The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. ‘It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,’ Musk says.

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    Musk is like a science experiment to see how cripplingly stupid you can make a nepo baby without them losing all their generational wealth, except it went in a fascinating new direction instead.

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    It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

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        And Microsoft did it over a decade ago for day9’s company’s after dark StarCraft tournament.

        Moron isn’t 1% as funny or creative as he thinks he is

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      it is possible, it’s just that the tesla does a credit check of the person inside vs the people outside and only with that information chooses who to plow over

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    I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

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      To be fair there is one personal trait that’s really important to wealth and success, the willingness to walk over the bodies of your peers.

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        Yeah, although if Elon hasn’t convinced them I can at least take solace in knowing there was probably no way to convince them anyways. Total lost causes

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          That’s discriminatory! Actually it’s because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly

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        Billionaires are just people with uncontrolled hoarding disorder, but instead of hoarding cats, or junk cars, or magazines, they hoard money. If they hoarded anything else, the authorities would step in and clean up the place and get them medication, but because it’s money, they get celebrated as successful businesspeople, and get loads of more government cash shoveled at them.

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    I’ve said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he’d be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn’t have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn’t going to happen.

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      Annoys me that people sling “narcissist” at everyone they don’t like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

      • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

      • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

      • Belief in being “special” and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

      • Demanding excessive admiration

      • Sense of entitlement

      • Exploitation behaviors

      • Lack of empathy

      • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

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      Honestly, while he’s at the high end of things, it’s not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don’t remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

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      Who do you hire to filter that? Electric sports cars, reusable rockets, all silly ideas that would never make it. His wealth allows him to try his ideas without the restrictions that everybody else has. That’s worth much more than his reputation.

      He wants to go to mars. Solar cells and tunnel boring could be long-term buildups of knowledge.

      If he is not cleverer than most then it’s his recklessness that created his success. Bezos also got the rocket billions but he was not as successful, and many other billionaires and companies could have tried, too.

      Even the nazi wave, it is cringe and evil, but it looks like he picked the successful side.

      It’s not Musk that has to adjust but the general population. If we want to be safed by technology we have to find another hero, or better, build that technology without one.

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    Vibe coded Operating System. And Office suite. And cloud offering. And Enterprise. And SaaS. And game console.

    What could go wrong?

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    “In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI,” he added.

    Ummm, is someone going to tell him about the Xbox, Surface devices, and the entire Azure infrastructure they built.

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      Musk just announces this shit to look like he’s doing something so the investors don’t flee. If anything is actually delivered it will be forgettable and he will have moved on to the next thing he can hype.

      It’s that or he’s trying to get Microsoft to give Grok a more prominent role on their platform and this is how he thinks he can active that.

      How the stack of cards hasn’t fallen down yet is head scratching and I’d love to know what business is actually using Grok for something serious.

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    Shut the fuck up, Elon. Can’t you just quietly enjoy being the richest person on Earth?

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      If I had his money I’d be 24/7 inventing cool things for myself and wife and friends to experience. This guy has a fundamental need to be the loudest person in the room and to embroil himself into anything and everything. I would almost feel sorry for him - his life has got to really suck so bad and he can’t fix it. So instead he goes off on 100 projects that make no sense or fall apart. There’s stuff I can’t wrap my head around like - why ditch LIDAR when it’s absolutely the answer ? You just know his convoluted brain is so full of mess that if you were offered a deal with the devil to get all his money on the condition that you got trapped in his meat grinder of a mind… you’d turn down the offer.

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        If I had his money I would attempt to end homelessness in the US, someone who seemed to know what they were talking about estimated it would cost $50 billion. I would start my own animal sanctuary. I would create a high speed rail system. Then I would just fuck around, travel, and build weird shit. Probably take a bunch of LSD every now and then.

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          Have you considered doing this backwards to end up as a billionaire who can donate his billions to charity?

          Giving all homeless shelter and work would create a huge company.

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        if i had elon money, I’d fix SO many problems with the world. Not least of which the homeless problem. But that’s exactly why I’ll never have billions.

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    Ah yes, i will wait for it while I am travelling in the hyperloop

    “It’s not that hard! I swear” (Elon)