I can’t believe he doesn’t get more shit for that whole Hyperloop debacle.
The hype around it was a big part of his whole elevation in the media to “Real-life Tony Stark” status. Engineers who called it out as impractical half-baked nonsense were ignored or ridiculed, but now that they’ve been proven correct everyone’s just moved on and forgotten about the whole thing.
Hyperloop was nonsense from day one. That’s why all Musk did way publish some vague white paper and hype it up while staying himself clear of any of that. Its only purpose was to kill California High Speed rail anyway.
I doubt that. No 4D-chess required. He absolutely refused to invest anything into Hyperloop from the start nor did any of his companies do work on it. He may have been high on his own supply with rockets and self drivingbut certainly not with Hyperloop. Just follow the money.
His goal achieved: blocking rail. More wasn’t important.
Since Trump and the tech bros I learned a lot about swarm behavior and also neurodivergence.
For one, the (human) swarm is generally really dumb, so roughly the lowest common denominator. That itself is not the issue, but it forgets. It’s really really forgetful and easily distracted.
So just throw up the next idea and everything will focus on that. It’s even worse that the media is mostly owned by a few, adding to that.
Basically all this results in enabling this behavior. I remember, but most do not. That’s where neurodivergence comes in, if we’re focused we do not get diatracted. We remember better in that case, but few listen.
Oh and those that were ridiculed also never get an apology. So can you blame them for decoupling from the fate of humanity?
I can’t believe he doesn’t get more shit for that whole Hyperloop debacle.
The hype around it was a big part of his whole elevation in the media to “Real-life Tony Stark” status. Engineers who called it out as impractical half-baked nonsense were ignored or ridiculed, but now that they’ve been proven correct everyone’s just moved on and forgotten about the whole thing.
Hyperloop was nonsense from day one. That’s why all Musk did way publish some vague white paper and hype it up while staying himself clear of any of that. Its only purpose was to kill California High Speed rail anyway.
The conventional wisdom is that he’s still a genius but was masterfully playing 4-D chess.
Personally I don’t believe it, I think he genuinely did think he was being a genius and that it was going to happen.
I doubt that. No 4D-chess required. He absolutely refused to invest anything into Hyperloop from the start nor did any of his companies do work on it. He may have been high on his own supply with rockets and self drivingbut certainly not with Hyperloop. Just follow the money.
His goal achieved: blocking rail. More wasn’t important.
Since Trump and the tech bros I learned a lot about swarm behavior and also neurodivergence.
For one, the (human) swarm is generally really dumb, so roughly the lowest common denominator. That itself is not the issue, but it forgets. It’s really really forgetful and easily distracted.
So just throw up the next idea and everything will focus on that. It’s even worse that the media is mostly owned by a few, adding to that.
Basically all this results in enabling this behavior. I remember, but most do not. That’s where neurodivergence comes in, if we’re focused we do not get diatracted. We remember better in that case, but few listen.
Oh and those that were ridiculed also never get an apology. So can you blame them for decoupling from the fate of humanity?