Adam is an international treasure

12 points

This guy has like a billion videos that are just some variation of “Here’s a tech bro startup making a gadgetbahn and here’s why it wouldn’t work and trains are a thousand times better”. Great that it exists, but since these startups never learn from others’ mistakes and thus keep making the same missteps over and over and over again, it makes the videos very samey after a while. Not sure what I would do in his position.

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That’s not true, he also takes down libertarian seasteaders, and dictator vanity projects just as much. Also, it’s not his fault that trains are the superior form of transportation we know of.

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6 points

Yeah, I didn’t say he only makes those videos, just that he makes a lot of them

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I’ve tried basic research on the content of the tweet elon has shared in the video that apparently is Nazi Ideology, but the reactions are basic “women are not a resource one can stockpile” or assume way too much about my prior knowledge, like a graph of the US Population Ethnic Makeup. I have absolutely no idea what it all means due to the post being so doublespeak-ridden and the reactions stopping at the equal ethical value of all people. What country is this about? The USA, Palestine, Israel? Even if you assume that a country or culture or society can give away it’s women or such a large amount of land that anyone notices, you’d somehow also have to believe fabricated evidence of this happening, because it can’t actually happen. What does the “land” part even mean? Selling off an Agriculture Company to Chinese Investors? Do you see what I mean by Doublespeak-ridden? should i just, not care?

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10 points

are you lost?

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19 points

This sort of thing is so common that it even has a name: gadgetbahn.

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10 points

“Deep tech startup” == very good at digging deep in public infrastructure funds, presumably

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17 points

How deep inside your own ass do you have to be to propose MODERNISING THE ENTIRE RAILWAY NETWORK to be a viable solution to anything?

That’s a Polish company apparently. My fellow compatriots, you fucking know how rail operates in Poland. We bought high-speed trains that couldn’t go at any high speed because there weren’t any actual rails that would allow them to. Whenever there is even small maintenance work of a small tract of the network half of the fucking country is ground to a standstill. Honestly, building a whole new separate rail system for your invention would be a MORE REASONABLE proposition, it probably wouldn’t be much more expensive, and wouldn’t paralyse the existing network.

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12 points

This sounds like a great setup for an episode of “Well There’s Your Problem.”

Are these guys any relation to that “Newag” outfit that tried to brick a train after detecting a third-party repair?

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doesn’t seem so, but they do brag about their involvement in related startup “Hyper Poland” (it’s about hyperloop clone or something like that) and some of Musk’s business. CEO is a finbro manager, but they seem to have some actual engineers and some people that worked in railway industry in the past. deeply unserious overall

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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

[Especially don’t debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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