Mastodawn

The media is such a wiener for Elon Musk.

The dude will say baseless nonsense like "in ten years every one will have telekinesis" and it'll be a headline with no skepticism.

Besides being an actual Nazi, he also has been wrong about everything for a decade. We aren't on mars, the hyperloop is a single-lane tunnel in one city, AI is still broken, and DOGE somehow added cost while reducing services.

He's an idiot. Stop quoting him like anything he says is meaningful.

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Astrobach

Mar 9

I want to note, too, that all of those claims were known absurdities when he said them. Mars was and, at least as he conceived, is never going to happen. The details he ignores are the whole puzzle. Middle management types love the idea that he's just cut through the faff of the overthinkers to get to brass tacks. No, he's ignoring the core logistic impossibility of all of those proposals. He doesn't understand anything and doesn't think he needs to--his opinions are worthless.

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bsmall2

@rorystarr sometimes I wonder if he's part of the Alvin Toffler sort of "futurologist" genre. Business media must have an affinity for all sorts of "brightsided" bullshit.. it might be like heaven, keeps the drone workers focused on the next world and not the bullshit(meanjngless destructive work, long hours, low pay...) they have to put up with now.. I think Neil Postman mentioned how Toffler or somebody like that remained a highly paid speaker and guest in spite of being wrong about everything.