it's great, but it's also skynet's latest iteration. let's not kid ourselves while we're blinded by the new shiny.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Boring mass surveillance dystopia powered by fancy curve fitting algorithms is not going to be anything like Skynet.

Algorithmic dragnets running over all communications technology, every human carrying a microphone everywhere that they don't have control over, and walking killer robots sound very much like Skynet. The big difference is that it won't be run by an overarching AI, but by the grandchildren of the people who own everything now.

I don't know how rich Musk's dad is, but even if he was a billionaire, turning a billion into combined $1T+ marketcap companies is an incredible achievement.

Yes, but many of course think they would do equally well or better. And then many others are just trolling.