• Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    This is what I don’t get, I can also just say ‘visionary’ things by just opening any sci-fi book and pointing at a random page and claiming that I want to make that.

    The hard part isn’t envisioning cool sci-fi concepts like self driving cars, colonized planets, ai servants, and life like VR. The hard part is actually doing them.

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      21 days ago

      Actually paying attention to the sci-fi you’re consuming would give you an advantage over Musk. He says he loves the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a series which spends a lot of time mocking corporate executives and corporate marketing. It’s also a series where every AI is either an asshole, malfunctioning or both.

      He also thinks the main character in Blade Runner is named Bladerunner despite the fact that Deckard’s name is said like 10 times in the movie.

      https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner

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      21 days ago

      And there are robotaxis in some places already, like airports (Germany?).

      Bet he’s just spewing this shit to cover up for something else, like they all do.