episodes to get the various references, in the same way a well read individual in Western Civilization should have read a smattering of Shakespeare, the Bible (as literature), and other classic works.
Of course, I say this but refuse to be involved in a long, drawn out battle in determining which episodes Must be seen, because a war over that would be so destructive that entire civilizations fail, leaving few if any survivors. 
Hey, I totally got it, and I’m only a casual Star Trek fan. Plus, I’m totally dense.
As an aside, I’ve always thought there should be a list of clips/shows/movies to be watched to “catch up” on Western culture.
Could be curated in terms of who you want to be able to relate to:
“Need to follow along with semi-geniuses on a fun-yet-nitpicky messageboard? Here’s your list…”
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eta: Does the Reader own my multi-million dollar idea now? Rats!
I’d just like to get this on the record for future conversations: do you believe him?
Because I think he’s lying, and I think as time passes that will become clear as Musk is a notorious liar. To be clear, I think he’s telling the truth that he doesn’t want to advance AI, but rather understanding the world has nothing to do with why he wants to develop AI. He seems it as a money making scheme because he knows he can sucker Musk fanboys into flocking to the Musk approved AI, that will be “anti-woke”.
Like this?
That’s exactly what I came here to mention!
I have no evidence one way or the other. My guess is that just like everything else it will wind up being a standard commercial venture and they’ll make money where they can.
I heard that Musk spent ‘hundreds of millions’ on signing bonuses to get the best AI guys around. So he’s serious about this, but I’m not even sure what “learning about the world” means. Pure scientific research? Improving AI? I have no idea.
What is that? Is that list on a list somewhere of things I should know about?
Yeah, me too. Do I need to have been born in the last 50 years or the previous fifty?
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Add Captain America: The Winter Soldier to the list of pop culture references.
Really the only one you need. “I didn’t get that reference.”
Is that Disco or Pisco? Because there’s a big difference.
Twitter is not working for me. I can see some tweets but when I try to look at individual user accounts it’s blank.