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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Heywood40 who wrote (1577133)12/15/2025 11:13:22 AM
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Musk is pushing data centers in orbit to pump up the IPO. The same sort of "visionary" thing he has used to pump up Tesla stock.

I guess this is end stage hucksterism. Elon has always been a self-promoter. With a taste for promising the Moon and managing to have plausible excuses when he falls short. There it the concept of "Elon time", which is just another way of saying that Musk doesn't deliver on his promises. Schedules are never met and the product delivered sometimes doesn't even resemble the final product. *cough*Cybertruck*cough*...

The problem is the promises are getting even more gradious and vague. Along with even more vague timelines. For Tesla, he has periodically put out a series of goals. They started out with specifics and deadlines. While the items got addressed, it was "in the fullness of time" and not on the schedule. However, with each succeeding posting, the goals got vaguer and the timelines more and more nebulous. And the goals stopped being met. Ever. The recent trillion dollar payout was essentially a lot of his previously announced goals but made more concrete as the incentive. Basically begging him to actually deliver something.

His original dream for the Tesla cabs was to blanket the country with the things and use them as backup to the power grid when they were idle, both displacing private car ownership and becoming an essential utility. That seems to be running into problems, so there is now a pivot to being an AI company building robots. Always something in the future that never seems to arrive. Now he wants to do the same with SpaceX.

Maybe he can pull it off. Or maybe he has to be weaned off the ketamine.
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