I think people need a refresher course of the last 5 years or so. Because here's the deal.
About 2017 to 2020, maybe 2021, the internet was a huge fucking fan of Elon. Including me. I LOVED Elon. Seemed like such a down to earth guy who genuinely wanted to help the human race and was super ambitious. Even if he was flawed. From what I remember, the general consensus was you either liked him, or you felt indifferent and just didn't really care.
NOW that headspace has changed. Either you fucking hate him, or you do like him and get destroyed. Now, it took me about a year before I started to really dislike him the way the internet does. Because I felt like at the time the internet was doing what it always does. Blows shit outta proportion. That was, until I started seeing things change. Because starting about 2-3 years ago, there has been a massive ego fluctuation in Elon. His Twitter is not the same as it was back in 2019 for example. He was actually fairly level headed and would post the occasional meme. But it was always something amazing to do with Space X or Tesla. Okay, no harm there. NOW it's full of nonsensical retarded tweets, dumbass memes left and right, tweets pretty much shitting on his own users...It's a toxic fucking cesspool there. I mean this guy is at a point where he thinks rebranding a social media site that has been widely known to the public with one name, and one name only for YEARS, is a good idea. Let alone to rebrand it to a single fucking letter. Because why not? Kill your user base apparently.
What the hell happened to him? I understand why people dislike him now. As do I. But dude. How can someone fall from greatness like that? Being seen as the next Steve Jobs, flaws and all. To just a shadowy figure of himself? What made him go fucking insane and gain that huge ego?
To the people that would comment, "Well he's always been like that he just shows it now", I don't believe it. When you have such massive egotistical and narcissistic traits, you could give two shits about showing it. He would've done so his whole career if he was like this. I'm not saying he NEVER had an ego, but it wasn't anywhere fucking near the levels of where it is now.
"We were on the verge of greatness, we were THIS close!"
Then you're never going to believe the real answer. A lot of us have been hating on Musk (and Peter Thiel, don't sleep on that monster) since the Paypal days. But Elon made it easier for us to buy things, then he bought an electric car company, and suddenly everyone thought he was the damn tech messiah.
Yeah, totally in agreement. Dude was always a horrible, dumb, asshole.
I mean, he wanted to blow a nuke up in the atmosphere of mars, to change said atmosphere to be habitable to humans.
He also overrode engineers on Tesla's autonomous driving, and forced them to only use cameras, and zero sensors (like every other manufacturer knows doesn't work)
He bought twitter for far too much, and we are witnessing him kill it slowly.
I could really go on and on. He's always been a moron, and a horrible person. I really don't understand why anyone ever thought otherwise.
Oh, and should we mention that he tried to cosplay as a poor person, who started these multibillion dollar companies from nothing (this one is kinda disputed, but the only source that claims that he really was broke is musk himself)
He basically had enough competent ppl around him realizing they had to have babysitters to distract him or he'll fuck shit up. I think it was tesla that had literal ppl designated to make him feel like everything was his idea and his ideas were good and being implemented
Using nukes to help terraform Mars isn't unreasonable. It's going to take thousands of years anyway. At that point the radiation won't be a problem anymore. Cosmic radiation will always be a way bigger problem in Mars anyway.
This is also not a Musk plan. Actual scientists came up with it, he just co-opted it.
Of course it's still hotly debated if it would be a good idea or even work, but it's not totally crazy, like some of his other ideas.
I dunno. I’m able to drive based on vision alone. I don’t see why a computer can’t do the same thing.
Probably could, if there were better computers to parse the images. But due to the fact that there's not a computer as good as the brain is at moving physical body through space, you need to use other tools at the moment.
Can you provide evidence of you hating on Musk since the PayPal days?
If I remembered my Digg account, there's probably at least some comments about his hair transplant ca. 2000. Not really proof, but I'm sure you'd b able to read the contempt.