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Some people "waste time" recognising superb acheivements of people they don't know. This happens a lot in science and technology, where a single individual can
by cbeach 1y ago
Some people "waste time" recognising superb acheivements of people they don't know. This happens a lot in science and technology, where a single individual can contribute a tremendous amount to advance human knowledge and technology.
Other people waste time criticising people they don't know simply because those people have different political opinions.
The former behaviour comes naturally to me. People who do the latter need to be pulled up on it.
- piva00 1y agoSo why don't you recognise the actual people doing the work that advances humanity in research and development instead of Musk?
- cbeach 1y agoFew people have achieved as much as Musk. He reduced the cost of space travel by 10x and restored America's re-usable vehicle capability after decades of government mis-management. He spearheaded the transition to sustainable transportation by building a brand new car startup which is now the most valuable automaker in the world (by market cap). He has demonstrated viable brain-computer interfaces in humans. He co-founded the most important AI company in the world. He brought free speech back to Twitter, ending a dystopian era of government-coordinated censorship. He reduced Las Vegas commute times from 45 minutes to 2 minutes by starting a tunnelling company from scratch, developing new electric tunnelling machines with continuous capabililty, and building tunnels.