Elon Musk

adolf hamster said:
he's a dreamer, with money, and whilst his goals are noble, i'm not 100% convinced he's going to get as far as he thinks he will.
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Kind of agree with that line of thinking but at the same time he might inspire other development that does accomplish something closer to his goals.
 
ThestigGT999 said:
Is he the guy who triggered by topgear?
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Well they (Topgear) out and out lied about his first electric vehicle, on a show seen by 350 million people.

The Tesla guys saw a script detailing exactly what was going to shoot as they delivered the car to the studio. Top Gear made out the car ran out of power, but the Tesla data showed it never dropped below 20% charge. The car was shown being towed in to a shed as if they had no other choice but it was running fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_controversies#Tesla_Roadster_review

You might think that is being "triggered", I'd say that is being justifiably angry.
 
What? It's in the wikipedia link I posted above

During episode seven of series 12, Clarkson presented a segment featuring the Tesla Roadster, including a test drive. The segment showed the car's provided batteries running flat after 88.5 kilometres (55.0 mi), with Clarkson claiming that the recharge would take 16 hours. Following this, he claimed that the car then broke down. Tesla Motors spokesperson stated that the cars provided never reached less than 20% charge, none needed to be pushed off the track at any point, the recharge time was 3.5 hours, and the brake failure shown in the segment was actually a blown fuse.[33][34] The BBC responded to these claims with a statement saying, "The tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge. Top Gear stands by the findings in this film and is content that it offers a fair representation of the Tesla's performance on the day it was tested", without addressing the other concerns.[34][35][36]
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Which uses these articles as a source:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/22/bbc_top_gear_tesla/

The BBC has admitted that the silver Tesla Roadster driven by Jeremy Clarkson on this past weekend's Top Gear didn't run out of juice and didn't need to be pushed home.
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https://web.archive.org/web/2009032...son-didnt-run-out-of-juice-as-he-claimed.html

Last week Jeremy Clarkson, Britain's most famous auto reviewer, reviewed a Tesla Roadster.

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Clarkson and crew pushing Roadster after it supposedly ran out of electricity.
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His test drive was recorded on video and appeared on Britain's Top Gear Web site, which is owned by BBC Worldwide Ltd. The video also appeared on YouTube as well as many dozens of automotive Web sites and blogs.



Why? For one thing, because Clarkson has attained celebrity status in many circles, but moreover because he claimed -- and the video apparently showed -- that the much-publicized $109,000 battery-electric Roadster ran out of juice after only 55 miles and then broke down!

Shocking! Outrageous! And sure to generate maximum exposure for Clarkson.

Except the Roadster, which its U.S. manufacturer claims can go 220 miles on a charge, didn't run out of electricity and didn't break down. Those two salient bits of information were fabricated. As in made up. As in didn't really happen.....

....A spokeswoman for Top Gear said the car was videotaped being pushed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge. That's interesting, because nowhere in the video were there words to that effect.
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Been watching a few videos of him recently, he seems like a really nice guy - very interesting, and funny too.
 
He believes, and often speaks about it with various degree of careful wording, that this reality is a computer emulation. He's also one of three billionaires that put serious money on proving this realty being simulated and finding a way out of it...
 
Scort said:
Been watching a few videos of him recently, he seems like a really nice guy - very interesting, and funny too.
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His humour goes unnoticed many a time in interviews and such, he seems to always be one step ahead in his mind but struggles to verbalise it.

It also appears he's one of the lucky few who can get by on a few hours sleep and it has little effect on his ability to focus, during his younger years when he was writing the code for Zip2 and what not he claims to have went periods with around 4-5 hours sleep a night.
 
adolf hamster said:
he's a dreamer, with money, and whilst his goals are noble, i'm not 100% convinced he's going to get as far as he thinks he will.
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“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

--Some American Visionary Chap who make a small dent in the world
 
v0n said:
He believes, and often speaks about it with various degree of careful wording, that this reality is a computer emulation. He's also one of three billionaires that put serious money on proving this realty being simulated and finding a way out of it...
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While possible they just discovered a glitch, etc. someone with a way out quite possibly would have some degree of ability to manipulate this reality to an extent where money was meaningless to them.
 
v0n said:
He believes, and often speaks about it with various degree of careful wording, that this reality is a computer emulation. He's also one of three billionaires that put serious money on proving this realty being simulated and finding a way out of it...
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Do you have a source re: that last bit - I'm aware there is the idea that we might be living in a simulation and that some people might be funding research into this... but what is "finding a way out of it" in reference to - it doesn't necessarily even make sense.
 
Maybe this matrix style simulated reality deserves a separate discussion of its own, unless there is one already, possibly running on another process :D
 
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