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The man may exaggerate pace of progress but he has more than proved him self with TESLA, SpaceX, Neuralink. that's 3 bleeding edge companies in 3 different ind
by treme 2y ago
The man may exaggerate pace of progress but he has more than proved him self with TESLA, SpaceX, Neuralink. that's 3 bleeding edge companies in 3 different industries.
p.s) For those misinformed about state of Neuralink.
Currently in beta with quadriplegic patients.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q
- CPLX 2y ago[flagged]
- leoh 2y agoIdk why this is getting downvoted because it’s basically true
- CPLX 2y agoI’m not following too closely. Maybe they’re getting the crippled on dancing with the stars by now for all I know. But so far I haven’t heard anything about that company that qualifies as “proven” in any way.
- treme 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q basically not. Literally life changing already for this person.
- kibwen 2y agoWe had quadriplegics using brain-computer interfaces to control computers since the 90s. We had neuro implants giving sight to the blind since the 2000s. The problem is not making it work at all, the problem is making the implant work in the long-term in a way that the body doesn't eventually reject. Neuralink is still catching up to where we were 20 years ago, only fronted by a dancing monkey trying to hype himself up as the technoking.
- treme 2y agoconceptually we had eletric cars since 1900. Doesn't mean much until someone improves it to mass market adoptable level and mass produce it like Elon did with TESLA. It's silly to compare available tech from 90s from what's possible nowadays with 1000x + BCI bandwidth done with Neuralink
- Gud 2y agoWe had electric cars more than 100 years ago, actually.
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- arcticbull 2y agoYeah, the electric cars predated gas cars. First prototypes were in the early 1800s.
- kibwen 2y agoTo reiterate, the computer tech is not the bottleneck. I've made software for neuro research labs logging terabytes per day of data from rats. The hardware/wetware interface is not a problem you can solve by waiting for TSMC to scale to the next node.
- treme 2y agoI'm eagerly awaiting you to break grounds, invest 100's of millions, hire top researchers in field and out compete Elon.
- BryanLegend 2y agoTelepathy?
- treme 2y agokinda sickens me how bad-faith your comment is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMpjIY52Q They are currently breaking grounds in treating quadriplegic patient's life for better.
- saturn8601 2y agoThe crippled guy playing video games with his mind is not notable? I guess others may have done it before? I dont know, they have terrible PR if so.
- stackghost 2y agoHe doesn't actually do any of the work in developing those technologies. He didn't even found Tesla. He's just the front man with enough money to buy titles like "chief engineer" and "founder". A complete grifter.
- acchow 2y agoWhen you get to higher level, you’re not doing work but instead you are guiding work and making decisions. Whenever you don't know which way to go, you consult someone more senior. Those people do the same with their seniors. And so on. There are many stories from people who have worked with Elon scattered across books and interviews. He makes wild decisions, tells people to do it, and somehow the sum of these wild ideas works out. Remember, the idea of landing a reusable rocket was abandoned long ago by many nations because it was deemed impossible or financially infeasible. Yet here we are with SpaceX dropping LOE launch prices per kg by 90-98%. You can call Elon many things, but a grifter he is not.
- dietr1ch 2y ago> Remember, the idea of landing a reusable rocket was abandoned long ago by many nations because it was deemed impossible or financially infeasible. Yet here we are with SpaceX dropping LOE launch prices per kg by 90-98%. It's almost like revisiting the wildest ideas turns into feasible ones thanks to steady progress all around (science, manufacturing, better pricing). I guess what's key is being lucky to re-attempt something at the right time. Just look at how long things from the mother of all demos took to become successful products, hell, we are finally getting the hang of collaborative editing and video conferencing was awful still 40yrs after in 2008.
- bilvar 2y agoYou forgot all the ridicule endured for all the previous failed attempts and people how "stupid" he is for not listening to his engineers that the chopstick landing is not feasible.
- treme 2y ago
- richardw 2y agoThen he can claim those things, but not what he hasn’t done yet. He’s very capable and I’m happy to defend his contribution, but his pronouncements on “full self driving” have been untruthful. It is not full self driving. It was not autopilot. If the new version is, the world should be thrilled. It’s probably not.
- threeseed 2y agoAnd he's also proven himself with X, Boring, SolarCity, America PAC, PayPal etc.
- Ekaros 2y agoNot to forget his most brilliant brain child of hyper loop. Which has already revolutionized transport and replaced cars, trains, planes and ships... Oh wait...
- dgrin91 2y agoPaypal did very well, no? Solar City wasn't a homerun like spacex, but I wouldn't call it a failure. America PAC is not something I agree with, but again, not clear what your point about it is? We can agree that he is an asshole and also acknowledge the fact that he has a statistically significant success rate for big engineering tasks.
- threeseed 2y agoa) He was fired from PayPal for his poor management and erratic behaviour. b) SolarCity has been unquestionably a failure. c) America PAC which handles most of the field operations for the Trump campaign has been in the news for how poorly it has been managed.
- igornadj 2y agoI never understood the criticism for late delivery from the tech community. We of all people should know how difficult estimating can be. I can cut Musky some slack on this one.
- throw0101d 2y ago> We of all people should know how difficult estimating can be. Then (a) perhaps keep your mouth shut until you can deliver it, and (b) don't take people's money for something that you say is "only X years away" when it's actually X+3/4/5.
- arcticbull 2y agoHe has promised FSD is one year away each year since 2015. We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of "one year away."
- Satam 2y agoSo you're saying it's better to be like most people: to promise nothing and then deliver exactly that, perfectly on time.
- throw0101d 2y ago> So you're saying it's better to be like most people: to promise nothing and then deliver exactly that, perfectly on time. When people can buy your product, tell them that they can buy it. If you don't have a product that people can buy, keep your mouth shut.