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Thunderf00t on Youtube loves these types of analyses. You can find one in almost every one of his videos. He does not have a lot of nice things to say about Elo
by rriepe 5y ago
Thunderf00t on Youtube loves these types of analyses. You can find one in almost every one of his videos. He does not have a lot of nice things to say about Elon Musk.
His page: https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t
- imtringued 5y agoCommon Sense Skeptic has better arguments against Elon Musk though.
- rriepe 5y agoThanks, just subbed
- EricE 5y agoYeah, ThunderfOOt isn't exactly a reliable source - especially when it comes to Musk. I'm no Tesla sycophant - I'm plenty of skeptical with much of what Tesla is and how they operate - but ThuderfOOt comes across as someone with an axe to grind. Which is fine - just don't get all huffy when people call you out on it.
- rriepe 5y agoCall me out on what? Watching Phil Mason? I enjoy The Flaming Lips too. Should I get upset when people don't like them? Thanks for the warning but I'm trying to save the huffiness for when people attack my own work. I've already got a backlog there, with just that alone.
- bluGill 5y agoInteresting, but I'm not convinced. There is a big different between Musk being overly optimistic, and the ideas themselves being unsound. Musk does have his share of unsound idea, but he also has many ideas that are probably good but ahead of their time. Attacking an ahead of their time idea as unsound is wrong analysis. (I happened to watch the one on hyperloop - which clearly is a lot of vaporware - but don't confuse that with being a bad idea. Also don't confuse it being a good idea with it being something that anyone working on now will make work)
- rriepe 5y agoHyperloop is definitely lower-hanging fruit than Tesla. Of SpaceX, Hyperloop, Boring and Tesla, Tesla is easily the least scammy. But this particular energy density argument does come up pretty much any time he talks about Tesla.
- yakz 5y agoWhy do you say that Tesla is less scammy than SpaceX?
- rriepe 5y agoBecause of how scammy SpaceX is. Phil's points that we're just re-trodding the reusable vehicle idea from the Space Shuttle days, but somehow paying more for it, are pretty damning in my eyes [1]. It feels a lot like government-funded rocket shows. I mean, space stuff happening is fun and I like it. But if it was cheaper to do it through NASA, on even the famously expensive Space Shuttle, what's the point of all of this? Tesla's stuff is all minor in comparison. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxkE_oYrjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxkE_oYrjU (Disclosure: I'm from Orlando and almost certainly somehow biased towards the shuttle program, not that I don't think it wasn't an inherently flawed idea. It was an awesome inherently flawed idea. So I actually do understand the fanboyism at play. I just liked NASA's "cool" better than Musk's "sexy." The stuff they've been pulling off remotely on other planets is more impressive than anything Musk is doing. I feel like we're picking corporate propaganda over American propaganda and I don't like it.)
- nickik 5y agoThis guy is a joke, that people on HN use him as a source for anything is sad.
- rriepe 5y agoPhil's great! He's funny, scientific and very opinionated. I don't agree with all of his arguments and viewpoints either. I think that's part of the fun.