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If it involves Elon being a bad guy, it is certain to have HNers salivating at the thought.

by valval 3y ago

fnordpiglet 3y ago
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- 93po 3y ago
  Can we please stop trying to diagnose mental health issues when we have no background to do so and don’t actually know the patient
  - fnordpiglet 3y ago
    My apologies, however Elon has identified as bipolar publicly. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4746914/Elon-Musk-tweets-depression-bipolar-disorder.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4746914/Elon-Musk... As someone who has bipolar as well, I think it’s an important thing to talk about and glad he has. Now that he has, I hope we can too without being shut down. It’s not uncommon in our field but it has a huge stigma attached to it that’s unhelpful to the people with it, or to the people are are affected by a friends, coworkers, or loved ones mania or depression. When I’m under a lot of stress I tend towards mania, especially when it’s “good stress” like an achievement or great new job or something really exciting to work on. Inexorably I get drawn into a pit of despair, especially as I start to realize the impact my mania has had on my relationships and reputation. I have a good network and good self awareness built over 30 years of meditation and Buddhist study, so the impacts are mitigated. I suspect if people understood bipolar and were willing to discuss and learn, we might understand better what Elon does and why. He’s not bad. He’s just different. Bipolar is considered an dimension of neurodiversity, and like other aspects like autism, is nothing to be ashamed of.
    - 93po 3y ago
      He literally tweeted that he’s maybe not medically bipolar. Don’t take daily mail headlines at face value
CamperBob2 3y ago
At this point, after attempting to start a literal fight with Zuckerberg, Musk is proposing a penis-measuring contest. He appears to be decompensating in real time. If that's salivation fodder, so be it, but it just makes me sad. You hate to see it happen... or at least I do.
- astrange 3y ago
  He's joking but making less than no effort to communicate like someone who owns a large company normally would.
- K0balt 3y ago
  Maybe Russia has been injecting lead into his water supply lol. I’m also saddened. Musk is not really a hero or a villain, but his manic stages have given us our first realistic shot at becoming a spacefaring civilization, and moved the needle big time on the lock that the perro cartels had on the automotive industry vis-a-vis electric cars. I hope elon gets better. Losing a billionaire tech maximalists manic episodes is going to set us back decades as more reasonable people chase profit instead of dreams.
  - 93po 3y ago
    It feels very ignorant to think you can diagnose someone has having manic episodes when you know nothing about them as a person, their motivations, their mental health history, and base all your opinions on mainstream outrage over tweets that are less dumb than most people’s
    - K0balt 3y ago
      I don’t have a diagnosis obviously, I mean manic as a description of his apparent behavior, not as a pathology. Still, he seems to be not doing great if his social media is to be taken at face value (which is dicey at best) so I do hope that he gets better.
    - CamperBob2 3y ago
      He has admitted it.

If it involves Elon being a bad guy, it is certain to have HNers salivating at the thought.

by valval 3y ago

If it involves Elon being a bad guy, it is certain to have HNers salivating at the thought.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

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93po 3y ago
Can we please stop trying to diagnose mental health issues when we have no background to do so and don’t actually know the patient
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  My apologies, however Elon has identified as bipolar publicly. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4746914/Elon-Musk-tweets-depression-bipolar-disorder.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4746914/Elon-Musk... As someone who has bipolar as well, I think it’s an important thing to talk about and glad he has. Now that he has, I hope we can too without being shut down. It’s not uncommon in our field but it has a huge stigma attached to it that’s unhelpful to the people with it, or to the people are are affected by a friends, coworkers, or loved ones mania or depression. When I’m under a lot of stress I tend towards mania, especially when it’s “good stress” like an achievement or great new job or something really exciting to work on. Inexorably I get drawn into a pit of despair, especially as I start to realize the impact my mania has had on my relationships and reputation. I have a good network and good self awareness built over 30 years of meditation and Buddhist study, so the impacts are mitigated. I suspect if people understood bipolar and were willing to discuss and learn, we might understand better what Elon does and why. He’s not bad. He’s just different. Bipolar is considered an dimension of neurodiversity, and like other aspects like autism, is nothing to be ashamed of.
  - 93po 3y ago
    He literally tweeted that he’s maybe not medically bipolar. Don’t take daily mail headlines at face value

CamperBob2 3y ago

At this point, after attempting to start a literal fight with Zuckerberg, Musk is proposing a penis-measuring contest. He appears to be decompensating in real time. If that's salivation fodder, so be it, but it just makes me sad. You hate to see it happen... or at least I do.

astrange 3y ago
He's joking but making less than no effort to communicate like someone who owns a large company normally would.
K0balt 3y ago
Maybe Russia has been injecting lead into his water supply lol. I’m also saddened. Musk is not really a hero or a villain, but his manic stages have given us our first realistic shot at becoming a spacefaring civilization, and moved the needle big time on the lock that the perro cartels had on the automotive industry vis-a-vis electric cars. I hope elon gets better. Losing a billionaire tech maximalists manic episodes is going to set us back decades as more reasonable people chase profit instead of dreams.
- 93po 3y ago
  It feels very ignorant to think you can diagnose someone has having manic episodes when you know nothing about them as a person, their motivations, their mental health history, and base all your opinions on mainstream outrage over tweets that are less dumb than most people’s
  - K0balt 3y ago
    I don’t have a diagnosis obviously, I mean manic as a description of his apparent behavior, not as a pathology. Still, he seems to be not doing great if his social media is to be taken at face value (which is dicey at best) so I do hope that he gets better.
  - CamperBob2 3y ago
    He has admitted it.