Musk envisions a 'sentient sun': harnessing solar energy to build digital superintelligence
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-11
Elon Musk laid out a cosmic-scale vision: with the Sun holding 99.86% of the solar system's mass and Earth a mere 'rounding error,' humanity will eventually harness stellar energy to build digital superintelligence — what he calls creating a 'sentient sun.' He even speculates many sentient suns may already exist across the universe, continuing his narrative of pushing compute expansion to astrophysical scales.
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