> Have you seen him tweet that he was in a deal to take Tesla private?
Except he was. Have you seen the leaked tweets between him and the Saudis? He had verbal guarantees of funding and he trusted them at their word. That goes back to him being truthful, he doesn't have much ability to spot people lying to him and takes great offense at it when he finds out he was lied to.
> Have you seen his Solar Tiles marketing stunt, where he was claiming all of the houses around him had functioning solar tiles, when instead they were pure props?
It's not a marketing stunt. My friend works on them and Tesla sells them.
> Have you seen him sell FSD with a promise that it will work in 1 year, and that it will literally pay for itself by letting your car be an autonomous taxi while you are at work?
That's him being honest of his own thoughts on the matter. He keeps thinking that they're close to it being complete but then the improvement rate plateaus. He's commented as such in in interviews when asked about the repeated 1 year time periods. And the autonomous taxi is still the plan. That hasn't changed.
> Have you seen him claim the Tesla Cybertruck will be available for pre-orders next year?
Because events in the business changed. What their plans are at one point in time doesn't mean that what they say will happen.
> Have you seen him claim he is backing out of this Twitter deal because of the many bots on Twitter, when he was previously claiming that he is buying Twitter to fix the bot problem?
Except he wasn't saying he was buying Twitter to fix the bot problem. That was never the plan at all. A lot of you people have ridiculous recency bias where you completely forget the events of even a few months ago. I've seen several people in this thread state this assuredly when only a couple weeks ago we were all talking about him buying Twitter to create a internet public town square and how it was about not banning people for what they say (and people claiming how horrible this idea was), but now suddenly that's all gone and its about bots. Elon is more trustworthy than most of the posters on hacker news and reddit as at least he's consistent.
> There are instances where he might have indeed believed the ridiculous promises he was making, but he has a long history of directly lying to consumers and investors to get his way or manipulate stock (or crypto) prices.
He has a long history of making crazy predictions, and fulfilling some of them while others completely flop. A lot of people doubted that Tesla would reach 500,000 vehicles per year production rate, and yet they have, almost exactly when they planned to. Growing at a rate faster than any automotive company has grown in history. A lot of people doubted that SpaceX could re-use rockets and now they land rockets multiple times per month and re-fly them within only 2-3 weeks. A few weeks ago they launched 3 rockets (that were all being re-used) in the span of 36 hours.
(Oh and the whole supposed crypto pump and dump is a myth given that he's never come around and stopped supporting it. He's never manipulated stock prices/crypto for personal gain.)
People ignore all the promises he's fulfilled and focus on the promises that either haven't come true yet or the promises that were discarded for a better idea. The general public on the internet is incredibly disingenuous about Elon and it drives me to frustration all the time. It seems to be largely an internet problem as most people I know IRL are either neutral on him (don't really care) or like what he's done.
Except he was. Have you seen the leaked tweets between him and the Saudis? He had verbal guarantees of funding and he trusted them at their word. That goes back to him being truthful, he doesn't have much ability to spot people lying to him and takes great offense at it when he finds out he was lied to.
> Have you seen his Solar Tiles marketing stunt, where he was claiming all of the houses around him had functioning solar tiles, when instead they were pure props?
It's not a marketing stunt. My friend works on them and Tesla sells them.
> Have you seen him sell FSD with a promise that it will work in 1 year, and that it will literally pay for itself by letting your car be an autonomous taxi while you are at work?
That's him being honest of his own thoughts on the matter. He keeps thinking that they're close to it being complete but then the improvement rate plateaus. He's commented as such in in interviews when asked about the repeated 1 year time periods. And the autonomous taxi is still the plan. That hasn't changed.
> Have you seen him claim the Tesla Cybertruck will be available for pre-orders next year?
Because events in the business changed. What their plans are at one point in time doesn't mean that what they say will happen.
> Have you seen him claim he is backing out of this Twitter deal because of the many bots on Twitter, when he was previously claiming that he is buying Twitter to fix the bot problem?
Except he wasn't saying he was buying Twitter to fix the bot problem. That was never the plan at all. A lot of you people have ridiculous recency bias where you completely forget the events of even a few months ago. I've seen several people in this thread state this assuredly when only a couple weeks ago we were all talking about him buying Twitter to create a internet public town square and how it was about not banning people for what they say (and people claiming how horrible this idea was), but now suddenly that's all gone and its about bots. Elon is more trustworthy than most of the posters on hacker news and reddit as at least he's consistent.
> There are instances where he might have indeed believed the ridiculous promises he was making, but he has a long history of directly lying to consumers and investors to get his way or manipulate stock (or crypto) prices.
He has a long history of making crazy predictions, and fulfilling some of them while others completely flop. A lot of people doubted that Tesla would reach 500,000 vehicles per year production rate, and yet they have, almost exactly when they planned to. Growing at a rate faster than any automotive company has grown in history. A lot of people doubted that SpaceX could re-use rockets and now they land rockets multiple times per month and re-fly them within only 2-3 weeks. A few weeks ago they launched 3 rockets (that were all being re-used) in the span of 36 hours.
(Oh and the whole supposed crypto pump and dump is a myth given that he's never come around and stopped supporting it. He's never manipulated stock prices/crypto for personal gain.)
People ignore all the promises he's fulfilled and focus on the promises that either haven't come true yet or the promises that were discarded for a better idea. The general public on the internet is incredibly disingenuous about Elon and it drives me to frustration all the time. It seems to be largely an internet problem as most people I know IRL are either neutral on him (don't really care) or like what he's done.