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Another absolutely horrific act of sabotage making the whole world worse for no particular reason.

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Trump is Putin's agent, but Musk is just sabotaging everything, including himself, for no apparent reason at all.

They are both puppets of forces they don't fully understand.

Arent we all?

I believe we are. And that is why we need to very cleverly design the systems that we employ and live in, so that the risk stemming from this weakness is minimized. Or checked, and balanced, if you will.

To make Mars viable you first have to make Earth _really_ bad.

It is not possible to make Earth bad enough for Mars to be viable.

Nah, at this point I suspect the Martians actually felt threatened by the progress SpaceX made, and switched Musk for a lookalike, in order to stop the Mars mission and kick us around a bit for good measure, so humanity is looking inwards worried about geopolitical stability, instead of continuing to advance.

I mean, given how he went 180 on everything almost instantly, that's one of the most plausible explanations.

The reason is his amusement, something that I assume gets harder when your hedonic treadmill has long ago accelerated beyond what seems humanly possible. As someone who has trollish tendencies myself, I cannot help but feel a bit of grudging respect for his recent accomplishments in that regard, though as one of the "NPCs" in the country he has chosen to troll, I can't say I'm terribly amused. And as someone with a Jewish girlfriend, I'm a bit worried about how far he intends to take the ironic Nazi-ism.

Trump and Musk both pattern-match to my understanding of clinical narcissism.

With the usual caveats:

1. I'm not a qualified psychiatrist

2. You could tell that without me saying so, because qualified psychiatrists know better than to diagnose people from public behaviours alone

3. Even private interviews for diagnosis are not perfectly reliable

4. Gell-Mann amnesia effect on public reporting

A certain class becoming richer and ensure their dominance is a hell of a reason. They're psychopaths without any consideration for human life who aim at destroying the poor and replace them with AI and automation to keep their economy safe, and this has nothing to do with ideologies, left, right or whatever, those are thrown in just to gain support by the indoctrinated and less educated masses (MAGA & co), most of which will realize they're being screwed by the same guy they voted in only when it'll be too late.

This platform is linked directly with one of the worst of them (Thiel) so I won't expect this post or my account to survive much long, but I don't care anyway.

well the reason is greed

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