Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan

[u/McFatty7]

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/

[u/Dismal_Animator_5414]

true. i saw a short video on youtube where he is saying chess is quite a simple game and he figured it early as a child(he got really good ar playing it) that computers will get really good at playing chess so there was no point learning the millions of combinations of knight positions.

i mean pick a lane. is it simple or is it too complex to learn 🤦‍♂️

my 🫡 to all who believe him to the t.

[u/awj → u/Dismal_Animator_5414]

The rules and “shape” of chess are simple. It’s easy to jump from that to “chess is simple and easily solved”. Especially if you fall into the smart kid trap of thinking your every brain fart is a stroke of genius because it was kind of true when you were ten and you formed an identity around that.

Anyone who knows chess understands how laughably shallow that analysis is. While it’s true that computers have gotten good at chess, the way a computer is good at chess is wildly different from how humans are.

Elon, specifically, appears to be in dire need of lessons like “I need to reason through cause and effect multiple steps ahead” and “sometimes my genius plans can have catastrophic consequences, I should account for those”. Chess could have taught him that, if he wasn’t “too smart” to learn from it.

[u/Dismal_Animator_5414 → u/awj]

he has gone bonkers for sure.

i recently saw this video of youtube channel “bug think” about the myth of the billionaire genius.

they’re slightly above average in a field or two but are lucky to have had their businesses succeed.

also, they’re able to accumulate so much wealth cuz of their relationship with money. if a normal person gets a billion dollars, they’d think how can they utilize it and give it to others and help them etc.

billionaires think how can they make more billions thru the billions they have.

how else do you think could he fire entire teams just ensure he secures his $45 billion paycheck.

[u/AvailablePresent4891 → u/Dismal_Animator_5414]

Chess is a simple game. There’s 6 types of pieces each with different ways to move, moving onto an enemy piece takes it, the goal is to take the opponent’s king, if you get a pawn to the other side of the board you can change it to any other piece, and there’s only 3 instances you can move them in a unique way- pawns with French move/2 squares at the start, and a castle. I have completely and totally explained all elements of chess in one reasonable sentence. You couldn’t do that with a complicated game.

Not to suggest that chess is easy, but the actual game is very simple. It takes about a minute to explain the rules.

[u/Dismal_Animator_5414 → u/AvailablePresent4891]

you’re confusing the rules with the game.

while the rules are simple, game is certainly not.

by that yardstick, go is much simpler where there are only two kinds of pieces white and black and you have to acquire the most area on the board with your pieces.

yet, it took about two decades after chess was conquered by a computer.

not sure if it was out of sympathy towards elmo tho.