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Musk's End Game is Clear

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by dynogator, Feb 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM.

  1. dynogator

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  2. citygator

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    I’d argue that is secondary to stealing America blind. Proprietary tech will just be the instrument to do it.
     
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  3. jjgator55

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    If it’s a choice between artificial intelligence or what we have now which is no intelligence, I’ll take the AI.
     
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  4. dynogator

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    Win/win.
     
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  5. slocala

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    Let’s hope future generations get “I, Robot” and not “The Terminator or the Matrix”.
     
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    or just access to everyone’s info - financials, etc. It would be quite valuable to different corps or adversarial countries.
     
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  8. demosthenes

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    You sure about that? It’s too close comfort where in 2035 a megalomaniacal corporate CEO turns a mass produced robot into a horde of jailers and murderers for the human population.
     
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    Self driven cars will price out, via insurance, human driven ones sooner than most probably realize.

    Elmo bought the regulatory go-ahead, and the fan base for just $288 mill.
     
  10. dynogator

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    Musk is certainly sitting pretty right about now. Just months ago, he was a generic, garden variety billionaire. Now he's got the president of the United States backing his self-serving agenda, and he's going to try and re-structure the government to be super friendly to his (coincidentally) products. You can't buy that kind of access. Wait, yes you can. How much did he contribute to Trump's campaign? $288 million if I'm remembering rightly.
     
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  12. dynogator

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    Cons are desperately defending the indefensible.
     
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  13. channingcrowderhungry

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    Disagree with everyone here. Based on his actions of trying to affect elections across the globe, as well as stuff that has come out in interviews and biographies I think it's pretty clear Musk is trying to leverage being the richest man in the world into being the most powerful man in the world.
     
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    You left out "the oligarchs of this" country part.
     
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    Liberals are mentally ill.
     
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    He's a man child with delusions of being the hero is his own video game, while the rest of us clearly see him as what he is - a villain with no morals.

    We are all just NPCs in his world and he is the only person who matters - ask his kids and baby mommas.

    He is not a mature, secure, serious human being, but rather an insecure, wannabe man, who happens to be a sociopath.
     
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  17. slocala

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    Naw, a robot army would take massive amount of materials, rare minerals, a light year jump in battery storage capacity, and software / chips to encode instructions. That can’t be done in a hollowed out volcano with a fake top that opens up and the robots scurry out to destroy humanity. :D

    OT: it occurs to me that at this point in time society has really shoved back on gender matters. Rhetorical question: What will happen when society is confronted with artificial implants that enhance human capabilities?
     
  18. dynogator

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    Which explains his meddling in the most powerful government in the world.
     
  19. dynogator

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    Cons are morally and ethically bankrupt.

    I can do this all day, but it's tedious and silly, so I'm out.
     
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  20. demosthenes

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    Elmo is working on that too with neuralink. As for your first comment, you missed the plot line. You have customers buy the robots and keep a back door to take control of them.