Elon Musk: Force for anthropic advancement or self-serving con-artist?

So Musk is now a nazi in power in the only country that unconditionally supports the jew nation of Israel in whatever diatribes they undertake!
Hum...
 
One of the troubling things with Musk is that there seem to be very many people who think he is highly intelligent, when it is impossible to find even one quote of his that sounds vaguely intelligent.
If any of the posters here can think of one such quote, pls share :)
I haven't even heard him use nested sentences (secondary sentences) that go over one nesting. Typically it is one verb-end sentence, next verb-end sentence. Eg "I am a gamer. At one point I was the no1 Quake player. Back then it was the ancient times" etc.
 
If any of the posters here can think of one such quote, pls share
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"I am a gamer. At one point I was the no1 Quake player. Back then it was the ancient times" etc.
this one is spectacularly cool and essentially the smart thing you were seeking . Will need tons of context to get how he is claiming what he is not and was not and sets the past right about Compaq putting him on the map . He has hundreds of advisors by now which he will describe as the AI he designed . Depicting the enemy as a fool is shooting yourself in the foot in this instance . Musk or Trump as idiots serve their interests , not yours .
 
well this weekend had a crossover i wasn't expecting

so i am somewhat enfranchised in Path of Exile (talking a few thousand hours) and as such engage a lot with the community and such. i was vaguely aware elon played, it's kind of hard to avoid people talking about it, esp with elon spoiling all parts of the story on his twitter even when they've unfollowed/hidden him and such, but whatever.

elon had bragged a lot about being in the top 20 something of Path of Exile 2's hardcore ladder - which mind you, is really hard and timeconsuming to do. it's not mario. getting that far in the game, you need hundreds of hours, you need to know moment-by-moment gameplay, and you need a really intricate farming strategy. in path of exile 1, you used third party tools like Path of Building (screenshot) to make your build, and that's before even executing it or figuring out a way to get the resources for the stuff you needed. so i was like, cool, elo plays and does a hardcore thing then, good for him, i don't like him, and it's not like i'm ever gonna have to suffer him ingame.

so he recently did a livestream of his top 20 something hardcore character, and it was obvious to everyone that he had people playing for him.


to put it as shortly as possible, i watched some of the stream (highlights, etc), and with the level of investments and hours his character has, there's no way he's been playing the game to even a tenth of this investment. there just isn't. he doesn't even know what buttons to press, and he's getting chinese whispers. it's really hard to translate into other skill languages how obvious this is. players with 20 or 30 hours in the game are baffled at it. for a character of that investment, he would've needed like 500+ hours since the beta release in december. so either he hasn't touched the game at all, or he's high on ketamine, idk. here's a video of a player much better than me reacting to snippets of the stream, as if that's even important to anyone (more on that below)

there's also the fun detail that he was supposedly playing while being in a live international meeting.

so, yea, someone is playing for him. i'm not sure about the terms and conditions here, but if money changed hands (and they probably did, unless someone's really hot for playing 500+ hours over a month as a favor to a friend), he's for sure earning himself a big, fat, permaban, locking him out from playing the game ever again. the devs take this stuff very seriously.

so... here's the thing.

none of this matters.

i don't care who's on the top of the ladder. the community also generally doesn't. who the hell really cares? it's not stolen valor discussions, like actual consequence to the world in a sense. it's not like he's pretending to be a vet or a doctor. it's not like the manifold expertise claims he does for his companies, where he claims to know his stuff before wrecking everything he invests in. but... so, none of this matters. but he clearly cares. he like builds this giant glorious pedestial where he puts a nothingburger and brags about it, and it's not even there.

if he wants to be in with the cool kids, he doesn't actually understand that - like - people that don't play PoE don't care, and people that do play PoE, who might care, immediately clocks that he's being pathetic. it would be infinitely more endearing if he struggled in the game and actually did his own thing - to the community as well. i'm imagining someone like Walz playing Path of Exile with his kids and getting stuck in act 2 while confusedly trying to figure out what jewels do. that would of course never happen, but that's actually how you get in with the cool kids. elon is a lizard with no people skills who think people only like him if he's the biggest best boy.

so basically to sum it up, Elon pretends to be good at PoE, everyone in the PoE community are laughing their asses off at why he would even do this, they also want him banned in general, and people outside the community don't care that he's Good At Video Game anyways.

just outright baffling man. what the hell.

i'll go back to farming expedition

Elon has admitted to cheating. :o


“Have you level boosted (had someone else play your accounts) and/or purchased gear/resources for PoE2 and Diablo 4?” asked NikoWrex. Musk responded with a “100 percent” emoji before adding that “It’s impossible to beat the players in Asia if you dont, as they do!” The richest man in the world noted that he’s appeared on multiple streams where it’s really him playing the games, but defended using account sharing to boost his characters despite never being transparent with people that this is what he was doing.

Account boosting is common in online multiplayer games, but also frowned upon by many, including game makers themselves who explicitly ban such activities in their terms of service. While it can be hard to prove that a player paid someone else to level up their character, or grind for powerful and hard-to-get gear, account sharing for any reason is technically banned in both Diablo IV and Path of Exile 2.
 
How could one feel they “beat” other players if they weren’t playing? :crazyeye:
 
How could one feel they “beat” other players if they weren’t playing? :crazyeye:
POE has leader boards for various segments of game play. Being in the top 10 of a segment carries prestige. Having another person play your character to get into the top slots demonstrates a significant lack of character. AFAIK Musk has not yet been banned from POE2. I started a thread on this topic on the POE forums and within a couple of days it was deleted and I was told that such a thread violated the TOS. Of course account sharing does also, but I am not the richest man in the world.
 
“It’s impossible to beat the players in Asia if you dont, as they do!”

Well of course, the cheater thinks that everyone else cheats.
 
It would be a great troll move for POE2 owners to ban the Muskrat for admitting to using a shared account; and then watch Muskrat call attention to it by whining about it to the Crook.
 
It would be a great troll move for POE2 owners to ban the Muskrat for admitting to using a shared account; and then watch Muskrat call attention to it by whining about it to the Crook.
Which would result in further free publicity for the POE games.
 
It would be a great troll move for POE2 owners to ban the Muskrat for admitting to using a shared account; and then watch Muskrat call attention to it by whining about it to the Crook.
Tencent owns Path of Exile. They bought Grinding Gear Games (NZ based) 3 years ago. GGG, though, still runs it and develops new leagues. China has its own version of the game that is not the same as the game in the rest of the world.
 
Which would result in further free publicity for the POE games.
See, it gets better and better for them!

Tencent owns Path of Exile. They bought Grinding Gear Games (NZ based) 3 years ago. GGG, though, still runs it and develops new leagues. China has its own version of the game that is not the same as the game in the rest of the world.
It would also be really funny if they ban Musk, and the Chinese government uses unbanning his account as leverage in trade negotiations.
 
POE has leader boards for various segments of game play. Being in the top 10 of a segment carries prestige. Having another person play your character to get into the top slots demonstrates a significant lack of character. AFAIK Musk has not yet been banned from POE2. I started a thread on this topic on the POE forums and within a couple of days it was deleted and I was told that such a thread violated the TOS. Of course account sharing does also, but I am not the richest man in the world.
Ok I declare that my character is whoever is the number one player I beat everyone.
 
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