FSD has driven me hundreds of times consecutively so far, garage to congested city parking spots, with zero critical intervention on my Tesla. Not just me but look on YouTube etc. you'll see that with version 14 of FSD it's pretty much flawless -- it even handles drive-throughs .. cones/construction zones etc. I'm telling you it's at the point where I'm not sure what more they need to add -- other than accessory features like favorite parking spot memory, parking structure navigation. Someone said it can't see a chain across the road .. never encountered that I guess .. not sure a human could see that either? Note .. FSD is perfected, but Tesla's navigation .. which Google and even Apple solved 10 years ago.. sucks .. but that's because they are refusing to license Google for nav.

The neurons being probed are the motor neurons, so you have to intend an action for it to get a read out.

As usual, Neuralink will be the first to do this second or third.

Back in early 2025, Elon Musk laughed that OpenAI was paying $3 billion for Windsurf and mused that they can't even build an IDE themselves.
I can't find the tweet easily to link here .. but I recall someone else had said that and he re-tweeted it with a crying with laughter smiley.

He's not a genius, I sincerely think he's average to slightly below average intelligence for a software dev. Just look how clueless he really is when he pretends to be a technical guru in front of actual experts.

That doesn't mean he doesn't have some exceptional skills, but IQ isn't one of them.

First, he's hard working, at least in spurts (during critical deadlines), and he's willing to make and implement big decisions quickly. Just look at DOGE, Republicans have been trying to lay waste to the US government for decades, but Musk is the only one to actually do it. It was a complete disaster, but it wasn't ethics or common sense that stopped the previous attempts, that's a legit talent for Musk.

Second, CEOs aren't allowed to lie, but Musk has figured out that you can get around that by building a cult of personality and then making ridiculously optimistic predictions and then sell minor advancements as progress. The result is he has a core group of retail investors that buy his stocks based on vibes and refuse to sell once in. Since these retail investors prevent the stock from going down too much institutional investors also jump in on the ride. It's basically tulip bulbs.

I think it's engineered by those two, and certainly supported by them. Proof: I haven't seen Musk ask for the ban to be lifted, if he did that Trump would lift the ban.

If the Democrats win the presidency, the Trump administration just offered a legit pathway for shutting down X and x AI.

Who wants to be booed? Me. I don't give an F about boos or if the world hates me. I care about doing the right thing. I'd give an F only if it were blocking me from doing things. If it's just morons booing me, let them do so until the cows come home (in which case they may want to try mooing instead).

Too many idiots are driven by wanting to be liked. It's an obsolete evolutionary trait.

I have to commend him on powering through his speech during the whistling without giving a fuck .. but it took way too long for Stanford to kick the protesters out. Most too those protesters will go on to work in tech, and all they accomplished by it was screwing up people's graduation experience. I was waiting for parents near them to gather and beat the shit out of them. Probably would have happened if security didn't kick them out.

Yeah .. it's not like Stanford kids could have done things like say founding Google.

I was in attendance. He got plenty of boos and loud-as-fuck whistling for the first 5 to 10 mins of his speech by morons who were protesting Nimbus.

Did it? When you consider Switzerland is 15% non-white, it's very likely that a majority of white Swiss probably voted against it. Sounds like Switzerland is doing nothing to assuage the tribalism and suspicion between races. The feelings of resentment and division will only increase. Votes along tribal/racial lines are bad and unstable.

It's not just your company, I've come across it many places. Why are so many enterprises still on Java 8? Those same companies were on Java 5 for like 25 years before they "upgraded" to Java 8. 100% guaranteed they will "upgrade" to 17 instead of whatever version is current. You realize there are people who weren't born when Java 8 came out in like what 2012 or something? Jesus Christ. (Note, Christ himself may have still been around.)

I agree he has an extremely high risk tolerance, though that doesn't make him a good person.

His car company is pretty small as car companies go, SpaceX means some new satellites, but Starlink is the only thing that's really making a difference to normal people. And Neuralink might help a lot of people in the future, but it largely R&D now.

His wealth doesn't come from what his companies have done. It comes from his ability as a promoter and its ridiculous effect on the stock price.

He worked hard to get Trump re-elected, if he was in fact the tipping point, he has harmed the environment far more than he has helped.

Not to mention all the potentially hundreds of thousands of people who died due to his cuts to DOGE.

It sounds like this is more to do with your ideology than Elon Musk.

Humans are tribal, in modern times that tribe is usually their nation, and they care deeply about the survival of their tribe.

If immigration is seen as changing the fundamental nature of that tribe (nation) people will resist it.

We need to figure out a way to deal with that fact if we want to continue to have relatively open borders.

It's not hype, Anthropic is literally saying there's no actual risk they're aware of.

What actually happened is they refused to let US Intelligence agencies use their models to perform illegal surveillance. So now the US government is illegally punishing them.