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This is why X.ai exists.

Also; self-driving cars are just robots on wheels.... that utilize extreme edge "tech" - in the form of advanced machine learning, computer vision, artificial.... problem solving, and generally the associated compute solutions required to engineer a robot that can store enough energy on itself for useful human travel, let alone making the whole damn thing safe, let ALONE making the whole damn thing marketable

Now. What other CAR company does any of that, to any degree?

The "anti-Musk" virtue signal is by far the most annoying one on either side of a stupid arbitrary peanut gallery.

Anyone thinking Elon Musk is anything short of an incredibly intelligent, talented, skilled, and tenacious entrepreneur and - dare I say - engineer - we have the fortune to see in our era. He is controversial but ignore the noise. The actual ground truth is extremely, extremely impressive.

Think all that has happened since just the iPhone with all of his companies, and why, and how. Perhaps that would inform a better opinion than whatever the news cyclists have suggested your way this week.

How is that kool-aid tasting?

Musk has gotten increasingly more outspoken with all of his views and has certainly said some eyebrow raisers but the anti-Musk narrative just makes my eyes roll.

MSM clearly loves writing about him (how else will they fill the void of showing us Trump tweets everyday?) Many people just follow the establishment narrative and billionaires and government officials are the easiest boogeyman before you have to give it some thought.

I will continue to like people for the good things they do and focus my criticism on their actions rather than the person.

He is definitely one of the Trump vacuum fills in the media's rundown!

>Anyone thinking Elon Musk is anything short of an incredibly intelligent, talented, skilled, and tenacious entrepreneur and - dare I say - engineer - we have the fortune to see in our era.

So you need to agree with this or you're pushing an "anti-musk" narrative?

nope but my sentences need an anti-fragment narrative

Thank the lord he has white knights like you to defend his honor.

I can't wrap my head around that people defend one of the richest man alive while just hand-waving away his awful behavior and consequences of his actions.

I can acknowledge that his companies have done some interesting things. But he and his companies also have contributed to suffering and evil. One might see this as simple arithmetic and say that on balance, he has done good. But this is simple arithmetic. You can't just make the suffering you have caused go away by building cool technology that might benefit some other people.

How we can let such concentration of power and wealth go by is beyond me. If you think this story has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

I don't agree that he has caused "suffering and evil.". Worst thing he has done is call some guy a pedo, and a jury found that there weren't even any damages. All he does is say things that I disagree with and I am completely ok with that.

Calling a guy a pedo is not the worst thing he has done.

For example, there are many reports that there's sexism, racism and injuries at his companies, and he doesn't seem to care. He doesn't have to have any regard for the wellbeing of his employees, let alone people who don't work for him.

Buying Twitter and giving far-right people a huge megaphone is definitely not good. He himself amplifying some of these messages and conspiracy theories is also very bad. People suffer directly as consequences of these actions. You might think that a couple of nutty Nazis spewing hate messages on Twitter doesn't have real world consequences, but you'd be very wrong.

And if those reports were true they would have ended in major lawsuits, but they haven't.

The difference between you and me is that I think people who disagree with me should have equal rights and ability to use internet platforms as I do.

Simple arithmetic can easily be expressed, so could you warrant your claims with some evidence or reasoning?

Are you an anti-capitalist? Or are you privy to a list of Elon's victims, whom continue to suffer injustice while the (implied) maniac roams free; building giant rockets and factory-farming human suffering?

I wonder where the goalposts will be next time!

I'm not anti-capitalist. But there's capitalsm and there's capitalsm. I think how the fruits of capitalism are distributed is insane, and no good can come from so few people having so much more than all the rest combined.

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