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ramesh31today at 6:03 PM4 repliesview on HN

People can simultaeneously be reprehensible idiots while being a reliable expert on something they have personally invested billions of dollars into and operate at scale.


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overfeedtoday at 6:31 PM

> ...while being a reliable expert on something they have personally invested billions of dollars into and operate at scale.

Like "Full Self-Driving" from coast-to-coast by 2016?

awkwardpotatotoday at 6:16 PM

He's also invested billions of dollars in SpaceX and Tesla... which he regularly makes wild claims about that are untrue.

amanaplanacanaltoday at 6:55 PM

I'm not saying he actually is an expert, but he could be an expert and still lie for any number of reasons.

stymaartoday at 6:56 PM

Elon is a specialist of lying about stuff he invested billions in to make it look more valuable than it is (he's been doing that for Tesla for years). It's not a lack of expertise, it's the lack of any sense of integrity (and self respect).

He's lagging the AI race despite having tons of compute available, so he tries to make a narrative about how it's not that the model is behind, it's just smaller than the competition.