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I'm bummed that this is a paid post. I'm not sure I care enough about it to subscribe to another substack. If there are revelations in the lower half of the p

by taeric 2y ago

I'm bummed that this is a paid post. I'm not sure I care enough about it to subscribe to another substack. If there are revelations in the lower half of the post, please share and I can change my mind. I can say my own personal worry/concern regarding Elon and similar, is I don't know how far "similar" goes. I'm fairly skeptical of any hero worship in the business sectors, but it is hard to shake the idea that a lot of current tech leadership is a bit more certain of their views than they should be. Especially politically/socially. All the more frustrating, as I feel that open criticism and dialogue have been weaponized against folks to a degree that we started punishing people for honestly acknowledging mistakes in the past.

gcr 2y ago
I too would love to know whether Elon kept his promise! Alas I'm not able to financially subscribe to another subscription product at the moment.
- trumpvoter 2y ago
  Found a $5M donation article (not personally fact checked). https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/19/nation/elon-musk-donates-5m-coronavirus-research-boston/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/19/nation/elon-musk-dona... Presumably even if that wasn't the bet, he can backfill anyways so yes seems to be the likely answer.
VectorLock 2y ago
I'm guessing Elon welched on his bet otherwise he wouldn't have needed to try to monetize this.
- orionsbelt 2y ago
  It was for charity, not for his own pocket: "Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity)"
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esfandia 2y ago
Looks like he removed the paywall for this article? I was able to read the whole thing, and I'm not subscriber.
belter 2y ago
https://archive.is/hEpZG https://archive.is/hEpZG "...He included a link to a page on the CDC website, indicating that Covid was not even among the top 100 causes of death in the United States. This was a patently silly point to make in the first days of a pandemic. We continued exchanging texts for at least two hours. If I hadn’t known that I was communicating with Elon Musk, I would have thought I was debating someone who lacked any understanding of basic scientific and mathematical concepts, like exponential curves..."
hn1986 2y ago
Musk stopped being friends after he lost this bet: > Elon and I didn’t converge on a common view of epidemiology over the course of those two hours, but we hit upon a fun compromise: A wager. Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity) against a bottle of fancy tequila ($1000) that we wouldn’t see as many as 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States (cases, not deaths).

by taeric 2y ago

gcr 2y ago

I too would love to know whether Elon kept his promise! Alas I'm not able to financially subscribe to another subscription product at the moment.

trumpvoter 2y ago
Found a $5M donation article (not personally fact checked). https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/19/nation/elon-musk-donates-5m-coronavirus-research-boston/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/19/nation/elon-musk-dona... Presumably even if that wasn't the bet, he can backfill anyways so yes seems to be the likely answer.

VectorLock 2y ago

I'm guessing Elon welched on his bet otherwise he wouldn't have needed to try to monetize this.

orionsbelt 2y ago
It was for charity, not for his own pocket: "Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity)"

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esfandia 2y ago

Looks like he removed the paywall for this article? I was able to read the whole thing, and I'm not subscriber.

belter 2y ago

https://archive.is/hEpZG https://archive.is/hEpZG "...He included a link to a page on the CDC website, indicating that Covid was not even among the top 100 causes of death in the United States. This was a patently silly point to make in the first days of a pandemic. We continued exchanging texts for at least two hours. If I hadn’t known that I was communicating with Elon Musk, I would have thought I was debating someone who lacked any understanding of basic scientific and mathematical concepts, like exponential curves..."

hn1986 2y ago

Musk stopped being friends after he lost this bet: > Elon and I didn’t converge on a common view of epidemiology over the course of those two hours, but we hit upon a fun compromise: A wager. Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity) against a bottle of fancy tequila ($1000) that we wouldn’t see as many as 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States (cases, not deaths).