Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims
Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims
Elon Musk misled investors about brain chip testing, lawmakers allege
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Any nuanced opinions about Elon Musk here? 👀
Feel free to provide one. He seems to me to be a lunatic
When 7 billion people know when you are, the chances of pleasing everyone is close to absolute zero. He has character flaws. So do I. So do you. He also runs very important future forward companies. He helped curate collections of the best talent in the world to create great tech.
He is very good at the following things:
- being born rich
- investing in a slam dunk future technology everyone on the planet knows we will need, eg money on the internet, electric cars, space ships
- taking risks in combining the above
That is about as far as his skillset runs. As we've seen from twitter, when he doesn't have an entire layer of his organisation set up to run interference in him, he quickly runs companies into the ground. He has had zero original ideas.
He's also a dangerous alt-right racist nutjob.
So, this is what passes for nuance these days?
Yes. He's smart enough to mostly back the right R&D horses, and good at generating hype. That way, he almost manages to offset the damage he does when his ego gets in the way or he thinks he's qualified to make engineering decisions or to know which corners to cut.