The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. ‘It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,’ Musk says.

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    Jesus… it’s like watching these people cause a train wreck in slow motion, and we’re on the train.

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      At least its good to know that these fucktard billionaires can make tons of terrible business decisions over and over again, but have so much money that every once in a while their business decisions still make them gigantic, irrational, sums of money.

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      It’s like finding out that the captain of the airplane you’re on just let a retarded 5-year old steer the plane and the psychotic, suicidal co-pilot just murdered the captain and has now locked the cockpit. Now we’re in a race to try and break into the cockpit before the psycho and the retard crash the plane.

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    Musk is like a science experiment to see how cripplingly stupid you can make a nepo baby without them losing all their generational wealth, except it went in a fascinating new direction instead.

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    First thought: Well, usually i’d laugh, but it’s microsoft, so this might actulally work

    second thought: wait, Twitter also doesn’t produce any hardware… why not start there?

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      I can take this one: Because he doesn’t actually care about creating anything of value. If he truly believed in it, you’re right, Twitter or even Tesla’s software engineers would be on the chopping block and he’d replace them with AI as soon as he can. But he doesn’t.

      He knows this is a longshot. Most likely to fail, but very profitable on the near-impossible chance that it works. But he doesn’t care even if the odds are truly impossible. Because this is an investment opportunity, so people will throw money his way, no matter what the odds.

      People assume he’s an idiot, and he is. But he’s not stupid, at least not in every way. He certainly has a skill for separating others from their money, which he happily takes advantage of.

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    Will they be self playing, crash and burn a lot too, maybe nice angular jutting out corners, made from stainless steel, be called the CyberStation 👍

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    It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

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    I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

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      To be fair there is one personal trait that’s really important to wealth and success, the willingness to walk over the bodies of your peers.

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        Yeah, although if Elon hasn’t convinced them I can at least take solace in knowing there was probably no way to convince them anyways. Total lost causes

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          That’s discriminatory! Actually it’s because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly

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        Billionaires are just people with uncontrolled hoarding disorder, but instead of hoarding cats, or junk cars, or magazines, they hoard money. If they hoarded anything else, the authorities would step in and clean up the place and get them medication, but because it’s money, they get celebrated as successful businesspeople, and get loads of more government cash shoveled at them.

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    I’ve said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he’d be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn’t have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn’t going to happen.

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      Annoys me that people sling “narcissist” at everyone they don’t like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

      • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

      • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

      • Belief in being “special” and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

      • Demanding excessive admiration

      • Sense of entitlement

      • Exploitation behaviors

      • Lack of empathy

      • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

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      Honestly, while he’s at the high end of things, it’s not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don’t remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

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      Who do you hire to filter that? Electric sports cars, reusable rockets, all silly ideas that would never make it. His wealth allows him to try his ideas without the restrictions that everybody else has. That’s worth much more than his reputation.

      He wants to go to mars. Solar cells and tunnel boring could be long-term buildups of knowledge.

      If he is not cleverer than most then it’s his recklessness that created his success. Bezos also got the rocket billions but he was not as successful, and many other billionaires and companies could have tried, too.

      Even the nazi wave, it is cringe and evil, but it looks like he picked the successful side.

      It’s not Musk that has to adjust but the general population. If we want to be safed by technology we have to find another hero, or better, build that technology without one.