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This seems like exactly the sort of problem Elon is good at solving (or more accurately incentivizing engineers to solve). xAIs cluster buildout (powered by ge

This seems like exactly the sort of problem Elon is good at solving (or more accurately incentivizing engineers to solve). xAIs cluster buildout (powered by generators while the grid was being ramped up) would’ve had a lot of lessons.

SideQuark 2y ago
It seems like the kind of thing Musk would say he’d do but never deliver. https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
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- Mountain_Skies 2y ago
  Time blindness is a well known common symptom of autism, which he has openly disclosed having. Anyone dealing with time estimates from someone with autism and time blindness should simply adjust for this known attribute of their being instead of relying on or attacking them for their disability.
  - thephyber 2y ago
    Naw. He doesn’t get a pass when it comes to time-related criticism of him if he doesn’t also afford the same pass to his employees and the regulators of his businesses.
  - someothherguyy 2y ago
    > It remains unclear if autism is characterized by a fundamental time perception impairment. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852160/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852160/ Some other reviews state there is evidence, but only on studies for very small time scales. Not saying this definitively states anything, but it is interesting.
- jeroenhd 2y ago
  That website needs an update. He did deliver a pick-up truck (though that was neither a better truck than the F150, nor a better sports car than a standard 911, like he promised).
seventytwo 2y ago
Found the cyber truck owner
Buttons840 2y ago
I thought the same, especially Space X. I think with space, there's a near infinite unrealized market. If you build a lot of cheap rockets, people will come and pay you to put things on them. If you build cheaper transformers, will anyone buy them? They will buy some, but is there enough market demand to buy 2 or 3 times the number of transformers over a long period?
jojobas 2y ago
Yeah right, but who needs transformers when there are solar roofs, and hyperloop is all solar-powered anyway?
hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
From what I can tell, Elon's biggest impact is pushing aside traditional and conservative management and being willing to take larger business risks, allowing the already incentivized engineers who already know the problems they need to solve at paypal, tesla, spacex, solarwinds etc... tackle the problems they needed to to make a change. In this case, the incentive is there, engineers are working on it, but businesses are hesitant to scale up manufacturing and supply if they can't predict the future demand. Musk might actually be able to help here, if only because his willingness to lose money to get things done.
quickthrowman 2y ago
There are massive global multinational companies that have been working on engineering a better transformer for over a hundred years. ABB/GE, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Eaton.. you really think Elon has a fresh take on something that thousands of engineers have been working on for hundreds of thousands of man years? I realize that SpaceX solved problems that massive companies had been working on for a long time, but electrical transformers are dead ass simple. It’s a bunch of iron/steel and copper/aluminum submersed in oil. The principles of electromagnetism and induction are extremely well understood and have been for a couple hundred years.

SideQuark 2y ago

It seems like the kind of thing Musk would say he’d do but never deliver. https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/

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Mountain_Skies 2y ago
Time blindness is a well known common symptom of autism, which he has openly disclosed having. Anyone dealing with time estimates from someone with autism and time blindness should simply adjust for this known attribute of their being instead of relying on or attacking them for their disability.
- thephyber 2y ago
  Naw. He doesn’t get a pass when it comes to time-related criticism of him if he doesn’t also afford the same pass to his employees and the regulators of his businesses.
- someothherguyy 2y ago
  > It remains unclear if autism is characterized by a fundamental time perception impairment. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852160/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852160/ Some other reviews state there is evidence, but only on studies for very small time scales. Not saying this definitively states anything, but it is interesting.
jeroenhd 2y ago
That website needs an update. He did deliver a pick-up truck (though that was neither a better truck than the F150, nor a better sports car than a standard 911, like he promised).

seventytwo 2y ago

Found the cyber truck owner

Buttons840 2y ago

I thought the same, especially Space X. I think with space, there's a near infinite unrealized market. If you build a lot of cheap rockets, people will come and pay you to put things on them. If you build cheaper transformers, will anyone buy them? They will buy some, but is there enough market demand to buy 2 or 3 times the number of transformers over a long period?

jojobas 2y ago

Yeah right, but who needs transformers when there are solar roofs, and hyperloop is all solar-powered anyway?

hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago

From what I can tell, Elon's biggest impact is pushing aside traditional and conservative management and being willing to take larger business risks, allowing the already incentivized engineers who already know the problems they need to solve at paypal, tesla, spacex, solarwinds etc... tackle the problems they needed to to make a change. In this case, the incentive is there, engineers are working on it, but businesses are hesitant to scale up manufacturing and supply if they can't predict the future demand. Musk might actually be able to help here, if only because his willingness to lose money to get things done.

quickthrowman 2y ago

There are massive global multinational companies that have been working on engineering a better transformer for over a hundred years. ABB/GE, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Eaton.. you really think Elon has a fresh take on something that thousands of engineers have been working on for hundreds of thousands of man years? I realize that SpaceX solved problems that massive companies had been working on for a long time, but electrical transformers are dead ass simple. It’s a bunch of iron/steel and copper/aluminum submersed in oil. The principles of electromagnetism and induction are extremely well understood and have been for a couple hundred years.