Humans are the same emotional, irrational apes as we were 100,000 years ago, and the most emotional and irrational thing any of us do, bar none, is delude ourselves by pretending that we aren't.
Back in the day, the term "snake oil salesman" was used and it is as fresh today as it always was.
I just saw a LinkedIn post from someone totally unrelated to Musk, or Tesla fawning about how amazing the Tesla Optimus robots are, how they are going to operate in space and how he would prefer one to give him surgery over a doctor.
100s of positive interactions followed
Humans seem to need some fiction to believe to get them through their day.
So as long as people don’t demand that reality is the driver of their future they will continue to live in whatever fantasy world that makes them the main character
I was able to stay off it for so long, but I just had to get back on since I changed roles to CTO and its a whole marketing channel I have to use. That place is trash
Hopefully I can outsource that soon
mullingitover•27m ago
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iknowstuff•19m ago