[TillE]

Generously, Musk has never been serious about making predictions. When he says stuff like this he just means he's excited about it.

[threeseed]

To be more cynical.

He tends to do it whenever there is bad news in other parts of his business.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

Robotaxi, stock goes boom.

[Calvin02]

> When he says stuff like this he just means he's excited about it.

That's an overly charitable interpretation of what he's doing.

The pattern that I've observed is: 1) he's a narcissist who always wants to be in the news and/or 2) he's trying to distract from something.

He can't stand it when the press moves on from him. His MO is to wait for a week or two and then throw out something outlandish to suck up the media oxygen.

He and Trump are very similar people.

[kiba]

Having read the biography, he's a man who likes and is attracted to drama, regardless how much it burns him.

[pennybanks]

ima guess most billionaires are narcissists. and this media oxygen stuff i mean it works right. to do able to get attention of the press and that many people is a only reserved for a very small amount of people on this earth.

[Calvin02]

I guess one way to get data on that would be to ask people “Outside of tech and Buffet crew, how many billionaires can you name?”

[kiba]

You mean the most well known billionaire are more likely to be narcissists.