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Agronox posted:no idea why you guys are throwing so much poo poo at someone trying to save humanity. guess it’s easier to bitch and complain from mom’s basement than actually try to help the world yourselves yes, it's quite important to note that when Roko's Basilisk tortures a copy of you for not bringing it into existence sooner, St. Elon is officially one of the Basilisk's pre-saved emulations, destined for an optimal rescue simulation: Roko Mijic posted:A more exciting (and to my mind more preferable) way to overcome the problem is to quickly become so rich that you can turn charity into business by single-handedly changing the faces of high-impact industries. Elon Musk is probably the best example of this. I swear that man will single-handedly colonize mars, as well as bringing cheap, reliable electric vehicles to the consumer. And he'll do it at the same time as making even more money. The key to this tactic is scale. You can't contribute 0.00002% of the effort to colonize space or mitigate existential risks and reap 0.00001% of the reward: you get 0 or even negative reward if your contribution is below some threshold. But how can an individual do an Elon Musk job on existential risk? Not everyone is a good enough entrepreneur to drop out of grad school and come out with a $300 million startup before their classmates even have PhDs.
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Giga Gaia posted:they didn't fire him before ebay gave them all the money for the product and he had a considerable amount of shares after the initial paypal ipo. * Thiel co-founded Confinity, who had a payment thing called PayPal * Confinity merged with Musk's financial company x.com, the resulting company was called PayPal * Thiel had hired a college friend, Eric Jackson - and Jackson realised that PayPal was a perfect fit for eBay * eBay bought PayPal for frickin buckets of cash, Musk and Thiel went from "middling-rich" to "billionaires" * Jackson got I dunno a certificate of congratulations, but he still thinks Thiel's a genius and wrote an rear end-sucking hagiography of PayPal so Thiel's actual genius move was hiring Jackson
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darin.saleh posted:MuskCoin/In honor of Elon Musk not just a Musk stan, a bitcoiny Musk stan
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Mayor Dave posted:Rococo basilisk is a solid joke and it legitimately painse that musk used it as I've posted previously, Musk is literally named in the original Roko's Basilisk post! Roko Mijic posted:A more exciting (and to my mind more preferable) way to overcome the problem is to quickly become so rich that you can turn charity into business by single-handedly changing the faces of high-impact industries. Elon Musk is probably the best example of this. I swear that man will single-handedly colonize mars, as well as bringing cheap, reliable electric vehicles to the consumer. And he'll do it at the same time as making even more money. The key to this tactic is scale. You can't contribute 0.00002% of the effort to colonize space or mitigate existential risks and reap 0.00001% of the reward: you get 0 or even negative reward if your contribution is below some threshold. the Basilisk Post is one of the weirdest pieces of writing ever rendered by an actual human, and I have already committed to writing a whole book to explain what the gently caress. I think one of my hooks is gonna be "this is what the gently caress Elon Musk is always on about"
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FistEnergy posted:
the Elongated Muskrat strategy is they can't cut your head off if you've got a brass neck
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triple sulk posted:it's really incredible how bad elon's public speaking skills are someone's got his balls in a vice and the script in front of him call audio here is your bingo card
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Wulfolme posted:if the script is in front of him why is every fourth word "uh" did he really not sleep enough before this, of all earnings calls
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triple sulk posted:bad connection lmao ah it's not just me? good
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Teal posted:In this stream: Musk completely not understanding how neural nets work ORDER OF MAGNITUDE KICK rear end
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Wulfolme posted:
it's the one that keep apologising for not getting enough sleep and working a 20 hour week
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Rated PG-34 posted:can you imagine being able to plug and play an upgraded vid card. simply amazing i'm sure that will be enormously happy just being casually plugged in to the ELECTRONIC HELL WORLD that is an automotive environment
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"so elon, where the gently caress are you getting the money for all of this" "we're pulling it out of our ahsses" (stock goes up)
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Baxate posted:I don't think he's saying whether or not a regulator is preventing them from raising money "there is no such notice from a regulator"
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Is the bar as low as "Better behaved than most middle schoolers" ? evidently. here's to Adam Jonas, the guy who dived in with actually boneheaded questions
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triple sulk posted:i want to die i've reached the point in this call, an hour in, where i'm astral-travelling
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the Berenberg question is "look, are you learning anything about manufacturing" this answer is missing the question - Tesla are saying "we can technologise our way out of our clear manufacturing problems! it's all s o f t w a r e" but the implied question is "will you learn how the hell to run a factory from the experience of others, not just being an SV genius from first principles"
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Nikita Khrushchev posted:boooo someone just told him they like it when he teases trolls Elon could i please make your back end more comfortable Elon could you tell me what to ask
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BioMe posted:Like do you need any more proof even in the PayPal days he was nothing but a glorified code monkey? not even that - he thought moving PayPal's servers from Unix to Windows NT was a good idea BioMe posted:Right, for some reason I though he had a formal education since even the critics seem to give him credit for actually having done something hands on with PayPal. I hope he didn't. You'd really have to pity the guy who had to had to clean up after the self-taught genius micromanager with a fragile professional ego. PayPal made money because Eric Jackson realised it had synergy with eBay. This worked so well that eBay eventually bought them.
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Matt Levine's Money Stuff for Bloomberg today is a hootquote:Yeah, look. I bet that all work at the SEC’s San Francisco office stopped yesterday as they conducted an office-wide arm-wrestling tournament to select the person who got to make that call. You work your whole life at the SEC just for the remote chance that one day you might get to be the one to call up Tesla, hold up a hand to quiet the hoots of your colleagues who are listening in, take a deep breath to suppress your own giggles, and say into the phone: “So … how’s that financing?” Of course the SEC is looking into this. I can’t think of a thing that the SEC would look into more. If Warren Buffett was giving insider tips about accounting fraud at the Fed to Lloyd Blankfein so that he could help Donald Trump and the pope insider trade against the Illuminati, the SEC team investigating that would be scheming to get transferred to the Elon Musk team. The Elon Musk team is already shopping for the commemorative flamethrowers they’ll get when they finish.
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endlessmonotony posted:TeslaCoin confirmed. Get a premined TeslaCoin for every day your Model 3 sits in the factory mining it. https://twitter.com/valleyhack/status/1027637938568421377
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cumshitter posted:i dont want to just see him fail, i want to jerk off on the ashes of the money he burned this is the most poetic sentence i have read today
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BoneDaddy1969 posted:I want Musky to build the next Euthanasia Coaster this is the Cryptocurrency Rollercoaster https://twitter.com/ButtCoin/status/1029431647731630085 relabel for $TSLA darn you shorts!! 
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tbf, this is actually not really remarkable. Software engineering is a horrifying pile of complete dogshit at every level. Behind all the shiny surfaces of civilisation, absolutely everything actually runs on paperclips, string and hastily-applied gaffer tape. Everything he's describing there is completely normal. (He posts pointing this out too.) This is engineering war stories, not amazing news.
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comedyblissoption posted:to be fair a CEO telling their engineering staff to prioritize farting unicorns over critical problems and fizzbuzzing non-C-programmers with C pointer tests is unusual I wish either of those were the case
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Ytlaya posted:The logical fallacy I frequently see used in this sort of context is "there have been things people thought were impossible that were later shown to be possible; ergo everything that we currently think is impossible can and will be accomplished." Galileo gambit, also a favourite of bitcoiners First They Ignore You, Then They Ridicule You, Then You Flail About A Bit, Then They Ridicule You Some More, Then You Keep Losing, Then You Flail About Some More,
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