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Does this mean that all future ones will also break? Also it was a ball, not a hammer.

• idlewords 3y ago
  It means the problem is not just 'things are hard at scale', like the parent comment suggested. The level of excuse-making for Musk's bullshit gets really tiresome in these threads. Production car looks like a Pontiac Aztek rendered on a Commodore 64? New things are hard at scale! Prototype breaks when you hit it at launch event? New things are hard, this is fixed in the new model! There's nothing cynical or malicious in being tired of a pathological level of lies and hype from a person who has real achievements to boast about, if he could just control the need to promise the sun and stars to everyone in Q2 of next year.
  • chmod600 3y ago
    "a pathological level of lies and hype from a person who has real achievements to boast about, if he could just control the need to promise the sun and stars" Can these things be separated? Can someone be reasonable and realistic and also achieve huge things? I'm sure there are a few examples, but I wonder whether those other high-achievers just seem more reasonable because they aren't on Twitter/X.
    • tivert 3y ago
      >> "a pathological level of lies and hype from a person who has real achievements to boast about, if he could just control the need to promise the sun and stars" > Can these things be separated? Can someone be reasonable and realistic and also achieve huge things? Yes, of course they can. "Achieving huge things" does not require "a pathological level of lies and hype." As evidenced by every person who wasn't a twisted salesman who ever achieved something.
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