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He is very influenced by The Culture of Iain Banks. They're really good sci-fi... and describe a hedonistic world where machines do the hard thinking and bidding of the biologicals.

> Musk pointed to The Culture series by Iain M. Banks as his best “imagining” of this world. The science fiction novels depict a utopian future where citizens can have virtually anything they want thanks to AI—making money obsolete and leaving citizens free to spend their time doing whatever they love.

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>>shagie+(OP)
If Musk was in the Culture universe, he'd be Veppers

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>>turtle+YD1
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1008121639337320454

> [I recommend] all of them, especially Surface Detail