Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla’s robot army. Yes, really.

This fucking idiot doesn’t realise he’s just an employee. Nobody gets to say this. Imagine if another Tesla employee said “I’m not working on any projects for Tesla unless you give me a trillion dollars.” He should be fired immediately. Stupid idiot conceited self obsessed man child.

>For his part, Musk has stated repeatedly that he wants this award not for money, but for more control over the company, because he “doesn’t feel comfortable” building AI unless he has more control over it (in keeping with this mentality, Musk started his own private AI company, xAI, to compete with Tesla, which is [likely illegal](https://electrek.co/2025/10/17/tesla-investing-in-xai-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/#h-the-ugly)). The richest man in the world, that stated he wants to be the world first trillionare, claims he wants a trillion, but not because the money, but because he want to control the humanoid robot built by his EV car manufacturer, OR ELSE he keeps working on the xAI company he created that competes directly with the car manufacturer that build robot that would need xAI software to run, and from which he is poaching talent and equipment. I can't even.

An army of robots, probably all connected via StarLink and "strongly influenced" by a psychotic billionaire? What could possibly go wrong

Musk is fantasising again...Was there supposed to be "legions" of them by now? Is there even one fully functional robot at the moment?

In this case, not much.  The aforementioned robots are nothing but vaporware. If they’re the ones leading the robot uprising, I think we’ll be safe.

Building 180,000 of these things before a single 1 can do anything particularly useful feels like the wrong strategy. But don't worry there's some storage next to all those cyber trucks!

The thing with tesla is they're not a weapons manufacturer and they can barely make a car. He's like a dumber version of Justin Hammer (the villain in iron man 2)

And that is how you negotiate yours salary! "I dont want more money, but it would be unfortunate if something would happen to..."

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Indeed. I have not seen them walking on grass, sand, rocks… always on smooth surfaces.

Your popcorn could be saltier

Simps will love this and buy more calls on margin.

"Only I can both cause and stop Skynet"

He’s almost got it

This is how capitalism eats itself. The oligarchs lose all touch with what is reasonable. These guys are begging the general population to reject capitalism and embrace any system that revokes wealth from the oligarchs.

he will be long dead any of this even materializes. man watches too many sci-fi movies. his retail investor cult is cringe at best for defending this guy lmao, he is clearly unhinged

He's a Bond villain from Wish. Give me a trillion dollars or my army of slow teleoperated robots will fall over!

As a country we all need to collectively ignore this imbeciIe who constantly makes impossible promises. People are also burning alive in his cars because they can't find the hidden door releases. We need to STOP FEEDING BAD PEOPLE WITH OUR ATTENTION.

This is the plot to iRobot. Or terminator 2. Were screwed. Nice knowing you guys

To protect the Galaxy right Elmo? RIGHT?

What stupid sci-fi is this? Why do we take this maniac seriously?

I remember when Enron started their Broadband division. They even had videos of their Cable technicians, with their service trucks, in neighborhoods, looking like they were actually working. It was all fake.

And almost always puppeted by humans remotely. Replacing humans with robots, run by other humans.

And he was supposed to be king of mars. Maybe he could send his remote-bots to mars to build a remotely operated colony.

There is a reason they didn't want to compete in the robot games in China

If Elon is running skynet we have nothing to fear. His threats are as empty as his engineering resume.

So...why not create shares with more voting rights? If you care about voting and not a trillion dollars.

I saw someone recently point out that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is that the rich tech guy actually listens to someone and tries to help.

The tens of thousands of unwanted Cybertrucks will make for convenient storage for the tens of thousands of unwanted robots they're about to produce.

Wall Street is nothing more than a pyramid scheme

Or the guy yelled at a Scientist " Tony Stark was Abe to build it in a cave with bunch of craps"

Well each CT has 5 seats, perhaps we could stuff a robot or two in the trunk. So 7 robots per CT with around an estimated 10,000 unsold so 70,000 robots before you need to find new storage space

It’s quite interesting watching a nepo midwit come to terms with the things he has realized. Almost like Slave driving a large number of engineers relentlessly with no regard for societal implications to build the things he sketched in his high school diary might not have been the smartest thing in the long run. Just a thought.

This is the one good thing about all this.. normal people won't be able to deny that capitalism is cancer

Someone should tell him to stop using ketamine so he wouldn't be saying stupid douchbag shit.

I love the fact that bipedal movement in a robot is about the worst possible way to configure a robot, but Elon is all in. Everyone seems to forget that Hyundai owns a majority of Boston Dynamics which is light years ahead of Tesla.

Things would be going spectacularly well for him if only he could keep his mouth shut

Every time I read non-sense like this, I always ask: Whats the alternative. Well? The truth is this is simply a failure of the medical community by actively ignoring serious cluster-b people from entering central political responsibilities

I think you mean he takes too many drugs

I don't have a clue what comes after late stage capitalism but that's what we are fighting for... This system is crumbling before our eyes, the billionaires are trying to take control of what comes next

Doesn't matter as long as stock go up.

I'll make sure to mention my robot army next time I negotiate my rates with clients.

Jeff Bridges, my favorite villain.

The vehicle division could then bill the robot division for storage, meaning the company would see an overall net increase in gross revenues. ...Given some usual Musk spin and Teslanomics this should result in a significant boost to share prices!

Late stage capitalism is not really what is happening. Consolidation of power/resources has happened many times before. When the populace is pressured enough it leads to uprising, demands of change which when granted starts a new era, and the elites resources are redistributed among the people. We are currently at the end of the democratic-market economy era which started around the french revolution. The elites has managed to subdue the people through subverting the democratic process, by promoting completely inept political leaders, trained to gaslight the people they are supposed to serve. Noone knows what comes after this but its possible and likely that it will be affected strongly by AI. Possibly some kind of implementation of planned economics based on AI? The elites wont let go of their power easily so… there will be blood.

It'll be like the shipping containers in I, Robot.

i'll do it for 900B

People would have noticed once his AI went more and more Nazi through clear prompt engineering/coercion.

ielon lol

So what ever happened to the robo taxi network that was going to take America by storm? We have already moved on from that as fast as the Cybertruck hype? Wow, I'm sensing a pattern here.

Dude should hitler his tone a bit down.

Elon’s robot army. Thwarted by a lawn.

“LEt mE iMpReGnAtE yOu”

>again...Was there supposed to be "legions" of them by now? They are manifold!

Hah. I forgot about that.

So what he's scared he won't be able to brainwash and manipulate thr robots like he does to humans?

Trillionaire

Rather than give Elon a trillion dollar pay package, can't Tesla just change their share structure and add a second category of shares just for him, with greater voting rights? Both Google and Facebook did this for their founders, Brin, Page and Zuckerberg. Zuck controls 58% of Meta's voting shares but only 14% of the economic interest. It's not great, but surely that is a better example than Musk's proposed package which when vested would significantly dilute the existing shareholders? It seems terrible corporate governance to award a pay deal equivalent to the GDP of Switzerland. Jensen Huang has overseen a much bigger shareholder value creation at NVIDIA. Should he get a $2 trillion pay deal?

Nobody wants this. It can go away.

So a Robot army that'll self destruct if Elon ever loses his supreme emperor status?

So if the trillionaire dollar pay goes through who sees a stock sell off?…..and will Elmo be the one buying up shares at a discount once it crashes hard?…. See it emerge from the ashes in ten years but he’ll have 51% by then

And the grifter continues to grift. Musk might be the biggest fraud ever. I've read that a lot of investors and shareholders weren't pleased with Musk's performance at this conference call. He was rambling about robots and AI, but not a word about a [37% drop](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/22/tesla-earnings-report-latest-drop-profits/) in profits for Tesla. If there are any Tesla shareholders and investors lurking... Tesla is a bubble that will burst some day. Musk is a fraud. He will lie and cheat and deceive to get more money, while not delivering on his promises. This is Musk's modus operandi, and he is not going to change. Because. He. Is. Not. A. Genius. He is a fraud.

Yeah, he always wants more money but never delivers anything useful or that doesnt kill its users. I hope non-darwinian individuals keep showering him with money and support.

I swear these guys watched sci-fi movies and took the opposite lessons away from it.

I know you are joking (as I was) but there is always the fear that this might actually happen

And the robots could double as security guards, I think we are onto something here

The Indian remote workforce licking their lips at all the jobs controlling the “autonomous” robot army

The billionaire who owned the company I was at when ENRON collapsed told me a month before “never trust Wall Street..they always lie”…….two weeks later ENRON went BOOM.

If your interview script doesn't include the phrase "incur my wrath" you're doing it wrong.

Time for the upgrade to RoboCentaurs!

No doubt with that 1 trillion, He'll build himself a robot body and stick his brain and it.... But then it will probably burn up, because he wound up using cheap Tesla batteries from a cyber truck...

What could go wrong?

Who the eff hears this and thinks Musk should have control of a robot army...

He is a megalomaniacal narcissist

Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king King ain't satisfied til he rules everything \- Bruce Springstein

And wannabe psychotic trillionaire.

Like iPhones, these things will get good around generation 3.

I'm surprised he hasn't at least been 5150'd a few times.

I never though there could be such a thing as a real life Bond villain but this is coming pretty close.

Til the batteries run down, which apparently doesn't take very long.

Why the fuck are we considering speed running Ted Faro?

Only on paper.

Elon Musk was in Iron Man 2. He played Elon Musk.

He sure has a grossly hyperinflated opinion of himself. He's out of touch with reality and should be committed.

Which is funny, because in a world with Tony Stark, Elon Musk would never have happened.

Just because his products don't work, doesn't mean they can't cause a lot of damage. FSD being a perfect example.

But you could probably point some strobe lights at them and they’d fight the shadows.

We need attention to point out the dangerous products he produces. People need to stop feeding him with money!

Get your ass to Mars!

He was effective when it came to stealing our data. Better to keep him away from opportunities to do harm.

Like the fake solar houses?

Capitalism when it's allowed to function will cause those who are out of touch to lose their wealth. Musk didn't earn his wealth though capitalism. He stole it using governmafia subsidies and outright fraud.

If ever there was someone who should NOT be in charge of a robot army, it’s Elon Musk.

So shareholders are supposed to pay him a trillion dollars so he can build his own private robot army. Got it. Makes sense. Realistic timeline we live in.

They are going to put ultra efficient solar panels capable of extracting energy even from lunar light. Elmo had the idea while floating in the sky the other day.

I think we should drop him and Peter Thiel on a remote island together and televise it.

\> Late stage capitalism is not really what is happening. Fascist cronyism is what is happening alongside bits of patronizing socialist concepts just to add more fuel to the fire.

Isn’t this robot army literally just a bunch of guys in spandex robot suits?

In order to make robotaxis there will need to be a true FSD. You know the one that will be ready next year?

$899B

We already have a Bond villain at home…

I called it. Tesla is in the discard phase.

As long as the parking surface is completely smooth

Poor compensation packages are one of the main reasons for the failings of so many large corporations and the enshittification that his taking place everywhere. Execs need to have a real incentive to do what is in the interest of investors rather than giving them a means to loot the company and parachute out. This means the top execs should all have their own skin in the game, and a sizable enough amount that the long term viability of the company is also their own.

I think the world would do some good to lock/send Elon away for a little bit as an experiment and see how well us companies thrive without him. So we can all put to rest the idea that he’s the one and only

Tesla has no investors. It has speculators, thus the bubble. It's the Bigger-Fool theory in action. I can't wait to see who gets stuck holding the bag.

He should volunteer to be the first guinea pig for Neuralink.

what could go wrong

Yeah. You’d think that the idea of someone saying they want to control an artificial intelligence robot army would be terrifying, but the good news is that it’s Elon Musk, so they will be perpetually “sometime next year”

"It's not like I'm going to spend the money, I just want it for influence and power." Yeah, we know that.

Well, his dreams sure changed over time, but if its one thing the guy excels in it is overpromising and underdelivering. Not too worried about robot army.

Its on par with decade old Robotaxi claims and defective FSD platform.

Just a side effect of the aforementioned imho. In a functional democracy, those ideologies wouldnt get any traction. Same happened last time. Before WW2

And it is incredibly sad that Tony stark was modeled party off elmo...must have gone to his head before the ketamine turned it to Swiss cheese. Same thing happened to my neighbor from high-school, the guy snorted a whole bag of K, got stuck in a K hole, and never fully came out.

If it's not about money then all they need to do is convert his shares to ones with more voting rights. That doesn't dilute the share pool while still giving him the control he wants. It's all about the money.

Democracy only leads to kleptocracy. Everyone voting for the one that promises to give them what they want for "free". Remember that Hitler was elected!

If the politicians dont belong to an industry, governemental branch, defence etc, but career politicians. Yes. Politicians should have a max duration, and have actual experience and *stake* in something. Career politicians are the reason it has turned out like this

Term limits do nothing to help. They only encourage them to loot as much as possible while they can. Mexico being a perfect example. The system fails because the voters are too greedy and/or incompetent, and believe the false promises.

So his primary concern is control of robot army, and we are to believe his very next priority was waste, fraud and abuse in the American government?

I will eat a pound of shit if Tesla deploys a robot with general intelligence that I can use to automate home chores. I cannot fucking BELIEVE that anyone takes him seriously.

He's learned from his mistake: see OpenAI. Even PayPal experience

By his compensation plan, Meta and Nvidia should compensate their CEOs with 200B each first, since they did such a great job. And yet neither asked for it, same for Apple CEO, he basically propelled Apple to 3~4 Trillion and got like 1 Billion only. Only Elon Musk has such ludicrous reasonings to justify his compensation 🙃

Did this seriously just occur to him now? Has he not seen terminator? Any of them?

What if they’re like Boston dynamics?

Lol robot army threats are some classic super villain shit. I hate this timeline but at least it's interesting.

They want all the .benefits from Capitalism and none of the rules.

I guess they're going to replace the military with Robots because they don't have the ability to say "no".

If it about the control, not money, why does Musk keep selling his shares and asking for more? Like bro you had a higher percentage till you sold it to buy twitter, tunnels, spaceships etc. It is in fact, about the money

Can’t they give him special shares with more voting power instead of a trillion dollars?

I just saw this covered on CNBC this morning and Jim Cramer literally can’t stop singing Musk’s praises. What world are these people living in where a guy like Musk, says I want to have significant influence over this robot army I’m building, so pay me more, and the financial news just glazes the f*** out of him for being some revolutionary genius. There are red flags all over the place and everyone is just like, “MoNEy gOoD”.

For now fsd needs to be monitored so it will be done by optimus robots

He did happen. He was in Iron Man 2. He played Elon Musk.

He already owned $100B plus of shares and his last award (going through the courts) was $56B. How much more financial incentive does he need? A trillion dollars will dwarf any other CEO pay award in history.

In other news, is there a way to invest in the S&P500 and somehow exclude Tesla? It really concerns me how poorly this company is run and I don’t buy into all the things they tout as opening up huge markets going forward (robots and full self driving may happen at some point, but not from Tesla). I also worry that their financial reporting is unreliable; the amount of pressure on the finance and accounting depts to publish good numbers is probably astronomical…

Maybe you get a free robot family with every CyberTruck purchase?

That was the most bonkers earnings call I have ever heard. So embarrassing, so awful. Self-contradictory and inconsistent. The whole robot army thing, seriously. (wildly pathetic and cringe) The psychology of the faithful is a case study for the future!!

Agreed. And no one ever follows up asking him about that whenever he says "it's about control"

While he talks, [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/BGMStock/comments/1oe0fwv/robots_gathered_at_the_iros_2025_robot_conference/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

My completely unsubstantiated basically made up theory is that he put neurallink in himself and it wasn't ready for prime time

You mean live action Tony right?

The fact these assholes get into politics still baffles me. They could spend the rest of their life in Hawaii surrounded by supermodels but they would rather steal even more money they won’t even be able to spend from people less fortunate.

Marshal Elon, What the hell is even Robot "ARMY" ? Whom are we invading now ?

Robo trump

Paypal ousted the Musk because the Musk wanted to rename paypal into X. History has proven Paypal was right to oust the Musk.

Power is the ultimate goal. Got it. He really is an evil person.

World’s richest man doesn’t think he has enough money 😂

Exactly! Well said.

But he needs to produce.

Al Pacino Scarface first you get the money then you get the power

Yes give the billionaire who want to be a trillionaire more money and more power. Sounds like a fantastic idea.

Obadiah Stane The Iron Monger.

Sounds like a ransom note.

BOD is in his pocket. The equity research guys work for the banks and aren’t going to call him out on his bullshit. The only investors allowed to ask questions in calls is very friendly shareholders (Cathy Wood/ARK etc). There is no Indipendent corporate governance here at all.

Hmmm, wonder if this is a sign to reconsider investing self-storage units like was popular a while ago.

Go build your robot army at another company - you’ll still keep your Tesla shares and keep being the CEO, if you want. You’re doing this for other companies, so why not?

They are working on the software and a simple over the air update will fix everything.

Lmfao! That’s the perfect comparison I’ve never thought of 😂😂😂😂

Correct and he’s been more than fairly compensated for his half finished project. Now he needs to get it together if he wants to be paid for the work. Would you pay me to paint half your house then pay me more when I say “ well I can finish the work but I need more motivation “

PayPal was going to do to Banking what Tesla did to legacy auto. PayPal ended up being a shell of what could have been...

This reads like the ascending villain of Star Wars speaking to the Galactic Senate, while we all envision the outcome as Spaceballs.

If he wants a robot army, he can just spend the trillion making a second Fox News.

Lmao. Justin Hammer has me 💀 😂

Trillionaire, psychotic trillionaire.

He NEEDS ROBOTS because a REAL army would commit mutiny and put him against a wall.  Possibly a corner. With a dunce hat 🥳

I may be but I think it has to do with just the voting rights/power from the shares not necessarily the money value that he’s looking for but again I could be wrong

Standing on giant's shoulders

Better plan: Don't give him more money and don't make a robot army.

It's shocking how many people believe he doesn't care about money

The great thing about the share vote is that no matter which way it goes, the stock is going to tank. Proxy battles cause stocks to stay very artificially high, because shorts get called in to make sure those shares can be voted. If your shares are lent out, you can't vote them. I'll be loading puts right before the vote.

who couldn't teach a robot to polish Tony Stark's shoes

"Elon Musk is Tonie Schmuck in 'Revengers! The Rise of SkyNet vs. Syndrome'. Also staring Donald J. Trump as President Al Wayznazz. Rated X for immature audiences (because, after all, this entire "thing" is obscene and offensive as fuck). Coming soon to some new streaming platform you have never heard of but will charge you $35 per month near year and will only raise it's rates three times per year."

he can't even reproduce without tech.

True. He crooked liar.

Temunators

No worries, stock goes up!

Can't they just convert Cyber Trucks into Robots? Anyone say Transformers!!

He made an argument against the free market. I am sure of course that the American right will be up in arms! Please

nope just jeff bridges.

my completely unsubstantiated conspiracey theory is that he was cloned in China and they killed the real elon musk by firing him into space in the roadster.

Tony Stark is not modelled off Elon. The comic books have existed long before Elon became who he is.

The arrogance is real! The Board should diminish his power, not increase it. He could leave and the company would be much better off.

Bro said robot army about 15 times. How ppl still take him/tesla seriously is beyond me

Lotta words to say “if we pay the CEOs more…the products will get better” Wow. You really think that? Can we tax them less while we are at it so they will create more jobs?

Really is the Silicon Valley way these days: blow the cash to invent it and chase down PMF later.

You got it the other way around. Those tech bros model comics characters

Apparently you can't read. I did not saying paying them more will improve things. I said they need to have a stake of their own, meaning put their own money into the company so their interests don't conflict with investors. The problem today is execs are not incentivized to plan beyond the next income statement or their next bonus target.

Yes that is who the actor was he was playing The Iron Monger.

I mean, money is just voting rights with better transferability. Is it really “dilution” if the requirement for payout is a 10x increase in shareholder value? If, as you say, it’s all about the money anyway?

He wasn't playing a character. That was just jeff bridges.

He's not, though. He's the bubble machine.

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Model 3 is double the price of a Ford focus. What are you on

Why do people keep pretending like Optimus is a thing? It hasn't demonstrated an ability to do anything but shuffle awkwardly around and perform a pre-scripted, awkward dance routine. I await a single use case for one of these things that makes it more economical than using a human.

This, exactly. Can't say that enough. Can we stop pretending that Optimus is actually a thing? It doesn't do anything but perform jerky animatronics.

Nah… RoboCop will finish him!!

Hey, that sounds just like the "Robotaxi". It's a taxi, but with lots of extra steps and much more danger!

They did just sell a bunch of Cyber Garbage Trucks to SpaceX, so this tracks.

Perhaps you ment Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, cartoonishly evil and inept. The inability to see himself in any realistic maner, more wrapped up in delusions than anything meaningful.

This is a real problem. He's shown he can't be trusted with a robot army. Or a trillion dollars.

You could do it by adding a small percentage of TSLS to your portfolio in addition to having VOO. I think you could set up an equation to see what percentage of your portfolio should be VOO and what percentage should be TSLS. You want the percentage of TSLS to match the percentage of Tesla in your overall portfolio.  If you are 1x shorting Tesla and 1x longing Tesla with the same percentage of your portfolio, it's the equivalent of holding cash. Your new portfolio wouldn't be fully invested which is a downside.

Musk is part of the elites. And you would go with an unstable, lying Nazi saluting man boy?

Your first mistake is paying any attention to Jim Cramer. Guy called Nvidia a sell in 2021

They're being shipped via Hyperloop.

He’s clearly bluffing. If he were actually capable of building a giant army of sentient robots he controls, he could leverage it to grab all the money he wants afterwards, and would not have to be paid upfront.

Not just before Elon was who he is, nearly a decade before he was even born.

No notes, sounds reasonable. Let’s get it done… (/s for damn sure).

when will the results to this vote be released?

Tesla makes lots of cars, if you really think they can't build a robot that can deliberately kill you I think you may be unpleasantly surprised in the future. Musk is not as much of an idiot as you think he is. He has some severe issues, both morally and in terms of competence, but he also is very competent at a lot of things.

Not a weapons manufacturer yet.

This is really shortsighted, I would definitely file this in "first they laugh at you..." for Musk. Putin laughed at Musk when he asked them to buy a rocket, now Musk is putting Putin's rocket sales out of business. Maybe that's in spite of Musk, but if so Musk seems very good at getting things built in spite of his poor leadership.

Who wants a Nazi robot?

Hey Tesla boardmembers, I can do it for $10mil.

What a complete farce of a man and company.

When did they move on from it? They're advertising for robotaxi jobs in 15 different cities all over the US to expand the service to new cities, you can look for yourself on their website. [Tesla Careers](https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/?site=US&query=Vehicle%20Operator)

Xai will be purchased by Tesla fyi. Mark the post and refer back to it.

Hyundai has real robots that actually work, and have for years, but they get no valuation kick from it. (Boston Dynamics).

The circular economy has arrived

To me it is clear since he flipped that starlink, robot and his ugly truck will be used in conjunction for bad things.

To me it is clear since he flipped that starlink, robot and his ugly truck will be used in conjunction for bad things.

#eatadick

Frankly, a person who significantly helped put the current president of the USA in office, and aimed to boost a pretty objectionable party in Germany, thinks 3C is an acceptable level of global warming, and pointed Doge in all the wrong directions while staffing it with what are reportedly irresponsible tweenagers. Yeah, I want the robots, rockets, and EVs, but he should _not_ have authority over a very real turn-key zombie army. Fuck that noise.

Tesla - the BlackBerry of EVs

Well if he doesn’t win He can stop the Optimus project elsewhere? They keep saying no place on earth has the production readiness to bring it mainstream, don’t sound like a lot of leverage except for cancelling the Optimus project as a threat

And in other stories that didn't happen....

China has surpassed all of Elon's products and offers them much cheaper.

But there were other non china robotics firms

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He’s not building a robot army, he’s building a valuation moat. The more absurd the vision sounds, the harder it is for competitors to play in the same psychological space.

Do you remember the interview where he mentions the quote that "you're not really rich unless you can afford an army"? It's really nagging on him that he's still broke after all his hard work, so he needs this robot army asap.

They can't compete with China either.

Musk’s framing is always psychological first, financial second. He knows if he makes the *price of belief* high enough, only true believers will stay in the game, and that concentration of conviction becomes its own moat.

Not on price, but there are some very good robotics labs

He's not dumb. We as a society enabling someone like him, are.

Why doesn’t he just go ahead and name his companies Skynet and cyberdyne systems?

They can't compete technologically either. It's just most people don't really know what China can do nowadays.

Today in Darth ketamine Musk

New grift

“What happens in a mental home? Each patient is assigned a medical team that works with them daily to provide counseling, medication and other services to help stabilize their condition.” I’m being serious. Musk is on a path to either getting checked into a celeb rehab clinic or a mental hospital imo. A megalomaniac on drugs as the CEO of a major public company, market cap well above $1 TRILLION? With ties to the US military and classified defence info (via SpaceX, Starlink etc.). What could go wrong?

How do the robots need to control Elon?

SpaceX was used for filming the scenes at Hammer Industries, so you're not far off

oh no it's too real

Though Hyundai just bought Boston Dynamics due to internal corruption and money laundering.

It seems as if we need to know what is fair... which capitalism denies any such "ethics" as being "authoritarian".

Ketamine is one hell of a drug.

Yeah I mean does anyone remember Hyperloop? It seems as if Elon just comes up with something that sounds vaguely futuristic, creates hype to get a bunch of investments and subsidies.

Why would you make this deal with someone who already sold out your company to a competitor that they owned? Also, Nazi saluting Musk is the last person I want in control of a robot army.

It sounds like he wants to create/build a weapon (think smith & wesson pistols), AND he wants to be a general. Seems like it's usually one or the other.

But…but… he cannot sleep and depending on Ketamine to sleep. We all know ketamine can cause hallucinogenic effects… how can we trust someone using Ketamine chronically with an army of Robots?!

Jim has always been a hack.

And being able to leverage those shares for loans he will never repay...

He can use his own money.  Problem solved. You're welcome.

I’d say Hammer in the MCU is a better fit as the character has a desperate need to be liked by the public.

He is fried.

If superintelligent AGI is even possible, how does he propose to control an AGI connected to every car plus an army of robots?

Would be an interesting concept but I think they have to have a monetary value otherwise that invalidates the concept of publicly owned company

Maybe an approach is number of appointed chairmen. But again Musk has antagonized enough people he can only trust himself in the long run

Barely an hour if it's actually doing anything like lifting moderately heavy boxes

They kind of work but still have no real world use. Those shows they do are rehearsed and choreographed step by step.

In the video of Felon's big show in Austin, I think they were shutting down about 45 min. into the presentation. That had to be really embarassing. It's pretty clear they weren't autonomous.

They are useless for any practical purpose, and that goes for all humanoid 'robots' (none of them are really robots).

Don't forget that the robots will have batteries. So they will claim they can be used for utility scale grid storage..

I was thinking he watched the new Superman movie and was wanting to be the real world lex luthor.

I think perhaps he's watched I, Robot a few too many times hopped up on ketamine.

One billion dollars!!!

Seems that they themselves don't even trust AI but expect the rest us us to greenlight all this?

Why is he begging for a welfare check? He is not in need of food, medicine or assistance. I think, if he is so good at business he can borrow against his assets. There are many banks that will finance his business plans.

Don’t forget that he will control them with his brain implant.

Safe for how long? He doesn’t need to invent the robots himself. He can just clone the good ideas from other companies as he did with Grok.

He’s probably modeled more after Howard Hughes prior to him becoming a recluse

What could possibly go wrong?

I mean Tesla just sold a shitload of cybertrucks.... To SpaceX and xAI

Now I have the image of clown car cyber truck filled with robot riding around

I will never buy or use anything associated with Leon Mush.

Do his robots even work? Man lives in his dreams and just fooling investors

Ketamine is a helluva drug.

Now that you mentioned it, I think I don't want him anywhere...

Robot family *army* controlled by Elon Musk

It's all find unless the red lights go on

After lawsuits for the accidental deaths have been packed away

“An army of robots, probably all connected via StarLink and "strongly influenced" by a psychotic billionaire? ” The next James Bond movie script just wrote itself. Boom. Done. Congratulations ;)

Mr Burns' Flying Monkeys

Maybe not next to, but inside? That way, his previous mass production failure has a use.

I loved the dig at Elon when he told Tony he had plans for an electric jet and Tony said send them to me, we’ll make it work.

I don't think he actually wants the package. I think he's starting to realize he's in way over his head and wants an out. He's lost much of his image towards potential future buyers over the last years. Not only is he politically toxic (*Fascism isn't THAT popular*) to many his previously carefully maintained facade of competence is quickly fading (*multiple failures like the Cybertuck, Grok, X, etc.*) If he leaves Tesla because the board voted against the (*by all accounts ridiculous*) pay bump he asks, he can claim he was "ousted". That way he can perhaps maintain some of the "great (*but now thwarted*) man of history" illusion that could perhaps have been his legacy and isn't there when the Tesla bubble comes crashing down. He could even start a rival company which can, should he fail once more, blame Tesla for him "having to start over" This is just conjecture of course, but it wouldn't suprise me in the least.

Greed - one of the deadly sins! More money than sense!

We have given all the wealth in society to an increasingly unhinged group of actual cultists we are so fucking screwed as a species istg.

All it took was a few minutes for me to understand this sub reddit is Democrat bullshit just hating on anything elon does because he's not on your "Team" anymore lol fuckin pig losers. I thought i'd get some genuine information not propaganda hate farm

He's EXACTLY Ted Farro, the villain in Horizon Zero Dawn, who wiped out all life on earth with a robot AI army.