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> It does not even matter if it will be ready in a few years or not. Musk is adding to the hype of brain technology. I suspect Musk agrees with you and that hi

> It does not even matter if it will be ready in a few years or not. Musk is adding to the hype of brain technology. I suspect Musk agrees with you and that his figures have a 30-50 year margin of error. With Hyperloop, he caused a stir and moved on, and now someone else is working on it. I realize that's not a perfect comparison (he never indicated much intention to work on Hyperloop). He often claims that Tesla's main purpose is to get other car manufacturers to act. Musk is good at using leverage, but with social capital instead of financial capital.

skummetmaelk 9y ago
At this point Musk's MO seems rather clear. He realizes that our current societal structures are too prone to corruption and too slow to act before it is too late. So instead of waiting for politicians to force the use of green energy he makes everyone want to drive an electric car. If that fails, he makes sure that, at least some of, humanity can escape to another planet. Now he is tackling the existential problem of AI. I believe this was already touched upon in the waitbutwhy article, but it has obviously been clear for quite a while now and Musk has been rather open about it. He proved himself with Tesla, even though there were extremely close moments. Now he is leveraging the Tony Stark image to make people interested in whatever ideas he throws out there.
- komali2 9y ago
  I remember way back in highschool there was a kid like this. We had a river that was just utterly disgusting, and there was a group at our school trying to do bake sales and shit to raise money to get it cleaned up, or they once went to city hall to petition the mayor, etc. He joined up and that weekend just... went to the river and started picking up trash. Alone. The next weekend the whole student org came, the weekend after that the local channel 9 showed up, and so on. Within the month the mayor was announcing plans for bringing in a dredger or something, I don't remember all the details, just the lesson I learned - if nobody else is doing it, just fucking do it, others will follow.

skummetmaelk 9y ago

At this point Musk's MO seems rather clear. He realizes that our current societal structures are too prone to corruption and too slow to act before it is too late. So instead of waiting for politicians to force the use of green energy he makes everyone want to drive an electric car. If that fails, he makes sure that, at least some of, humanity can escape to another planet. Now he is tackling the existential problem of AI. I believe this was already touched upon in the waitbutwhy article, but it has obviously been clear for quite a while now and Musk has been rather open about it. He proved himself with Tesla, even though there were extremely close moments. Now he is leveraging the Tony Stark image to make people interested in whatever ideas he throws out there.

komali2 9y ago
I remember way back in highschool there was a kid like this. We had a river that was just utterly disgusting, and there was a group at our school trying to do bake sales and shit to raise money to get it cleaned up, or they once went to city hall to petition the mayor, etc. He joined up and that weekend just... went to the river and started picking up trash. Alone. The next weekend the whole student org came, the weekend after that the local channel 9 showed up, and so on. Within the month the mayor was announcing plans for bringing in a dredger or something, I don't remember all the details, just the lesson I learned - if nobody else is doing it, just fucking do it, others will follow.