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.
On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 12:03:34 PM EDT, John Clark
<johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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 Extropolismio
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