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People can dream with lottery tickets, that doesn't make them wise pension plans.

While I like the dreams Musk sells of self-driving cars so good they don't need steering wheels, of space colonisation and useful robot workers cheap enough that I could personally afford them, at this point I don't trust him in particular to actually deliver any of those things.

(And no, you can't convince me with some variant of "look at ${current version} of FSD" or "look at progress with Starship", etc., that's like responding to someone who doubts you can build a house by pointing to a pile of bricks: they're a necessary step, but aren't sufficient).

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Will those things not still be true after the standard 12mo trading window and GAAP profitability?
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Then there is no reason to change the rules, right?
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But this is like Elon's other products. It's so good that it doesn't have to follow rules!
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Careful.

If you disagree with him, he might brand you a paedophile.

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