The 'sci-fi make it till you make it' playbook: Musk pioneered it, Altman copied it
Linahuaa · x · 2026-10-16
Linahuaa argues Musk's real genius isn't rocket engineering but the "sci-fi make it till u make it" technique: infecting people with Mars stories, making space cool again, and raising money for tech with no near-term payoff, trusting scale solves the problem. Sam Altman copied the same playbook — a chatbot with no monetization plan, talking about curing cancer and the singularity while investors pour in a trillion dollars. Google had AI earlier but sandbagged for fear of cannibalizing ad revenue. A replier pushes back: is delivering 90% of global mass to orbit also a marketing stunt?
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