Hype is what startups do. Because hype is valuation and the path to exit with $$$$. Let's look at what Musk does with "self driving" Teslas, a very impressive

Hype is what startups do. Because hype is valuation and the path to exit with $$$$. Let's look at what Musk does with "self driving" Teslas, a very impressive (I have watched the videos) but fundamentally flawed technology. I mean, not as flawed as say, commercial fusion (see: hype on here), personal aircraft (Moller for decades, but maybe a wee bit more plausible), etc. What amuses me is people dumping on Musk on here for using arguably LESS hype than I would say the average SV startup's CEO parrots. I get it, it's the classic fall guy "him not us" group psychology. Don't get me wrong, Musk definitely is somewhere in the "owes a lot of money for lying/overhyping" for self driving at this point. But it still was something that had tangible demonstrations, ongoing improvements, and juuuuuust enough success that you could see it miiiiiiiggghhhhtttt work. Someday. Let's look at Meta. Hahahahahahahaha the hype around their VR/whatever. Now THAT is some primo-grade bullshit hype, they couldn't even beat second life from 20 years ago. "well, our startup didn't defraud people of $15000 for full self driving that wasn't". Yeah, your startup just sells personal information to companies (and therefore, to private security firms/information central nexuses, and thus to both democratic (if we can call ourselves that) and very very nondemocratic states. Um, which is worse? So ... is the hype just a legitimate "vision" for the company/product? Or is it outright fraud and chatgpt wordsoup designed to target fat investment from the Saudis? Let the market decide, I guess, to some degree.