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Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by mlindner »

daguava wrote: post #142
axg11 wrote: post #9

A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…

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No matter how many times people say "Elon is a narcissist", saying it doesn't make it true. Is he socially oblivious to others, yes certainly, it comes with being on the spectrum, is he a narcissist, absolutely not.

> Edit: He'd show up in hacker news chat to call me a pedophile if it made his techy fans scream beligerantly.

This isn't appropriate to say on Hacker News.

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Post by whiplash451 »

chmod600 wrote: post #170
daguava wrote: post #142

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I find it humerous (intentional?) that you say he's a narcissist with no self reflection. Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)

There was reflection but little reflexion.

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Post by hbarka »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #185
axg11 wrote: post #9

A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…

Elon has made many unilateral decisions very frequently and without warning. Case in point was to close all of Tesla’s car dealerships. For obvious reasons this was backed out due to the fact that some of them had leases which would be a breach in contract .

Another case in point was him deciding that the yoke steering wheel was best and didn’t even offer the regular steering wheel as an option. What a cruel yoke.

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Post by mlindner »

bradlys wrote: post #181
sjtgraham wrote: post #167

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Ooooh, he remembers a lot of people. He'll quote people from years ago that he blocked on Twitter. He definitely remembers people who he feels slighted by.

> He'll quote people from years ago that he blocked on Twitter.

[Citation needed]

This is one of the silliest things I've heard people make up about Musk.

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Post by madeofpalk »

memish wrote: post #150
axg11 wrote: post #9

A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…

An optimist would think he's going to take it over. Look at his track record. Tesla and SpaceX are industry defining achievements. Fixing Twitter isn't as hard as that.

“Fixing Twitter is easy” is what leads to Facebook to facilitate literal genocide in countries on the other side of the world.

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Post by mlindner »

DoctorOW wrote: post #173
fastball wrote: post #84

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I don't think Musk's ideas about free speech extend to allowing unfettered botting.

Comment isn't referring to spam bots, but the bot networks used for astroturfing.

The "bot networks used for astroturfing" are a much used fiction of pro-Musk and anti-Musk people alike. They basically don't exist. Upvote bot networks exist certainly however.

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Post by drusepth »

basisword wrote: post #218

Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more often than not is tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand. You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. The uncertainty and stress nonsense like that must cause for employe…

>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless.

Other companies have successfully introduced homeless shelters into their office space; it's not necessarily a wild or bad idea. There's probably an important distinction to make here in that the trolly poll was (likely) disingenuous, which is the real issue wrt representing the company, rather than the contents itself.

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Post by polski-g »

smt88 wrote: post #54
axg11 wrote: post #9

A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…

> An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. Assuming Musk did take over Twitter, he wouldn't need to be much of a distraction. He could dictate a few rules (don't moderate Twitter, don't ban anyone, etc.) and then leave the company to function as it did before. I think what he doesn't realize is that reducing moderation…

So he wants to return it to 2014 Twitter? Oh the humanity!

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Post by wronglyprepaid »

jmeister wrote: post #160
braingenious wrote: post #135

Serious question: Who cares? I am not trying to make a joke or seem edgy. Literally, what group of people is actually impacted by this by first or second order effects of…whatever the hell this story entails? In other words, this is on the front page of hacker news. Why?!

1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”. 2. Musk being on the board or not, and his actions re. Twitter in general, will have consequences, especially given that he has unlimited money. 3. Up until recently, the liberal-left was cheering for tech platforms exercising their sovereignty and censoring power: “if you don’t like it, build your own Twitter”. They’re having to eat crow. This has major implications for th…

> 1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”.

Can you clarify why you think so? I think even of the small fraction of Americans that use it, most have no reach.

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by bradlys »

mlindner wrote: post #264
bradlys wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ooooh, he remembers a lot of people. He'll quote people from years ago that he blocked on Twitter. He definitely remembers people who he feels slighted by.

> He'll quote people from years ago that he blocked on Twitter. [Citation needed] This is one of the silliest things I've heard people make up about Musk.

> [Citation needed]

> This is one of the silliest things I've heard people make up about Musk.

https://youtu.be/Ebxiu1-RoKI?t=1278

Have fun licking his boot.

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