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A Riverboat Conversation on Mars

When the founder of Tesla meets the father of satire, things get dusty fast.

This could be a mismatch but what hell, let’s do it. Image by Jeff x Image Generator 4o

Mark Twain Interviews Elon Musk on AI, Superintelligence, and Whether Humanity Deserves a Second Chance.

Editor’s Note:

In this exclusive interview that defies both time and astrophysics and well, decency, we imagine an unfiltered conversation between Elon Musk and a resurrected, rejuvenated Mark Twain. On a red-tinged Martian terrace, the two discuss AI, superintelligence, and the wisdom — or lunacy — of building a civilization 140 million miles from home. One man believes we must escape Earth to survive. The other thinks we might just be exporting our idiocy at scale.

Scene:
A dusty red landscape stretches to the horizon, peppered with jagged basalt rock and sparkling solar panels. The “terrace” isn’t truly open-air — it only feels that way. A massive, ultra-clear graphene dome curves overhead, shielding the atmosphere-controlled interior from the lethal cold and 1% atmospheric pressure outside.

It’s a nice place to sit, if you’re on Mars.

It’s been engineered to mimic Earth: faux-wooden decking, filtered sunlight through…