Well, this academic still has enough respect for Elon to pay him for a blue checkmark…
Literally, every time Musk says anything in your own field (mine are UX design and programming), you immediately realise he’s a dumbass who knows nothing about anything and is literally bullshitting his way to the top, paraphrasing smarter people without understanding what he’s saying, and just declaring himself a genius.
Thankfully I learnt this very early because he bullshitted about my field pretty early on. Everyone seems to get there eventually, the more industries he claims expertise in.
Ain’t it most of the billionaires? They just know how to tell big lies so that they can earn more money.
When questioned about Twitter, he didn’t even know the difference between front-end and back-end on coding. He has done code before at Ebay (it was all re-written by others before deployment), but he should know that and yet it is completely lost on him.
I’m not convinced he coded at eBay. I think he did some markup, which was not coding. That feels like code to someone who doesn’t know what coding is.
Yeah that tracks. I didn’t pay that much attention to the details on that.
Musk sounds like a genius to people who are not experts in things Musk talks about.
The worst of Dunning Kruger manifest.
Funny, though, that this issue with cooling problems is a long known issue in all things space. This should be obvious to anyone who has seen the cooling fans (infrared radiator plates) of the ISS. And they try to be very, wery careful with creating waste heat.
Maybe Elon should ask someone who actually knows something about space instead of an AI. I mean, this guy has a f-ing company that sends rockets into space. Someone there must be capable to do an ELI5 on that topic, so even Elon can understand it.
He doesn’t want to understand it. He wants to break through it and some sleazy and/or desperate engineers are telling him everything he wants to hear. They understand that it’s impossible but they also understand that if they don’t cater to his fragile ego they’ll be looking for a new job and no job will ever pay more.
Elon legitimately believes that nothing is impossible because his entire life he’s been able to pay other people to fix his problems for him and he can’t handle the idea that he’s not the most special important smartest boy.
Unfortunately for him, ambition is all well and good but we obey the laws of physics in this universe.
The funny thing is I’m pretty sure he could have achieved a lot more with the space stuff if he wasn’t so deadset on grandstanding and picking up irrelevant bullshit.
Exactly, he actually kind of was heading in the right direction but when you end up mentally stuck at age 12 it will never be enouh.
I think we will see those small things, basically a single server rack with huge solar panels and cooling radiators. Some companies are really motivated to burn someone’s money for that and it is somewhat realistic to pull off, even with the big challenge of cooling. At the same time it also makes zero economic sense and has next to no computing power to even a small datacentre back on earth.
Cooling is just one of the challenges with data centers in space, though.
I’m with the Felon Mu$krat on this one. Anyone who thinks he’s an engineer is retarded.
he should go to spaace
See this is how you know he is kind of full of crap, he won’t step on one of his rockets. Credit to Bezos, at least he was willing to take a ride. Unfortunately, it was a successful launch and landing.
Musk was never any sort of engineer. He was just the one with daddy’s money there to take credit for the work of better people.
I think the cybertruck is the only thing hes ever had a involvement in creating. and you see how well that went.
everything else he just bought, kicked the original owners out, and gag ordered them, so he can take all the credit.
There is a very clear line you can see in their cars between the stuff that had the founders Eberhard and Tarpenning working on it, and the stuff that Musk as had a hand in. The original Roadster, and the S/Y/3/X range are all based on the original design and engineering team. Then you see the Musk lineup, Cybertruck, Semi, Cybertaxi, “Flying”-Roaster.
The desperation is starting to become very apparent, just waiting for the final merge between Tesla and Space X and to have the entire company renamed X.
Damn
I honestly think saying that Tesla’s are good cars is glazing him too much to be honest. They’re basically the iPhone of cars. That’s not an endorsement by the way that’s condemnation I fucking hate iphones. The best thing that Elon musk could be argued to have done is to make people realize that EVS are viable.
Ok, these are the only two good points to Musk;s name.
Yes, he did do a decent job of kick starting EV’s again even if it was by crushing down the founders for narcissistic reasons.
Secondly, he did generally tend to have a decent eye for enabling some design details (pre-cyber truck era). He did at least push them to move car design a little further on the original few models, you know the ones that actually sell decent numbers.
Beyond that, there isn’t much good to his name.
You’re totally allowed to hate iPhones (I’m not arguing otherwise), but iPhone hardware is way better built than Tesla cars. I don’t think it’s fair to compare the two quality-of-build-wise.
I’m mostly thinking of the atrocious repair ecosystem.
That’s fair, but again Apple seems to be getting better and Tesla worse.
iPhones don’t trap you in a fiery death without door handles lol.
But he did that by bribing himself into being called a founder of an electric car company that already existed and already had the plan for initial growth before his arrival.
His main contribution to EV adoption is a negative one; the years delay the rollout of tesla’s dowmarket models because of his insistence the doors of the model X must open upwards.
He’s also not an engineer.
To be fair i never said he was.
Apple makes phones for people who hate technology but are forced to have a smartphone in the modern era.
Don’t forget sheep
That too lol
any got the source of Elon saying that about cooling in space? I’d love to send it round some friends
His first mistake was thinking musk was a good engineer.
The only thing musk has ever done was buy or steal tech. He’s never had an original thought in his life.
Only cool thing he ever did was insist that the spacex engineers figure out to land vertically like ye olde sci fi rockets
Yes he has and they’re not gonna build them anymore
Okay, is the Tesla actually a good car? I know Cyber Trucks are absolute dogshite but what about the others?
Depends on context.
If we’re talking purely car wise they are pretty decent. The build quality is a bit iffy sometimes but the ride experience is decent.
If we’re factoring in price then no. It costs like 40 to 50k USD and even with rebates and ev programs thats way too expensive. Should be closer to 20k to 30k IMO, especially since BYDs would cost around that if they could be sold in the US (probably never happening though)
If we’re including branding baggage of elon then doubly no cause my god that guy is an idiot. He could’ve been the Tony Stark of the tech world back in 2017 or so when everyone thought he was a decent person, but I guess it’s too hard to hide his true colors
From everything I’ve heard, they are mediocre vehicles at best, but I wouldn’t buy one even if they were the best car on the planet, at an affordable price. Musk is a monster, and an existential threat to humankind, and I’m not supporting him in any way.
Pretty much. As a car they are fine, they have some nice touches but overall they are a solid 6 out of 10. Introduce the factor of who you fund by buying them and they become a 0 out of 10 car.
They are pretty good in manufacturing quality terms, but they are too expensive. They are hooked on autonomous driving features which consumers rightfully don’t care about. Outside of diver assistance in highways, they’re gimmicks to show you’re friends once. They also suffer from poor repairability (though they are starting to improve their processes that will help starting in five years or so).
They are pretty good in manufacturing quality terms
My buddy with a Tesla found blue painters tape in place of what was supposed to be a wiring harness.
Only the stupidest people thought data centers in space was ever gonna be a thing. I mean, dumber than a rock level of stupid. Sadly, that pleased the market. We deserve to wipe ourselves out.
Data-centers in space was only pitched as an idea so they could pave the path to a SpaceX buyout of xAI/Twitter. This is the same reason they put rockets on the Roaster, so they have a “legitimate” reason to merge Tesla and Space X.
It is all just financial shuffling.
Elon Musk is not an engineer. You’d think an academic would be able to grasp this
I don’t know, he has engineered one of the most amazing financial grifts I have ever seen.
Fundamentally, he should have been broke several times over now but somehow he manage to form and merge a few hundred companies over the course of 20 years in just the right way that it makes him still walk free. It cannot last forever but it has lasted WAY longer than it should have.
And if you allow him to “engineer” a car, you end up with the Cyberstuck.
And Teslas are NOT well engineered cars.
When he rose to fame he was portrayed as an engineer genius, and EVERYONE lied about it. It’s not strange people believed it. It’s not normal for this to happen.
I’d argue that rich people being touted as genius in subjects they know very little about and perform fairly poorly at historically until they throw enough money at it and surround themselves with actual experts is actually the norm.
No, most do not pretend to be engineers
All of the public ones do try to pretend to be super smart scientists and engineers and health experts. Like, Bill Gates likes to pretend that he’s super interested in physics and that he wishes he could do more to contribute to the field, but that Epstein-associating childfucker is a fucking billionaire. He could literally hire the world’s leading physics experts and teachers to train himself in physics. He could become a fucking expert so fucking easily, but, to be fair, he’s probably too busy with child rapists to bother.
Every billionaire you see in the news tries to look like a genius instead of the lucky heartless monsters they actually are because they love being idolized instead of doing real fucking work.
They are sociopaths and that is obvious, but Elon the sly fuck pretended that his social ineptitude was because he was a genius engineer, and it was what everyone was instructed to say about him. If anything, a scientist has less time to research random celebrities. It’s not about intelligence. It’s not like a barrier that prevents deception like in the movies.
