Remember that time he said he was going to solve the COVID ventilator crisis and sent out a bunch of obsolete overstock sleep apnea machines that nobody wanted and weren’t actually useful for the purpose? That was a good time.

I guess at the core of this, we are afraid of ourselves. We are afraid that the worste of humanity outpaces the better parts, that the inputs and training aren’t altruistic but are more pointedly “bad” or “wrong”, and thus leading to “harmful”, whether through misinformation, lies, or fabrications.

Is there any reason not to be afraid? I think you could say that Tay was essentially the same idea a few years back and it took like 48 hours loose on the internet for it to spout literal Nazi (1930s-40s German NSDAP) rhetoric. Besides that being a PR disaster - if “AI” is only getting stronger and more integrated into human life and society, that can be pretty problematic.

Will we ever be far enough removed from the pandemic that we can talk about how the federal government lied and ignored 100+ years worth of science on the efficacy of masking (including effective mask mandates during the “Spanish”/Kansas flu pandemic), without being accused of being an antivax conspiracy theorist?

I’m vaxed, waxed and ready to party, but it is a stone cold fact that they told people not to wear masks - and caused untold numbers of deaths - because they didn’t want the general public to reduce the current supply.

(Fauci also did an absolutely horrendous, I mean historically awful job dealing with the AIDS crisis, but I guess that’s for another time.)

You wouldn’t believe how many people thanked me as they walked into the store and took off their mask after seeing one man simply dissenting against the bullshit.

More and more people are saying it, folks

Your opinion is duly noted and taken under advisement.

Elon Musk is the world’s most prolific shitposter ever since Donald Trump’s fall from grace. He’s not an obscure figure, and this isn’t like me telling you to “do your own research” which involves a bunch of unsourced 3 hour YouTube videos. You can find out literally anything he’s ever said about anything by, as they say, googling it. If you really care enough to know about it, you can take the five seconds to do that, rather than “JAQing off” in the comments section.

I’m perfectly chill, and since this is your go to line of attack, I assume you know I’m right, too.

If you had somehow been living under a rock that also has access to the internet, and were somehow not aware that Elon Musk is a far right quasi-“libertarian” (but only for the people he likes and agrees with) techbro douchebag, pulling up duckduckgo with the simple search “elon musk public transportation” would immediately make it clear how he feels about it.

There does come a point where “sincere questions” - assuming they are even sincere to begin with, serve only to muddy the waters and create confusion where there should be none. I’m not saying everyone should know everything - but if you’re really “just asking questions” about Elon Musk, on the internet, on LEMMY, in the year 2023… at some point it’s on you and it becomes extremely hard to assume good faith.