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Elon's personality means he can't be in anyone's shadow. He needed to refound the company to remove the mental association with Dorsey and create the associatio

Elon's personality means he can't be in anyone's shadow. He needed to refound the company to remove the mental association with Dorsey and create the association that he's the founder.

ben_w 2y ago
Which begs the question: why buy it? (And when the answer is "someone knows how to pull his strings and push his buttons", that makes me more worried about prompt injection in organic intelligence than the same attack in artificial intelligence).
- hackerlight 2y ago
  His initial offer was motivated by a desire to be the savior. In his information bubble of American culture wars, freeing the bird from woke censorship offered him a way to roleplay the archetype of the individual hero and get his fix of narcissistic supply from his flying monkeys. To those ends, it worked. I believe he tipped his intentions to buy it quite early in a private conversation with Babylon Bee writers.
- pjc50 2y ago
  So this is actually a good line of inquiry; intelligent people like to assume they are invulnerable to propaganda and nudging, when this is far from the truth. It looks like he's fallen into the rightwing rabbit hole, to the extent of prioritizing particular posters such as the notorious "libsoftiktok". The persecution complex that comes along with this tends to make him view dissenting views as the work of invisible enemies.
  - pyronik19 2y ago
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- latexr 2y ago
  > Which begs the question: why buy it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTc77PTLVI&t=101s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTc77PTLVI&t=101s Interviewer: Did you [buy Twitter] because you thought a court would make you do that? Musk: Yes.
- notatoad 2y ago
  >Which begs the question: why buy it? he spent half a year in court trying to get out the deal, and lost. so you probably shouldn't assume actually buying twitter was really his plan. he bought a smaller stake first to get some influence and then offered to buy the rest when it didn't buy him the influence he hoped it would, presumably with no intention of following through. then the board called his bluff.

Elon's personality means he can't be in anyone's shadow. He needed to refound the company to remove the mental association with Dorsey and create the association that he's the founder.

ben_w 2y ago

Which begs the question: why buy it? (And when the answer is "someone knows how to pull his strings and push his buttons", that makes me more worried about prompt injection in organic intelligence than the same attack in artificial intelligence).

hackerlight 2y ago
His initial offer was motivated by a desire to be the savior. In his information bubble of American culture wars, freeing the bird from woke censorship offered him a way to roleplay the archetype of the individual hero and get his fix of narcissistic supply from his flying monkeys. To those ends, it worked. I believe he tipped his intentions to buy it quite early in a private conversation with Babylon Bee writers.
pjc50 2y ago
So this is actually a good line of inquiry; intelligent people like to assume they are invulnerable to propaganda and nudging, when this is far from the truth. It looks like he's fallen into the rightwing rabbit hole, to the extent of prioritizing particular posters such as the notorious "libsoftiktok". The persecution complex that comes along with this tends to make him view dissenting views as the work of invisible enemies.
- pyronik19 2y ago
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latexr 2y ago
> Which begs the question: why buy it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTc77PTLVI&t=101s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTc77PTLVI&t=101s Interviewer: Did you [buy Twitter] because you thought a court would make you do that? Musk: Yes.
notatoad 2y ago
>Which begs the question: why buy it? he spent half a year in court trying to get out the deal, and lost. so you probably shouldn't assume actually buying twitter was really his plan. he bought a smaller stake first to get some influence and then offered to buy the rest when it didn't buy him the influence he hoped it would, presumably with no intention of following through. then the board called his bluff.