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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don’t try to rationalise it, it’s CEO speak :

He’s not making a comparison to Hitchhikers, he’s trying to attract attention.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think this would be a safe bet with 99% of tech ceos. but in the tech won't save us series on musk there's an audio clip of him talking about hitchhiker's. and it seems pretty clear that

1 he did read it

2 he does admire it and think of it as informing his goals

3 his understanding of the book is that it's haha funny but on a deeper level it's saying we should do things like build giant planet sized computers. also something about weed

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i mean he clearly read the Culture books too but somehow compared himself to the Minds and not to Joiler Veppers

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

The culture is when cool sex and ships with funny names. Ignore all the communism

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the kind of car that Hitchhiker would drive

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard he jumps in, shouts "Hitchhike!" out the window, and drives away at top speed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think Hitchhiker is a pretty cool guy. Eh hitchhikes and doesn’t afraid of anything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My favorite part was when he said "it's hitchhiking time" and totally hitchhiked all around the galaxy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There I go again, assuming when people speak it has meaning rather than just being distracting sounds that come out of a hole in their face.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

That’s you making the mistake of applying good faith

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's pretty much how I see anything that falls out of elons coke-nosel neighbor