Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 hours agoI like your enthusiasm, but you’re going about this all wrong.
City council refuses the permits.
Musk does it anyways.
Nothing happens.
But hey, we blocked those permits, right?
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 13 hours ago
Well, it should be that the City Council refuses the permits, and if Musk does it anyway, the City either bulldozes the building, or sues him until the building is removed. So either the building comes down or the municipality makes a pile of cash off the bastard.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
He bought twitter for 43 billion dollars on a goof. To him a “pile of cash” is like 3 pennies to you.
And I’m not saying this to defend him. I’m just saying that charging him money isn’t the “gotcha!” that you think it is.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 13 hours ago
It's not a gotcha. It's a decent cash flow to the city if he wants to se the real estate - and that's before they tax him, and sue him again if he evades,
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
I hear you, but I would imagine that Musk would retaliate by counter-suing the city and/or state, if for no other reason than spite. And would drag the whole thing out for at least as long as the AI infatuation lasts before abandoning the building for officials to deal with.
A single citizen with a drone and a bunch of glass bottles full of petrol dropped onto the generators, however, would shut down operations immediately.