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I think I can make this statement with a good degree of certainty: Building the best version of twitter right now will have infinitely more impact on the world
by nvln 4y ago
I think I can make this statement with a good degree of certainty: Building the best version of twitter right now will have infinitely more impact on the world than Tesla or SpaceX. The social/political/legal/engineering problems associated with a large scale messaging platform are also mind-bending challenges that when solved well can definitely make the world a more positive place.
But the optics of SpaceX, Tesla or Starlink do make them feel like more optimistic visions of future.
Perhaps the problem is that the solutions for better Twitter are not technological/engineering problems with controllable/engineerable outcomes.
(Just found the comparison super interesting - not agreeing or disagreeing with the comment.)
- boardwaalk 4y agoYeah, I agree with this. Building an actually “wholesome”, “positive” and “opposite of divisive” social media would be an enormous good. The problem is that no one has a good reason to believe it can be done because it has not yet been. At least with rockets and cars, the physics are there to back you up. You also have the problem of it being Elon, and… does anyone think he’d be the guy to choose to fix a social problem? Certainly I would not be and I am also on the spectrum. Then you have the evidence that, he’s fcking firing or burning all these Twitter employees, many of which likely did* want to make an legit good (defined by the above) social media service, regardless of whether they were “woke” or not (avoiding that charged language). If I rewound a bit and he did get more sleep/get better advice & advisors/took things a little slower and tried to integrate with the company or at least communicate a coherent vision, I could see this having gone differently. It did not…