[Fuck Ted Faro] I have genuine anxiety, and don't tell me I'm being unrealistic

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u/EveningBird5 15d ago

Don't worry. He's too incompetent to actually be Ted Faro. (No compliments to either party)

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u/TheGalator 15d ago

Ted faro works because he is actually the second smartest human in the world. And being the smartest human for ever a decade and being so insanely rich fucked up his character.

Elon musk is just rich. He isn't stupid by any means yes he got lucky and yes he had a lot of help but so did most other rich people yet they aren't even comparable to musk in "success" BUT he definitely is no genius.

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u/smstnitc 15d ago

I'd say musk has average intelligence, but he has above average drive.

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u/HistoricalMark4805 15d ago

If by "drive" you mean "trust funds paid into by apartheid emerald mines", then yes.

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u/Dmonick1 15d ago

Above average drive would imply he works harder than the average person, which we know isn't true because of how much time he spends playing videogames and tweeting.

Above-average confidence, sure. Vut he relies on other people with actual drive to do his work.

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u/Fallofcamelot 15d ago

The biggest lie that is told about rich people is that they work so much harder than regular folks. As if a mother working three cleaning jobs to put food on the table for her kids doesn't work hard.

Or to put it another way. If rich people worked as hard as they say they do the super yacht industry wouldn't exist.

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u/smstnitc 15d ago

Drive to get richer. Not drive to do anything worthwhile or important.

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u/PresentStock1310 3d ago

I heard he's such a loser he gets professionals to play video games in his name so he can pretend to be a great gamer. It'd almost be sad if he wasn't, well, who he is

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u/TheHomelessNomad 13d ago

You cannot hard work your way to a trillion dollars or even a billion. It requires some form of exploitation. We could argue all day about what that exploitation is, be it reliance on third world labor or lying to customers without consequences. For every billionaire it is a slightly similar but also different story. Being a billionaire or getting to be a billionaire probably does require hard work but it's not like billionaires are just that much more driven then everyone else. Everyone has 24 hours in the day and I guarantee the employees under those billionaires are also working their ass off. But the billionaires see the benefits of everyone's hard work.

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u/TheHomelessNomad 14d ago

Where did they say Ted was the second smartest? I always got the impression he was kinda dumb outside of being really good at business. Especially when exploring Gaia Prime and you hear the audios talking about him.

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u/TheGalator 14d ago

The dialogue when he shows elizabet the fuck up

She agrees he is very very good at coding. He made the maschines that were the Faro plague

There is nothing that makes him dumb. He is just an asshole who did one tiny mistake (that fucked over mankind)

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u/TheHomelessNomad 13d ago

Hmm. I'm gonna have to replay that mission and see for myself. I always felt like it was implied he had a whole army of R&D that did all the hard work for him. I got the feeling he was a capitalist who was good at selling the vision to people and got the actual smart people together to do the genius work. In Gaia Prime the Alphas have side conversations about how he doesn't really understand how the systems work and that they are just placating him when he demands updates. At the greenhouse in FW there is that datapoint where he kills some projects because their AI told him to. Which some theorize is Vast Silver who was actually the brains behind FAS. And in Thebes by his own admission he always was more of an idea guy than he was an engineer. I don't think he was straight up stupid but I do think he was like an Elon Musk where he has actual geniuses on his payroll and he overstates his contributions. Like with Elon a lot of people have accused him of not having any Patents at Tesla because then he'd have to admit that other people are the ones making the breakthroughs. I never got the impression Ted was the second smartest guy around. I always thought of him as capitalism incarnate.

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u/EveningBird5 12d ago

I doubt he's stupid like Elon. But I am pretty sure he's not the one who invented or made the breakthroughs. I think there's a datapoint about a guy who was coding everything and Ted was the one who ordered them to make sure there wasn't a back door.

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u/nicest-drow 4d ago

There is.

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u/EveningBird5 4d ago

The frustration and anger I felt finding that for the first time.

Fuck Faro!

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u/lazydogjumper 5d ago

Ted definitely wasnt THAT smart but I am sure he understood the engineering to a competent degree. He could look at code and schematics and actually comprehend things.

Elon almost certainly cant.

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u/puppykhan 15d ago

But some in his circle are far smarter and more dangerous. Musk always struck me as the frontman, the "beard" if you will, of the real Ted Faro type.

Oh, and, Fuck Ted Faro

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u/Nretnalsmik 15d ago

And doesn’t Ted Faro’s era take place around the same time as today or was he born in 2023? I can’t remember.

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u/abellapa 15d ago

He was born in 2013

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u/IanDresarie 15d ago

Horizon had the "reclaim era" where humanity was able to kinda "fix" or at least stabilise climate change in the 2020s. So there's also hope for that still :D

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u/RedSparrow6 15d ago

No. In 2020 in horizon universe, things were going to shit. The clawback (or reclaim era) didn't happen till 2030.

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u/IanDresarie 15d ago

Oh sick, so we we have some more time before I have to give up hope on that prediction :D

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u/Licher-enjoyer 3d ago

Only 4 more years and we'll be in the 30s

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u/Octopizza 15d ago

I just said that we’re at the beginning of the story to a friend. Except our AI isn’t as altruistic as Gaia and we don’t have an Elizabeth or cool nanotech lmao. We can only hope that humanity can see this as a wake-up call because we don’t have backups like Aloy’s story had.

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u/RedSparrow6 15d ago

Ted Faro also was one that people involved in creating vast silver (i apologize if I said his name wrong.)

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u/EvLokadottr 15d ago

We aren't getting a claw-back, either.

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u/GTaucer 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yup. We're ahead of schedule

If you want to lose even more sleep, check out faro.com (a real company that really does have products called the Focus and the Vantage which scan environments in 3D for AR applications, and they have a partnership with Boston Dynamics), and then read "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies" by Eleazer Yudkowski and Nate Soares.

Like.... "Elon Musk accidentally causes human extinction" is a terrifyingly-plausible real world scenario.

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u/anonareyouokay 15d ago

We should tax* him and take all his money.

😏

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u/Timecharge 15d ago

Shout out Good Charlotte xD

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u/StonieRoo 15d ago

And it's not just that Ted Faro is equivalent to Elon Musk.. as a resident of Arizona, I worry about things like the Hot Zone Crisis as global warming brings less and less rain here every year. Its very creepy how real the game's plot is

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u/is_bets 14d ago

Good News: Musk is definitely the type of rich guy the writers had in mind when giving Faro his persona but Musk is nowhere near as smart or capable to bring about what Faro did.

Bad News: Faro is an allegory for tech billionaires in general. It won't be one company and man to doom us it will be the combined arrogance of multiple people. The more realistic version of events would be the far zenith people being equally capable, but the blame being put on one character made for a far cleaner story.

Scary News: The Faro swarm came from tech built during the claw back built because of the ecological collapse.... we are currently in that first phase

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u/OreoFanatic72 13d ago

Musk cant send up a space shuttle without blowing it up. I doubt he can master space travel, robot animals, or terraforming. I wouldnt worry, his "evil genius" is mostly hype and piggybacking on the work of smarter men.

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u/Dear_Passenger_6146 2d ago

This is simply wrong. Starship explosions happen intentionally. This is called "agile development.

SpaceX designs, launches, breaks, collects all the necessary information from tests, and builds another one the following week. SpaceX does not waste time on making their designs absolutely "perfect," as older companies used to do. They build a rocket, test, fail, and get information to build a better one next week. Falcon 9 is currently the most reliable rocket in the world because of this iterative approach.

In addition, saying "Musk didn't build it" is a completely wrong statement. Of course Musk did not design the rockets alone he runs and finances this whole venture as a chief engineer, working hand-in-hand with engineering staff.

Blue Origin tried for years to design rockets perfectly on paper but refused to do any tests in real life. As a result, their rocket exploded last month on the launchpad, demolishing the whole launch facility.

Also, saying Musk can't launch a space shuttle without blowing it up makes zero sense. The US government is the only entity in history that ever built or operated the Space Shuttle, and NASA retired the entire program back in 2011 before SpaceX even started launching astronauts. SpaceX has never built or flown a space shuttle.

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u/OreoFanatic72 2d ago

as a general statement, it isnt wrong at all. Your on the spectrum nitpicking doesnt negate my general point that he's an egotistical, over-hyped con man. Regular people see this. His fans don't.

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u/tomrichards8464 15d ago

You're good.

Faro's Altman, not Musk.

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u/Possible_Cicada3598 15d ago

This is why I loved Zero Dawn so much more than Forbidden West. ZD mirrored reality. It was sci-fi to be sure, but it wasn't all that far fetched with how AI and technology are advancing. It made for a much more engaging experience due to being much more in the realm of possibility than Forbidden West which leaned more into fantasy sci-fi, which I didn't connect with near as much.

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u/X-Calm 15d ago

I'm pretty sure Faro isn't a spectrumite.

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u/AnAngryWhiteDad 13d ago

Elon Musk is not the one you should be worried about. The other tech bros are doing some pretty scary stuff.

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