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bunderbunder • yesterday at 8:06 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

All of those are debatable at best from a business perspective.

Neuralink is still in clinical trials. So it hasn’t actually been delivered yet, and there’s no actual guarantee that it will be.

From a certain perspective, SpaceX’s launch business was an effort to create an airline in space. And that’s exactly what they did, profit margins and all.

Starlink is looking good right now, but its profits seem to be heavily propped up by crony capitalism, a system that the US electorate arguably voted against in a big way earlier this week. Plus, their up-and-coming competition was recently handed a gift beyond their wildest dreams, courtesy of Elon Musk, in the form of a clear demonstration that dependence on SpaceX is a major strategic liability.

The AI bit, well… yeah.

Tesla has had some past greatness, but, as I mentioned above, all of their recent misfortune is wholly or partially the fault of its own CEO. Worse, many of the minds more directly behind past successes have left the company. Investment is about future prospects, not past glory.

Boring Company’s greatest commercial success thus far is the Las Vegas loop. That’s all that needs to be said about that.


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brightball • yesterday at 10:35 PM

Neuralink

Speech Restoration - https://x.com/neuralink/status/2100342084011978896

Controlling a Power Wheelchair - https://x.com/neuralink/status/2080405463649100114

Playing Games - https://x.com/neuralink/status/2057943187746849002

Using a computer & drawing a signature - https://x.com/neuralink/status/2057222230807830948

Painting with a Robotic Arm - https://x.com/neuralink/status/2055351348728668340

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scottyah • yesterday at 8:40 PM

Hah, and what, pray tell, has bunderbunder done to so casually dismiss the thousands of engineers pushing the boundaries of physics in almost every single one of those companies?

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