Comment by hdgvhicv

10 hours ago

When the weather forecast said it would rain on Friday and it didn’t was that also called a lie?

If the input to the weather forecast is mostly /dev/random, then yes, that is called a lie. There is a very big difference between modelling chaotic systems and providing random noise.

  • Ah yes, managing people, science, and research and development are well known to be very predictable and stable, easily modeled even by a teenager.

Weather forecasts are a best-effort.

CEOs should have a reasonable grasp of what's possible for their team on a given short/medium timeline.

It won't be perfect but should be ballpark.

Elon and those like him make these statements with no reference to realistic project delivery timelines, business capacity or anything else - despite having all of that information readily available.

That's not a best guess, it's making shit up.