Your argument is that Elon isn't grandiose enough with his statements and timelines?

We tried to scale "University". Turns out it doesn't scale well.

That's not quite true, what they can measure with the "tap on tap off devices" is people's movement patterns (point to point). That is valuable data that you can't really get just by counting people on and off or taking cash.

That's individualized tracking. You're describing the reason not to do that, and most of the digital payments systems have the same defect.

This is a problem that needs to be solved. I guess we should have solved it before the regulators got involved, alas, here we are.

The debate stage is a deliberately constrained environment. The world and where it goes doesn't work like that.

Summary: "Users get to decide if they trust Apple. Users shouldn't get to decide if they trust anyone else."

People who take disgruntled actions are definitely the kind of people you want working for you.

Name the values.

two days later, and crickets, of course.

Well working? Estimated FY 2025 deficit is $1.9 trillion. If they had stopped ALL defense spending they would still lose over $1 trillion dollars in FY25.

Makes sense that the kind of people who would flip to espionage against their country are the exact kind of people you'd want to keep employed by your government.