Are we sure this isn’t illegal? It seems illegal

179 points

Well, I don’t want AI and Robotics, so that was easy.

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91 points

Counteroffer: we launch him into the sun for free.

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55 points

Counter-counteroffer: we have him blast himself into the sun and he foots the bill.

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46 points

You’re a tough negotiator. Approved.

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I propose that he gives me his money and then fucks off to the desert on Mars.

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14 points

It just occurred to me: How many of our problems could be solved if we just started throwing them into the sun?

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6 points

Technically? All of them.

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5 points

Far cheaper to launch them into a slowly degrading low earth orbit and let them burn up on reentry.

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6 points

It’d be cheaper to send him out if the solar system though

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2 points

But then he might come back

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2 points

Probably more expensive than you think…

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1 point

Is he bigger than a rover?

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It’s volume pricing…sure if we do it just with Elon it’d be expensive, but if we launch all neo-fascists from around the globe into the sun, the price per unit doesn’t look so bad.

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Send his ass on a one way trip to Mars. I’ll gladly accept a one time tax hike for that.

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It’s so illegal I think it might even be sufficient to pierce the corporate veil and charge Musk directly with attempted blackmail. I mean, that’s what he’s trying to do - blackmail and extort Tesla shareholders.

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It only took one shareholder to sue and invalidate his last compensation package. I suspect that same shareholder or a few others are game to try it again, especially if this time it’s coming from a more direct threat to the company and those shares’ value.

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As if he personally has AI and robotics in his pocket, and all the people working for him are vacuous without him.

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I may have some names and details wrong here, but Elon is not the brains of AI.

He did start Open AI to find some people with the brains.

Andrej Karpathy was the mastermind of Tesla’s FSD. He left the company after it was clear his developments would get FSD solved with enough data and compute. He’s no longer at Tesla, but it is primarity his work that everything is based on.

Jim Keller was lead developer of the FSD inferrence chip I think. He also helps develop chips for Apple and Intel. He is not at Tesla.

Emil Talpes is lead architect of Dojo chip

Ganesh Venkataramanan is lead architect of Dojo supercomputer system

What we can credit Elon with is telling folks to make a robo taxi back in 2015 and paying people to do it, but thats about it. Keep in mind he became the richest man in the world for doing this. He doesnt need more compensation at the expense of Tesla and its shareholders.

If Elon died today Tesla would be just fine. I’d argue even better… A lot of folks I talk to think Teslas are cool cars, but hate Elon’s toxic personality and fear his attacks on free speech. They don’t want to support such a maniacal weirdo.

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4 points

These bitches ain’t shit with out their pimp daddy!

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3 points

Back up off the pipe Elmo!

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He doesn’t owwn it, but he can supercharger them on the way out.

Almost the same thing.

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80 points

Ok. Deal. You don’t get 25%, and you can cram your next grift up your Boring hole.

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65 points

This really looks like another one of those times that Elon’s big stupid mouth is going to get him in trouble just because he doesn’t know when to shut the actual fuck up.

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8 points

When has that ever happened? The man has never faced a meaningful consequence in his entire life, that’s why he’s so awful.

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14 points

He was forced to buy Twitter. He never wanted it and his bluff got called.

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And that had zero negative impact on him. He still had enough money left over to live a million years in opulent wealth.

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There’s never any consequences though, he keeps failing up. Hopefully the shareholders call his bluff, but a lot of them buy into the Musk mythos.

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