Morals, ethics, and not being a jerk aside, Musk has now proven that he is just plain not thinking things through, when he:
1) Released the original Boring Company idea about tiny tunnels under LA to alleviate road traffic, which could easily be shot down by anyone modeling it on a single paper napkin.
2) Got caught up in ontological (theistic) arguments about alien scientists who had surely created a computer simulation in which we all live.
3) In an effort to prevent the inevitable AI overlords from controlling us, bought a company to create a ubiquitous neural interface so that computers have read/write access to our brains, of which somehow the AI overlords will not take advantage.
This was all as of 2018.
I still give him credit for previous accomplishments, but in aggregate, it is arguable that Elon Musk's new found ability to avoid thinking things through might be our "Great Filter."
Even though I truly despise the man that Musk is today, he is not comparable to Trump, prior to politics. Trump always scammed and lied, while Musk did have a real foundation of accomplishments.
I may be trying to compensate for having been an Elon stan pre-2018ish, but I do have to give him a lot credit for being the founder of SpaceX, which is the best launch provider on the planet. He was also the CEO who made Tesla what it is. He did accelerate the adoption of EVs. He truly believed in the physics of both of those endeavors, he was right, and I loved him for it. A true inspiration.
BUT.. around 2018 he got high on his own supply. I had watched every Elon video up to that point, and there is one old one where he said ~"I fear that I could get too ego driven, and have no one around to call me on my shit, and that really worries me." He was right to worry about that, because he sailed right through that with a vengeance. The first couple years of that were tolerable, but now, what a devolution. I hate to admit it, but it really broke my heart.
Now back to my first paragraph, Musk is worse than Trump politically, aka the part that matters now, because he is sucking a lot of intelligent people down to the lowest of human nature. It deeply disgusts me.
1) Released the original Boring Company idea about tiny tunnels under LA to alleviate road traffic, which could easily be shot down by anyone modeling it on a single paper napkin.
2) Got caught up in ontological (theistic) arguments about alien scientists who had surely created a computer simulation in which we all live.
3) In an effort to prevent the inevitable AI overlords from controlling us, bought a company to create a ubiquitous neural interface so that computers have read/write access to our brains, of which somehow the AI overlords will not take advantage.
This was all as of 2018.
I still give him credit for previous accomplishments, but in aggregate, it is arguable that Elon Musk's new found ability to avoid thinking things through might be our "Great Filter."