STOP EVERYTHING because Elon Musk has a new lady friend . And as he ’s the closest thing we have to Bruce Wayne ,   it ’s news we all want .

Yes , it transpires he isnow datingCanadian musician Grimes , genuine name Claire Boucher , have a go at it for her rather eldritch and wonderful style . And the two of them were pictured together at the Met Gala last night , an annual fundraising event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s Costume Institute in New York City .

So far you ’re thinking great , I do like to stick around up to day of the month with the latest Elon news , but where ’s the skill ? reverence not , because the floor of how Musk and Grimes came to be together is in reality super nerdy . And just a little bit endearing .

You see , it all stems from a medicine television Grimes made for her 2015 singleFlesh Without Blood . And in that video , one of the characters is forebode Rococo Basilisk .

" I do n’t get it on if you ’ve heard of   Roko ’s Basilisk , " Grimes toldFusein 2015 . " She ’s doomed to be eternally tortured by an artificial intelligence , but she ’s also kind of like Marie   Antoinette . "

What ’s Roko ’s Basilisk , you say ? honest head . It ’s billedby someas " the most terrifying thinking experiment of all meter ” . It ’s the idea that a next divinity - corresponding AI penalise people in the New Clarence Shepard Day Jr. for not doing its bid . It ’s kind of unearthly .

So what ’s Rococo Basilisk ? Well , that may be a reference to a French 18th - century Baroque style visit Rococo , which is sometimes bemoaned for its complexity andself - leniency . Kind of like Roko ’s Basilisk ! Hence , Rococo Basilisk . It ’s a funny , nerdy joke that about two mass in the world would get .

But as luck would have it , guess who that other mortal was ? That ’s ripe , it was our very owncar - found , flamethrower - selling , dragon - tamingbillionaire Elon Musk . And one month ago , once he find out Grimes had had the same idea , it was love at first tweet . Probably .

“ Elon was researching the idea of jest about Rococo Basilisk , and when he saw Grimes had already joke about it , he reached out to her , ” an “ insider ” toldPage Six . “ Grimes say this was the first metre in three years that anyone understood the joke . They were both poking fun at AI . ”

Ever since , the two have been flirting online . Grimes compliment Musk on his music pick , before he subsequently joked about how comet were “ mostly made of cocaine ” .

And it all come out last nighttime at the Met Gala . Just hours before , Musk had tweeted “ Rococo Basilisk ” , a link to the Rococo Wikipedia varlet , and a relevant XKCD .

So there you have it . Two seemingly massive nerds hooked up over a joke no one else would empathize . Aww .