Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School? The man is responsible for taking away life saving medication from over 20 million people in the last few weeks. Why does Y Combinator demean itself to the point of associating with this person? |
Being an individual - you're free to boycott this site, donate 25% of your income to anti-Musk Democrats, take a job with a competitor to Tesla or SpaceX, and otherwise demonstrate your commitment to a far stricter moral code.
Not needs to, chooses to do so. If the entire business world decided to shutout these sorts of people they would cease to have any influence, power, or wealth, improving the quality of life for the entire human race.
As as society we've been putting wealth, greed, and power above all else for a very long time, and this is the end result. We can do better, if we simply choose to.
And this is on top of the abominably illegal and anti-competitive training on private government data that DOGE is (likely) doing as we speak. The future of AI is in the worst hands imaginable and YC is cheering it on. Despicable.
I hope there's a protest. If he's there in person, I will be more than happy to make him and his kind feel vehemently unwelcome in my city.
One can recognize someone's accomplishment in one domain even if it means they suck in another, even if they're a jerk.
Jobs is one such example. Another would be Bach. Newton, Nikola Tesla, John Lennon, William Golding, Winston Churchill, Einstein, Darwin, Edison, Prince, Henry Ford, Marie Curie, Schrödinger, Picasso, Marconi, etc. all come to mind as being despicable in some (or more) dimensions even though they were geniuses in others and moving humanity forward.