Elon Musk

[John Clark]

After reading Walter Isaacson's book my opinion of Elon Musk is conflicted. Musk is brilliant, incredibly hard-working, not afraid to take a risk and is willing to backtrack and admit it when he's wrong. Musk is impulsive, most of his impulses turned out to be correct but not all, he says that many of his tweets were stupid and he wished he had never sent them. Musk is not evil like Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis but he is a jerk and I'd rather eat ground glass than work for him. Musk cares enormously for the well-being of the human race in the abstract but he doesn't care much about individual human beings, he has Asperger's Syndrome and says that his brain's neural net is not wired up for empathy.  Nevertheless if Elon Musk had never been born then Tesla, SpaceX, NeuroLink, The Boring Company and XAI would not exist and the world would've been a less interesting place. My opinion of him, positive or negative, would not interest Musk one bit, he's not interested in anybody's opinion of him, but for whatever it's worth I can't help but admire the guy. But I don't like him.

John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis

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[spudb...@aol.com]

I don't agree with the 'lad' all time either, but like his ability to push technology, while making himself richer than Bezos (?) in the process. To advance the species, as important as Mars is, for space, I'd hunt around the asteroid belt 1st, AS a return on investment. Or, of course, do the metallic Psyche-16. 10 quintillion Euros of industrial mineralogical goodness! 

For the human race, 3D printing of whatever we need. IF we can do this, K. Eric Drexler's Nano-fabrication, aka J. Storrs Hall, aka Ray Kurzweil. The Utility Fogs and all that may have to wait until the marriage of low-error, quantum computing + LLM's? Counter-opinions welcome. 

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