He read that in an Iain Banks novel. That guy has just completely lost touch with reality. But sure, let’s give him a trillion bucks. What could possibly go wrong.
Excellent. I like when I can read a ketamine idea and just immediately think “cool, that’s a bad idea,” without even thinking it through.
Wait, fuck, ketamine autocorrected to ketamine.
The guy’s first name, the one with four letters. Ketamine. You know the guy.
Elmo.
If I can type that, why does ketamine autocorrect?
Whatever.
One of his new pay goals for that compensation package is a million humanoid robots delivered in one year. Selling them as a corrections solution at 1:1 anywhere in the US is an excellent way to do just that.
In the Culture novels robots assigned to this task have super accelerated consciousness, beyond human cognitive capabilities and can basically harmlessly stop you with a force field if you do anything to attempt to harm another person. Can Elmo’s bots do any of that? Not even close.
But the next model will do all that! Just one more data center! Trust me, bro!
fwiw, data centres aren’t a problem.
Techbros are the problem.
For example - water cooling has been used in data centres since the 70s, and more commonly in the last 15 years but always as a closed loop, the water just transports heat away to a heat exchanger then is cycled again.
Techbros - nah, we’ll just let the water capture the heat then dump it into sewer, taking in fresh water constantly.
For now they can close an oven door in 5 minutes top, with a remote operator from Pakistan.
Astounding! Definitely worth a gazillion billions. The shareholders decision finally makes sense.
I think the plan is that the team of human handlers that control the robot will step in and stop a felon from breaching their conditions.
The robot is just theatre to help prop up Tesla’s share price.
But what if there were special circumstances?
He wants to reinvent the ankle monitor, but with more steps and much higher cost?
Is this the same logic that leads to reinventing trains
Imagine giving the trillion to Hyundai (Boston Dynamics) to piss him off.
Lex Loser really needs to just shut up. If anyone should be in prison it’s him.
His AI girlfriend thinks it’s a great idea. She even worked out a business plan.
Shut up Elon your ideas really suck.
And set up call centres in low-wage countries where poor people can pilot the robots for pennies.
Or jail just enough people to have a prison labour force large enough to guard those not in jail.
Today in news, the guy who sells robot hype wants government to buy into robot hype.
So does this mean we can watch a live stream of Trump 24/7?
Truly a trillion dollar idea.
Yeah, I’ve got a better idea: Let’s not.
Slap drones.
“Why does Oprah need a diet? She’s so rich she can just pay someone to stand there and slap the food away from her mouth.”
-Kathleen Madigan
When he revealed the “robot stalker” is was just a “Teslar” truck with lipstick on.
Wait, is this what Steven Miller is?
