Elon Musk Explains Baby Name Choice | Joe Rogan

Here we go, Gabe. Great to see you and congratulations. Thank you. You will never forget what is going on in the world when you think about when your child is born. You will know for the rest of this child's life, you were born during a weird time. That's for sure. That is for sure. Probably the weirdest that I can remember. Yeah, yeah. And he was born on May the 4th. And that's Lares too. Yeah. May the 4th be with him. Has to be. I sure hope so. Perfect. I mean, that was the perfect day for you. How do you say the name? Well, is it a placeholder? First of all, my partner is the one that actually mostly came up with the name. Congratulations to her. Yeah, she's great at names. So I mean, it's just X, the letter X. And then the AE is pronounced Ash. Yeah. And then A12 is my contribution. Oh, why A12? Archangel 12, the precursor to the SR-71, coolest plane ever. I agree with you. I don't know. I'm not familiar with it. I know what the SR-71 is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know what that is. So the SR-71 came from a CIA program called Archangel. So the Archangel Project. And then Archangel 12. Oh, wow. What a dope looking plane. Yeah. Oh, OK. I get it. Well, as a person who's very much into aerial travel, as you are, that's perfect. It's pretty great. Pretty great. So does it feel strange to have a child while this craziness is going? You've had children before. Is this any weirder? Actually, I think it's better being older and having a kid. I appreciate it more. Mm. Yeah. Because babies are awesome. They are pretty awesome. They are awesome. Yeah. When I didn't have any of my own, I would see other people's kids. And I didn't not like them. Sure. But I wasn't drawn to them. Sure. But now when I see little people's kids, I'm like, oh, I think of them like these little love packages. Yeah, the little love books. Yeah. It's just you think of them differently. When you see them, you're like, oh, I'm going to show them differently. When you see them come out and then grow and then eventually start talking to you, your whole idea of what a baby is is very different. Yeah. So now as you get older and get to appreciate it as a mature, fully formed adult, it must be really pretty wonderful. Yeah. Wonderful. It's great. Babies are awesome. They are? Yeah. That's great. Yeah. I've spent a lot of time on AI and neural nets. And so you can see the brain develop, which is an AI neural net is trying to simulate what a brain does, basically. And you can see it learning very quickly. It's just, wow. See things fire. So you're talking about the neural net. You're not talking about an actual baby. I'm talking about an actual baby. But both of them. Yes, but the word neural net comes from the brain. It's like a net of neurons. So it's like the humans are the original gangster neural net. That's a great way to put it.