In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere
on Mars, voting
on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics
vs. engineering, Edison
vs. Tesla, solar power, a
carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.
He may not be quite 100 %
on the relative merits of a
carbon tax vs. cap and trade, but he has most of the basic issues right, including the need for an auction.