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Why?

by hersko 4y ago

Why?

netsharc 4y ago
I'm not the grandparent poster, but maybe the answer is "there are 44 billion reasons and 1 impulsive guy at the helm"...
itronitron 4y ago
because they can
hayst4ck 4y ago
Because to some, myself included, Elon has not shown to have any ethical guidance other than self enrichment. Anyone who has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" ideology doesn't seem like they'd have too much problem selling people out.
- chrisco255 4y ago
  I would make this argument for all of silicon valley. We know for a fact Google and Facebook sell people out, actively, right now. We also know pre-Musk Twitter had a host of internal issues and questionable ethics.
- EricE 4y ago
  >Anyone who has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" ideology Your referring to Twitter pre Musk, and not Musk, right?
- memish 4y ago
  https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
  - hayst4ck 4y ago
    I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this. Musk for a while was a fairly laudable person who garnered a lot of respect. He had a dignified public image. Sometime around the Thailand cave thing he went pretty off the rails and seems to likely have started a pretty serious drug problem. Just like Rogan, the dilbert guy, and many others he seems to have gone from mostly reasonable to corrupted and self contradictory and it's not really clear how or why that happens. It's hard to know if he was always the way he appears to be now or if there was some kind of transformation.
    - EFreethought 4y ago
      Call it the "Jordan Peterson Effect", since he seemed to go through that cycle the fastest.
      - empathy_m 4y ago
        The phrase I've heard is "audience capture": people who spend a lot of time in the public sphere end up tailoring their statements and behavior to whatever gets them the most engagement from their most responsive audience. I read a thoughtful (but long) discussion of this phenomenon at https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-peterson https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-p...
    - memish 4y ago
      Elon and Rogan haven't changed and they are still mostly reasonable.

Why?

by hersko 4y ago

Why?

I'm not the grandparent poster, but maybe the answer is "there are 44 billion reasons and 1 impulsive guy at the helm"...

itronitron 4y ago

because they can

hayst4ck 4y ago

Because to some, myself included, Elon has not shown to have any ethical guidance other than self enrichment. Anyone who has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" ideology doesn't seem like they'd have too much problem selling people out.

chrisco255 4y ago
I would make this argument for all of silicon valley. We know for a fact Google and Facebook sell people out, actively, right now. We also know pre-Musk Twitter had a host of internal issues and questionable ethics.
EricE 4y ago
>Anyone who has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" ideology Your referring to Twitter pre Musk, and not Musk, right?
memish 4y ago
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
- hayst4ck 4y ago
  I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this. Musk for a while was a fairly laudable person who garnered a lot of respect. He had a dignified public image. Sometime around the Thailand cave thing he went pretty off the rails and seems to likely have started a pretty serious drug problem. Just like Rogan, the dilbert guy, and many others he seems to have gone from mostly reasonable to corrupted and self contradictory and it's not really clear how or why that happens. It's hard to know if he was always the way he appears to be now or if there was some kind of transformation.
  - EFreethought 4y ago
    Call it the "Jordan Peterson Effect", since he seemed to go through that cycle the fastest.
    - empathy_m 4y ago
      The phrase I've heard is "audience capture": people who spend a lot of time in the public sphere end up tailoring their statements and behavior to whatever gets them the most engagement from their most responsive audience. I read a thoughtful (but long) discussion of this phenomenon at https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-peterson https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-p...
  - memish 4y ago
    Elon and Rogan haven't changed and they are still mostly reasonable.