this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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I like to file anything that Musk says in the round mesh filing cabinet.
Full self driving by when?
Hyperloop easy
“It’s not that hard”
There’s a lot of smart and hardworking people at his companies for sure, but that guy Peter Molyneuxs their good efforts.
"smart and hardworking people" aside, the normalization and dismissal of these statements as just marketing or otherwise harmless fibs has enabled a consistent escalation of scope and affect. Design shortcuts that Tesla has made have resulted in actual death and injury, and claiming that the cars have agi even in a rudimentary sense is astonishing.
literally my first thought: "oh, so he wants to try blame the deaths on a wee little machine intelligence that oopsie just didn't know any better?"
(because he would spin that narrative if he thought he could get away with it)