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Just days after Musk appeared and spoke strongly in favour of him at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania [1]. These are interesting times and people make very
by ninjin 2y ago
Just days after Musk appeared and spoke strongly in favour of him at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania [1]. These are interesting times and people make very strange bed follows.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/style/elon-musk-donald-trump-campaign-rally.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/style/elon-musk-donald-tr...
Then again, can we trust a word the man is saying? It all feels like shallow pandering. Plus, it may be worth going through the entire event at the Detroit Economic Club [2] to check the quote more clearly as at least one source quotes him as referencing PRC car automation with that statement, while expressing some general personal scepticism of autonomous driving [3].
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km-gQhP5fnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km-gQhP5fnw
[3]: https://qz.com/donald-trump-self-driving-cars-avs-musk-tesla-robotaxi-1851670161 https://qz.com/donald-trump-self-driving-cars-avs-musk-tesla...
- malermeister 2y ago[flagged]
- narrator 2y agoReading any HN thread connected to Musk is so annoying because all the political obsessives come out and crapflood the thread with rants about "manbabies."
- threeseed 2y agoThe fault of that lies with Musk who has been trying endlessly to turn everything into a culture war.
- forgot-im-old 2y ago[flagged]
- malermeister 2y agoReading anything connected to Musk is annoying because he crapfloods the internet being a manbaby.
- lowkey 2y agoReading HN threads ranting about “manbabies” when referring to arguably the single greatest innovator and entrepreneur of our time was not on my bingo card on a site purporting to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
- jona-f 2y agoSo, going back on topic, how is the robotaxi business going, that Musk promised you could start 2020? His success relies on delusional people believing his bs. No amount of real world facts will convince his followers he was wrong, as you just publicly displayed.
- jajko 2y agoWell its true. We can use other terms but they describe underlying fact of a brilliant but deeply troubled person with serious mental issues and sometimes infantile emotional reactions. Plus a horrible parent. The times when such successful persons were unanimously celebrated and their flaws were ignored are luckily over for good. Call it what you like, this is reality that very few are happy about. Imagine if this guy would be more mentally and emotionally stable, how further he could actually get. And the respect he could actually achieve. Its a sad view, really. The thing is, people's failures define them and their legacy 100x more than their successes. Nobody cares how loyal friend say Epstein was (ie to Trump), do we.
- rpmisms 2y agoI would counter and say that Musk's flaws are what allow his greatness. You don't get someone that effective without serious tradeoffs. Not many people could have created SpaceX. Even fewer could have made Tesla work. I don't know that anyone else could have done both.
- narrator 2y agoImagine if every time someone brought up something about Linux the thread was full of people doing psychoanalysis of Linus Torvalds instead of actually talking about the features of the new release. Imagine how useless those threads would be. Your post is an example of this with regards to Tesla.
- rchaud 2y agoImagine what it was like just a couple of years ago when these threads would be flooded with "he's trying to save the world, what have you done?" type comments.
- lesuorac 2y agoIt'd be like criticizing Rudy Giuliani in 2002.