• @[email protected]
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    25310 hours ago

    If you and Elon disagree about something, just assume he’s wrong about it. If you both agree on something, THEN you might be mistaken.

      • @ByteJunk
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        198 hours ago

        That’s phrased brilliantly, and capturey my own perception of Musk

      • @affiliate
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        56 hours ago

        i agree but would like to add that it’s generally good practice to stay away from rockets

      • @[email protected]
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        67 hours ago

        I hope the screenshot dude is also going to stop this unquestioning belief in the things people say or claim without evidence.

        Those first two paragraphs look like a tendency to prefer hero-worship to critical thought; that seems to be a fairly widespread problem in humans from long before this latest batch of demagogues.

        There’s also a hint of “I’m not an ‘expert’ in it so I can’t (be bothered) to understand anything about it” also a very depressingly common attitude.

        • @[email protected]
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          197 hours ago

          We all have to rely on somebody to be an expert in fields outside our own. Years ago, if Elon said “Falcon 9 launch yesterday failed due to xyz”, I assumed he had the actual experts giving him notes. The Xhitter debacle showed how much he doesn’t listen to those people.

          • @[email protected]
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            106 hours ago

            It’s kind of funny, but we all do this to some extent. I used to think most people on Reddit were super smart. If someone says stuff with authority, then it’s easy to believe what they’re saying and assume they know what they’re talking about.

            But then every once in a while, I’d come across a topic that I know deeply about - and the comment would just be blatantly wrong, but still have tons of up votes. It really made me start second guessing all the other comments I had read and thought were smart, but it’s an easy trap to fall into.

            I guess what I’m really saying, is that you all are a bunch of morons, probably.

          • @[email protected]
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            07 hours ago

            I just dont get why you have to assume that though?

            Maybe I’m a pessimist, but I’ve met and worked with enough humans that I think the best assumtion is that they’re all full of shit until they prove otherwise.

            It’s fine to rely on experts for some things, but if those experts aren’t subject to independent scrutiny or directly independent of the claim or sunjecy under test, or can’t give clear testable /replicable evidence, I’d just not put much weight on their testimony as a source of evidence.

      • @kholby
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        57 hours ago

        Thank you. I was trying to find this earlier today.

      • Optional
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        89 hours ago

        Hey you’re looking for a new truck aren’t ya? Well do we have a deal for you!

    • @cm0002
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      4210 hours ago

      If it’s tech he doesn’t know shit about it, I learned that years ago during the Twitter acquisition days

      He sounds like a CEO who “knows enough to fuck shit up, not enough to know how to fix it, but thinks they do” AKA the worst executive known to IT

      • @CeeBee_Eh
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        12 hours ago

        Remember when he said he knows more about engineering than anyone else on the planet?

        • Laurel Raven
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          17 minutes ago

          How about the submarine he was going to build to save kids in a cave that obviously would have drowned long before he could have even really started work? But it’s okay, he could just accuse the guy who actually saved their lives of being a pedo