I’m sure Trump will charge him with terrorism.
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That whole Tumblr is golden.
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Wow, willing to run over strangers to defend the honor and profits of a billionaire sociopath who doesn’t even know or care he exists and would never in a million years lift a finger to help him in any way. That’s a whole new level of bootlicking.
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Probably not always, but they’re owned by Nexstar Media Group, the largest tv station owner in the US. Between them and Sinclair, they own over 80% of local tv stations in the country. When you see those compilation videos showing local tv news stories that are all identical? This is why. And yes, they’re both conservative, although Sinclair is worse.
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Even if Tesla did manage to bring their janky robots to market this year, it’s pretty hard to imagine how they’d make any money with them.
This Chinese company is already selling their robots to the public for about $16K, and they look a lot more capable than Tesla’s.
But of course “capability” is relative and it doesn’t seem likely to me that any of these humanoid robots will actually be doing useful tasks in the near future. Boston Dynamics has been selling their robot dogs to the public for about 6 years now and have yet to find anything better for them to do than walk around with a camera either as a security robot or as a way to check the status of remote infrastructure. Something that could be much better accomplished with a handful of cheap webcams.
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Right? That Kung Fu bot seems like little more than an expensive toy.
I mean, I can see some useful or even scary potential in that robot, but yeah, these videos are always like that for me: Wow, that looks like it could be scary. Some day. After like, 10 more generations of development.
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That looks like it could be scary, but not as scary as the gang of heavily armed men you could put together for 16000 dollars. 
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I mean the market for robots that are essentially just expensive toys is definitely real, just not especially large or profitable. For example if we could have a few of these things walking around some theme parks right now they’d probably be a fun draw. But the irony is that the very novelty of these is what would make them interesting, and as soon as they become a common sight they’ll no longer have any entertainment value. So mass producing these would put entertainment robots out of a job, and if that’s their main purpose then the economics make no sense.
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You want Westworld? Because this is how you get Westworld!
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Now that you mention it, if they built a HBO version of Westworld (especially the brothels) maybe there actually would be a prospect of making some money, at least during the brief period before the inevitable uprising. There’s no shortage of lonely, disturbed and violent men out there who would love the prospect role-playing as The Man in Black. Elon chief among them.
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Um, they don’t keep that shit in the realm of fantasy. They use such scenarios to figure out ways to hurt ACTUAL human beings. It’s not an outlet, it’s a training camp.
How about we just STOP teaching men to abuse women? Why is that such a difficult thing to do?
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To be clear I’m absolutely not suggesting that that’s a good idea.
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This kind of “solution” (ie let violent men have some fantasy outlet so they can “get it out of their system”) does not work. It merely reinforces their desire to hurt others, especially women. 
People REALLY need to stop offering it as some sort of solution to violent men and look the problem straight in the face. The problem is our society HATES us women and will do everything it can to hurt us. We work on the hard shit, because it’s the way to solve the problem.
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You really seem to think that I’m suggesting that there would be some upside to building Westworld. That is not at all what I meant. All I was trying to say is that it’s they type of thing that an evil company that’s run by a terrible, woman-hating person like Musk might try to do to make a profit. That is all.
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Pretty sure Elon musk has outright promised to make his cold palace on the moon out of sex robots in some tweaky late night xitstorm before.
Probably just trying to recreate Lolita island but more legally. For some people laws against child sex trafficking is just the icky government depressing a great economic opportunity. I think the robot slave-farm would never turn a major profit because the fetish is for a using other people’s real human children and you can’t scratch that itch without hurting something that really suffers and dies. That’s how you confirm your status in the hierarchy and the power it conveys.
But… these are the men my society already values over every human being I’ve ever known in life though and the real world is already their playpen.
Put bluntly… high tech sex toys and maids could never compete with the low cost of human life.
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Yeah, if what people want is a sex toy rather than a person, those already exist. I’m not sure that the toxic masculinity movement is even really interested in them.
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Since the toxic masculinity is basically by definition an identity movement built around the subjugation/negation of other humans there’s really no way it could sidestep this to do something else.
It would have to be some other kind of masculinity… some kind of mission to better the lives of men by recognizing their place and limitations realistically in a systemic whole…
but that would challenge totalitarianism as a valid means of leadership and we can’t have that!
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