Elon Musk, What's up with that dude?

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Musk makes think of Heinlein's Delos D Harriman. An industrialist who made the first moon landing possible. Leslie LeCroix was the pilot. I assumed vertical takeoff/landing - don't remember the book that well. Sounds very Space-X-ey to me.

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Musk mutineers are FIRED: SpaceX 'terminates number of employees' who wrote letter slamming CEO's 'embarrassing' tweets and demanding that management 'swiftly and explicitly separates itself from Elon's personal brand'

SpaceX on Thursday night fired some of the employees who instigated a letter criticizing Musk's tweets, claiming some workers were pressured into signing it and that it is 'overreaching activism'. It's unclear exactly how many people signed it or which employees instigated it but it slammed Musk for his unfiltered comments on Twitter, his new company, and called them unprofessional.

 

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Elon Musk's AI humanoid robot to be unveiled in September

Named 'Optimus', the Tesla-developed robot has the potential to automate the workplace - and even the home. Designed to carry out "dangerous and boring" tasks in factories and other workplace settings, Optimus will be capable of carrying loads of up to 20kg and can also perform a number of other simple tasks.

Measuring 173 cm tall and weighing 57 kg, it will be able to walk at around 5 mph and is programmed with an artificial intelligence to help it navigate and carry out its duties.

If this all sounds a bit disconcerting, then that's because it is - there are countless science fiction movies involving humanoid robots that have run amok after rebelling against their creators.

Optimus will even look the part - resembling something out of the movie I, Robot. Now according to Elon Musk, the new robot - which was announced last year - will be unveiled at Tesla's 'AI Day' on September 30.

The version that will be on show will just be a prototype, however it will give us our first glimpse of this unnerving contraption and perhaps offer the chance to see it walking around and performing tasks.

Eventually, robots like this one could even become a staple inside the home - offering a way to carry out boring house tasks such as vacuuming while also serving as an AI companion.

What could possibly go wrong ?

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Elon Musk's AI humanoid robot to be unveiled in September

Named 'Optimus', the Tesla-developed robot has the potential to automate the workplace - and even the home. Designed to carry out "dangerous and boring" tasks in factories and other workplace settings, Optimus will be capable of carrying loads of up to 20kg and can also perform a number of other simple tasks.

Measuring 173 cm tall and weighing 57 kg, it will be able to walk at around 5 mph and is programmed with an artificial intelligence to help it navigate and carry out its duties.

If this all sounds a bit disconcerting, then that's because it is - there are countless science fiction movies involving humanoid robots that have run amok after rebelling against their creators.

Optimus will even look the part - resembling something out of the movie I, Robot. Now according to Elon Musk, the new robot - which was announced last year - will be unveiled at Tesla's 'AI Day' on September 30.

The version that will be on show will just be a prototype, however it will give us our first glimpse of this unnerving contraption and perhaps offer the chance to see it walking around and performing tasks.

Eventually, robots like this one could even become a staple inside the home - offering a way to carry out boring house tasks such as vacuuming while also serving as an AI companion.

What could possibly go wrong ?

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With an army of Tesla robots, how many human jobs will be lost?
 

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Musk mutineers are FIRED: SpaceX 'terminates number of employees' who wrote letter slamming CEO's 'embarrassing' tweets and demanding that management 'swiftly and explicitly separates itself from Elon's personal brand'

SpaceX on Thursday night fired some of the employees who instigated a letter criticizing Musk's tweets, claiming some workers were pressured into signing it and that it is 'overreaching activism'. It's unclear exactly how many people signed it or which employees instigated it but it slammed Musk for his unfiltered comments on Twitter, his new company, and called them unprofessional.

Would you sign your name to a letter criticizing your billionaire boss?
 

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Elon Musk and his kids visit Pope Francis: Tesla CEO breaks his Twitter hiatus to share photo of himself with the pontiff and then admits his ill-fitting suit is 'tragic' when he's called out by followers



Elon Musk on Thursday met the Pope, bringing four of his seven children to the Vatican for the encounter. 'Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday,' Musk tweeted. He brought along four of his five teenagers. Musk was not raised a Catholic. The 50-year-old South African billionaire was baptized when he was young and attended Anglican Sunday School, but has said he does not consider himself a Christian.

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Elon Musk, 51, 'had TWINS with one of his top executives' weeks before he welcomed second child with Grimes via surrogate, according to court documents Canadian, 36, is a Yale graduate and athlete who works for Neuralink



Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins with one of top executives weeks before he welcomed a child with Grimes (together right) via surrogate, court documents revealed. Last November, the Tesla CEO, 51, welcomed twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, (center, top left with Justin Trudeau and bottom left with Prince Harry) one of his top executives at his company Neuralink, Insider reported. Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April to change the twins' names in order to 'have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name,' it was reported. The twins were born in November, just weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher, who performs as Grimes, had their second child via surrogate in December. Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, studied economics and philosophy at Yale where she also played goalie on the women's ice-hockey team.

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Twitter is suing...


 

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NHTSA opens THIRTY-SEVENTH Tesla crash probe after elderly couple from California were killed when their Model 3 smashed into back of Walmart truck in Florida, with impact shearing car's roof off



The Tesla - a 2015 model - was driving on Interstate-75 when it exited off the highway onto the rest stop ramp 'for an unknown reason,' Florida Highway Patrol said in statement. The car then drove through the parking lot where it rear-ended the trailer of a Walmart 18-wheeler, killing the 66-year-old female driver and a 67-year-old male passenger. Photos from the scene show the front end of a red Tesla jammed under the overhang of a Walmart trailer, the top end of the car sheared violently back past the car's front doors. The victims, both from Lompoc, California, were pronounced dead at the scene. The accident is the second Tesla crash in a week to be investigated by the NHTSA.

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Twitter is suing...



An important consideration in this matter is that Twitter not only misrepresented itself to Musk, hence his wanting out of the deal, but more important for the public as a whole, Twitter has for a long time been giving a false impression of the influence and importance of numerous posters, topics, and opinions. In other words, they are big fat liars who have been aided and abetted by the media in distorting and artificially inflating the impact and extent of supporters of certain viewpoints.
 

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As this Times article (below, paywall) points out, Musk tweeted, immediately before launching his takeover bid, “We’ll defeat the spam bots or die trying!”. Musk is what you would call an activist investor, if he actually went through with investing, in that he claimed that he was taking over Twitter in order to fix its problems. Fixing the number of bots on Twitter was one of the main reasons he announced he was launching his takeover bid. Now he is claiming that he has to withdraw his offer...because of the bots on the platform. The article also claims in the opening paragraph that Musk waived his right to due diligence as part of the offer, so he can't credibly withdraw on the basis that his performance of due diligence indicates to him that it is a bad deal. It is rather like agreeing to buy a house sight-unseen at an auction, and then turning up to see the property and announcing "I'm not having that".

Erratic Elon Musk leaves Twitter with three unbearable choices | Business | The Sunday Times

It is more likely that Musk is getting cold feet in light of the changing economic situation since he launched his takeover bid, and the effect the takeover process is having on Tesla's share price. Twitter is certainly the enemy of western civilization, as many of us here recognize, but the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The most righteous action anyone could take who owned Twitter would be to delete it, but Musk has long been an enthusiast of Twitter, and wanted to keep it going, and he has helped to make it as big as it is.
 
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