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Michael Anton Fischer · 157w
The iPhone is nice, but it’s not a game changer, like landing rockets or self driving cars. The technology of Tesla’s AI will change the world extremely radically over the next decades. More radi...
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Grok is closed source and requires fiat payment, ie it has total surveillance built-in. That is a very dangerous path for strong AI that Elon should know better about. Like I said, imo, insistence on centralization and surveillance tech, if not his downfall, will be the downfall of humanity into digital slavery. This irony make me disbelieve anything he says regarding his supposed giving a shit about the future of humanity.
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Michael Anton Fischer · 125w
I think it’s he’s blind on that side. It’s hard to fully grasp a system that you’re so close to. Cantillionism has built him up, so he cannot really see it in its entirety only specific problems. Which is imo also why he doesn’t understand money
MN · 125w
My understanding of him is that he wants to be in the history books as the guy who made humanity multi-planetary - even if he has to write that book himself. THAT is his only motivation and everything else are means towards it, including right and wrong.
Michael Anton Fischer · 157w
While this is certainly true, he has also built the most agile company culture and lead those to several achievements previously labeled „impossible“: -Landing rockets -EVs that are better than a...
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I agree with this. Elon gets subsidies on car sales but guess what, the oil and gas industry globally gets a trillion dollars in subsidies annually. I don’t like the subsidy argument.

Elon builds good tech, and he IS an engineer. Where he goes fatally wrong though is his insistence on building on the legacy model of centralized surveillance capitalism.
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