Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can’t trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.

A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please… and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money… these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.

Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people… but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.

But, alas… It’s Musk saying it so it’s only to further enrich himself and won’t actually happen.

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    M’eh at this point we can assume his bots are to carry out mass extinctions. Not to say the g word.

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    Biggest problem with that first premise is that the services and materiel goods created by these robots is still going to cost the end user and since those end users aren’t working and earning money to pay those fees, the only outcome for that is a population starved and homeless while the elites of the world reap the rewards of that system

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    Isn’t this the same guy who tweeted that he would end world hunger for something less than $6 billion if the World Food Programme would supply a plan? And then WFP supplied the plan. And then Musk just…didn’t supply the funs to prevent people from starving.

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      Not quite, someone posted that he could end it and he responded that if the WFP provided a plan showing the specifics of how world hunger could be ended for that amount he would fund it. WFP then provided a plan for how that amount could be used to help reduce world hunger for a short time and Elon said “the claim was end world hunger, not reduce it temporarily” which meant they didn’t meet challenge.

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    Dude read the Culture series, took all the wrong lessons from it and is speedrunning that horrible vision for a sorcery in his own mind.

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    "Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said

    This is going to last all of 30 seconds as that is the amount of time it’ll take for a criminal to hop a cyclone fence and take off never to be seen again. Or we can have the 10 minute scenario where criminal and friends take sledgehammers to the thing and sell it for scrap.

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    I’m not even going to look up what “Optimus” is. I don’t waste time on this clown anymore.

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      You’ve already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn’t autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.

      It’s simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.

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      You just know already he’s gonna scam, grift and cheat to get that pay package, not do anything worthwhile.

      And if he can’t get it, he’ll cry and sue to get it anyway.

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    Can the rich should stop running all the cool stuff, please? Optimus, Anduril, palantir, lambas, mithril… Every childhood memory tainted by evil businessmen

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    Perhaps he should get Full Self Driving to work first… 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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    in the oligarchs dialect it translates to “eliminate the poor not useful for slave labour”

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    I’d be surprised if the build one working robot in the next ten years

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    By “eliminate poverty” he means let robots do all the jobs the poors do and let the poors die.

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    You should look up where the word robot came from originally.

    So long as there are humans who value power and control and can propagandize the populace to support them, a world where all people can live comfortably and happily as equals will never exist.