My personal take is that Musk is fairly mysterious. Hence, I don’t think there is sufficient evidence that he just says these things for personal gain? I don’t mean this to defend him, to the contrary. It makes the world more uncertain that one the most powerful persons has such an insrutable personality. I think it would be worth foregoing Musk’s upside potential for this world, if he were just more boring and predictable.
He doesn’t seem super mysterious to me—I think he’s motivated by a combination of genuine intent to make the world do better and ego, with a fair bit of room for arguing over which you think is the greater factor (I actually think the former).
My personal take is that Musk is fairly mysterious. Hence, I don’t think there is sufficient evidence that he just says these things for personal gain?
I don’t mean this to defend him, to the contrary. It makes the world more uncertain that one the most powerful persons has such an insrutable personality. I think it would be worth foregoing Musk’s upside potential for this world, if he were just more boring and predictable.
He doesn’t seem super mysterious to me—I think he’s motivated by a combination of genuine intent to make the world do better and ego, with a fair bit of room for arguing over which you think is the greater factor (I actually think the former).