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Wild that people will call the founder of SpaceX a "showman"
by spaceman_2020 1y ago
Wild that people will call the founder of SpaceX a "showman"
- luma 1y agoLet's settle on calling the founder of Hyperloop a "showman".
- lacy_tinpot 1y agoYes. Because we should all be judged by our failures.
- noodletheworld 1y agoHey, Im a fan. Fail fast. Build things. Most very rich people just sit and roll in their money in the finance markets like scrooge mcduck. But… I think the performance in the whitehouse was performative nonesense. What a waste of everyone’s time for the sake of appearances. More building things, less dancing please Elon.
- derektank 1y agoHe has done many impressive things, but one consistent thing about the man is that he always over promises and regularly under delivers. The examples are too numerous to count (smashing the CT's "armour" glass, humans to Mars in 2024, Thai cave submarine, naming your driver assistance technology Full Self Driving, etc, etc) Perhaps that's simply the price of achievement, but Showman is apt
- skybrian 1y agoThat is a real, important accomplishment, but he's also a showman.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago[flagged]
- daedrdev 1y agoYou got a soruce
- bdangubic 1y agoaha - the source is "elon fantasy weekly" :)
- dzhiurgis 1y agoWaymo doesn't publish any. But yeah I didn't realize Waymo's coverage is more than Austin and SF where Tesla rules already. So maybe end of year they'll overtake. Which is crazy Waymo is sitting on this. Even at 10x more expensive cars you'd think they would just put their cars everywhere, but scalability bottleneck seems to be software or lack of remote ops.
- daedrdev 1y agoWaymo does 250K rides every week how many does Tesla do? I cannot find a statistic
- Dlanv 1y agoThis is definitely not true and easily observed to be false if you live in the area, then take into account waymo is active in far more areas
- next_xibalba 1y agoDon’t forget Zip2, PayPal, Neuralink, OpenAI, and The Boring Company. There are large swaths of people that accept headlines as fact and/or cannot or will not grapple with nuance and complexity (“I think Elon’s a jerk and he is a formidable engineer.”) Perhaps it’s a sign of these polarized times, or, as I believe, people have always been like this. We just have more time and resources to dedicate to outrage and flamewarring than we did in the past.
- esalman 1y agoI don't deny his accomplishments. On the contrary, I think he is a genius. It's just that he is an extremely, damagingly biased genius. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960
- testing22321 1y agoGenuine question - are there (or have there been ) any geniuses that are not unhinged?
- juliendorra 1y agoYes, there has been nice geniuses (ie. people with extreme talent), Mozart was for example a good person. Da Vinci (if a little sycophantic when young) was not unhinged at all nor abusive and was appreciated. But since romantism we have built this image of the genius as necessarily abusive. I’m sure abusive genius are very visible (by definition?) and that abusive people tend to monopolize more ressources too. (Like these tenured professors that use their students to advance their own career)
- tempacct2cmmnt 1y agoWild that people will call a guy who bought SpaceX the founder of SpaceX.
- roenxi 1y agoEither go ague with Wikipedia, or put some argument in the comment when making claims you expect people to verify themselves. People are just going to look it up on Wiki. > SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a self-sustaining colony on Mars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX 2nd paragraph
- spaceman_2020 1y agoYou’re arguing over semantics. Was SpaceX the most successful space company before Elon took over? Did they have reusable rockets? If the answer is no, then clearly the catalyst was Elon taking over