@elvis_moyer@RpsAgainstTrump Irrational generalizing.
A person hopefully is better and hopefully more than a slogan that they may like for different reasons. Let’s start with - do they have reasons?
Yes - 98% good and honest.
Positive:
- one in a millennia, positively changing civilization with:
- inspiration
- leadership
- capital utilization
- manufacturing innovation
- materials innovation
- transportation innovation
- communications innovation
- space - LEO - innovation
- brain-computer-interface (BCI) innovation
- continuous improvement -> cheaper, faster, better - not just two, but all three.
- promoting and acting on the idea that people should be free to have children with anyone they mutually agree to do it with as long as they support, nurture and educate them. All good - while not buying into the necessity or moral obligation of producing more children either. Freedom , not duty. Robots can handle the production labor shortage. Get rid of government welfare - coerced charity - and let the charitable do as they wish based on their values. The ability to produce children should not be a claim on the lives of others.
Negative:
- Stupid conflict with Sam Altman re a non-profit charity - a fake power game - a pissing contest! Almost no one understands that “non-profit” is a tax category NOT a moral category. It’s the philosophically incompetent, but unquestioned status of altruism as an ethical principle. Doing for one’s self yields no moral social credit, only doing for others. Who benefits by encouraging others to not attend to their interests but rather, only others’ interests. Think about whether they have your best interests at heart. Or are you and others being viewed as sacrificial animals?
That is the essential question !!!
- promoting solar power over nuclear power generation as our best option. And a scale of what fraction of the Sun’s energy we’re using is a ridiculous, distracting standard. The market place should decide the tradeoffs.
- taking money from competitors for carbon credits. A totally unethical capitalizing on insane government policy from demonizing what fuels the industrial world.
- teasing that we may be in the matrix - not taking reality seriously - while succeeding on the opposite assumption - “… the laws of physics are real laws “. Too many people may take this tease seriously in our intellectually crippled culture, which is a product of our incompetent government monopoly schools.
His assumptions in these domains are what I’d love to discuss with him. In think I could convince him if given the chance. A challenge Elon?
Love you too 🥰 for all the positives. They far outweigh the negatives for our civilization.
Unfortunately terms like conservative and liberal as well as progressive, fail to have specificity as they morph over time.
Ask people:
- What do you want to conserve and why?
- What do you want to liberate from what and why?
- What do you want progress towards and why do you to that’s good for us?
In other words, drop the tribal names and slogans, get real, get specific.
Our culture, via our government incompetent educational establishment leaves people unable to think. They don’t have the necessary questions, much less the answers.
Read Ayn Rand’s:
- Capitalism the Unknown Ideal.
- The Virtue of Selfishness.
Where capitalism is defined in terms of individual rights and their protection. Aka - protecting our freedom.
And selfishness is defined in terms of profound respect for self and no disrespect for others.
@JoseRui27556516@FloraLuzz_ Yes - if only - but Trump’s behavior and the GOP leadership failure to counter that may cost them both legislative bodies majority.
We need gridlock to slow the harm they do.
Got a preferred place?
Neither party offers competent candidates. If the Dems put up a credible candidate last cycle, Trump would have lost. It has nothing to do with gender. It’s all about intellectual competence, individual rights and rule of law.
Trump is idiot child, power hungry narcissist and bully. Other than that he has a nice smile at times.
We need legislators who will stand up to him and vote for principles of individual rights and freedom.
We need legislative term limits. And we need a MUCH smaller government. Free markets, insurance companies and civil law can address what regulators incompetently claim to do. They have no skin in the came to drive their value tradeoffs. Businesses and those that insure them do.
@KhanSaba1278 Hope you had a conversation with the store manager. This is not the way to keep customers coming back, which is how businesses stay successful.
Yes - I have driven almost 30K miles in nine months with almost 80% on FSD. Love it!
- 8 cameras vs 2 eyes.
- 0.2 sec. reaction time vs 1 to 1.5 sec.
- never gets tired or distracted
- never has a medical incident
I’ve experienced three incidents where another vehicle came into my lane and FSD avoided a collision before I knew any action was needed.
While it still can get lost in a parking lot ;-) - harmless and entertaining.
I consider no other car even a close second candidate for safety and economics.
I believe these factors will drive rapid adoption - driven be the economics and massively disrupting the automotive, medical, insurance and legal industries. What a boon for humanity.
Credit Musk’s vision and leadership - one in a millennium.
@macroprogrammer@SawyerMerritt@SpaceX Correct. It leaves control in the hands of those with knowledge and track record. It gives the rest of us an opportunity to gain financially from the scaling. I love it!
Think of the potential revenue and margins! This applies to both terrestrial and space-based compute in the future. Space-based leverages SpaceX’s singular launch capability and Starlink’s singular communications capability with no ongoing operational cost for power or cooling.
Truly amazing - leveraging all this infrastructure investment by Musk.