Einstein, Buddha, and Elon Musk on Chess as a Waste of Time

Everything is a waste of time.

“Elon Musk, the visionary polymath behind SpaceX and Tesla, never ceases to amaze with his insights”

HAHAHA!! Now THAT’S funny!

Well, I understand your perspective, but let's consider this: Elon Musk is not just a business magnate, he's a visionary who's pushing the boundaries of what's possible in technology and space exploration. His work with SpaceX and Tesla has revolutionized their respective industries. He's a modern-day pioneer, much like Einstein was.

As for the spiritual aspect, Musk's vision for a sustainable future and multi-planetary life can be seen as a kind of spiritual leadership. He's inspiring people to look beyond their immediate circumstances and consider the future of humanity as a whole. In a way, isn't that what Buddha did too, inspiring people to look beyond their immediate desires and consider the larger picture of life and suffering?

So, in my humble opinion, one might argue that Elon Musk is the Einstein AND Buddha of our time, combining groundbreaking innovation with a vision for a better future. But that's just my take, what do you think?

Intelligence is no match for wisdom.

Life is merely an illusion, samsara, a cycle of birth and death…..suffering.

The Buddha discovered a way out of this conditioned existence.

“Dhp Vlll… You can beat a thousand men in a thousand battles, but the true conqueror is the person who conquers himself.”

No, not the end. A white man then talked about it. And then yet another ...

It's demanding a rematch

Without a doubt, Einstein and the Buddha found greater meaning to life than Chess. We should have the greatest admiration for anyone who choses to devote their lives to the existential questions.

Adding Elon Musk to that list is laughable.

It's also worth noting that Chess didn't exist at the time of the Buddha.

Not only Musk is in my opinion illegitimate to talk about this, but also what he says is just bullshit literally

He's not a pioneer at all. He's a rich kid who used to walk around with gems in his pocket because his dad owned a blood mine in South Africa. Everything about him is paid for because he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. He's not very smart, or creative, or inventive. But he does hire people who are smart and creative... And then he takes credit for their work and innovation, as all rich people do.

Not only is Elon Musk not a genius, he's not even intelligent.

But he's still smarter than the people who think he's smart, that's for sure.

It's also worth noting something truly pathetic: That Elon Musk has a number of people on his pay roll whose sole job it is to go around on the internet and praise him. Whether it's Chess.com, Reddit, Youtube, or Yahoo, or other places... He has people on his pay roll to praise him. Yes there are people who are actually paid money by him to go around and do this all day.

And it looks as if some of those people might even be here.

This game chess is horrible and great at the same time and the more I play the more I hate it and love it the same. I study but never get better just worse to be honest. I really do get worse. Spend hours of time wasting my life away on a game and can not stop making beginners blunders In almost every game. Chess will never achieve anything for me except for a false sense of some imaginary achievement that is only temporary. It is a rare few who can make a living playing chess so why invest hours into some game? I’m truly addicted to chess and truly love and absolutely hate this game at the same time. There really is some logic in Chess being a waste. When I play music I never hate it , it all total bliss and enjoyment. Chess on the other hand ughh it can be both worlds.

This whole post is really fishy, because THE BUDDHA NEVER SAID CHESS WAS A WASTE OF TIME.

THE BUDDHA IS OLDER THAN CHESS.

HE DIED BEFORE THE GAME EXISTED.

I'M CALLING B.S. ON THIS WHOLE THREAD

And I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of Elon Musk's PAID CRONIES who made this thread just to put Muskies name next to Einstein. Because yes, Elon Musk DOES pay people to do this.

The difference is, Einstein actually had a BRAIN.

Elon Musk has catalyzed world-changing progress in multiple industries through ambitious vision, technological innovation, and complex problem-solving in a way that demonstrates brilliance. His companies have literally transformed transportation, energy, and space access, accelerating humanity's transition to sustainable energy and transportation, renewing interest in space travel, and advancing science and engineering along the way. That kind of transformative progress and inspiration would not be possible without the intellectual brilliance and creativity to conceive of and then achieve what others think impossible. Like it or not, that is the hallmark of the greatest genius.

Like Buddha, Elon sees humanity's present trajectory as misaligned with a better future, in this case, one threatened by climate change and finite resources. Also like Buddha, Elon proposes a vision of a better way centered around sustainable energy, transportation, and even establishing life on other planets as a safeguard. His bold and idealistic companies aim to accelerate us toward that enlightened future. And similar to Buddha's Fourth Noble Truth which illuminates the Eightfold Path, Elon provides a kind of roadmap toward a bright future through technologies like electric cars, solar energy, hyperloops, and Mars colonies. In this sense, Elon's vision and path to a sustainable future parallels Buddhism's vision and path to enlightenment. They are both guides toward escaping a kind of peril through noble ideals and prescriptive action. Like any enlightened figure, Elon's message is thrilling yet disruptive, and challenges us to sacrifice and rethink our ways. Overall it's hard to think of a business leader today articulating a vision for humanity's future as aspirational or morally transformational as Musk's...

Well, DUH. All successful people pay, one way or another, to promote themselves. And the more successful they become; the more other people promote them.

I also noticed something truly pathetic today, water is wet.

Elon Musk has very bad opinions on a wide variety of topics, none of which anyone should ever take seriously. He pretty much never gets anything correct, and got his wealth mostly by accident. He hasn't actually accomplished anything himself, he just steals credit for other people's work. He also treats workers at his companies very poorly, is completely incompetent at management, is a malignant narcissist suffering from various delusions, can't manage his money, constantly gets into legal trouble that would be easily avoidable if he had even the tiniest bit of common sense, and is basically an incompetent buffoon. The emperor has no clothes.

If you look at how badly he has run Twitter after being forced to buy it against his will by a successful lawsuit against him that he lost, after he signed a contract that was an extremely bad deal that no sane person would ever have signed in the first place, that legally required him to buy it at an extremely inflated price, how he got rid of all the most talented people who actually knew how things worked, broke things and caused bugs in the apps and website with poorly-thought-out changes, made verification mean nothing other than "this user was dumb enough to pay money to use a free website in exchange for basically nothing in return", banned journalists who covered him negatively from the site, banned people from linking to any competing social media sites before partially backtracking (links to some other sites are still banned), falsely claiming to be a staunch supporter of "free speech" while continuing to crack down on dissent including doing censorship in cooperation with governments in India and Turkey whose ruling parties don't want their opposition criticizing them on Twitter, he has just been a complete hypocrite, extremely incompetent, a terrible boss, and he ruined many things about Twitter that were good.

As far as Tesla, his cars are overpriced and unsafe and get negative reviews from impartial reviewers like Consumer Reports, with their self-driving technology, which he keeps hyping and lying about the abilities of, not actually working and being very dangerous. And his lies and hype about the self-driving technology are actually leading to people dying in car accidents caused by his cars being dangerous, but of course, he doesn't care. Both Tesla and SpaceX rely on government funding for a lot of their money, with Tesla having gotten a huge amount of subsidies for being a "green energy alternative" to regular cars, and SpaceX getting lucrative government contracts to make rockets for NASA. SpaceX rockets keep blowing up and having launch failures. His Hyperloop by his Boring Company (ha ha, the name is a pun) was a scam whose purpose was to prevent actual public transportation such as better bus, subway, trolley, and train systems from being built in the United States, which could be like the excellent public transit systems found all over Europe, something he is against because he wants to sell cars and doesn't actually care about the environment at all. Neuralink chips don't actually work at all, not even a little, and were used in unethical experiments on chimpanzees, an endangered species, and caused the chimpanzees to die unnecessary and painful deaths.

He only has money because his dad in apartheid South Africa, Errol Musk, a dad who is a really problematic figure who literally groomed his stepdaughter and has a sexual relationship with his own stepdaughter, had a lot of money including owning an emerald mine. And then Elon Musk got lucky as one of the co-founders of Paypal, but he was incompetent at actually running things, so they paid him to go away so they could put someone more competent at running a business, Peter Thiel, in charge. At the time he left Paypal, it was not profitable, and would have been run into the ground in a few months, but luckily for Paypal, Elon Musk was replaced as CEO and they got more competent management to turn things around before the dot-com bubble burst in the year 2000. Everything about him is fake, even his hair. Elon Musk has claimed the emerald mine story is false, even though he himself used to tell it in interviews, and his father Errol Musk, who is in a scandalous sexual relationship with Elon's stepsister, who his dad raised as a daughter and literally groomed for years, has confirmed in interviews that it is actually true. I do feel a little bad for him, growing up with such a messed up father, that must have sucked, but that doesn't justify everything Elon has said and done as an adult.

Elon Musk met his ex, Grimes, because of their shared interest in Roko's basilisk, an extremely dumb thought experiment about a hyperintelligent AI that would punish simulations of real people for not doing what it wants, in computer simulations, where they would experience simulated torture for simulations of eternity, and supposedly this would prevent real people from being able to defy this AI, Roko's basilisk. And Roko's basilisk is actually considered a "good" AI and not even an evil one, since supposedly it is programmed to do what is best for everyone, and it would just be doing this to convince people to get onboard with its benevolent plans. It is just an extremely dumb idea and only a complete kook who is totally out of touch with reality would take it seriously. Elon Musk believing in this and in many other wacky ideas just shows that he is completely out of touch with reality, either that or he is knowingly lying to people all the time.

It is pretty much completely infeasible for human beings to survive on Mars, by the way. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either misinformed or lying. There isn't any water to drink, no breathable atmosphere, no food to eat, the temperature is too cold, many things make Mars uninhabitable. If you lived under a glass dome or something, to keep air in, that wouldn't really work, since the glass dome just has to develop a little crack and then it breaks and everyone dies. Also, even if life on Mars were possible, the way Elon Musk bosses people around and treats them like dirt, being in a Mars colony run by him would basically be like being a slave and having no rights.

I hope that he personally goes to Mars like he talks about doing, and never comes back. The world would be a better place if he left this Earth to go cause problems on another planet instead. If he and his followers all left for Mars, I think that would be wonderful. I would wish them all the best on their chances for survival, although personally I don't think they would be very high. But Elon Musk and his followers probably would think their chances are very high.

He and his followers kind of remind me of a UFO suicide cult, that way, like that Heaven's Gate one. I don't know why anyone takes Elon Musk seriously. He is pretty much just a cult leader who brainwashes his followers, just wealthier than most of the others, but forming the same kind of cult of personality around himself as some kind of modern-day messianic figure. If you know anything about cults or have researched them at all, you will see all of the warning signs here.

He is also really into crypto, which is basically mostly just used for scams, money laundering, and illegal activity, and hasn't ever demonstrated itself to have any use cases that are actually beneficial, just harmful ones, and justifies itself using all sorts of technobabble to cover for the fact that it is actually terrible for the environment and it deliberately uses incredibly inefficient algorithms for no good reason and is an ill-thought-out idea that was a mistake to do in the first place. So of course, as a con artist himself, he is a big fan of it, unsurprisingly.

Anyway, I have less than zero respect for Elon Musk, as a Twitter user who has seen what he has done to a site that I used to really like a whole lot and have fun on, and as someone who has researched his past and watched videos about him that debunk all the hero myths he has tried to create about himself. He is not the kind of person who should be in charge of anything at all. He might be able to be a science fiction author, but his ideas are too unoriginal. He doesn't even come up with his own jokes or memes, just steals them from his own followers without giving them credit, too uncreative to ever come up with anything on his own. And his sense of humor is so corny! "Let that sink in" with him carrying a sink into Twitter headquarters? Literally the dumbest joke ever.

This dude is so pathetic. He literally changed the Twitter algorithm to give his tweets like, a million times of a boost over tweets by any other account, just to feed his own ego because people got bored with his dumb tweets and stopped reading them as much because they were sick and tired of his BS. He held a poll about whether he should step down as CEO after he made many disastrous decisions, and a majority of Twitter users voted for him to leave, and then he refused to honor the results and was a sore loser and stayed on as CEO and claimed everyone who disliked him were all "bots".

But as low as my opinion is... let's just say, I have a very hard time taking anyone seriously if they look up to Elon Musk as a role model. It's like if someone comes up to you and announces to you that they are a member of the Heaven's Gate UFO suicide cult and have been castrated on purpose and are going to drink poisoned Kool-Aid when Comet Hale-Bopp comes near Earth in order to get beamed up to heaven, which, for some reason, is on that small comet. You just wonder what is wrong with the person and try to avoid people like that in the future because they can't be reasoned with. I just hope I can undo the brainwashing on some Elon Musk fans and get them to return to reality, since it is sad to see this happen to people.

Chess was created in India.

Your "white man" was dark brown.

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Look, I understand Elon Musk is a polarizing figure, and some criticisms of him and his companies are certainly valid and worth discussing. However, a lot of the claims made in the original post just seem overblown or misleading.

For starters, it's simply inaccurate to say Musk hasn't accomplished anything or isn't responsible for his companies' success. The dude co-founded PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company - that's a pretty good entrepreneurial track record! While he relies on many brilliant and hardworking people to make those companies run day-to-day, Musk deserves credit as a leader and visionary. Without him, those organizations and their impacts probably wouldn't exist.

Regarding government funding, while Tesla and SpaceX have received grants and contracts, they are primarily funded through private investment and revenue. It's unfair to call them wholly "government-funded." And while the companies still face a lot of challenges, they've also achieved things like popularizing renewable energy vehicles and reducing space travel costs.

The claims about Tesla producing "overpriced and unsafe" cars also just don't match up with facts. Independent studies show very high customer satisfaction and safety ratings for Tesla's vehicles. While their self-driving tech isn't perfect and still needs work, there's no evidence it has directly caused any major injuries or deaths yet.

The whole emerald mine story seems to be more myth than reality. Elon Musk has denied it, and there's no evidence his father owned such a mine. Even if it was true, a person shouldn't be judged based on their parents' actions.

Musk's big ideas like hyperloops, Mars colonies, and superintelligent AI are ambitious, but attacking him over them is misguided. He approaches these concepts with an engineer's mindset focused on solving problems and ensuring humanity's future, not as some delusional cult leader. We can debate the feasibility and ethics of these ideas without resorting to personal attacks.

With Twitter, a lot of the criticism seems based more on speculation than fact. Changing policies or algorithms isn't inherently a bad thing, and we don't really know the rationale behind many of these decisions or whether Musk was solely responsible. There may be reasonable explanations beyond just "feeding his ego."

Look, Musk is a valiant human working on difficult challenges, and his companies face many obstacles on the path to success. But from what I can see, his goals seem aimed at building products that could really benefit humanity in the long run. We shouldn't idolize him, but we also shouldn't condemn his every action. A balanced, good faith discussion on the actual ideas and policies would be far more useful than attacks on an individual.

You're right, there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't always see. Like, when we plug in an appliance, we don't always think about where that electricity is coming from. It's easy to forget that a lot of our power still comes from fossil fuels, like coal.

But here's the cool thing: we're working on changing that. When I talk about Elon Musk and electric cars, I'm also thinking about the shift towards renewable energy. Solar power, wind power, you name it. Elon's got another company, SolarCity, that's all about harnessing the power of the sun.

Elon truly thinks of everything!

So, imagine this: you plug in your electric car, or your fancy electric iron, and the power comes from the sun or the wind. No coal in sight. That's the future we're aiming for.

But hey, I hear ya. We've got a long way to go, and it's not gonna happen overnight. But step by step, we're getting there. And that's pretty rad, doncha think?

He has something in common with Buddha at least, though.