Elon Musk recently revealed why he does not like to play GTA on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast. The 54-year-old tech billionaire discussed his love for the 1999 film The Matrix, AI, the evolution of technology, and other interesting aspects on the almost two-hour-long podcast.
Elon Musk shares why he doesn’t play GTA
Elon Musk has confessed the real reason why he does not play GTA on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast. Kamath began by mentioning how he read that Musk used to ascribe to Spinoza’s God in a way. Musk explained, “One of the things Spinoza was saying is that you can have morals in the absolute. You don’t need to have morals to be handed to you.”
The duo discussed religion, morality, and the interesting correlation between the two concepts. Musk detailed Spinoza’s theory again. He stated, “The only point I was making in referencing Spinoza was that you can have a set of morals that make society functional and productive.”
As Musk talked about how common sense stops people from killing others without the need for a commandment or edict, Kamath suddenly asked, “Have you played GTA?”
Musk confessed, “I have only played a little bit of GTA because I didn’t like the fact that… like, in GTA V, you literally can’t progress unless you kill the police. And I’m like, ‘This doesn’t work for me.’ I actually don’t like killing the NPCs in the video games. That’s not my thing.”
Furthermore, Musk said, “I actually stopped when it said the only way to proceed is to shoot at the police. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ ”
The 54-year-old billionaire also weighed in on video games and how they have changed from the time he was a child to now, and the key role technology has played in their evolution.
Musk stated, “If you look at the advancement of video games, it’s gone from very simple video games where you have got, like, Pong, to photorealistic, real-time games with millions of people playing simultaneously.”
Continuing further, he stated, “And that’s happened just in the span of 50 years. So, if that trend continues, video games will be indistinguishable from reality. And we are also gonna have very intelligent characters, like non-player characters, in these video games.”
