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Could be. Even if few of Musk's decisions make sense to me, he has proven a lot of people wrong in the past, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

The jury is out.



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You're right it might well be true.

Although Musk doesn't really always act rationally :p


Does this mean Musk was right?

Perhaps? But everyone I've spoken to have been pretty vocal about it, although more along the lines of "Musk is a tool"

Musk says lots of nonsense. I wouldn't believe him just because he says something.

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if that's true, but it's pretty risky just taking Musk's word for it.


I'm not sure why would anyone would trust what Musk says without independent confirmation...

It would honestly be better for Musk if it was. The man is clearly not stupid but he’s been drinking his own Kool-aid for far too long.

I don't really trust Musk on his word.

I think the point is that Musk has proven that he can't be fully trusted.

I'm just generally skeptical of Musk. He is great at putting out blog posts that people don't treat like the press releases they are.

People value trustworthiness, and Musk's track record with public statements about his businesses definitely isn't the best in that regard -- though that largely concerns the utopian predictions/promises he likes to make, I suppose. Maybe statements of his about the current state of affairs are more reliable.

He’s not the only one to float this possibility. It’s one of the more plausible explanations if you take the assumption that Musk was acting rationally with forethought.

Sadly, no—this is based on a relatively distant observation of various tweets and other statements by and about Musk over the course of the past few years.

They might well be.

However, Musk claiming something means very little at this point, and the onus is going to be on him to prove several things here given the fairly water tight nature of the contract.


Musk pushes the limits, but on this one I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. The FAA should come clean on what they are looking at.

Musk has said a lot of things that didn't ring true.

Or just a fraud like most of Musk's announcements.

There's a very well known case of Musk making the same claim multiple years in a row, with it being false every single time.

I prefer to assume the best out of people, but when someone is that obviously wrong that many times with that much personal gain to come from it, I can't believe that man as smart as he is would also be that misled.


You're probably right, which is why articles like this feel like gullible people believing Musk's incessant image-building.

I wouldn't take him at his word. Musk says a lot of shit in his tweets.
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