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Bob Churchill's avatar

An autistic, narcissistic sociopath devoid of empathy turn to genteel philanthropy? You're joking - right?

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Mike Feder's avatar

Great writing!

The Terminator parallel is perfect--Musk is exactly like some other humans (thankfully rare) who are unable to feel a shred of empathy; for instance, concentration camp guards, hedge-fund managers, serial killers, and, of course, programmed mechanical assassins created by other machines.

Thanks for trying to inject a sense of hope into the whirling doomsday machine that is Elon Musk... Sadly though, for all of us, I think Musk fits into--is actually the symbol of--a gambler who plays to lose. He keeps betting more, risking more, doubling and tripling down on every desperate wish and impulse that bubbles from his teeming gut into his feverish brain. He can't STOP--whether he's programmed to do it (or because he's twisted in some deep psychological way) gambling with his-- and now OUR--chips... And he won't STOP 'till the rest of us can drag him away from the craps table that Trump and he (Musk) have made of the American economy.

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