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by cs702 784 days ago
Reading about all the stuff happening at Tesla, I feel like I'm watching a movie made by people who were high on crack cocaine, working off a deranged script authored by hallucinatory LLMs that were secretly running amok in Tesla vehicles. Every scene seems more unhinged than the last.
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sandspar 784 days ago
One way to tell if someone is smarter than you is if they are continually taking actions that appear stupid to you, yet which keep working out for them for reasons that appear like luck.
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Zelizz 784 days ago
I think we can confidently call stupid actions stupid actions. Inertia from prior success can keep them from being company-ending actions, especially if they can be corrected once they are recognized as stupid (or once the people who knew they were stupid from the beginning can gather enough political clout).

Tesla has smart people, just like any tech company, but they're not uniquely smart and they're not immune to the same short-sighted thinking that plagues other tech companies.

Note that I think this particular idea is not necessarily bad for the company, it's just not anything special. It's basically Folding@Home, monetized. If you can convince enough people to leave it on (or force it on and somehow avoid legal/PR issues) then I guess you can save a tiny bit of money on certain kinds of workloads.

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serf 784 days ago
ridiculous. if personal success was locked to 'smarts' the world's landscape of rich would look vastly different.

here's an even more inconvenient truth for you, and this one is short enough to embroider on a pillow : "it's not what you know, it's who you know."

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cs702 784 days ago
Could be. Even if few of Musk's decisions make sense to me, he has proven a lot of people wrong in the past, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

The jury is out.

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BugsJustFindMe 784 days ago
This also reliably works for people who are obscenely rich and well connected regardless of any other factor.

Anyway, there's nothing mysterious about the success potential of being a grifter. If it weren't so, the world would have far fewer grifters in it.

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rsynnott 784 days ago
I mean, sometimes a stupid thing is just a stupid thing.
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