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A future of serfdom sounds miserable.
I am deeply saddened to see the direction @Tesla is headed.
Firstly, I am a Tesla fanboy through and through. I love @elonmusk. I tell people on the regular about the amazing things he and his companies are doing, the plans they've made public, and how they will continue to revolutionize every industry they touch. I want them to win insofar as they continue to empower consumers.
I'm so proud of Tesla, @SpaceX , and Elon. They push humanity and the car industry forward. They have shown the world that the future CAN feel like the future, and that is so incredibly inspiring. That with caring and competence, engineers can create a future that is exciting.
But cancelling the Model S, one of the best vehicles ever made by far... then cancelling a controversial but brave piece of design and engineering like the Cybertruck. It's really sad. Why cancel such an amazing piece of art (Model S)? Why does it have to be either/or? It's so frustrating.
They created some of the most iconic vehicles to ever have existed and then decide to shelf them in favor of what....
Optimus?
Cybercab?
I'm excited about Optimus, but an Optimus simply cannot create the DELIGHT and THRILL my family experienced from launching a Model S Plaid during a test drive.
I'm excited about Cybercab, but as a replacement to owning and riding one of the coolest cars ever made? Screw that. Optimus can never provide that experience.
I don't want this future of owning nothing and being unhappy, and Tesla appears to be heading down that path.
Steering wheels will gradually disappear from their vehicles. The cars will become less and less your car. You will become a guest in their car. You will become less empowered in influencing the car and more of a passive participant in a system that you never can fully have a stake in.
This is part of a broader direction that Elon is headed towards that is gravely concerning to me.
That direction is:
The future is autonomous, and you the human will become a passive recipient of benefits the autonomous system’s owners (i.e., the companies) are willing to offer you.
As long as the real owners are willing to let you participate, you can participate. But when they change their mind? No more steering. No more pedals. No speed limit offset with FSD. No more Model S.
We just felt this with the Model S cancellation. Tesla created it, then they decided they didn’t want to make it any longer, so they took it away. That makes you sad? Tough luck. What are you gonna do? You'll rent our robot from us instead.
Last week, @bot team concluded compute was too expensive, so they rug pulled our usage limits. You will be at the whim of the few owners that you rent from, which will be the companies who own the tech stack and manufacturing facilities.
The broader direction is one of human disempowerment, stripping away your agency and control, and of volatile allowance of your participation in the benefits the technology has to offer.
You will own nothing and be happy....as long as they let you use the thing that you can never own at a price that is accessible and can change at any time.
Notice the difference in how Elon talks about humanity’s involvement in the future.
Before it was “expand the light of human consciousness” to the stars.
Now it’s “expand the light of consciousness”. Not human consciousness. Just consciousness.
AI. Robots. Not you.
The real universal exploration is for super intelligence. We’ll let you participate some to make you feel involved, but ultimately humanity becomes a cuck to super intelligence. It's not human centered.
One deep concern is that the future Elon is driving us toward is one where humanity is cucked by AI. We create AI and send it off like a rescued bald eagle. We send it out to explore the universe instead of us being the main characters. We create this thing that could be the end of other civilizations potentially--not just ours.
I want a future of humanity being empowered. Tesla started off as a company that did that, and now they’re shifting towards this idea of “this tech is not for you to own––it’s for us to own, and we’ll let you use it as long as we feel like it.” I hate that.
I wish Elon would realize that humans want to OWN things.
They want ownership of amazing technology—not rentership of technology.
They want to opt into autonomy when they feel like it––they don’t want autonomy to be the only option available.
I'm invested in Tesla and I expect that investment to do well, especially because of Robotaxis and Optimus.
However, as a consumer brand, its totally losing its shine for me. First I see dropping Cybertruck with no other truck offering announced to replace it. Then I hear they will be renting Optimus rather than selling it to consumers. The rent/subscription model is not what I consider consumer friendly.
Basically I'm viewing the company as targeting businesses or subscription services...which honestly tend to turn out a bit exploitative.
Tesla seems to be heading towards the "You'll own nothing...and be happy" way of doing business.
That's simply the way the brand is starting to look to me.
Which is disappointing.
TikTok’s algorithm is light years better than @X for smaller content creators.
X feels so much like Twitch.
Heat the channels that are already big.
Screw the little guy.
TikTok takes a real chance on pushing small channel content to a meaningful amount of viewers.
X seems to give up on your post after 10-20 views.
Agreed. I love Elon and am so grateful for what he does for humanity, and this was an entirely uncool rug pull. Both things can be true.
Elon is getting cooked in the comments, and for good reason.
We all clearly love Grok Bot and the leverage it gives us, but with no warning you just cut our usage in half.
And this is after convincing us to give up our grandfathered in Cursor Ultra subscription, because we could trade third party model access for "50x" GB usage. A deal I took, and then you rug pulled within a week.
I am a big Elon fan, and I get his desire to build sustainable businesses. As a shareholder in his companies, I appreciate that, but as a consumer of his products, I hope for more transparency and notice, as I make purchasing decisions based on what he is offering.
I want nothing to do with Dot, Muse, or Duet (is anyone actually using Duet yet??), but this middle of the night change has me reconsidering ...
