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Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by gopher_space »

dekhn wrote: post #30
dekhn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's sort of like watching somebody learn about Chesterton's fence for the first time.

Dang contacted me out of band regaridng this comment and I'll say here what I said there: I stand by my comments. It kind of looks like you're sympathetic to Musk here. What Musk is doing is abnormal and needs to be condemned in the most effective way possible. I have determined that occasionally making short statements that are entirely technically correct is the most effective way to do so. I do so in good faith wi…

Did he want more verbiage? “GIGO” is an acceptable comment if it’s applicable and that’s only four characters.

Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by dekhn »

gopher_space wrote: post #31
dekhn wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dang contacted me out of band regaridng this comment and I'll say here what I said there: I stand by my comments. It kind of looks like you're sympathetic to Musk here. What Musk is doing is abnormal and needs to be condemned in the most effective way possible. I have determined that occasionally making short statements that are entirely technically correct is the most effective way to do so. I do so in good faith wi…

Did he want more verbiage? “GIGO” is an acceptable comment if it’s applicable and that’s only four characters.

Yes, he clarified. He wants people who are writing comments in good faith to show more intent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623956)

I read that exchange and I knew exactly what the first comment meant and didn't have to read the longer explanation. I've been on the internet for 30+ years and have learned how to have subtle and enjoyable conversations and how to extract the meaning and feeling behind short comments. I don't want this site to be pages and pages of pages-long comments saying little.

Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by mikkergp »

sdiacom wrote: post #23

Is the difficulty of running a company proportional to the technical difficulty of the problems it attempts to solve? I believe there's a lot more to running a company than finding a solution to a technical problem without killing anyone in the process. I think it's fair to assume that Paul Graham, who runs a startup incubator, already knows that it takes more than that to run a company successfully. So what's the po…

> Is the difficulty of running a company proportional to the technical difficulty of the problems it attempts to solve? I believe there's a lot more to running a company than finding a solution to a technical problem without killing anyone in the process.

Twitter as it is ("public square") may be one of the hardest companies in the world to run. Not because of the technical problems, but because of the people problems. There are just no concrete solutions to most problems, and everything is constantly backsliding. You're basically trying to play mediator to all the political divide in America, without cutting the baby in half, and that's just the American audience! I recall Yishan pointing out that Jack meditated like 4 hours a day to handle it. But I also Suspect Elon cares a lot less about maintaining the public square component in the face of his debt, so that may make it a lot easier.

Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by rngname22 »

feet wrote: post #18
goldenchrome wrote: post #16

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Is that fact or wishful thinking? It’s hard for me to believe that nobody is going to want to work for the most prominent business man of the decade.

He's only prominent because he makes a lot of noise

So he's not prominent for having been the current richest person alive at various points or for leading a company that revolutionized commercial spaceflight?

It's just for making noise? Strange.

Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by feet »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #15
Imnimo wrote: post #8

If I buy this logic, and I also have eyes and can see how Elon is running Twitter, what should that tell me about his ability to competently run Tesla and SpaceX?

that he is great at doing stuff like thinking big and breaking down barriers but probably needs others with more stability to rein him in.

Too bad he fires them

Re: Is Elon Beyond Reproach?

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Post by feet »

rngname22 wrote: post #34
feet wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's only prominent because he makes a lot of noise

So he's not prominent for having been the current richest person alive at various points or for leading a company that revolutionized commercial spaceflight? It's just for making noise? Strange.

Throw enough money at problems and you'll solve some

Other rich people do this too they just don't brag about it on twitter constantly

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