Kithani
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Warren is sounding pretty rough these days…
Bro, he was born in 1930.
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Warren is sounding pretty rough these days…
How does Tesla have 382 EV sales for April but didn't make your list?
So he’s a dinosaur. I’d question his financial insight at age 94..Bro, he was born in 1930.
Where I live Tesla was the hottest thing, now no leftie would ever buy one. All because of Elon. It’s like night and day. They are still one of the most common cars, but sales are dead. People forget, though, so maybe this is just temporary.Tesla sales in Netherlands in April: 382 vs 1457 same month last year. YTD down by about 55%
Most sold EVs for the month:
Considering the Model Y was the best selling car of any fuel source for several years, it's falling off hard. Some of it is probably also because of the Trump association (I see some bitching about that here too) but I doubt it's enough to explain the entire effect. Most of the Musk bashers probably weren't in a position to buy a new car anyway. I think Tesla's first mover advantage in the EV market is well and gone.
- Kia EV3 - 871
- Škoda Elroq - 843
- Volvo EX30 - 371
- Renault 5 - 368
- Ford Explorer EV - 304
Warren is sounding pretty rough these days…
I guess you missedBlazin 's reaction? EV car sales don't matter for what TSLA's up to in the future. They're a data/robotics company for the future.
This is my theory, but it's based on what I've read they're up to from various sources (they might have said this directly, I haven't looked it up): The EV market is basically saturated at this point, thus irrelevant to them as a going concern, at least compared to what I'm about to talk about.
TSLA is going to build shitloads of those Optimus robots. They'll make money off selling those for big $$$, and ALSO make money off of all the data those 'personal assistance' robots will have access to. Imagine Alexa that can also make you a sandwich. That means it knows what knives you have, forks, what brand of bread and mayo and mustard you have, and where it all is. What's stopping it from being able to do your finances for you? Tax info, personal accounting info, etc etc all need to be known to accomplish this task. Now imagine someone with access to mountains of this kind of data. Imagine someone who has the power to take away this 'assistant' that a lot of people will eventually come to depend on.
Now imagine that they have the computing power through AI LLM's to process and map all of this data in real time. Not model, but MAP. Suddenly things like market economies and geopolitics aren't probabilistic, but DETERMINISTIC. Meaning, instead of "if I do X, Y has a 80% chance of happening, but Z has a 10% and AA has 10% and, blah blah blah" it ends up being "if I do X, Y is guaranteed to happen". But only if you have access to this info and these systems.
How much would that be worth?
What if someone like Zuckerberg had access to this kind of data. Or Bill Gates with his Malthusian goals for humanity. Think Elon's above selling data like this to people that you might consider bad actors?
And that's not even taking into account what effects neuralink could have on something like this.
It's all scary shit IMO, but incredibly lucrative scary shit.
I guess you missedBlazin 's reaction? EV car sales don't matter for what TSLA's up to in the future. They're a data/robotics company for the future.
This is my theory, but it's based on what I've read they're up to from various sources (they might have said this directly, I haven't looked it up): The EV market is basically saturated at this point, thus irrelevant to them as a going concern, at least compared to what I'm about to talk about.
TSLA is going to build shitloads of those Optimus robots. They'll make money off selling those for big $$$, and ALSO make money off of all the data those 'personal assistance' robots will have access to. Imagine Alexa that can also make you a sandwich. That means it knows what knives you have, forks, what brand of bread and mayo and mustard you have, and where it all is. What's stopping it from being able to do your finances for you? Tax info, personal accounting info, etc etc all need to be known to accomplish this task. Now imagine someone with access to mountains of this kind of data. Imagine someone who has the power to take away this 'assistant' that a lot of people will eventually come to depend on.
Now imagine that they have the computing power through AI LLM's to process and map all of this data in real time. Not model, but MAP. Suddenly things like market economies and geopolitics aren't probabilistic, but DETERMINISTIC. Meaning, instead of "if I do X, Y has a 80% chance of happening, but Z has a 10% and AA has 10% and, blah blah blah" it ends up being "if I do X, Y is guaranteed to happen". But only if you have access to this info and these systems.
How much would that be worth?
What if someone like Zuckerberg had access to this kind of data. Or Bill Gates with his Malthusian goals for humanity. Think Elon's above selling data like this to people that you might consider bad actors?
And that's not even taking into account what effects neuralink could have on something like this.
It's all scary shit IMO, but incredibly lucrative scary shit.