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#111

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

I really don’t understand this Twitter obsession. In my mind, Musk literally did a Last King Of Scotland type of drama where he proved that too much power for too long will always drive you completely insane. God complex, paranoid, and generally feeling you need to parent the world, even by force. He is not quite a warlord but digitally quite comparable. He was good with cars, Mars, internet for the masses. Why??? If…

> Why [social media]???

One of Musk's visions is "X, the everything app", like Chinese WeChat.

An everything app needs social network and messaging to drive adoption.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.

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#112

Why are there no women involved? (Please not trolling, I am curious.)

Maybe unrelated but Musk is boosting a Tucker Carlson interview with Andrew Tate on his other thing right now.

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#113

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

I really don’t understand this Twitter obsession. In my mind, Musk literally did a Last King Of Scotland type of drama where he proved that too much power for too long will always drive you completely insane. God complex, paranoid, and generally feeling you need to parent the world, even by force. He is not quite a warlord but digitally quite comparable. He was good with cars, Mars, internet for the masses. Why??? If…

Twitter is not remotely the start of what's wrong with Elon Musk. His companies have all been stupidly and impulsively managed and he only succeeds because most of the time he doesn't get sued for contract violation, blocking roads, financial fraud, or wildlife destruction.

He was not good with cars, he forced himself into a leadership role at Tesla, made changes that ran over budget, then blamed it on the real founder (Martin Eberhard) and engaged a hostile takeover. Then he violated contract by not giving him the first produced Tesla, keeping it for himself, and instead giving away the second which broke shortly after. Also his employees there all avoid him because he randomly fires underlings in fits of rage.

Tesla autonomous vehicles have always been far behind their competition, he got some guy straight out of college to lead the work, claimed that they first have to solve full sentient AI (???) before cars can drive themselves, and now that fresh grad is working at Apple or something.

I'm not going to talk about the horrendous injustice of his investor fraud for Solar City or his numerous OSHA violations or the time he lied about sleeping in a Tesla factory for a year.

SpaceX has repeatedly failed to deliver on contracts with NASA so they can pursue the UNGODLY STUPID Starship project and idiotic point to point rocket launch projects. Elon claims he'll convert Ocean oil rigs into rocket launch pads which is an impossibly dumb idea (is he trolling us??), and he fires rockets in Boca Chica at a scale he is NOT authorized to do at times he is NOT authorized to do, and has actually ruined many of the locals' lives. They literally had to evacuate their homes. His failed launches also have burned down wildlife preserves home to critically endangered cats and turtles. SpaceX employees wrote an open letter begging him to stop bullshitting about what their real work is, and he fired everyone who signed it.

Also he still hasn't delivered the sex robots he promised me. What the hell, Elon?

Iirc all but one of the scientists working on Neuralink have left because he kept lying about their work and treating them very poorly. He claimed the end goal is to play Star Craft??

But worst of all, in one interview he was asked if he prefers Emacs or Vim. He fumbled over his words for awhile and obviously didn't know anything about either of them, but he did understand that tech literate people are supposed to have an opinion on this, so eventually he managed to say it probably doesn't matter or something. Obviously Emacs is the far superior choice, shame on you Elon.

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#114
yeah, I am going with Musk's another FoMO, which he abandons as soon as a trend slowly fades away, anyone remember doge coin? yeah, exactly.

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#115
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I count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.

I see people from Britain, Germany, Hungary, Canada, China, and America.

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#116
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My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al

I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.

I feel the same, but PR works, and so people can change their public persona successfully.

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#118

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> Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product. You mean after Musk explicitly, piblicly said that’s what he was going to do, and make it anti-woke as its main differentiating feature? Pretty good bet.

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#119

Unless I am missing something, the current company is literally 100% men - not unexpected given Musk's alleged chauvinism: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/09/elon-musk-se...

And yet he hires women to be CEOs at SpaceX and Twitter. Maybe it's not a gender thing?

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#120
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What?

At least Ketamine: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ketamine-use-secur... and also pot (Joe Rogan podcast from a couple years ago.) Wouldn't be surprised if he is also microdosing LSD, it is quite popular right now in high-tech circles (see: https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-microdosing-keta... ), but I don't think someone has accused him of that yet.

I've read articles like this since I started working in silicon valley in 2012, but I haven't seen it in person. Maybe some selection bias at play, but I'm generally pretty open.

Stuff I have seen:

- LSD usage is pretty common relative to where I grew up (midwest-ish), but usually rare (once a year, burning man, someone has tried it once) even so, I'd still guess this is a pretty small minority - I guess 15% max? I'd guess mostly this is curiosity driven, reading about it, etc. I've never seen anyone seriously use it as a productivity drug.

- Adderall is more common, but that's because it's prescribed (and it works well so everyone thinks they have ADHD if they take it) - I haven't seen it abused, I've heard people talk about modafinil but have never met anyone that was actually taking it. Even in the adderall/adhd case, I'd guess 20% max? Most people I work with do not take it.

- Ketamine I don't know anyone that's tried it beyond someone in the therapy trials and non-techie druggie types.

Maybe it's more common and I'm not in the right circles, but I don't really buy it. I think it's rare and elevated by articles like this because it's salacious not because it's common. I'd guess my made up percentages are also too high.

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