Elon Musk did a ‘NSFW’ strip tease dance and the cringe is too much to bear
Elon Musk has performed a slightly-disturbing ‘NSFW’ dance in front of an audience in China.
The billionaire tech mogul mimicked the movements of a striptease, before doing the famous ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ moves during an event held at a Tesla Gigafactory production facility near Shanghai.
He was moved into motion by Axwell and Ingrosso’s song ‘More Than You Know’, before passing the mic to an assistant, throwing off his jacket and apparently threatening to take off even more clothes.
However, Musk did not strip off any more of his outer garments and opted to remain fully-clad throughout his performance.
The Chinese audience appeared to love the display, with a number of people filming Musk in action and posted videos to Twitter which captured the cringe from every angle.
At Tesla Giga Shanghai NSFW!! pic.twitter.com/1yrPyzJQGZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2020
‘Don’t worry, that’s just Elon doing crack again,’ quipped one of Elon’s followers in a statement which was not meant to be a serious allegation of drug-taking (which is what his legal team argued about the term ‘pedo-guy’ during a recent libel case against a hero British cave diver).
‘That’s more awkward-looking than the truck,’ another follower opined.
One of Elon’s many fans then added: ”I love how genuine and clumsy he is. A hero.’
As well as working his demanding day jobs, Elon Musk has a side-gig as a memelord and social media drama-monger.
He has amassed a 30-million-strong ‘MuskBro’ army and has become so popular on the internet that PewDiePie invited him to host his Meme Review show.
We’ll let you decide the significance of his NSFW dance in our poll below.
Elon’s now always so cheery and is an outspoken doom-monger who fears super-smart computers are destined to conquer the Earth and annihilate humanity.
Last year – an era before he did the dreaded dance and changed everything – Elon issued a warning about the dangers of denying the threat that ‘super-intelligence’ poses to our species.
On Twitter, Musk responded to a tweet from the writer Robert McFarlane, who quoted a New York Times article and wrote: ‘I wonder if the essence of climate denial among disbelieving Americans…is an unwillingness to accept there is anything in this world so powerful it could overrule them.’
Musk then replied: ‘Same goes for digital superintelligence denial.’
The subtext of this tweet suggests the rise of the machines is a threat comparable to the dangers of climate change.
Elon’s fears are shared by many experts – most notably the late Stephen Hawking – yet is quite out of step with some of the billionaire techno-optimists of Silicon Valley.
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Last year, it was claimed that Google founder Larry Page dismissed Elon’s fears as ‘speciesist’ during an argument at a Napa Valley party in 2015.
A top professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alleged the two tech moguls clashed in a ‘long and spirited debate’ in the early hours of the morning.
In his book Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark wrote: ‘[Page’s] main concerns were that AI paranoia would delay the digital utopia and/or cause a military takeover of AI that would fall foul of Google’s “don’t be evil” slogan.
‘Elon kept pushing back and asked Larry to clarify details of his arguments, such as why he was so confident that digital life wouldn’t destroy everything we care about.
‘At times, Larry accused Elon of being “speciesist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.’
Tegmark and Page were talking about a children’s book called ‘The Day My Butt Went Psycho’ at the party before the two billionaires locked horns ‘after cocktails’.
The MIT professor said Page is a ‘passionate’ supporter of digital utopianism, which holds that robots and AI are not a threat to the future of our species.
‘Larry [said] that digital life is the natural and desirable next step in the cosmic evolution and that if we let digital minds be free rather than try to stop or enslave them the outcome is almost certain to be good,’ he continued.
‘He argued that if life is ever going to spread throughout our galaxy, which he thought it should, then it would need to do so in digital form.’
Elon Musk isn’t alone in his fears about the development of artificial intelligence.
Last year, Professor Stephen Hawking said AI is likely to ‘replace humans altogether’ and become a ‘new form of life that will outperform’ our fleshy, flabby species.