Now, after failing to blackmail DoD for funding, he is trying to limit it and is shit on and rightfully so.
Not to mention his recent dumbfuck proRussian comments on twitter. All in all - don't bite what you can't chew.
Instead of assuming that everyone will act in good faith, they'll just have to assume everyone's like you and turn down future public requests for emergency aid until they have everything down on paper. Of course then you'll be complaining about the rich/big companies not helping anyone.
Musk never acts in good faith. Just one example is his desperate and failed six month attempt to back out of the Twitter deal that he himself proposed and agreed to:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/why-musk-gave-up...
The correct assumption when dealing with Musk is that he will act in bad faith. That is his track record.
Ah, so he must be in it for the bullshit and the lies. Like with his supposed full self-driving.
Falsely claiming FSD "next year", year after year: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...
In reality Teslas can't even park themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA
Falsely claiming all Teslas have the hardware for FSD in 2016: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
In reality the older Teslas now won't get Hardware 4: https://electrek.co/2023/01/26/elon-musk-kills-hope-tesla-re...
That's some real good good faith.
> In reality Teslas can't even park themselves
A ten second youtube search shows several recent videos showing it working just fine.
> In reality the older Teslas now won't get Hardware 4
The second link does not disagree with the first. Hardware 4 is not necessary for FSD, and has been officially stated as such in multiple places, including in the article you yourself provided. There was never any promises that hardware 3 would be capable of being retrofitted to hardware 4. In the same investor's call hardware 5 was talked about as well.
Is he? Is that why he spends his time falsely claiming cave divers are paedophiles and why he publicly mocks people with muscular dystrophy?
> and often overestimates the capabilities of existing technology
So what you're saying is he bullshits and he lies.
You do appear to be fully bought in to the Musk Mythology. At this point the only person who can help you see the more simple (and uglier) Musk Reality is you. It will be a hard road for you.
The first event is ancient history and started with a public personal attack by said individual against Musk, and the second Musk apologized for as he was misinformed by others.
> So what you're saying is he bullshits and he lies.
No that's not what I said. Please follow hacker news guidelines.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
And yet you have.
> The first event is ancient history and started with a public personal attack by said individual against Musk
It's the reputation Musk has earnt for himself.
He wanted it. He sought it out. He has it.
> and the second Musk apologized for as he was misinformed by others
Sure, sure. It's always someone else's fault.
> No that's not what I said
That's exactly what you said.
Musk will never act in good faith or with honesty. But I expect better from you.