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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by bmitc »

rvnx wrote: post #341
bmitc wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What tech people like Paul Graham and others were hoping was for Elon to apply his scientific first principles type of thinking that he demonstrated previously at SpaceX+Tesla to Twitter. I wish one could take a step back and just see how ridiculous of a statement this is. There is nothing about Musk’s history and management style that is even remotely close to what could be called “scientific first principles type…

You mean the Paul Graham that was banned today from Twitter for "violating Twitter rules" ? https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1604598879973883905

What does Paul Graham have to do with my comment?

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Post by HmOh6WbJ »

iconjack wrote: post #330
modeless wrote: post #12

I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…

That is not what happened at all. In the first poll, he asked when the journalists should be unsuspended and the options were (a) now, (b) tomorrow, (c) in 7 days, and (d) longer. Choice (a) got 43%, not the majority. Choices (c) and (d) totaled 52.5%, which means the 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 voted for a minimum suspension of 7 days. Elon then essentially invoked "rank choice" voting and ran a new poll with only the top two…

Yep

Plurality is not necessarily majority

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by FormerBandmate »

nkozyra wrote: post #320
FormerBandmate wrote: post #304

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Elon is not a savior because no one is purely a savior. He is a genius at hardware who badly needs to shut the fuck up and have people rein him in sometimes. Twitter has always been his weakness, and he needs to have emotional maturity and hire a new CEO, then stay off of it entirely for two weeks

> He is a genius I realize this is part of his narrative but I struggle to find the genius. As best i can tell he's a generally successful businessman.

It's hyperbole. Tesla and SpaceX were insane accomplishments in moribund industries (the first successful auto startup in 80 years, and pretty much singlehanfedly revitalizing space travel which was basically dead, people with way more resources tried and failed at both of them). That being said, the Twitter acquisition is the work of a petulant child

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Post by parker_mountain »

minimaxir wrote: post #198
parker_mountain wrote: post #172

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I don't even think he's doing it on purpose, I think he's completely in over his head. Someone referred to Elon as "speedrunning being a forum moderator", or "running a Lowtax" and yeah, so far.

> The "this is a forum mod meltdown, at scale" joke keeps popping up because it's not a joke — it's recognizing a persistent pattern in bad governance of a mediated social space. https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1604632585849765889

Yes, pretty much. Anyone who's run a community or been involved in one with more than a few hundred people understands that one of your most important jobs is working with community members to implement unpopular policies - which is to say, people will take their medicine if you make a good case that it'll help them!

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Post by c22 »

bmitc wrote: post #348
c22 wrote: post #327

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My pet theory is that the cybertuck is just an excuse to start prototyping a future martian ground transport, in which case atmospheric drag may be less of a concern.

That’s an incredibly generous take. Why not just develop the thing instead of playing this “oh, we didn’t fail, we were just doing this other thing all along” game.

I thought hn was all about the generous take.

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Post by wilg »

323 wrote: post #58

Elon Musk posted "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" on 19 Oct and 19 Nov. Today is 19 Dec, and in 12 hours he'll post again that the people have spoken. He's playing some sort of game. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1582778449583693836 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544

Oh good, a conspiracy theory.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

wilg wrote: post #350
bmitc wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What tech people like Paul Graham and others were hoping was for Elon to apply his scientific first principles type of thinking that he demonstrated previously at SpaceX+Tesla to Twitter. I wish one could take a step back and just see how ridiculous of a statement this is. There is nothing about Musk’s history and management style that is even remotely close to what could be called “scientific first principles type…

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Disagree with the GP as much as you want. Don't say it like that, at least not here.
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