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I'd work for Elon 10 years ago when he was focused on things like making life multi planetary and advancing the electrification of transport. If I didn't have a
by api 4y ago
I'd work for Elon 10 years ago when he was focused on things like making life multi planetary and advancing the electrification of transport. If I didn't have a family I'd work for SpaceX 10 years ago for 1/2 my current pay and pull 80 hour weeks.
Elon today seems to be focusing most of his energy on political concerns that are frankly beneath him and very very stupid. Someone with his means and skills should not care about anything with a <50 year time horizon.
My only hope for him now is that he doesn't destroy SpaceX or cannibalize it financially for some vastly less important reason.
Related tangent: a lot of people are reading way too much into what Elon is doing now. I see a lot of Qanon quality speculations from his detractors. I think it's pretty simple. Elon went and got himself "pilled" by the same BS that "pilled" probably 1/3 of the Hacker News audience over the past 10 years. I wonder if he's been on the 'chans. Ockham's razor says no more complex explanation is necessary.
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- tdehnel 4y agoWhat if freedom of discourse was more important than spaceships or electric cars or solar panels? I think it is. My guess is Elon does too.
- AlexandrB 4y agoElon has completely failed to communicate what he means by "freedom of discourse". Judged by his actions so far it seems like it means "mostly the same as Twitter's existing policies, but you can't impersonate people and you especially can't impersonate Elon". Which seems like it's less freedom than before(?) It honestly seems like he hasn't thought about the problem deeply enough to have a coherent vision here. We'll see, I guess.
- tdehnel 4y agoI’m glad he’s giving it a shot. No idea if it will work, but I am quite sure that progress as a species is dependent on a culture of open conjecture and criticism. Old Twitter was trending the other way imo, esp when it came to working with the government to decide what was true or not.
- api 4y agoThe problem is that social media as presently designed faces a choice between being an absolute cess pit of trolls and hate or being sometimes over-moderated. There is no way to do moderation right that will not get you accused of being biased or operating in bad faith by a large faction of people. If Elon can solve that he truly is a genius. So far no Internet forum has managed to achieve anything but that trade-off.
- strikelaserclaw 4y agoElon is one of those guys who is incidentally doing good for the human race but i suspect the motive is mostly for personal glory.
- api 4y agoBoth/and I think, at least for Elon 1.0 (Elon up to about 5 years ago).