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People have such a weird infatuation with Elon Musk here.
by salad-tycoon 3y ago
People have such a weird infatuation with Elon Musk here.
- qup 3y agoI don't. He's the obvious choice for this thought scenario for several reasons: 1) He's the richest man on the planet 2) He has competence (arguably, but that's another debate) 3) He already has all the infrastructure, experience, and people to do close to this exact thing 4) He's already widely considered evil or at least hated If you sub in Bezos, I'm guessing he's got a lead on EM in the software, but he'll be way behind in other areas. If you sub in Buffet or Gates, then I have no idea how to even have this flippant conversation, because I have no idea how to rate their ability to get the job done. I'm confident 3 of the 4 above could solve the problems of "make autopiloting, auto-targeting AI drones, and produce millions of them." I'm sure countless people could solve those problems and have the means to get it done. Have your choice of billionaires and motives, or nation-states and motives, or aliens and motives. Maybe I should have chosen Santa Claus. I do really have a hard-on for him.
- toss1 3y agoThey do, but I don't think this is an example of that — but Musk's position w/Tesla and SpaceX makes him uniquely positioned to develop & deploy such tech. That said, with all the advantages Musk would have if he "went full Evil", if he challenged something that got the US military involved, I'd bet on the US Military. In a straight-up fight, they're the most lethal force that ever existed. You might get away with 'sucker-punching' them a few times, but not for long.