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What is some of the outright lying? And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying, can you show examples of actual lying where he knew the opposite was true

What is some of the outright lying? And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying, can you show examples of actual lying where he knew the opposite was true?

viraptor 3y ago
There's quite a few lists of you're actually interested. For example https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk... Just search for them - most are verified by his tweets at the time.
- arandomusername 3y ago
  Literally first item on your list is basically too optimistic > Talking Up Hyperloop, the (Fantasy) Transportation of the Future Another item > Saying He’d Take Tesla Private With a Tweet, Then Getting Sued for Fraud Actual tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” Which a) reads like a joke and b) didn't say he is taking, but considering. The only potential lie is wrt funding, which he still claims he had secured. > Procrastinating on an Epic Manned Mission to Mars Again, over-promising / optimistic. It's not outright lying. > Resorting to ‘Pedo’ Smears Because Someone Didn’t Like His Little Submersible Only lie, but it's more of petty insulting than outright lying, at least when it comes to with relation in business matters. > Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas Again, optimistic. First 5 points addressed, and it's junk. The closest thing to him outright lying is the “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” tweet. And that's the best. The rest of the article is just whining about twitter this and that. It's a hit piece instead of an objective list of lies.
  - jrflowers 3y ago
    Check mate. He cannot have lied about Tesla if anything he says about Tesla is categorically excluded from being a lie for the purposes of this conversation.
    - arandomusername 3y ago
      We are excluding optimistic promises that weren't true, because it's completely different than outright lying about what you are working on
      - echoangle 3y ago
        Would you consider it lying if he made optimistic promises while knowing they were impossible?
        arandomusername 3y ago
        yes
        echoangle 3y ago
        So you think that Elon seriously believed that Autopilot was coming the same year for 9 years or so in a row? If that wasn’t a total lie, he’s really stupid. He obviously knows that he’s wrong but still makes completely unrealistic predictions for hype/marketing reasons. That’s lying.
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      - jrflowers 3y ago
        Exactly. We are excluding his public statements about Tesla because
      - mvdtnz 3y ago
        > We are excluding optimistic promises that weren't true You're excluding that. Most people do not, because he has a history of making wildly optimistic (to the point of completely unrealistic) "predictions" in order to froth up media attention and juice his company's value. Most people consider this a lie. You don't.
        3y ago
  - cowthulhu 3y ago
    He’s a talented and intelligent engineer. It’s hard to see a world where he gets the “self-driving by end of year” thing wrong, like, four years in a row, but is still operating in good faith when he sends out the tweet for the fifth year. If instead of using the word “lies” to refer to his statements, we instead used the words “unreliable and deliberately misleading”, would you be more on board?
    - FireBeyond 3y ago
      > world where he gets the “self-driving by end of year” thing wrong, like, four years in a row Four? This will be the NINTH year in a row we've been promised "FSD this year, for reals", even as his Directors tell the DMV that "FSD this year is not an engineering reality".
  - FireBeyond 3y ago
    > Actual tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” > Which a) reads like a joke and b) didn't say he is taking, but considering. The only potential lie is wrt funding, which he still claims he had secured. It wasn't a potential lie. He _had not_ secured funding. > Only lie, but it's more of petty insulting than outright lying, at least when it comes to with relation in business matters. It's a "petty insult" to say "I have evidence that you are a pedophile, arandomusername" to all the media that will print it? No, he had no evidence. In fact he scrambled after this to hire a private investigator to try to find some. But that didn't stop him, Musk himself literally emailed BuzzFeed to say "I have proof that he has a 12 year old child bride and is leading a trafficking ring." "Petty insult" is insulting to the person on the receiving end of all this, and insulting to everyone else's intelligence. > Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas > Again, optimistic. Musk is literally signing documents being sent to DMVs saying that FSD "this year" is "not an engineering reality". That's not optimism. That's speaking out of both sides of your mouth. He knows its not happening this year, and he's signing official documents saying so, while pumping away on Twitter that it IS happening this year. I think you give way too much credit to the "optimistic goals are not lying". Elon has repeatedly done not just the "FSD is coming, this year, for reals", but "We are bumping this event in 3 months time because we'll have a huge announcement and release" that doesn't happen. At some point you lose any credibility that you're "just being optimistic" and that you have zero evidence to say "X will be possible when I said so", and actual outright evidence from your engineers saying "X is not possible and will not be possible by then". > "Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes." That was a lie. Musk reinstated thousands of banned accounts two weeks after that tweet, with no content moderation council in sight (which to this day has not been set up). > "Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency." 33 days later: "Tesla sells $272M in Bitcoin from orders." You're contorting yourself to defend this man.
    - arandomusername 3y ago
      > It wasn't a potential lie. He _had not_ secured funding. I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that (but then again, hard to prove a negative), and he still claims he did. Either way, like I said, I'm willing to concede on this point and agree that this is a lie, the only outright lie in my opinion that I have seen. > It's a "petty insult" to say "I have evidence that you are a pedophile, arandomusername" to all the media that will print it? No, he had no evidence. In fact he scrambled after this to hire a private investigator to try to find some. It's petty insult because the other dude first said his submarine thing is useless or whatever (while the lead diver actually asked him to continue working on it). So he fired back, hence petty insult. > Musk is literally signing documents being sent to DMVs saying that FSD "this year" is "not an engineering reality". Show me a document that Musk signed, that says FSD not reality this year & a quote from Elon in similar timeframe suggesting FSD that year. > At some point you lose any credibility Yes he lost credibility when it comes to promising things. If he said Tesla $25k next year, you would be fully in the right not to believe that. But it is not the same as saying Tesla is working on a $25k car when not working on it. > That was a lie. Musk reinstated thousands of banned accounts two weeks after that tweet, with no content moderation council in sight (which to this day has not been set up). Sure, but if we give him benefit of the doubt could have just been change of plans. I don't believe he tweeted that while knowing he will not set it up. > 33 days later: "Tesla sells $272M in Bitcoin from orders." Where's the "from orders" part? Tesla bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin before that, perhaps they are selling some from that "investment"? https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/08/tesla-invests-15b-in-bitcoin-plans-to-accept-crypto-payments/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/08/tesla-invests-1...
jrflowers 3y ago
This is a great question. Apropos of nothing it is important to proactively ask for the definition of lies be adjusted to exclude a large portion of his public statements, which is a very normal thing to do when discussing anyone’s honesty. That aside here is a cool website I’ve found https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
mrkeen 3y ago
Full self-driving
peutetre 3y ago
> And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying It's no longer "optimism" when you've been telling the same lie for 10 years: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ His own self imposed deadlines were never met, even when he repeatedly changed them to new deadlines. Tesla's "full self-driving" is not and never has been full self-driving.

What is some of the outright lying? And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying, can you show examples of actual lying where he knew the opposite was true?

viraptor 3y ago

There's quite a few lists of you're actually interested. For example https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk... Just search for them - most are verified by his tweets at the time.

arandomusername 3y ago
Literally first item on your list is basically too optimistic > Talking Up Hyperloop, the (Fantasy) Transportation of the Future Another item > Saying He’d Take Tesla Private With a Tweet, Then Getting Sued for Fraud Actual tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” Which a) reads like a joke and b) didn't say he is taking, but considering. The only potential lie is wrt funding, which he still claims he had secured. > Procrastinating on an Epic Manned Mission to Mars Again, over-promising / optimistic. It's not outright lying. > Resorting to ‘Pedo’ Smears Because Someone Didn’t Like His Little Submersible Only lie, but it's more of petty insulting than outright lying, at least when it comes to with relation in business matters. > Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas Again, optimistic. First 5 points addressed, and it's junk. The closest thing to him outright lying is the “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” tweet. And that's the best. The rest of the article is just whining about twitter this and that. It's a hit piece instead of an objective list of lies.
- jrflowers 3y ago
  Check mate. He cannot have lied about Tesla if anything he says about Tesla is categorically excluded from being a lie for the purposes of this conversation.
  - arandomusername 3y ago
    We are excluding optimistic promises that weren't true, because it's completely different than outright lying about what you are working on
    - echoangle 3y ago
      Would you consider it lying if he made optimistic promises while knowing they were impossible?
      - arandomusername 3y ago
        yes
        echoangle 3y ago
        So you think that Elon seriously believed that Autopilot was coming the same year for 9 years or so in a row? If that wasn’t a total lie, he’s really stupid. He obviously knows that he’s wrong but still makes completely unrealistic predictions for hype/marketing reasons. That’s lying.
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    - jrflowers 3y ago
      Exactly. We are excluding his public statements about Tesla because
    - mvdtnz 3y ago
      > We are excluding optimistic promises that weren't true You're excluding that. Most people do not, because he has a history of making wildly optimistic (to the point of completely unrealistic) "predictions" in order to froth up media attention and juice his company's value. Most people consider this a lie. You don't.
      - 3y ago
- cowthulhu 3y ago
  He’s a talented and intelligent engineer. It’s hard to see a world where he gets the “self-driving by end of year” thing wrong, like, four years in a row, but is still operating in good faith when he sends out the tweet for the fifth year. If instead of using the word “lies” to refer to his statements, we instead used the words “unreliable and deliberately misleading”, would you be more on board?
  - FireBeyond 3y ago
    > world where he gets the “self-driving by end of year” thing wrong, like, four years in a row Four? This will be the NINTH year in a row we've been promised "FSD this year, for reals", even as his Directors tell the DMV that "FSD this year is not an engineering reality".
- FireBeyond 3y ago
  > Actual tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” > Which a) reads like a joke and b) didn't say he is taking, but considering. The only potential lie is wrt funding, which he still claims he had secured. It wasn't a potential lie. He _had not_ secured funding. > Only lie, but it's more of petty insulting than outright lying, at least when it comes to with relation in business matters. It's a "petty insult" to say "I have evidence that you are a pedophile, arandomusername" to all the media that will print it? No, he had no evidence. In fact he scrambled after this to hire a private investigator to try to find some. But that didn't stop him, Musk himself literally emailed BuzzFeed to say "I have proof that he has a 12 year old child bride and is leading a trafficking ring." "Petty insult" is insulting to the person on the receiving end of all this, and insulting to everyone else's intelligence. > Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas > Again, optimistic. Musk is literally signing documents being sent to DMVs saying that FSD "this year" is "not an engineering reality". That's not optimism. That's speaking out of both sides of your mouth. He knows its not happening this year, and he's signing official documents saying so, while pumping away on Twitter that it IS happening this year. I think you give way too much credit to the "optimistic goals are not lying". Elon has repeatedly done not just the "FSD is coming, this year, for reals", but "We are bumping this event in 3 months time because we'll have a huge announcement and release" that doesn't happen. At some point you lose any credibility that you're "just being optimistic" and that you have zero evidence to say "X will be possible when I said so", and actual outright evidence from your engineers saying "X is not possible and will not be possible by then". > "Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes." That was a lie. Musk reinstated thousands of banned accounts two weeks after that tweet, with no content moderation council in sight (which to this day has not been set up). > "Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency." 33 days later: "Tesla sells $272M in Bitcoin from orders." You're contorting yourself to defend this man.
  - arandomusername 3y ago
    > It wasn't a potential lie. He _had not_ secured funding. I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that (but then again, hard to prove a negative), and he still claims he did. Either way, like I said, I'm willing to concede on this point and agree that this is a lie, the only outright lie in my opinion that I have seen. > It's a "petty insult" to say "I have evidence that you are a pedophile, arandomusername" to all the media that will print it? No, he had no evidence. In fact he scrambled after this to hire a private investigator to try to find some. It's petty insult because the other dude first said his submarine thing is useless or whatever (while the lead diver actually asked him to continue working on it). So he fired back, hence petty insult. > Musk is literally signing documents being sent to DMVs saying that FSD "this year" is "not an engineering reality". Show me a document that Musk signed, that says FSD not reality this year & a quote from Elon in similar timeframe suggesting FSD that year. > At some point you lose any credibility Yes he lost credibility when it comes to promising things. If he said Tesla $25k next year, you would be fully in the right not to believe that. But it is not the same as saying Tesla is working on a $25k car when not working on it. > That was a lie. Musk reinstated thousands of banned accounts two weeks after that tweet, with no content moderation council in sight (which to this day has not been set up). Sure, but if we give him benefit of the doubt could have just been change of plans. I don't believe he tweeted that while knowing he will not set it up. > 33 days later: "Tesla sells $272M in Bitcoin from orders." Where's the "from orders" part? Tesla bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin before that, perhaps they are selling some from that "investment"? https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/08/tesla-invests-15b-in-bitcoin-plans-to-accept-crypto-payments/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/08/tesla-invests-1...

jrflowers 3y ago

This is a great question. Apropos of nothing it is important to proactively ask for the definition of lies be adjusted to exclude a large portion of his public statements, which is a very normal thing to do when discussing anyone’s honesty. That aside here is a cool website I’ve found https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/

mrkeen 3y ago

Full self-driving

peutetre 3y ago

> And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying It's no longer "optimism" when you've been telling the same lie for 10 years: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ His own self imposed deadlines were never met, even when he repeatedly changed them to new deadlines. Tesla's "full self-driving" is not and never has been full self-driving.