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I think they also have a team at SpaceX to keep him away from important projects.
Not surprised.
Billionaires are not the best and brightest of us. They are people who merely have a lot of money which buys more money. They don't innovate, the success of their companies is in spite of them not because of them.
And I hope to see the revolution.
Especially these tech billionaires since most of their ideas and what they got off the ground with were already either being worked on by other people or are so basic of ideas that wouldve come about regardless. Just to use Henry Ford as an example the assembly line was revolutionary for the time since it allowed labor specialization on each step of production allowing for quick and cheap production via volume, which was a massive step up from the previous method of artisan assembly where a person or team of people worked on one vehicle at a time. Not to say Ford wasn't a dumbass but he had an actual skill for logistics and production.
Meanwhile look at Musk had he never invested in Tesla electric cars would've still become popular, hell without Tesla absorbing market space it's possible one of the more established car companies wouldve jumped onto the market niche far sooner. Also I don't think Musk is in possession of any skills.
All Musk has is branding, he turned his name into a brand by making documentaries about how he's the real life Iron Man and building hype around the idea of him as a super genius.
Colt did it over 60 years before Ford. Ford's big achievement was coming up with a way to effectively apply it to car manufacturing. He was also very good at design for manufacturability, and design for maintainability with the widely available tech of the day. A blacksmith could fix a lot of things with a Model T.
Ford was not a dumbass. He was, however, a control frek, a racist, an antisemite and a proto-fascist.
Musk, on the other hand, has never done anything but own things. When he had to make decisions at PayPal, they were so bad that he was fired.
My point exactly in a far more succinct way. Though I will point out that it wasn't necessarily just cars that it was applied to but a lot of large products as well, a bit like when your playing a game and unlock a small version of a tech and then get a large version later.
Regardless Musk may as well be Ford but with none of the positives.
So merging XAI and SpaceX actually was a money saving idea because they could consolidate the don't let Elon talk to the engineer teams?
How do stock holders continue to fucking allow this shit? This 100% costs money. And for what??