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Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon

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11 pointsjbegley13 comments

It is fascinating watching his hardcore supporters pivot with him.

I call them Tech MAGA...

It's gyrating at this point.

Maybe he should complete the moon lander that he promised would be done by now

Not a fan of Elon but he said his job is 'To turn impossible engineering projects into late ones' and I thought that was pretty accurate.

"past performance is not a good guide to future performance" is what the finance industry says about the uncertain waters of investment.

If you think late delivery is a trendline to work with against the impossible, I have a self driving car to sell you. (it's not FSD. he delivered late, and he under-delivered to his sell)

I own a Tesla with FSD I bought in 2021 so I feel that. It clearly is far worse than Waymo still.

I like that quote, however I wouldn't put my money behind someone who continually fails to deliver on projects.

Oh also the whole you know what going on.

But primarily the failure to deliver multiple highly-publicized projects all the while raking in colossal grant and investment money is just wild to me. If this were any other org, Elon would be beyond toast.

It’s interesting because a year ago Musk dismissed the moon entirely. Now that Blue Origin is competitive with SpaceX and planning to land on the moon, Musk is dishonestly pivoting. I do find the mention of mass drivers disturbing - is Elon creating a space based weapon that threatens other countries?

Somebody gave him a synopsis of Moon is a Hard Mistress that went something like "AI organises a libertarian polygamous utopia on moon after seceding from earth using mass driver as the threat"

He found that on Epstien's nightstand? And don't you dare edit the post.

There are probably easier way to threaten countries than lobbing stuff from the moon.

Dude has poetry magnets that consist only of buzzwords. When he needs to raise money he just checks his fridge door.

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