Did anyone else just find Elon Musk really cringey and pretentious on Rogan's show.
I'm watching it now and I'm just stunned that people were impressed with this podcast. Musk sounds like he's auditioning for the role of a Bond villain and using every singularity cliche in the book, while Rogan sucks Musk's dick like nothing else.
Am I missing something here or are people just bedazzled by the "red pilled" tech billionaire who's a counterpoint to Zuck, Jack et al?
Elon Musk is not a good public speaker, and he is not great at the long-form conversations Joe Rogan does. The whole "yeah bro we'll build tunnels in LA to improve traffic" thing really irritates me because it is dumb on so many levels. The singularity stuff was also super cringe.
Alexander Richardson
I think he had some plan for acting the way he has in order to throw off shorters, but at this point it's kinda backfired and he's just trying to ride it out.
dumb fuck wastin' all that weed smoke tho
Sebastian Price
When he said trying to warn people about AI was "futile" I thought that was a bit strange because people don't talk like that outside of movies
Josiah Morgan
He's trying to tank the stock so he can buy it himself.
Angel White
On the opposite, I'd say that being against Musk, a "contrarian", is now already becoming a meme. In the interview, his ideas were not newly expressed and in line with the stuff he said before. He's speculating a lot but not out of bound. He's a tech rich idolized normal guy. He was as humbe as he could be given his found status and work ethics. Making this thread, you're just getting in line with the people who care. Stop caring.
he probably thought you smoke it like a cigar. yeah he didn't inhale, later on in the interview he said he didn't feel anything.
Matthew Nelson
He's a brainlet. Understated, genius engineers who work for him are responsible for his successes.
Andrew Jenkins
This thread has nothing to do with Jow Forums.
Zachary Wright
I agree, most of that shit was a cringefest.
Blake James
He's an entrepreneur. The understated, genius engineers would amount to nothing without a master to serve.
Ayden Reyes
Yes, that's what I'm getting at, it sounded like scripted almost.
Jacob Myers
musk is in the tech industry. 'the singularity' is a tech concept. what's off topic about this?
Joshua Scott
i'd never heard him speak aloud before, goddam did he sound awkward. like i know he's south african but was english not his first language? really sounded like he was struggling to speak and that made him lose a lot of his credibility while he was bullshitting about AI and stuttering
that's probably the real reason his stock dipped, not because he smoked weed
It was a bit awkward, but t's not like he's an every day guy. When you are at his level, people don't treat you as they would a regular guy. Joe Rogan, chilling with him, was probably an experience he hadn't had in decades.
I didn't think he was pretentious in the least.
I hope he got in Rogan's isolation tank and took a big fucking nap.
Jaxon Bell
He's under a huge amount of stress as Tesla is failing and approaching insolvency.
Josiah Perry
Yes. But it is not entirely his fault. He knowingly sat down with a fanboy, and Rogan could not help his fanboying one bit.
They've been around 15 years and they're still not profitable. The amount of cash they lose each quarter keeps increasing. Last quarter, they lost ~743 million dollars.
Their accounts payable - money they owe, right now, in bills due now - is 3 billion dollars. They have 2.2 billion dollars in cash, and .9 of that is owed back to customers in the form of deposits paid.
Any sane company would have raised money (again) by now, but Tesla hasn't - probably because the SEC has barred them from doing it, but Elon says he doesn't want to and there's no need to.
They recently got a new Chief Accounting Officer, who left, staying only 30 days and leaving millions in unvested stock options on the table - wonder why.
The company is falling apart and people are blind to it because of their need for a hero. They see Tony Stark in Elon.
Rogan is hit and miss and this one was a huge, huge miss. like he didn't even think of any good questions before hand. I know fuck all about musk and have at least 3 good questions for him.
Logan Hughes
t. butthurt engineer, actually
Asher Roberts
Go back to tumblr
Gavin Wright
Got any dirt on SpaceX? Aren't they like one more blown up rocket away from going out of business?