Is Elon Musk /our guy/? 📦

5    10 Feb 2020 16:27 by u/Broncos89

12 comments

3 u/TTTA 10 Feb 2020 17:26
The article as a whole seems to be pretty pro-regulation of speech. There's a good bit to read between the lines there with the comments on Musk's historical aversion to Facebook and his meetings with Zuck about AI. I dislike Facebook because the website encourages the formation of hate-circlejerks in echo chambers safe from anything resembling critical thinking. It makes it easier to market to them and increases user retention, because echo chambers feel good, but it also encourages the kind of vitriolic tribalism that makes civil society and open exchange of ideas damn near impossible. I suspect Musk sees Facebook as the ad revenue equivalent of the Paperclip Maximizer, and that scares the shit out of him.
2 u/kek 10 Feb 2020 18:01
Man, that's scary. TIL about an AI that wants to make paperclips. Link for the lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7o7azd/eli5_what_is_a_paperclip_maximizer_and_what_is/
3 u/conspiracythierry 10 Feb 2020 19:17
In Sept he said [China was the future ](https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/09/02/teslas-elon-musk-i-really-think-china-is-the-future) but didnt see Coronavirus coming
1 u/Broncos89 [OP] 10 Feb 2020 19:38
Sell out
1 u/brainlet 10 Feb 2020 23:15
So he's a bad guy for wanting to save his company money by manufacturing outside the US? t. brainlet
3 u/conspiracythierry 11 Feb 2020 00:42
ikr, impressed by something shiny, then saying something so definitive not knowing they were about to unleash a Chernobyl level disease NEVER trust commies
1 u/Broncos89 [OP] 12 Feb 2020 16:19
>Chernobyl level disease Kek
2 u/kek 10 Feb 2020 17:23
He seems apolitical.
3 u/TTTA 10 Feb 2020 19:36
I think it's that he largely doesn't fit into one of the two big American camps, and doesn't use his platform to push towards one "side" or the other. When you get to that size as an entrepreneur, especially one that sees the government as a customer, it pays to play both sides like any other powerful corporate lobbying group. He seems to be a technocrat, but technocrats are too boring to make noise in most political climates.
2 u/brainlet 10 Feb 2020 23:04
I think I gained +10 IQ points reading your comments.
2 u/captainmeta4 11 Feb 2020 00:58
Yeah @ttta is sharp
3 u/TTTA 11 Feb 2020 14:28
Aw, thanks guys