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Whoever will solve it, then the person with the best social competence, speaking abilities and promotional power would get the merit. And the best placed indiv

Whoever will solve it, then the person with the best social competence, speaking abilities and promotional power would get the merit. And the best placed individual is the POTUS whoever he/she might be.

misiti3780 5y ago
I think I'm still confused - as of today (5/11/21), who do you think is doing more to solve climate change. VP Harris or E. Musk ?
- ObserverNeutral 5y ago
  That's not the right question to ask. The right questions to ask are: Q1: What are the financial rewards to solve climate change? Q2: What are the social rewards in terms of status to solve climate change and who is best positioned to get it? A1: Financial rewards are very slim because margins are very slim. You have to build stuff for real, it can't be solved via software...building real stuff is a disgusting business to be in. A2: Given that the business is disgusting at least can you get some status out of it? Musk managed to do so up until today, but now the heavyweights are coming (POTUS, VP, Central Bankers, UN, EU commissioners, Prime Ministers all around the world). These people (unlike Musk) have much better social competence and amazing speaking capabilities. They will outframe Musk just like JFK and Neil Armstorng outframed whoever was the director of the Apollo program. As they do that the narrative which enabled him to be the world savior and have his stock appreciate would simply go away. He'd be left with a low margin business and no glory, my guess is that Neuralink is his parachute to stay relevant financially and socially. There the margins are software tier and the heavyweights haven't arrived to that social arena yet.
philwelch 5y ago
> the person with the best social competence, speaking abilities and promotional power I freely admit to being biased on this point, but this doesn’t read like a description of Kamala Harris.
spfzero 5y ago
Not sure. When I think of the assembly line, I remember Henry Ford, not the president at the time. Airplanes, the Wright brothers, discovery of DNA, Crick and Watson, etc. So there are counter examples, but I think you have a point that politicians do get to spin the message and take credit for things.
- rlonn 5y ago
  Presidents dither around for four years but unless they screw an intern or start a reasonably large war, noone will remember them a decade later.

misiti3780 5y ago

I think I'm still confused - as of today (5/11/21), who do you think is doing more to solve climate change. VP Harris or E. Musk ?

ObserverNeutral 5y ago
That's not the right question to ask. The right questions to ask are: Q1: What are the financial rewards to solve climate change? Q2: What are the social rewards in terms of status to solve climate change and who is best positioned to get it? A1: Financial rewards are very slim because margins are very slim. You have to build stuff for real, it can't be solved via software...building real stuff is a disgusting business to be in. A2: Given that the business is disgusting at least can you get some status out of it? Musk managed to do so up until today, but now the heavyweights are coming (POTUS, VP, Central Bankers, UN, EU commissioners, Prime Ministers all around the world). These people (unlike Musk) have much better social competence and amazing speaking capabilities. They will outframe Musk just like JFK and Neil Armstorng outframed whoever was the director of the Apollo program. As they do that the narrative which enabled him to be the world savior and have his stock appreciate would simply go away. He'd be left with a low margin business and no glory, my guess is that Neuralink is his parachute to stay relevant financially and socially. There the margins are software tier and the heavyweights haven't arrived to that social arena yet.

philwelch 5y ago

> the person with the best social competence, speaking abilities and promotional power I freely admit to being biased on this point, but this doesn’t read like a description of Kamala Harris.

spfzero 5y ago

Not sure. When I think of the assembly line, I remember Henry Ford, not the president at the time. Airplanes, the Wright brothers, discovery of DNA, Crick and Watson, etc. So there are counter examples, but I think you have a point that politicians do get to spin the message and take credit for things.

rlonn 5y ago
Presidents dither around for four years but unless they screw an intern or start a reasonably large war, noone will remember them a decade later.