Fucking egomaniac.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025
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This picture describes it pretty well.
Or these fascists are distracting people from something important with these performances...
but this person with a net worth of $479,200,000,000 (according to Forbes as of today) is crying for $1,000,000,000,000 more for a large group of toy robots.
Because without that contract, TSLA is worthless.
"WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS ADVANCED WARFARE"
Take a lot more drugs Elon. Be sure it's enough to permenently quiet that scrambled brain of yours.
In a time when the entire world seems to be suffering from unstable leadership, rising costs of everything because of the decisions of people like him, oppressive and invasive actions directed at some of the most vulnerable people.
All that and much more, but this person with a net worth of $479,200,000,000 (according to Forbes as of today) is crying for $1,000,000,000,000 more for a large group of toy robots.
Some people have nothing and go on to accomplish great things. He has everything and needs more handouts to do anything.
He really needs $1 million, but he'll take the rest, just in case.
I'll do it for half that.
I'll do it for half of your offer. $250 Billion is plenty for me to pull off a robot army.
Brooks (Roomba, Baxter, MIT, etc) says it's sill not enough https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
If you skim through his piece, at least watch the 2x 30s videos, really drive the point IMHO.
Is he revering to the self driving Teslas when he says 'robot army'?
Another chuck e cheese token recipient in the making
they look like shit kinda. do they do anything useful?
They kill citizens who defy their fascist corporate overlords. So nothing to worry about.
Just one more leverage bro
Well Musk’s quote there isn’t wrong.
Musk isn’t an engineer, but neither are those consultants. They should all be deferring to deeper within the company for technical decisions instead of conflating some sci fi literacy with practical decision making, and leave musk to making much coarser ones at most.
So, is this a request for help, a threat, or just a grift?
Perhaps he really is concerned about rogue AI Slaughterbots, and wants to avoid that horrible Terminator-style future? Nah.
Perhaps it's a veiled threat - "I got these rogue Slaughterbots who are straining to get out there and fuck up the world, unless you give me a trillion bucks."
Or maybe, there are no robots, or even viable plans to build them, and he just wants a trillion bucks.
It's probably #3, and he'll use the money to build the Slaughterbots, and then do #2.