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This is like me, a couch potato, pivoting from "I'm going to run a half marathon" to "I'm going to do a marathon in under ten minutes"

tadfisher 6mo ago
If we're talking Dyson spheres, this is like going from a half-marathon to running the distance from Earth to Betelgeuse. It's just not a realistic endeavor.
JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
It's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities. My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.
- cramsession 6mo ago
  > this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream. I think Musk being a ketamine addict explains a lot and this is very aligned. Given that he can't build a self-driving car, he would have to be under the influence of very strong drugs to think he could build a Dyson sphere of all things. That being said, some sort of financial fraud is even more on brand.
  - taneq 6mo ago
    Dumb question, do the cybercab thingies not drive themselves? Having a safety driver doesn’t disqualify them if for the vast majority of the time they’re autonomous. It just means they’re earlier into chasing 9’s than Waymo. The characterisation of “level 5” autonomy as the car handling any conceivable circumstance (not that you explicitly made this claim here) is just silly. Humans can’t handle any conceivable circumstance either.
    - cramsession 6mo ago
      No they do not drive themselves. They're not Waymos (which do drive themselves, without a driver).
- taneq 6mo ago
  Mars was a moonshot, pivot to the actual moon. ;)
sobellian 6mo ago
More like "I'm going to run every possible marathon route on the Earth's road network."
numpad0 6mo ago
And in handstanding walk because you're better at hands than legs. All their advantages are in domains to be obsoleted by technologies required for such things. Be it the Dyson shell thing or Lunar or Mars colonies, there's no way it'll be done relying on transports from Earth surface. It could only work if we could make them from asteroid pieces. Which makes most items on their tech tree from Starship forward obsolete. And they're already all-in on those techs. It makes so little sense in so many levels.

tadfisher 6mo ago

If we're talking Dyson spheres, this is like going from a half-marathon to running the distance from Earth to Betelgeuse. It's just not a realistic endeavor.

JumpCrisscross 6mo ago

It's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities. My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.

cramsession 6mo ago
> this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream. I think Musk being a ketamine addict explains a lot and this is very aligned. Given that he can't build a self-driving car, he would have to be under the influence of very strong drugs to think he could build a Dyson sphere of all things. That being said, some sort of financial fraud is even more on brand.
- taneq 6mo ago
  Dumb question, do the cybercab thingies not drive themselves? Having a safety driver doesn’t disqualify them if for the vast majority of the time they’re autonomous. It just means they’re earlier into chasing 9’s than Waymo. The characterisation of “level 5” autonomy as the car handling any conceivable circumstance (not that you explicitly made this claim here) is just silly. Humans can’t handle any conceivable circumstance either.
  - cramsession 6mo ago
    No they do not drive themselves. They're not Waymos (which do drive themselves, without a driver).
taneq 6mo ago
Mars was a moonshot, pivot to the actual moon. ;)

sobellian 6mo ago

More like "I'm going to run every possible marathon route on the Earth's road network."

numpad0 6mo ago

And in handstanding walk because you're better at hands than legs. All their advantages are in domains to be obsoleted by technologies required for such things. Be it the Dyson shell thing or Lunar or Mars colonies, there's no way it'll be done relying on transports from Earth surface. It could only work if we could make them from asteroid pieces. Which makes most items on their tech tree from Starship forward obsolete. And they're already all-in on those techs. It makes so little sense in so many levels.