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Great technical article, but why did you feel the need to add speculative ideological polarization too it?

``` Elon’s motivation is clear and consistent with his modus operandi. It’s the same reason he’s working so hard to build a sustainable colony on Mars, why he’s devoted resources to understanding the potential dangers of AI super-intelligence, and why he’s so insistent on combatting climate change. His guiding motivation is to improve humanity’s chances at a positive future. ```

That's certainly one interpretation.




You could literally get away with murder with that kind of assumption of good-will.


Fair enough.

What I was trying to do was explain my motivation for digging deep into this topic. It has nothing to do with ideological polarization, though it may be a bit speculative.. this is mainly based on Tim Urban's excellent series of articles on why Elon Musk chooses to work on the problems he does. https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html




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