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If you go from Zoom to Google Meet you will notice a massive difference in audio quality.

That's essentially the point. There is a non-zero risk that any given AI company ends up like those examples. That's why they are racing to IPO, raise more, get ahead of each other, and reach escape velocity of that risk.

Which areas?

Yes, exactly. It's pretty good, isn't it?

Elon Musk causes incredible amounts of historical non-examination. There are now so many examples that it's actually difficult to list them all. My guess is that people just get very confused by the difference between late delivery and non-delivery.

They save on advertising to spend on mind-blowing demos.

Actively sabotaged by doing what? California went ahead with high speed rail. How is it going? You want more of that?

Can you? Where?

Falcon 9 used to do that when being tested.

They push them to the limits in testing/development to make them reliable in production.

Starship still in testing/development.

If you care about it, it's all right there.

Thousands of hours of video about the companies and their products, hundreds of hours of interviews with Musk, thousands of tweets by Musk, financial filings of Tesla and SpaceX, you can test drive a Tesla for free in most parts of the world, you can use Starlink in most parts of the world, you can ride a Cybercab in Austin, you can watch a rocket launch livestream or in person, you can watch videos about people who had their lives changed from Neuralink, etc.

I can't think of another person of similar prominence who has been as accessible as Musk. Partly due to the internet, but also due to his choices. I don't see Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or the Google founders sharing their views & debating them with adversarial reporters on a regular basis. Perhaps Palmer Luckey is on track for becoming somewhat akin to Musk.

Moon v Mars seems to have more to do with what the primary customer wanted.

Starmind just happened to fit nicely with that and the current market desire for a lot more compute.

If he wants power, wealth and fans then he could retire already because that would be mission accomplished. It seems that there is some other motivation.

What are some of the most egregious examples from his long history of crazy predictions?

Most of the examples I've ever seen tend to be purposeful misunderstanding, his timing being off (clearly a flaw, but common to most ambitious projects), vibes, or just factually incorrect.

He clearly has flaws, but his critics always seem to be far more flawed.

You seem to be getting different cars mixed up, so what you're saying is factually wrong. Musk never promoted that, and Tesla did complete all of the orders for the original Roadster.

Even if you were correct on the facts, the right thing to do in the face of changing circumstances can of course be to change the plan. In an alternate reality where they had sold preorders for a solar car, making it right to the customers combined with not going out of business is the better plan.

Which statements? Why wouldn't they play the clip of Musk saying those things if that's the case?