I like Elon because the media hates him. He probably has done more to counter China, Silicon Valley and the deep states plans than anyone in the marketplace. His neuro link is the only thing I disagree with.
He does some good, and some bad. However, to stay on topic, I don't blame someone for taking advantage of subsidies that exist, as much as I blame the existence of tax-subsidies in the first place. Any smart person should be trying to maximize what they get out of a system they're forced to contribute to.
Musk lives on the line between genius and insanity. His purpose in life is to perform technological sorcery and he's very good at it. He has no desire for control or wealth, he just wants to make magic.
Well let's look at your points. Using subsidies, well of course he's going to use what is available. The subsidies are the issue. The satellites, Starlink is supposed to be used as a means to provide low latency high speed internet globally. These aren't spy satellites but I do understand your concern. Next the brain interface. Can you not see how much good can come from something like this? Sure any tech like this has the possibility to be misused and we still don't know how to use it but still the application can help millions. Your concern on this is valid.
So is this a low IQ post no not really, you're concerned with some of the actions of Elon which is understandable. The problem is you don't express your concerns about over these programs/action, you just immediately seem to classify them as nefarious.
Let's put it like this. I'll discard the subsidies, as SpaceX remains profitable (though a big chunk of customers are gov't agencies and subcontractors). But he will never ask less of them.
The issue isn't that they have potential for nefariousness. In some sense it is baked in, and though sounding pious, when society allows these things to shape it, we will get what we deserve. In this case, as computing gets stronger and stronger, we won't be able to opt out of Neurolink.
Sure the disability side sounds great, but that's not where this is going. Already this is being marketed as a consumer device, even teased as a "music streaming device" for your brain. We are at square 1. Tracking the walk cycle on a pig. Predictive algorithms and AI however will, and I have 0 doubt of this, eventually make opting out impossible if a large enough demographic buys in. This coupled with a dragnet of constellation satellites with low latency will make these datapoints in effect online 24 hours a day, anywhere on earth. SIGINT will mean something entirely different, and even if you don't have an implant, enough datapoints around you, with uninterrupted feed will to some degree allow groups like JTRIG and their successors to prevent dissension from ever being a problem again.
It sounds looney, and it implies the intentions for sure. Just remember who runs our government and corporations. Elon is a tool to make these things palettable. We already know from his intro that his implant devices are the most advanced "CONSUMER" devices extant. I don't like to think about what that implies is already in the field.
Oh I agree about the implants. I don't like it but this is something that is going to happen, we cannot stop it. I'm just saying we don't need to instantly insinuate nefarious intentions on everything.
I suppose nothing is technically inevitable (besides death), but realistically we all have to see this is something that will happen. Either benevolent or malevolent this is a thing we will have to deal with.
Elon is in deep in with the CCP. Tesla has got billions and billions from the US government as subsidies for being "green". In Michael Shellenberger's excellent book 'Apocalypse Never' about the climate-change con, he states that Tesla only exists as a going concern because of the government credits.
He's definitely shown enough signs of being a conman that you have to be, at the least, skeptical and on your guard. I agree with the PT Barnum comparison. Tesla might go the Enron/Theranos/Wirecard way.
Just what I thought, this article includes SpaceX and includes state and local tax incentives and you still haven't given a source for the "billions and billions from the US government".
LOL, I've just proved to you that you were just blowing shit out of your ass about Federal subsidies and now you simply revert to Ad hominem attacks. You seem like the real leftist.
I like Elon because the media hates him. He probably has done more to counter China, Silicon Valley and the deep states plans than anyone in the marketplace. His neuro link is the only thing I disagree with.
He does some good, and some bad. However, to stay on topic, I don't blame someone for taking advantage of subsidies that exist, as much as I blame the existence of tax-subsidies in the first place. Any smart person should be trying to maximize what they get out of a system they're forced to contribute to.
Musk lives on the line between genius and insanity. His purpose in life is to perform technological sorcery and he's very good at it. He has no desire for control or wealth, he just wants to make magic.
This just fucking low IQ bullshit.
Because it's objectively wrong, or you don't like it?
Well let's look at your points. Using subsidies, well of course he's going to use what is available. The subsidies are the issue. The satellites, Starlink is supposed to be used as a means to provide low latency high speed internet globally. These aren't spy satellites but I do understand your concern. Next the brain interface. Can you not see how much good can come from something like this? Sure any tech like this has the possibility to be misused and we still don't know how to use it but still the application can help millions. Your concern on this is valid.
So is this a low IQ post no not really, you're concerned with some of the actions of Elon which is understandable. The problem is you don't express your concerns about over these programs/action, you just immediately seem to classify them as nefarious.
Let's put it like this. I'll discard the subsidies, as SpaceX remains profitable (though a big chunk of customers are gov't agencies and subcontractors). But he will never ask less of them.
The issue isn't that they have potential for nefariousness. In some sense it is baked in, and though sounding pious, when society allows these things to shape it, we will get what we deserve. In this case, as computing gets stronger and stronger, we won't be able to opt out of Neurolink.
Sure the disability side sounds great, but that's not where this is going. Already this is being marketed as a consumer device, even teased as a "music streaming device" for your brain. We are at square 1. Tracking the walk cycle on a pig. Predictive algorithms and AI however will, and I have 0 doubt of this, eventually make opting out impossible if a large enough demographic buys in. This coupled with a dragnet of constellation satellites with low latency will make these datapoints in effect online 24 hours a day, anywhere on earth. SIGINT will mean something entirely different, and even if you don't have an implant, enough datapoints around you, with uninterrupted feed will to some degree allow groups like JTRIG and their successors to prevent dissension from ever being a problem again.
It sounds looney, and it implies the intentions for sure. Just remember who runs our government and corporations. Elon is a tool to make these things palettable. We already know from his intro that his implant devices are the most advanced "CONSUMER" devices extant. I don't like to think about what that implies is already in the field.
Oh I agree about the implants. I don't like it but this is something that is going to happen, we cannot stop it. I'm just saying we don't need to instantly insinuate nefarious intentions on everything.
Nothing in this life is inevitable but its end. The only way to stop such things is at the root, it is attitudes such as this are self-fulfilling.
I suppose nothing is technically inevitable (besides death), but realistically we all have to see this is something that will happen. Either benevolent or malevolent this is a thing we will have to deal with.
I don't think history is going to kind. I know I'll catch shit BUT I believe he's a modern day PT Barnum.
I, for one, welcome our new mind-reading overlord.
Elon is in deep in with the CCP. Tesla has got billions and billions from the US government as subsidies for being "green". In Michael Shellenberger's excellent book 'Apocalypse Never' about the climate-change con, he states that Tesla only exists as a going concern because of the government credits.
He's definitely shown enough signs of being a conman that you have to be, at the least, skeptical and on your guard. I agree with the PT Barnum comparison. Tesla might go the Enron/Theranos/Wirecard way.
Please source these billions and billions of dollars from the US government.
I did. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Michael Shellenberger’s book - Apocalypse Never.
How about an actual source, not from a book. Surely info. about these 'subsidies' are available online right?
😂😂
(https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/if-tesla-is-worth-more-than-gm-why-are-taxpayers-still-subsidizing-it/)
This one is from 2017. Billions in the 2 links I posted. Safe to assume the number is much higher by now.
Are you going to behave like a lib and ignore these facts or will you change your uninformed opinion?
Just what I thought, this article includes SpaceX and includes state and local tax incentives and you still haven't given a source for the "billions and billions from the US government".
Haha. I bet you’re a Bernie Bro. Google this shit. It might help to go through life less ignorant.
LOL, I've just proved to you that you were just blowing shit out of your ass about Federal subsidies and now you simply revert to Ad hominem attacks. You seem like the real leftist.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html