Fool me once (I thought Musk really wanted to go to Mars) not gunna fool me twice. I vacillate between admiring Musk - Starlink is awesome and the one time I rented a Tesla (by accident) was pretty great. But the destruction of Twitter and grok/mecha hitler, xAI it's all supremely manipulative, polarizing and just careless.
I suppose all the great industrialists were also giant egomaniacs at the time and now we view them through the rosy lens of history.
The pivot to the Moon came a bit late for me to write about it! There has definitely been a shift in the past few years. If you read what he wrote and said in the early years of SpaceX he comes across very differently and more as a real engineer. I guess all the money went to his head - I doubt I could handle having hundreds of billions - and that has fuelled his chaotic decision making over the past few years.
Fool me once (I thought Musk really wanted to go to Mars) not gunna fool me twice. I vacillate between admiring Musk - Starlink is awesome and the one time I rented a Tesla (by accident) was pretty great. But the destruction of Twitter and grok/mecha hitler, xAI it's all supremely manipulative, polarizing and just careless.
I suppose all the great industrialists were also giant egomaniacs at the time and now we view them through the rosy lens of history.
The pivot to the Moon came a bit late for me to write about it! There has definitely been a shift in the past few years. If you read what he wrote and said in the early years of SpaceX he comes across very differently and more as a real engineer. I guess all the money went to his head - I doubt I could handle having hundreds of billions - and that has fuelled his chaotic decision making over the past few years.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Thanks for staying on top the news and for keeping is abreast of the latest developments… gotta take a look at those little red dots…
PS:
about those orbiting data centers, etc… I thought we already are a Kardashian-level civilization… did I say that right?
Surely better than being a Cardassian level civilization!