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It's easy to think of a reasonable counterpoint to this article: busy people have stuff to do. They don't waste their time writing all of their texts with perfe
by logicalmonster 4y ago
It's easy to think of a reasonable counterpoint to this article: busy people have stuff to do. They don't waste their time writing all of their texts with perfect and flowery language, and editing and proofreading it for publishing. They just talk in the moment like many humans do and brainstorm and throw ideas at the wall. I'm sure anybody at that level could sit down and write a perfect business letter if they needed to.
- papito 4y agoBusy doing what? Posting dumb "peace plans" on Twitter?
- logicalmonster 4y agoIf you view wanting to stop bloodshed as dumb, perhaps you've lost the plot.
- papito 4y agoWalk me through it. The Russian army, which has not shown any qualms about rape, torture, and murder, is given reign over a huge slice of Ukrainian territory without a fight. Am I pro-bloodshed, or are you pro-genocide? I am sorry to get personal, but this is bullshit.
- mach1ne 4y agoI think Musk is operating under his maxim that the survival of humanity trumps all. There is a tiny risk that the war in Ukraine escalates into a global nuclear war. Thus, from the point of view of the maxim, any and all sacrifices are valid if they mitigate this risk to nothing. The problem, which I don't think Musk sees clearly, is that the outcome of this war has larger implications than just the fate of Ukraine. Other authoritarian nations, including China, are observing with keen interest how the conflict pans out. These nations, like Russia, follow a behavioral pattern of exploiting perceived weakness. An unlikely nuclear war avoided today at the cost of letting Russia win does significantly increase the risk of world war and thus nuclear war 7-15 years down the road.