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[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Introducing the next product innovation from Elongated Muskrat: The Caliper Company

[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (2 children)

melon-musk "Yeah, but I'm going to name it X-caliper. Because I think I am very clever."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's gonna bring back lobotomies with his company PickX

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago

You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago

Come on he's doing the yakub thing totally unselfconsciously i can't work with this!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why do I read Musk in Measureheads voice? Like this is a bit right out of Disco Elysium.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would rule if a drunk guy just walked up to Musk and knocked him out with a spinning kick to the head

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna happen; consequences of nerds telling everybody not to do adventurism.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That barely even counts. If someone has the chance and is able to do the prison time that will for sure follow, fucking go for it. Adventurism is when you and your organization decide to start bombing places before doing any helpful stuff thst would get people on your side so you can get away with bombing places.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Well then maybe the nerds shouldn't have been such nerds about it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

YOUR SMALL HEAD BETRAYS YOUR IDIOCY

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was gonna correct you then I remembered it's a removed word

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (1 children)

lmao there are crows smarter than him

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Corvids are probably the coolest birds. They are smart as hell and they're goth as fuck as a bonus.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The tricknology is strong in this one

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Elon Plan selectively breeding white people until they make Anti-Yakub and then in a cruel twist of fate Anti-Yakub invents black people. Truly, time is a flat circle.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He's right. This is why White Gladis is perhaps the smartest military leader of our times. Her brain is 4.5x more massive than a mere human's. Long live the joint dictatorship of the proletariat of oppressed marine ecosystems! white-gladis ever-given qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Larmarckism is true.

Case in point: society allows giant parasite douche bags to become billionaires and almost instantly Elon evolved to exist.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Guarantee this dude heard the word "assortative" in the last 24 hours.

You know how in the Big Lebowski the character "The Dude" says things that he just heard to other people to sound like he knows what's going on? And you're supposed to laugh at it because its funny when he tries to half ass explain something somebody else told him? That's Elon. Except with none of the chill. Or friends. Or day drunk grace. Or imagination. But he does share one aspect. As Walter says in the film, "Dude, you don't have a wife."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

looks like someone started watching jimmy neutron

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Let's say it's true humans will be "dumber than house cats compared to AI" does he really think selective breeding (which takes generations) will increase intelligence at a fast enough rate for humans to keep up given how quickly he thinks AI is advancing?

Even on his own terms this doesn't make any fucking sense.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

He can't decide which side in the butlerian jihad he wants to join so he's playing both sides so he always comes out on top. Very normal brain genius this guy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Literally big brain idea.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Their plan was a combination of deceit-based breeding program and human slavery, so yes

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's just saying this because he has a big head isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Nah he's saying it because he thinks bigger head = bigger brain = smarter

Move aside, Humanity, we must hand the world over to the blue whales.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

You know what?

Better world

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Blue Whales make the theory, Orcas do the praxis.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I actually don’t hate Musk as much as some billionaires, but only because he’s such a dumbass it feels like he’s less dangerous than someone like Robert Mercer.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

The quiet person is always the dangerous one. Add to that the old proverb that says "beware an old man in a younger man's trade." With Musk's public actions and drug abuse even his money might not let him live as long as he'd like. Meanwhile the Koch Bros chugged along for eons leaving misery in their wake.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Elon is so ahead of his time, already being dumber than AI when AI isn't even intelligent yet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Dude out here claiming people are becoming Jade Falcon aerospace pilots.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where's the calipers emote?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In fairness. Humans did specifically massively increase brain and skull size to fit all our smarts in, no?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

On a time scale of millions of years, yes. Not in the last few decades. This is an insane thing to say.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Genetic determinists think that a couple generations of PMC people marrying other PMC people will produce a new subspecies or some shit. Like bruv even ignoring how that's not really happening the way you think it is it takes a lot more than that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What's PMC mean comrade? Help those of us with smaller heads

kitty-cri

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

"Professional Managerial Class"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Preposterously Massive Cranium

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