Your argument commands assent.

With the dismantling of energy standards, poor people will have to pay even more for electricity. Perhaps this is a good way of extracting more money out of them. Perhaps, by increasing energy consumption, he can turn the "drill baby drill" fantasy into reality.

The only thing to remember is that he is a fucking moron and everyone working for him is a fucking moron. They only do this shit to distract the media. There is no rationale behind any of this nonsense.

Pretty much it. If the board were not so beholden to him, then they would have fired him at the onset of his doge role. He owns them, however, and they will not cross him, to the detriment of the shareholders. He has made Tesla synonymous with himself. Until that association is broken, the company is doomed. There is no way it can survive. Even if a larger carmaker decides to acquire it, booting Musk will positively be a precondition for the acquisition. It's time for Tesla to divorce itself from its "founder".

Thank you for the thoughtful response. In The Invisible Doctrine, Monbiot adduces this very phenomenon as a key component of the decline into tyranny that neoliberalism facilitates.

No. They come with cameras and microphones that monitor your behavior and give or rescind social points. Donâ(TM)t you read the news?

That's an interesting point. It likely was to curry favor with trump. They must have known back then that AI is going nowhere: that demand is nowhere nearly as big as they thought. Microsoft is doing exactly the same thing.

Yeah, American conglomerates are allocating way too many resources to extracting more money from the customer rather than making a better product. Tesla's insistence on achieving full self driving is not in the interest of the consumer. It's in the interest of its bottom line. Consumers would much rather buy a cheap car without autonomy. In fact, that's what most consumers can afford. You can add the entire social media and AI nonsense to this bucket. They are giant resources suckers that hoover up all the talent in the world and have them pursue a business model little different from theft. What Ed Zitron calls the rot economy is killing the US. Rotting it from the inside.

It takes all kinds, but market heavily favors those who want short recharge times.

No more being indoctrinated with quantum mechanics, solid state physics, synthetic biology, analytical chemistry or them high-faluttin' medical witchcraft. In fact, Palantir is saving us from the sort of indoctrination you get in law school that might make you compete with its founders and know their errors.

Exceptionally well said.

Then lead the way, please.

I see that Russia has assigned a new dumbass to argue with me. Whatever you say, sparky.

Youâ(TM)re funny! Youâ(TM)re right. Thatâ(TM)s why Microsoft is cancelling all its data center contracts: AI is so profitable.

Hollywood will now make its shitty movies for half the cost, which means that the douche bags that run Hollywood will make more money and will have less incentive to make anything worthwhile. Hell, instead of taking the savings and paying good writers for good plots, they may have AI write the scripts, too.

You make a great point, but it presumes and ascribes some sort of understanding on the part of AI. It would apply if we were talking about biases of sentient beings.