The only human being Elon Musk cares about is himself. He is a profound narcissist.

THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON REACTOS?!

Next you'll tell me Haiku is still an option.

"If people start flocking to Linux"

Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?!?

Slow down, sometimes it takes a few years, or 32 years in this case, to get something right.

Waymo or Tesla? Waymo is so far ahead of Tesla that how can even the most gullible investor think they are every going to catch up?

Fair!

No, I don't have severe cognitive decline

He fell asleep at his own Cabinet meeting.

Energy experts too, which is probably more credible than a minimally-educated dementia patient.

Great advertising for their AI.

Not to mention, the opening scenes of Big Hero 6...

They have been saying that since the 1990's. We've constantly been told that personal hardware would be pointless and everything is going back to old school server-workstation architecture, and it still hasn't happened.

"He'll be milquetoast and set it up such that the theorcracy can agitate and con it's way back into powe within a few years."

Is he milquetoast or can he set it up so the theocracy can come back? Seem like mutually contradictory things.

Anyway, the Iranians want the Shah. There is no organized internal opposition force, he's moderately well-respected, he hates the theocracy (so why would he reinstate it?), and he's pledged supporting democracy.

And for a super tight kernel team with access to formal verification tools, I may want them to have rope, shotgun, nukes, and a paperclip (don't ask).

No way in hell I want the CS recent grad who spent a semester learning "operating systems" in JAVA anywhere near critical system level components (yes, there was a time when students were being taught "OS" dev without consideration of pointers or deterministic finalization - the 90's and 2k's were wild).

The Sam Altman types, and the Thiel/Musk types especially, want technofeudalism with them on top. For some of them the "good of society" factors in but it is always after this.