Elon's musk

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.

The New York Times reported in 2021 that Tesla engineers had created the 2016 video to promote Autopilot without disclosing that the route had been mapped in advance or that a car had crashed in trying to complete the shoot

Dean: "In the Elon Musk biography, Isaacson tells of a poker game where Musk went all-in every time until he won.  It's an analogy for how Musk - in Peter Thiel's words - "understands something about risk that everybody else doesn't," and how he's able to create companies that seemed destined to fail but triumphed.

Hubbard: "How did he continue playing after he went all-in and lost once?"

Dean: "He bought more chips, of course."


... of course the other people would be praising Musk's wisdom, that would encourage him to keep making mistakes; that's how poker players drain a sucker.

meme stolen from Mozai on irc

https://twitter.com/destruct_intl/status/1785315876482203771

anti-tesla militancy continues to grow.

5 months after the actual attack, a group has now claimed the arson at a 'tesla center' in southern france. the attack took place just a few weeks after the sabotage at the berlin 'tesla gigafactory'.

"Has anyone else in Portland seen that cybertruck wrapped in photos of deli meat or am I hallucinating"

Someone proposed that young Elon Musk had an Apple ][ home computer, and played this game where the best design for a car was determined by the game's simulations.