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I fucking hate this guy got off the hook. He fell out of the media so fast it makes me sick to think how complete the ruling class's power is.
Why this people never get cancer or horrible accidents?
Fortunately he isn't going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can't imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they'd probably fall over.
There has never been another individual who's ability and ego are so at odds
Brooks (Roomba, Baxter, MIT, etc) says it's sill not enough https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
If you skim through his piece, at least watch the 2x 30s videos, really drive the point IMHO.
Why do they even need musk? It's not like he is lead engineer or chief of design.
Marketing and fund raising. Doesn't matter how much you, well we, hate him he's still genuinely excellent at it. Sure it's absolutely destructive to... literally everything except his bank account, but it works. Very annoying.
I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted
Why would you ever have any control whatsoever in the first place? Do other arms manufacturers have a control for their missiles?
Fucking egomaniac.
hey errr maybe the richest man in the world with nazi views should not have a robot army to begin with?
Any day now Tesla is gonna be renamed Hyperion
I'll do it for half that.
I'll do it for half of your offer. $250 Billion is plenty for me to pull off a robot army.
Is he revering to the self driving Teslas when he says 'robot army'?
I had to check to see if I was eating an Onion. Turns out, Ol' ketamine fried Musky truly did say all of this.
But I was told that rich people like musk and Trump weren't swayed by money because they had enough... 😂
Sociopathic Oligarchs have a serious form of OCD/ Hoarding Disorder, that makes them crave even more money, no matter how much they have.
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
But if they are hoarding money on a historically mind-blowing scale, they call them a successful businessman, and give them government grants and tax breaks.
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
He has enough money to pay an actual army
He has enough idiots following him that will do it for free.
Or even pay to do so.
Apparently we don’t even need to pay the actual army. We can just revoke their paychecks and force them to keep working anyways. Nothing can go wrong with that, right?
This guy is so desperate to be called the first trillionaire, it's just really pathetic.
putin already beat him there, by stealing russia economy.
He needs? Go pick yourself up by your bootstraps. Somehow I don’t think he means $1T of his own money.
A good chunk of shareholders deferring to public agencies that recommend based on societal good is imo the only way capitalism could “work”. Of course Elon is against it.
Was there ever a hope that the customers buying the robots would control them?
MechaHitler controlled robot in my home or business is not a good marketing plan. Chinese companies are well ahead in robotics, and they have manufacturing customers, battery and motor research/leadership, lower bill of materials, plenty of AI skill. No reason to believe Tesla will be first or better.
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This is so stupid. If he has an issue with shareholder control, he has the money to buy the fucking shares. Sure, he has to pay the inflated bullshit price, but he can do that. Buy it and make it private, Musk. Then you can do whatever the hell you want with it, but it'll be your money on the line. If you actually believe in the product than it should be fine, right?
Actually he doesn't. Most of his 'wealth' is Tesla shares already. Even if he could toss everything he has just toward controlling more of Tesla, and if the shareholders accepted it at current market value, he'd only have a third of the company.
Tesla is crazy over valued for a company that has only been able to be a car company that is in 14th place, yet assessed as being more valuable than all the 13 more successful car companies combined...
Did you do the math including the shares he already owns? Anyway, he can take out loans with the shares as collateral to buy more shares. I'm pretty sure he could get back 50% control if he leverages his assets. If he actually believes what's he's saying, this is a reasonable move.
I just want this guy to die. Oh, I will be so happy when it happens.
And all the other ones as well.
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Elon Musk in charge of a robot army?
I've seen this movie sooo many times, and it never ends well.
Man who can't buld fully self driving cars wants to build a f@*king robot army? I'll pass. How about give him NO money so he can't afford to build them in the first place.
Me too Elon, I'm not feeling comfortable with you building a robot army
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Sounds like they are getting on with their plan of eradicating all but the 1%
I hope he surrounds himself with these robots. Human bodyguards don't want to die.
Not one more penny to this monster.
Take a lot more drugs Elon. Be sure it's enough to permenently quiet that scrambled brain of yours.
In a time when the entire world seems to be suffering from unstable leadership, rising costs of everything because of the decisions of people like him, oppressive and invasive actions directed at some of the most vulnerable people.
All that and much more, but this person with a net worth of $479,200,000,000 (according to Forbes as of today) is crying for $1,000,000,000,000 more for a large group of toy robots.
Some people have nothing and go on to accomplish great things. He has everything and needs more handouts to do anything.
This picture describes it pretty well.
Or these fascists are distracting people from something important with these performances...
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He really needs $1 million, but he'll take the rest, just in case.
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