Musk says he’s going to launch an “AI game studio” at his xAI startup.

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    25 days ago

    Elon’s companies have been successful despite his input, not because of it. If you’re interested, do some reading on how middle-management protected their teams from his nonsense in both Tesla and SpaceX, basically just feeding him bullshit that sounded good and ignoring him whenever possible. Those people are why the companies have thrived.

    Shit, just look at Twitter before and after. The valuation difference is staggering.

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      25 days ago

      twitter is probably the best thing to happen for spacex, testla and other companies lol. He just spends all his time shitposting.

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        25 days ago

        Not to mention all the preference he will show his own companies because of the appointment buying Twitter got him.

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      I tell people this all the time. There are people who have the job of distracting musk like a 3 year old. They don’t believe it and continue to worship him. They act like he personally invented everything and refuse to accept the truth. The only thing he actually invented was the cybertruck.

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        Did he actually invent the Cybertruck? He drew the world’s shittiest picture that was all straight lines and then made a bunch of toddler-level claims about its abilities while demanding results from the teams of real people that actually had to make his nonsense even somewhat functional.

        People who deserve the title of inventor actually do the fucking work. He just said “and it’ll be invincible and climb over mountains and can pull GOD and be SO COOL”

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          I read this whole article by some truck review guy? And he was confused because he said the cyber truck came within a hair of filling a niche in the truck world that was pretty much free to take, but just narrowly ended up being in a much better established range of trucks that it had no hope in competing in. So yeah… he did all the demanding and none of the thinking, and everyone else was just there for the paycheck.

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            The niche was what the Rivian and fuck, even the F150 Lightning are doing. The Cybertruck looks like ass and I could almost say the appearance is “kinda neat for trying something different” if it wasn’t such a dogshit product in every single way.

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              I can’t help but laugh every time I see one, and in the occasional instance that the owners actually pay attention to the world around them and notice, they always glare at me 😂 they know exactly how fucking stupid they look, they just try to pretend nobody agrees

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              23 days ago

              Yeah that sounds about right. From a pure business standpoint it’s an error in every way.

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      It’s risk assessment.

      If you have a startup and someone offers you 9 figures so they’re the CEO and you still run the day to day…

      You’d be an idiot to risk it, because any number of billion dollar companies can fuck you over thru innumerable ways.

      So every once and a while someone with shit tier risk assessment lucks out and suddenly becomes unimaginable rich. And those are the people making offers on the next generation of startups.

      The system is set up so the worst people possible run shit. Because no sane person would keep “letting it ride” to the point they make billions, and a crazy person who does becomes too big to fail. And once they get to that point, they’ve convinced themselves no one else is smart enough to play Russian roulette 100 times in a row.

      At that point they’ve conned themselves into really believing they’re geniuses who know more than anyone.

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      25 days ago

      I had a boss like that once. Yes, it can be done.

      But the bottom line is they still think they’re great and everything will go on.

      That is very harmful to society.

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      25 days ago

      Shotwell is an amazing person for operating SpaceX to such success, despite all of Elon’s efforts to the contrary, like trying to cancel Falcon Heavy.