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.
@rorystarr @cstross : He’s not an idiot: he managed to become the richest man on earth by making absurd promises.
The idiots are those who believed him. This includes the media and those who still trust those medas.
@ploum @rorystarr He made absurd promises AND GOT LUCKY. Lots of other folks made absurd promises and got bankrupt (or worse) at the same time, but we don't remember them.
Do not mistake his success for anything other than sheer blind luck.
@cstross @rorystarr : every single billionnaire got very lucky, this goes without saying.
But he would probably be less rich today if he was not a maniacal liar. Same goes for Trump.
They act insanely according our intellectual and ethical framework but, according to their own metric, it f***ing work! So why would they act differently?
Where Musk was trully idiotic is when he thought he could also become a powerful politican. But you need to give him that he understood that quite quickly.
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