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uzi5v2 38 points ago +40 / -2

I’m starting to really like this Elon guy, seems pretty intelligent.

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afro54 1 point ago +8 / -7

He'll appear even more intelligent to you, once your brain has his implant in it.

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rutabaga 3 points ago +3 / -0

That thing's going to have to be completely open source (except for the manufacturing methods), and probably will be. I'd rather he work on it than Bill Gates too.

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afro54 2 points ago +4 / -2

But, ultimately, you concede that we will all have to have one?

How do you define, 'Hobson's Choice'?!

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MAGAViking 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't think that will happen during our lifetime, as the tech still has a long way to go for the benefit vs risk to be high enough for it to be appealing to healthy people or make ordinary people fall behind "chipped" ones. First, it will be used as almost like an upgrade to deep-brain-stimulation which is already used to treat certain conditions like depression. Then, I think they'll try to implement it to treat people with certain disabilities, like blindness. After that, it'll be far enough along that using it to augment the lives of otherwise healthy people could realistically be looked at.

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rutabaga 1 point ago +1 / -0

No matter who inevitably makes it, we'll have to have one. It'd be like deciding between becoming a mildly retarded chimpanzee or continuing life as a human. And the non-chip alternative would be letting AI decide our lives for us.

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uzi5v2 -1 points ago +1 / -2

I agree it could be used for bad but I think he truly has good intentions if you watch him explain it.

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Gnorfwin 3 points ago +3 / -0

Sounds kinda like a beastly mark to me

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uzi5v2 0 points ago +2 / -2

He’s looking to cure autism and paraplegics. I tend to believe him after watching interviews directly from the source, but hey this is America you’re welcome to your opinion! At least we are for now haha

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afro54 0 points ago +5 / -5

I don't need to watch him explain it - I get a direct download.

What elon thinks I think, I think, I think.

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Pedesaurus 0 points ago +5 / -5

Then why is he so concerned about global warming?

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they-see-me-trollin 4 points ago +4 / -0

there are parts of global warming that are legit... just not the doomsday cult climate apocalypse nonsense.

on top of that, elon's changes to the way we think about cars and power will change the world regardless of climate cult bullshit.

if he just came out and called them fucking retarded, they wouldn't covet what he's building. instead, he's building the iphone of cars, and they will line up for mils to suck his cock just to ride in one.

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Pedesaurus 1 point ago +1 / -0

So what is legit about it?

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they-see-me-trollin 1 point ago +1 / -0

dumping greenhouse gas and burning fossil fuels raises temperatures... just not even remotely to the levels they're talking.

whenever they cite studies that show increases in CO2 cause increase in temperatures, they're always giving obnoxious examples... stuff like 500,000+ PPM increases of CO2. that's so much CO2 that all life on earth would have gone extinct, not from CO2, but because it'd take us so many thousands of years to get there that we'd long have switched to fission or subspace power.

in contrast, the evidence they "have" (and i say "have" in quotes because it's so ridiculously manipulated it's just outright fake) is that the CO2 has risen a couple hundred PPM in the last thousand years.

when you ask for controlled evidence of the temp rise caused by such a small amount of CO2, they go into instant screech mode.

when you bring up the fact that it's not raw data and has undergone numerous revisions, they go into instant screech mode.

when you ask for the raw temp or CO2 data, they go into screech mode.

that's not science. that's cult zealotry.

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Waffleyumboy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wise pede

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micaarzur 2 points ago +4 / -2

Even Einstein was wrong about some things.

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WiseOldOwl 2 points ago +3 / -1

Thing about global warming. It's weird.

Like, Obviously the left is lying. They don't buy it, or at least their leaders don't. If they did, they would be batshit scared of China's emissions. They would also be really interested in finding solutions that work, not just feel good solutions.

So yeah, they are lying out their ass. But the left is also stupid. When you are lied to by a stupid person, is he telling you something real by accident?

Some people really do think all these emissions are going to get us. Those people aren't democrat politicians or big time actors with private planes.

Now, I'm way, way more scared of these crazy fucktards who rigged the election and want to disarm me so their street militia can murder me, so I have other alarm bells to ring. But you ever think, just maybe?

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rutabaga 0 points ago +1 / -1

Alex Jones believes in global warming, but he wants more co2 emissions to reduce atmosphere loss.

I've seen the science, and man-made warming exists, but scaremongering about submerging cities and tornadoes everywhere is BS. At most you get earth millions of years ago, which was still filled with life.

Species loss, however, is a problem. We could lose some exotic food sources or medicine if that's not dealt with.

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Pedesaurus -1 points ago +2 / -3

Even Trump said he believes in man-made global warming.

But I'm not buying it. I took a geology class in high school and know a lot about weather and stuff. Global warming is bullshit.

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Pedesaurus 0 points ago +1 / -1

But it would be like if Einstein was wrong about relativity.

His belief in global warming is the whole reason he went with Tesla.

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blackflame7000 2 points ago +3 / -1

Because he owns Solar City and Tesla who both benefit from environmental subsidies

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spac3nerd 1 point ago +2 / -1

He's not that concerned, he publically stated that the planat can accept more CO2, and that more might even be beneficial.

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Pedesaurus 1 point ago +2 / -1

He said, "we're really playing a crazy game here with the atmosphere and the oceans. We're taking vast amounts of carbon from deep underground and putting this in the atmosphere — this is crazy. We should not do this. It's very dangerous."

Sounds pretty concerned to me.

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Jimmy33 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sells cars, man

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Pedesaurus 1 point ago +1 / -0

If he's knowingly lying, he's part of the globalists pushing the climate change bullshit.

Fuck him.

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SmartGuy -7 points ago +6 / -13

Hes a globalist plant ... his shitty cars give him away

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A_Normal_Politician 2 points ago +3 / -1

So many in TD think Elon is one of us. I feel like I am on reddit when I enter an Elon musk thread.

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SmartGuy 1 point ago +2 / -1

Ikr cant wait for my brainchip hes one of the good guys myan

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NotQuiteHuman 1 point ago +1 / -0

Would you prefer Chuck Norris?

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lemonjuice 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Federal Reserve bank wouldn't be injecting his stock if he wasn't on their train. Ultimately his products, self-driving and brain implants, will be forms of control over the masses.

People need to learn about controlled opposition.