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CO2 for me and not for thee
The correct way to solve the market failure of externalities is taxation, not social shaming.
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Do you think Elon is giving meaningful input on the design of robots, rockets or brainchips?
Andrej Karpathy has directly worked with him. Listen to what he says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617
Nietzsche: "The vanity of others offends most, when it offends our own vanity."
No one here is threatened when Dave Grohl pumps out his 30th hit album, or when Steph and Lebron wipe the court with all the other players. But the idea that this Elon guy is not only richer, but also smarter and more ambitious and more innovative than any of us? That's unfair, it can't be so!!
> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour. Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
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I laughed out loud when I read that. Would expect nothing more from Gizmodo.
Its frustrating because it buries better points under mud. The effective way to reduce jet emissions is not to publicly rag on the people who have the money to use the service. I would go so far as to say that the author does not actually care about the subject at all, only perhaps being able to deride others to prop themselves up as not as bad as them. The subject as presented like this leaves little room for talk a…
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It doesn't say he couldn't have any legit reason but less than an artist you gets paid to perform in front of an audience. I bet for many travels of Musk this would be true: "This Meeting Could Have Been an Email"
I really want to see you design rockets, robots and brainchips using email. Taylor Swift could have livestreamed on YouTube.
For clarification email is a metaphor for anything that could be done remotely, like designing rockets, robots and brain chips.
The Swift fans on the other hand pay to see her live, that's the USP of a concert.
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Good news: Musk has done none of those things. At best he's distracted and interfered with people who did those things.
We have irrefutable evidence that Elon was the top executive at companies that did all those things, while you have no evidence that those things would have happened without him.
They already design new rockets, robots and chip without him being on site because he's busy with Twitter.
And I guess it's pretty easy for him to do a remote session if he needs to. He has his own Internet company.
Otherwise it's like driving a combustion car if you own a electric car company.
Doesn't mean he designed a rocket, robot or chip.
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Good news: Musk has done none of those things. At best he's distracted and interfered with people who did those things.
I don't like Musk very much since he went nuts post breakup with his GF. But he does have meaningful input, technical design is not the only thing - other companies like Boeing, Blue Origin or Ariane have great engineers too, seems like technical design is not the most important part.
Ever heard of web meetings or even telephone?
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Do you think Elon is giving meaningful input on the design of robots, rockets or brainchips?
Yes, I do. People working with him in SpaceX have said so. And in the other cases, his leadership, financial, business, product and marketing input is still a necessary part of the project that directly influences the technical decisions.
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Do you think Elon is giving meaningful input on the design of robots, rockets or brainchips?
Andrej Karpathy has directly worked with him. Listen to what he says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617
Many understand Einstein's theory of relativity but few would have came up with.
He isn't some kind of Tony Stark who builds things himself.