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Title of Elon Musk Has Changed to Technoking of Tesla

33 points by nowherebeen 6y ago

evaneykelen 6y ago
"The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled 'Elon.' Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet." Ref https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/1344155061425823744 https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237...
fpj 6y ago
Is that supposed to be the King of Technology or the King of Techno Music?
- technothrasher 6y ago
  My friends gave me the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Technothrasher" many years ago in college, which I now use for my handle on many websites. I often get asked the very same question that you just asked.
- CaptainJustin 6y ago
  > Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. I suspect King of Technology - but perhaps he's creating a grey area to give himself lateral tactical space to negotiate his posture against the SEC.
- 6pac3rings 6y ago
  The royal title attributes color to his musical genius in the A16ztech Empire (previously before Dogecoin, Rebel Allstar Technologies).
- deleted 6y ago
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kasperni 6y ago
Synopsis: Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
bhaak 6y ago
Now that's a title I would like to have on my business card. It just states upfront that you don't give a shit. :-)
- smt88 6y ago
  It's terrifying how little Musk gives a shit. Tesla is testing unfinished self-driving technology via customers (which endangers those of us who don't even own Teslas) and Musk's reopening of his factory caused 450 cases of Covid. For someone who holds the lives of others in his hands, it is sad, disturbing, and enraging that he behaves like a clown and a teenage troll so much of the time.
  - mam2 6y ago
    Nonsense all the way. - There was less percentage of covid in his plant than in the state the plant is. - Teslas are still less dangerous than other cars and im pretty sure tesla drivers also drink less while driving. Its just not more dangerous.
    - smt88 6y ago
      > There was less percentage of covid in his plant than in the state the plant is. I'm not comparing the plant's infection rate to the state's infection rate. That makes no sense. I'm comparing the plant's infection rate to 0%, which is the infection rate for a plant that is complying with the law and shut down. > Teslas are still less dangerous than other cars and im pretty sure tesla drivers also drink less while driving. Its just not more dangerous. Again, I'm not comparing Tesla safety rate to general safety rate. In both of these cases, I'm comparing the results to what they would be if Elon Musk didn't do something anti-social and irresponsible. Testing self-driving technology in the real world using non-professional drivers is incredibly irresponsible. Even a single death caused by that technology is preventable and completely under Musk's control.
      - mam2 6y ago
        Of course if you do nothing and everyone live in a shelter for 5 years the pandemic will be stopped. But that's not possible so you have to find a middle ground. A LOT of people including myself consider it's an exaggerated middle ground to shut down an entire economy for something that's not more lethal than going in the street for 2/3 of the population. You may disagree but you have to understand that it's largely in the interest of the government to act as the "most scared people" want to, because they are usually the loudest and it's the best way not to be criticized during reelection. So to me opening a plant an having a similar (and actually less because people actually wear mask at work) infection rate than in the general population is a better middle ground. Maybe an even better middle ground would have been to let the choice to people to come or not... I'm not sure we'll ever agree if you are on the uber-cautious side. same reasoning goes for the self-driving. basically it's a trade of between risk and reward. it's the same for medicine: there's no drug development without human testing and sometimes... human death.
detaro 6y ago
This is getting worse than mainstream celebrity press.
- Theodores 6y ago
  The Musk haters will never like him so he might as well feed the trolls. Today there is a launch for a VW EV. It is very nice but way off what the equivalent Tesla is. But none of the Tesla/Musk haters with their old fashioned cars can admit that the Tesla product is awesome. It is very interesting to see how people twist their views to be absurd. For this reason I am glad Musk triggers them with nonsense like this.
  - anthony_r 6y ago
    Well people that buy cars actually like the VW's more, look up sales/registration data in Europe.
  - detaro 6y ago
    Doesn't mean everyone has to report every joke or opinion a tech CEO makes (it's not just Musk). I don't mind him doing it if he thinks its funny, I mind people acting as if it's notable (which is why I choose the comparison to celebrity news: I'm also not objecting to these people having lives and doing stuff, but to the reporting and framing and it getting spread everywhere)
  - allendoerfer 6y ago
    I think you would classify me as one of those haters. I don't actually hate Tesla, I just think the valuation is a bubble and stuff like this reinforces my opinion. When it comes to investments, I want substance: Don't call it autopilot if it is not an autopilot. Don't invest in stuff without inherent value. If you sell way less, then you should probably worth way less. I am just a very boring person in that way. Outside of the stock valuation (and maybe the environmental damage, Bitcoin causes), I find all of it very entertaining.
shafyy 6y ago
He should have gone with Technoviking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y
xwdv 6y ago
I hope we see more companies introduce non-standard vanity titles. As stupid as it sounds, I may be a bit more interested in climbing a corporate ladder just to have a cool sounding title different from the usual corporate crap.
- nojito 6y ago
  The people who successfully climb the ladder don't care about titles.
  - 0-_-0 6y ago
    Obviously the Technoking and the Master of Coin does
- benlumen 6y ago
  Agree it seems fun, but the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. Shared meaning - literally the foundation of language. The novelty of having to learn each company's made-up titles would wear off quick.
  - _ZeD_ 6y ago
    >>> the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. yeah, sure :^)
  - detaro 6y ago
    In theory, maybe. In practice, a lot of them mean basically nothing transferable. (See "VP of X", which doesn't tell you if the company has 5 VPs or 500, or the muddle of what constitutes a "Senior Engineer" or "Staff Engineer". "Empress of the Shopping-Cart-Subsystem" communicates more)
- sparks1970 6y ago
  I worked at a company where they decided to change their titles away from industry standard norms (specific to their industry). They quickly changed back because it made working with their customers really hard. I walk into a meeting and I'm expecting a Clinical Lead and a Data Manager and I'm introduced to a Loremaster and a Sheriff of the Aethertech am I in the right meeting? Are these the right people? Not that they had such flamboyant titles but even a small deviation from the industry norm led to a lot of confusion and I suspect employees also felt it limited their career prospects since it wasn't so easy to communicate their experience. If I am a Data Manager then I want to apply for Senior Data Manager positions. If I'm a "Data Custodian" then I have to work much harder with recruiters who have been told to consider "Data Managers" for the role.
wealthyyy 6y ago
Why not technocrat?
vinay_ys 6y ago
Got to love the geek in Elon for trolling the haters using SEC official channels :-)
pseudolus 6y ago
I can't wait until he starts wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. Perhaps he'll starting conferring honorary titles upon his employees and members of the general public. All in all he's got a great sense of humour.
emptyparadise 6y ago
Cringe.
- op00to 6y ago
  Why?
nelsonmandela 6y ago
Reminds me of when subway said my role was sandwich artist and I had that on my resume for a few years
FL33TW00D 6y ago
If anyone has the wikipedia credit please change his official title in the bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk They've protected the page due to vandalism.

33 points by nowherebeen 6y ago

"The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled 'Elon.' Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet." Ref https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/1344155061425823744 https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237...

fpj 6y ago

Is that supposed to be the King of Technology or the King of Techno Music?

technothrasher 6y ago
My friends gave me the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Technothrasher" many years ago in college, which I now use for my handle on many websites. I often get asked the very same question that you just asked.
CaptainJustin 6y ago
> Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. I suspect King of Technology - but perhaps he's creating a grey area to give himself lateral tactical space to negotiate his posture against the SEC.
6pac3rings 6y ago
The royal title attributes color to his musical genius in the A16ztech Empire (previously before Dogecoin, Rebel Allstar Technologies).
deleted 6y ago
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kasperni 6y ago

Synopsis: Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

bhaak 6y ago

Now that's a title I would like to have on my business card. It just states upfront that you don't give a shit. :-)

smt88 6y ago
It's terrifying how little Musk gives a shit. Tesla is testing unfinished self-driving technology via customers (which endangers those of us who don't even own Teslas) and Musk's reopening of his factory caused 450 cases of Covid. For someone who holds the lives of others in his hands, it is sad, disturbing, and enraging that he behaves like a clown and a teenage troll so much of the time.
- mam2 6y ago
  Nonsense all the way. - There was less percentage of covid in his plant than in the state the plant is. - Teslas are still less dangerous than other cars and im pretty sure tesla drivers also drink less while driving. Its just not more dangerous.
  - smt88 6y ago
    > There was less percentage of covid in his plant than in the state the plant is. I'm not comparing the plant's infection rate to the state's infection rate. That makes no sense. I'm comparing the plant's infection rate to 0%, which is the infection rate for a plant that is complying with the law and shut down. > Teslas are still less dangerous than other cars and im pretty sure tesla drivers also drink less while driving. Its just not more dangerous. Again, I'm not comparing Tesla safety rate to general safety rate. In both of these cases, I'm comparing the results to what they would be if Elon Musk didn't do something anti-social and irresponsible. Testing self-driving technology in the real world using non-professional drivers is incredibly irresponsible. Even a single death caused by that technology is preventable and completely under Musk's control.
    - mam2 6y ago
      Of course if you do nothing and everyone live in a shelter for 5 years the pandemic will be stopped. But that's not possible so you have to find a middle ground. A LOT of people including myself consider it's an exaggerated middle ground to shut down an entire economy for something that's not more lethal than going in the street for 2/3 of the population. You may disagree but you have to understand that it's largely in the interest of the government to act as the "most scared people" want to, because they are usually the loudest and it's the best way not to be criticized during reelection. So to me opening a plant an having a similar (and actually less because people actually wear mask at work) infection rate than in the general population is a better middle ground. Maybe an even better middle ground would have been to let the choice to people to come or not... I'm not sure we'll ever agree if you are on the uber-cautious side. same reasoning goes for the self-driving. basically it's a trade of between risk and reward. it's the same for medicine: there's no drug development without human testing and sometimes... human death.

detaro 6y ago

This is getting worse than mainstream celebrity press.

Theodores 6y ago
The Musk haters will never like him so he might as well feed the trolls. Today there is a launch for a VW EV. It is very nice but way off what the equivalent Tesla is. But none of the Tesla/Musk haters with their old fashioned cars can admit that the Tesla product is awesome. It is very interesting to see how people twist their views to be absurd. For this reason I am glad Musk triggers them with nonsense like this.
- anthony_r 6y ago
  Well people that buy cars actually like the VW's more, look up sales/registration data in Europe.
- detaro 6y ago
  Doesn't mean everyone has to report every joke or opinion a tech CEO makes (it's not just Musk). I don't mind him doing it if he thinks its funny, I mind people acting as if it's notable (which is why I choose the comparison to celebrity news: I'm also not objecting to these people having lives and doing stuff, but to the reporting and framing and it getting spread everywhere)
- allendoerfer 6y ago
  I think you would classify me as one of those haters. I don't actually hate Tesla, I just think the valuation is a bubble and stuff like this reinforces my opinion. When it comes to investments, I want substance: Don't call it autopilot if it is not an autopilot. Don't invest in stuff without inherent value. If you sell way less, then you should probably worth way less. I am just a very boring person in that way. Outside of the stock valuation (and maybe the environmental damage, Bitcoin causes), I find all of it very entertaining.

shafyy 6y ago

He should have gone with Technoviking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y

xwdv 6y ago

I hope we see more companies introduce non-standard vanity titles. As stupid as it sounds, I may be a bit more interested in climbing a corporate ladder just to have a cool sounding title different from the usual corporate crap.

nojito 6y ago
The people who successfully climb the ladder don't care about titles.
- 0-_-0 6y ago
  Obviously the Technoking and the Master of Coin does
benlumen 6y ago
Agree it seems fun, but the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. Shared meaning - literally the foundation of language. The novelty of having to learn each company's made-up titles would wear off quick.
- _ZeD_ 6y ago
  >>> the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. yeah, sure :^)
- detaro 6y ago
  In theory, maybe. In practice, a lot of them mean basically nothing transferable. (See "VP of X", which doesn't tell you if the company has 5 VPs or 500, or the muddle of what constitutes a "Senior Engineer" or "Staff Engineer". "Empress of the Shopping-Cart-Subsystem" communicates more)
sparks1970 6y ago
I worked at a company where they decided to change their titles away from industry standard norms (specific to their industry). They quickly changed back because it made working with their customers really hard. I walk into a meeting and I'm expecting a Clinical Lead and a Data Manager and I'm introduced to a Loremaster and a Sheriff of the Aethertech am I in the right meeting? Are these the right people? Not that they had such flamboyant titles but even a small deviation from the industry norm led to a lot of confusion and I suspect employees also felt it limited their career prospects since it wasn't so easy to communicate their experience. If I am a Data Manager then I want to apply for Senior Data Manager positions. If I'm a "Data Custodian" then I have to work much harder with recruiters who have been told to consider "Data Managers" for the role.

wealthyyy 6y ago

Why not technocrat?

vinay_ys 6y ago

Got to love the geek in Elon for trolling the haters using SEC official channels :-)

pseudolus 6y ago

I can't wait until he starts wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. Perhaps he'll starting conferring honorary titles upon his employees and members of the general public. All in all he's got a great sense of humour.

emptyparadise 6y ago

Cringe.

op00to 6y ago
Why?

nelsonmandela 6y ago

Reminds me of when subway said my role was sandwich artist and I had that on my resume for a few years

FL33TW00D 6y ago

If anyone has the wikipedia credit please change his official title in the bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk They've protected the page due to vandalism.