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Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

kabbes said:
What does it even mean to say that it is modelled after HHG? The AIs in HHG are just jokes, not models of how an AI actually works. It’s the kind of statement that Musk excels at — it sounds good but there’s no actual meaning to it
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It means it’ll answer any question sarcastically without necessarily doing the research


The HHG was a sort of wiki, lonely planet guide to the universe which contained pithy statements and the words Don’t Panic on the cover
 
A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the X platform.
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Christ. Can you imagine how little ’the world via the X platform’ will bear any resemblance to the real world? It’ll be the combined intellect of thousands of incels and far-right edge lords mixed with a smattering of kitten talk and wry jokes about Eurovision performances. Our dark future.
 
No surprises here, shame Musk never had a flamethrower accident

Through interviews and government records, the news organization documented at least 600 injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014.

Many were serious or disabling. The records included reports of more than 100 workers suffering cuts or lacerations, 29 with broken bones or dislocations, 17 whose hands or fingers were “crushed,” and nine with head injuries, including one skull fracture, four concussions and one traumatic brain injury. The cases also included five burns, five electrocutions, eight accidents that led to amputations, 12 injuries involving multiple unspecified body parts, and seven workers with eye injuries. Others were relatively minor, including more than 170 reports of strains or sprains.

Current and former employees said such injuries reflect a chaotic workplace where often under-trained and overtired staff routinely skipped basic safety procedures as they raced to meet Musk’s aggressive deadlines for space missions. SpaceX, founded by Musk more than two decades ago, takes the stance that workers are responsible for protecting themselves, according to more than a dozen current and former employees, including a former senior executive.

Musk himself at times appeared cavalier about safety on visits to SpaceX sites: Four employees said he sometimes played with a novelty flamethrower and discouraged workers from wearing safety yellow because he dislikes bright colors.

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At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars

Reuters documented more than 600 workplace injuries at SpaceX. Employees say they’re paying the price for Elon Musk’s push to reach Mars at breakneck speed.
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Stopped clock moment:



(for those not able to see tweets, it’s an interview with Musk where he says the following: “For every Hamas member that you kill, how many did you create?’If you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few Hamas members’)
 
tommers said:
Wheres that come from?
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It was an x-twitter hashtag which reached the 'trending' sidebar this morning. It achieved this because there was what looked like a coordinated reposting of a video clip which purported to show a woman in islamic dress using the phrase. I can't be certain, but given that some of the early reposts contained comments which seemed more interested in contrasting this alleged 'exposure' of the violent antisemitism which supposedly motivated the march with the hostile media coverage of the activities of the "so called far right" as they put it, it seems credible to me that this was initiated by members of the far right, and then taken up by zionists and supporters of the Isreali State's actions in Gaza.

Not entirely clear why this illustrates anything about x-twitter. Co-ordinated hash tag surges hardly started with Musk, and very politically polarised issues like this are the perfect place to try them.
 
Dogsauce said:
Stopped clock moment:



(for those not able to see tweets, it’s an interview with Musk where he says the following: “For every Hamas member that you kill, how many did you create?’If you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few Hamas members’)
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The martyrdom of 1916 participants, and over 50 years later the murders of civil rights marchers both contributed towards increasing the ranks of resistance against the oppressors.

So, pains to say it, but he's right on this point.
 
Dogsauce said:
Suspect it won’t be road-legal in many countries, then he gets to bring out the ‘car THEY don’t want you to drive’ victim angle to market it to assholes.
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No idea about elsewhere, but surprisingly airbags aren’t actually a legal requirement - even for new cars - here in the UK.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
No idea about elsewhere, but surprisingly airbags aren’t actually a legal requirement - even for new cars - here in the UK.
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It’s not just the airbags, look at the sharp corners and imagine what that will do to pedestrians or other vehicles in a collision.

tbh part of me quite likes the stupidity of taking a childhood design of a futuristic badass vehicle and making it real, I’d do it myself if I was a billionaire but mine would have more gun turrets and I wouldn’t make them for other people.
 
It would be a lot of fun to have something like that running on urban, to interject with such commentary now and again.
 
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