Elon says he is a “utopian anarchist” as defined by Iain M. Banks—who wrote a series about a futuristic spacefaring society called “the Culture.” Elon’s favorite volume Surface Detail stars an inconceivably rich sadistic oligarch named Joiler Veppers. Veppers secretly controls 70% of his civilization’s computing infrastructure. But his data centers are unique. Veppers stores AIs which torture the digital consciousness of people who have been condemned to be punished for all time. The torture chambers are called Hells, and Veppers rents them out to governments to make himself rich. The way people are uploaded to Hells is a technology called “neural lace” which is a chip that interfaces with your brain. In a different book, neural lace is called “the most efficient torture device ever created.” Another thing Veppers does with his data centers is use his AIs to covertly interfere with other civilizations’ interstellar wars when he wants. Kind of like crippling Starlink in Ukraine. Elon Musk is living in a demented science fiction alternate reality. Except it’s real enough to kill a lot more actual people.