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Btw I must also thank Elon for helping Mastodon so much. https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/files/109/537/631/171/524/950/original/b7110f1

Btw I must also thank Elon for helping Mastodon so much. https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/files/109/537/631/171/524/950/original/b7110f14cf15646c.png https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/file... Every time he suspends a high profile Twitter account for posting Mastodon links (or, as he did recently, changes the T&Cs to explicitly "prohibit sharing Mastodon links"), we get a new spike of users and content on the Fediverse. He's doing more to bring people to the Fediverse than years of enthusiasts trying to explain normal folks what an instance and an ActivityPub inbox are.

acjohnson55 4y ago
He could hardly do a better job if he tried. Which kind of makes me wonder, is he trying?
- bongobingo1 4y ago
  No. Stop 5d-chessing these people.
  - SpelingBeeChamp 4y ago
    For a second I thought you had written “5D-cheese.” And I really liked it. Because it more-readily conveys that there is no way the ‘higher level’ explanation is real.
  - jdhdjdbdjdbd 4y ago
    If there was somebody smart enough to pull these kind of 5d moves itd be elon. Maybe, maybe not, but the probability is non zero.
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    - abathologist 4y ago
      Confidence men like Musk are brilliant in this respect at least: they can so bedazzle some segments that they are willing to reinterpret every possible outcome, no matter how obviously detrimental, as a secretly planned win, only under altered game rules. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails.
  - acjohnson55 4y ago
    I operate under the assumption that most people are neither super geniuses nor dumbasses. Rather, if you shared their context, values, and goals, their decisions would be understandable, even if not agreeable. This isn't always the right framing, but I think it's a very useful default model. The one thing I almost always discount is 5d chess.

acjohnson55 4y ago

He could hardly do a better job if he tried. Which kind of makes me wonder, is he trying?

bongobingo1 4y ago
No. Stop 5d-chessing these people.
- SpelingBeeChamp 4y ago
  For a second I thought you had written “5D-cheese.” And I really liked it. Because it more-readily conveys that there is no way the ‘higher level’ explanation is real.
- jdhdjdbdjdbd 4y ago
  If there was somebody smart enough to pull these kind of 5d moves itd be elon. Maybe, maybe not, but the probability is non zero.
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  - abathologist 4y ago
    Confidence men like Musk are brilliant in this respect at least: they can so bedazzle some segments that they are willing to reinterpret every possible outcome, no matter how obviously detrimental, as a secretly planned win, only under altered game rules. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails.
- acjohnson55 4y ago
  I operate under the assumption that most people are neither super geniuses nor dumbasses. Rather, if you shared their context, values, and goals, their decisions would be understandable, even if not agreeable. This isn't always the right framing, but I think it's a very useful default model. The one thing I almost always discount is 5d chess.