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I'm serious when Musk is in play people actually throw out their brains just get some virtual upvotes. Or just make incredibly stupid jokes. SpaceX is US milit

I'm serious when Musk is in play people actually throw out their brains just get some virtual upvotes. Or just make incredibly stupid jokes. SpaceX is US military contractor with very high security clearance. Starlink is literally used in war against nation state attackers.

TMWNN 3y ago
It's not Musk, per se; it's that Musk is conflicting with The Narrative(TM), thus is a target. At least HN is better than Reddit, which is jam-packed with human NPCs, who react in similarly predictable ways without intelligence. A recent Reddit post discussed something positive about Texas. The replies? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of comments by Redditors, all with no more content than some sneering variant of "Fix your electrical grid first", referring to the harsh winter storm of 2021 that knocked out power to much of the state. It was something to see. If we can dismiss GPT as "just autocomplete", I can dismiss all those Redditors in the same way; as NPCs. At least GPT AI can produce useful and interesting output.
BobaFloutist 3y ago
I actually think Starlink is a super cool project, even if I wish someone else was in charge of it. I'm grateful that Musk managed to make electric cars "cool", and that his personality will make them more acceptable to conservatives that might otherwise have a knee-jerk resistance, and I think that Tesla actually did a lot to push the technology and the economy of electric cars. I think it's wonderful that we're investing more into space, even if, again, I would prefer someone else to be in the drivers' seat. I absolutely recognize Musk's contribution to things that I value and respect. I also think it's a little absurd how often he's brought up in completely unrelated discussions. It's a little like how whenever someone mentions that at-home electricity storage is a bit of an open question, people bring up flywheels, even though Powerwalls are a much more reasonable approach, just because they think flywheels are rad. The amount of times people try to shoehorn a Musk-related technology, (or even say "Hey let's get Elon on this, I bet his infinite money and brains could solve e.g. food distribution with um drones and Starlink and Boring Company I don't know he'll figure it out) makes it a little hard to take his biggest proponents seriously.

TMWNN 3y ago

It's not Musk, per se; it's that Musk is conflicting with The Narrative(TM), thus is a target. At least HN is better than Reddit, which is jam-packed with human NPCs, who react in similarly predictable ways without intelligence. A recent Reddit post discussed something positive about Texas. The replies? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of comments by Redditors, all with no more content than some sneering variant of "Fix your electrical grid first", referring to the harsh winter storm of 2021 that knocked out power to much of the state. It was something to see. If we can dismiss GPT as "just autocomplete", I can dismiss all those Redditors in the same way; as NPCs. At least GPT AI can produce useful and interesting output.

BobaFloutist 3y ago

I actually think Starlink is a super cool project, even if I wish someone else was in charge of it. I'm grateful that Musk managed to make electric cars "cool", and that his personality will make them more acceptable to conservatives that might otherwise have a knee-jerk resistance, and I think that Tesla actually did a lot to push the technology and the economy of electric cars. I think it's wonderful that we're investing more into space, even if, again, I would prefer someone else to be in the drivers' seat. I absolutely recognize Musk's contribution to things that I value and respect. I also think it's a little absurd how often he's brought up in completely unrelated discussions. It's a little like how whenever someone mentions that at-home electricity storage is a bit of an open question, people bring up flywheels, even though Powerwalls are a much more reasonable approach, just because they think flywheels are rad. The amount of times people try to shoehorn a Musk-related technology, (or even say "Hey let's get Elon on this, I bet his infinite money and brains could solve e.g. food distribution with um drones and Starlink and Boring Company I don't know he'll figure it out) makes it a little hard to take his biggest proponents seriously.