“I would like to make it less terrifying by making fun of it because you just can’t be terrifying if you’re rococo,” he said. “I just thought it sounded prettier than Roko’s Basilisk, like adding a rococo element just elevates it,” she said. Musk laughed, agreeing, “Rococo basilisk is no joke!” Intending to make a pun about Rococo Basilisk, he was Googling for an image of a basilisk with a rococo flair when he came across a 2015 music video for “Flesh Without Blood,” in which Grimes dresses as a rococo basilisk. who tortures those who didn’t help it become our overlord. that would wipe out humanity, was about to tweet a pun about a thought experiment called Roko’s Basilisk, about a wicked A.I.
Musk, who spent years warning that his friends in Silicon Valley, like Google’s Larry Page, may inadvertently be “summoning the demon” and creating killer robots or an invisible evil A.I. I love how-people-met stories, but this was the wildest one I’d ever heard: Two famous people who thought they were crazy when they were little because there were so many off-the-wall ideas bursting out of their heads somehow found each other.
On the back of my tuxedo jacket - which was sort of like an inverted priest jacket with the jacket being white and the collar being black - I had in big, black, gothic script, “Novus ordo seclorum.” (Often translated as “New secular order,” the maxim on the dollar bill.) “There was only one person who noticed and that was Stephen Colbert. “She was wearing a head piece made of Vantablack, the blackest black that anything could be,” he recalled to me. Musk made their public debut at the Met Gala in 2018, which had a Catholic theme. Heard in 2017, he told Neil Strauss in a Rolling Stone cover story: “If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.” He added that he needed a soul mate because he hates “being in a big empty house, and the footsteps echoing through the hallway, no one there - and no one on the pillow next to you.” Visibly distraught over his breakup with Ms. Riley by lavishing her with 500 roses and a gospel choir to serenade her. Musk said.Ĭertainly, the titan can be a romantic. “We’ve had this debate of ‘Are you more crazy than me or am I more crazy than you?’” Mr. I wonder how it works with two such exotic birds. “She’s one of the most unusual people I’ve ever met.” Musk said, with his lilting South African accent. “Yeah, she’s pretty special, that’s for sure,” Mr. Musk’s dream girl - and she has talked about going through a Wiccan phase in seventh grade. (The story, by Brian Hiatt, described Grimes’s Targaryen blanket and her description of herself and the baby as nocturnal creatures.)Ī fan on her Reddit page described her as a hybrid of a fairy, a witch and a cyborg - pretty much Mr. Now comes an intriguing romance with Grimes, 32, who when she was pregnant floated in ethereal cyber-goth images by Charlotte Rutherford for a Rolling Stone digital cover. Musk said mischievously, breaking into his famous giggle. “If Johnny wants a cage fight, just let me know,” Mr. Heard that was read in court, threatening to slice off a sensitive part of Mr. I noted that the actor employed some smack talk worthy of a pirate in a text message to Ms. Musk chuckled again, saying: “Well, yeah, I hope he recovers from this situation.” Depp’s deprecation of him as “Mollusk,” Mr. Heard: “For the two of them, I would just recommend that they bury the hatchet and move on.”Īsked about Mr. So I think people think these things are generally more salacious than they are.” Musk said, laughing, “We did not have the threesome, you know. Heard and her friend Cara Delevingne, Mr. Depp’s claim.Ībout the contention that he had a threesome with Ms.
“I definitely was not having an affair with Amber while she was married to Johnny, this is totally false,” Mr. Heard against her former husband, Johnny Depp - a legal morass that makes the attenuated “Bleak House” case of “Jarndyce and Jarndyce” seem short and sweet.
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And he had a high-profile romance with Amber Heard, leading to his name being dragged through the sensational London libel trial pitting Ms.
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His personal life has been as vertiginous as his professional life: married three times, twice to the same woman, Talulah Riley, an actress who played a lethal sexbot on “Westworld.” He has six children.