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Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by Palomides on Thursday January 02, 2025 @07:31PM (#42580712)
don't worry, he's starting with physics and will invent economics from first principles on his own because he's a genius
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by bogwog on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:24PM (#42581135)
You gotta admit, building a desktop recording app is only a few short hops away from building our civilization.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by teaearlgraycold on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:42PM (#42581264)
Crazy idea: work for DOGE but secretly just do whatever the most educated (and compassionate) people on the topic say to do. Don’t let Elon know you’re poisoning his well with good ideas.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by lazyasciiart on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:00PM (#42582253)
I have serious doubts that this guy would identify anyone I consider "the most educated or compassionate" for any topic, though.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by ETH_start on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:35AM (#42587067)
A lot of people consider Elon to be highly compassionate (in the balanced sense of taking into consideration second-order effects) and educated (in the non-credentialled sense of being informed).

So comments like your are little more than flamebait.

Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by entropicdrifter on Friday January 03, 2025 @04:45PM (#42589802)
>A lot of people consider Elon to be highly compassionate (in the balanced sense of taking into consideration second-order effects)

I suppose if you're into redefining the common meaning of the word, anyone could be considered highly compassionate.

Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by ETH_start on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:15PM (#42598379)
His actions could reasonably be characterized as motivated for deep care for others, and that includes not just his work on popularizing electric cars and giving humanity better internet connectivity via StarLink, but also his political activism. Of course of all of this is subjective, which is all the more reason to not pretend your view of compassion is the objective irrefutable truth.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by entropicdrifter on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:28PM (#42624939)
My "view of compassion" is the literal definition of the word, yours is deciding that a robber baron with sufficiently sci-fi justifications for union-busting is somehow a compassionate person.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by ETH_start on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:49AM (#42681092)
The entire premise of your position is that 1. Successful entrepreneurs are exploiting people, i.e. are robber barons, and 2. being for union-enforced labor relations is compassion, both of which are highly contentious claims that are in no way linked to the conventional definition of "compassion". You're trying to gaslight people with this nonsense, which is typical.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:53PM (#42597208)
Are these people in the room with us right now?
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by lowmagnet on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:23PM (#42581562)
when this went from calling coworkers "NPCs" to "working" for DOGE, to "studying physics" and I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by Pxtl on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:42AM (#42582877)
Came here to post this and am happy to see that's already been done.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by remh on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:03AM (#42583617)
To be honest, this video was quite cringe, 50min of repeating the same thing over and over, repeating her opinion, saying ridiculous unsubstantiated things such as: “musk bought twitter because he was annoyed people were saying he was not a physicist “. Let’s do better and post better content.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by ydnaclementine on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:44PM (#42589305)
she's not wrong though. it's exactly like one the comments says: "It's the intellectual equivalent of the wannabe tough guy staple: "I almost joined the military.""
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by entropicdrifter on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:05PM (#42589929)
She's a physicist, sharing her perspective on how weird it feels that several billionaires seem intent on posing as physicists
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:54PM (#42597222)
I think it was a very good video.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by lazyasciiart on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:07PM (#42582301)
Shouldn't he start with math for the most valuable results? https://xkcd.com/435/
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by Arn_Thor on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:49PM (#42582554)
Those people are so exhausting. I work with one.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by postsantum on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:26AM (#42586432)
No, he is about to invest in longevity research, like all other cool non-NPC billionaires do