Schmidhuber replies to Musk's alien puzzle with 'I've thought about this since the 1970s'
tokenbender · x · 2026-11-06
After Elon Musk tweeted that it troubles him we see no sign of aliens, Jürgen Schmidhuber replied that he has thought about it since the 1970s and pointed to Section 20 of his own reference — prompting jokes about him as a modern academic Sisyphus.
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