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Comment by sschueller | Hacker News Reader

This is what happens when you ignore every one and experts. How much money and resources have been literally wasted because this man's ego of knowing better than anyone else?

And this man according to his fans is going to save the planet? What a joke.

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Is money invested in moonshots instead of sitting in bonds really 'wasted'?

It was not invested in moonshots, it was raised by misleading marketing hype by the marketing genius of the moment: Elon Musk. Honestly, I cannot stop being astounded by the guy, he literally goes online and mumbles incoherently about "full autopilot in 6 months" or some similarly insane declaration and Tesla stock jumps up. It's amazing.

At least I can go out today and order a Tesla, or point a telescope at the sky and see some sparkly satellites, that’s more than can be said about most vapourware these things are being compared to.

Elon's day job is making sure stock quote goes up, not rockets or AI. Keep this in mind.

Which is super disappointing when its coming from a phsycist

Is it? He still ends up getting funding to execute on his goals. Tesla may be behind on QA for their cars but they are ahead in technology (re EV cars) and in supply chain compared to competitors. Which of those is easier to fix?

I would hope that someone who has training in research would be able to understand what tech might be actually viable now or near future, instead of bs that only serves to inflate stock prices

Maybe that's just my ideologic biases, but I'm quite disappointed in Elon's ventures

Forget the planet, the US only survives the next 30 years if we focus our brightest minds back on manufacturing instead of finance and selling ads on social media.

Yes if these moonshot ideas are as old as electricity and have been attempted by thousands over decades. Only because you think physics doesn't apply doesn't make it so no matter how much money you throw at it.

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