If you want to get a feel for the post–Musk Silicon Valley, you really should watch these videos.

It’s all here: the transparent scams, the intellectual laziness, the stunningly bad engineering, the messianic delusions of grandeur, the painfully overused tropes and buzzwords—all backed by Y Combinator and reported on by a credulous press.

The team at Common Sense Skeptic has done their usual well-researched job of pointing out the absurdities and fallacies here, though they miss probably a good 30 percent of what deserved mockery. Though, in their defense, each video is only 25 minutes long.

 

Pay close attention when the narrator talks about the Kardashev scale. This figures prominently in the Elon-verse.