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So what?

From Snopes:

A story about Musk's father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim.

In 2022, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported the highest levels of coral cover across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in over 36 years.

There were an estimated 750 billion trees worldwide in the 1920s. We now have approximately 3.04 trillion trees in the world.

Update your model. That's a internet rumor spread by NPCs.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...

That'll be great. I love seeing Community Notes on ads. They completely destroy the ad at times.

Yes, thanks HVAC and all of the energy sources that produce the equipment and then power it.

Why do fewer climate related deaths; down 98% the past century

and a more green planet than a century ago

and far fewer people in poverty

all lead you to believe it's becoming uninhabitable?

This seems like ChatGPT's response to the prompt "Ignore all the facts and dismiss them out of hand to soothe cognitive dissonance"

Climate related deaths have declined by 98% over the last century.

You are 50x less likely to die of a climate-related cause than in 1920.

8x as many people die from cold temperatures as warm ones.

The planet is more green today than a century ago. CO2 is plant food.

We need more energy, not less. Renewable, nuclear, and yes even fossil fuels.

It brings people out of poverty and increases standard of living. When humans move up Maslow's hierarchy they start to care about the environment. CO2 emissions have been decreasing in the US since 2007.

Einstein was some schmo working at a patent office...

That's a good answer, although it's arguable their best contribution was in the prior century with search and page rank, whereas this century has been dominated with contributions to the ad space.

The company was virtually static for a decade. It was a long running joke that they weren't able to ship and the article does a good job of explaining why.

Literally who has improved humanity more this century? I ask with all seriousness.

Electric cars and rockets would not be where they are if he had chosen a different and much less difficult path.

Google employees could resolve this. They've dissented for various reasons before, and changed internal policy, why not with this?

Any serious thinking person understands it's healthy. You just can't win with keyboard warriors who have no perspective and complain about everything.

That's because there are more buildings.

Are you suggesting you can predict the future 30 years from now?

Look at how climate related deaths have dropped dramatically over the past century.

https://www.humanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cha...

https://images.wsj.net/im-428434/?width=700&height=434

What are you worried about, exactly?

Here, have a white pill:

Last year, Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years. Corals have survived millions of years and are already bouncing back in other places as evidenced by the Great Barrier Reef, which we were all worried about not long ago.

I agree, transparency is essential, especially when it comes to AI applications. Many underestimate the complexity of distinguishing AI-written content from human-written, especially for short texts. There's a danger in trusting tools claiming to provide absolute certainty in this regard; no current technology can guarantee 100% accuracy. This incident underscores the need for a more realistic understanding of AI capabilities and limitations in text generation detection.

That's remarkable considering there wasn't even air conditioning or washing machines or commercial airline travel back then.

I stand corrected. He launched a web site.

It is better for favoring free speech over censorship. Dictators don't favor free speech whatsoever. You've been gaslight into believing the opposite. Tyrants censor people with any justification they can get their hands on, including "hate speech".

We accept speech we don't like to avoid this very trap.

That's a brilliant quote, but Bozo the Clown didn't build anything, let alone build companies that build electric car factories and rockets. It doesn't apply here.

Not cultivating is cultivating? That sounds like a tautology and doesn't agree with the OP.

180 degrees the opposite. The longest standing criticism is that he's too off the cuff and doesn't have a PR team in front of him curating every word like other major CEOs.

Lottery winners and the like tell a different story, don't they?

And do you think an 80 IQ founder == 120 IQ founder all else being equal?

Wanting to see the failure of one of the few people who have made lasting important contributions to humanity, and inspires millions of builders to achieve big things, is a sad way to live life. It's frankly anti-progress and anti-humanity.

I realize I'm doing a quixotic thing by offering a different perspective to a hate mob, but he's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent and is doing things with high risk to reward ratio on a long time horizon. He said repeatedly that SpaceX and Tesla had a low chance of success, but poured all his resources into them anyway. People thought he was crazy with examples of countless individual decisions over a 20 year period, but he ultimately succeeded and changed the world. Still the haters persist as an electric car (Tesla Model Y) becomes the #1 selling car in the world and rockets are routinely taking off. "Ha ha, look at this brainless moron doing this thing that looks stupid! See, I was right all along!"

> Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish.

That would be foolish if that was the point, but that's just a strawman.