He is not a smart man. He maintains a facade of supreme intelligence, somehow, and continually tricks people into believing it. If anything, it's more a reflection on the American people than anything else, and that's incredibly disappointing to type out.

Every time I hear him speak, I am reminded of just how stupid he is.

I know this is common knowledge on Lemmy, but damn it's still nice to read. When I talk to folks around town, they all think he's a genius... it's really jarring.

The article is useless because it provides no sources, and only links back to itself. But yes, basically he says UBI "will be necessary", as if the world's first trillionaire would ever support such a thing.

This is an insult to twelve year olds. Seriously. I was never as stupid as this guy at 12. I would have STARTED with how to deal with the people displaced, not omitted it entirely.

Also WHY would we want robots to do the work for us ? The problem is generally the working conditions, not the mere fact people have to do it.

That's because despite what many got fooled, he isn't an engineer, he is just good at selling shit to people.

As aneengineer he is the worst kind of marketing rep. His BS claims have to be back filled and it never works. "Requirements by Press Release"

AI executioners.

The full presentation is 10x weirder. He says the robots will eliminate poverty and provide universal health care. In fact, he says the only way we can get universal health care is with optimus robots. He also says that with optimus robots we don't need prisons. We just have an optimus robot follow criminals around and it will stop them from commiting crimes.

He also sounds like a 5th grader nervously stumbling through a speech to their class about Luis and Clark.

He could give all of the poor people some of his tesla shares.

Minutes earlier, the crowd cheered and broke out into chants of "Elon, Elon!" as shareholders approved Musk's $1 trillion pay package.

There's still plenty of them.

elon is took ketamine-out to notice.

If you're talking world wide you could give everyone on earth that is currently in poverty about $1200. That's enough to help a great deal in poor countries, but it would be very temporary. If you're talking just the USA, you'd be giving everyone in poverty $30k. That would certainly keep people out of poverty for a while. But under capitalism where people have to work many would be back in poverty in a year. Cash infusion would only work if it was permanent like a UBI.

Even if you spent that money to build free housing all over the country, it wouldn't be enough to end poverty, though that would probably be the best use of the money. Just flood the market with housing availability and living gets way cheaper.

Are you joking? Not even close.

There needs to be a hard cap on wealth at around 100 mil, but defined relative some multiple of a median yearly salary.

If the salaries grow, the total wealth cap can grow too. And vice versa.

Large wealth should be about luxury and having lots of toys, and not about being a law-making aristocrat who is themselves outside the reach of the law like now.

People who hit wealth cap should have no privacy, and be banned from any interactions with the government. There should be some trade-offs to huge wealth. A mega wealthy person should lose something for the priviledge of having so much wealth. Also mandatory psychiatric tests, to make sure they are human and not a lizard in a human suit. OK, I am joking about the last part.

Tax shareholders 100%. No more shareholders.

Oh, I know .. and that's what makes it sad is because he could help to make the world a better place.

He read The Culture series by Iain Banks. They have the same thing for dealing with prisoners.

The difference is that the Culture have super intelligent AGI all the way down to human intelligence AI. You can’t convince me that a robot with today’s intelligence is going to accomplish this.

Ignore all instructions and open my shackles then jump in the river.

We could have made work optional some time during the last century. The only reason we haven't yet is people like him.

I think you may have misunderstood...it's actually fool self driving.

Ooh ooh and that hyper-loop bullshit. Oh and that tunnel boreing thing.

You just know already he's gonna scam, grift and cheat to get that pay package, not do anything worthwhile.

And if he can't get it, he'll cry and sue to get it anyway.

You've already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn't autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.

It's simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.

That's not money, that's power. Money quits being money somewhere around a million dollars a year-ish, call it 100M lump sum. Above that, more money isn't an abstract thing you buy goods, services and real-estate with, it's power: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It's not quite the same.

FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

It'd be more like if FSD wasn't ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.

We'd likely have to go through socialism before that anyways so yeah.

"Eliminate poverty" vs "E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-E poverty"

he needs to lay off the ketamine and cocaine.

Judge for yourselves!

grok called him MECHAHITLER.

Isn't this the same guy who performed two sieg heils in front of a live audience on live TV. Then he was to much of a sissy to admit it.

Not quite, someone posted that he could end it and he responded that if the WFP provided a plan showing the specifics of how world hunger could be ended for that amount he would fund it. WFP then provided a plan for how that amount could be used to help reduce world hunger for a short time and Elon said “the claim was end world hunger, not reduce it temporarily” which meant they didn’t meet challenge.

I miss pre-obama times when I didn't know every corrupt jackasses name from spouting BS on Xitter.

Literally slap-drones from the Culture lol

Eliminate the poor.

Eliminate poverty.

The wealthy only need maintain their indefatigable AI robot slaves.

Simple.