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he's certainly becoming a single point of failure
by wilg 2y ago
he's certainly becoming a single point of failure
- stronglikedan 2y agoreally? I'm curious to know what he's failed at. Seems like he's making all the right moves lately.
- mongol 2y agoRight moves for whom?
- dewarrn1 2y agoA Bond villain.
- throw16180339 2y agoLex Luthor
- padjo 2y agoHe’s failed at being a likeable human.
- wilg 2y agowhat? he's making terrible moves. violating the consitution, mainly. illegally hacking and slashing the federal government without any idea what he's doing, what he's cutting, providing any clear or sensible or accurate reason why, supporting and echoing nazis and white nationalists. i mean he's now the #2 villain to the half of the country with a moral compass. i miss when it was fun to talk about how cool a tesla was and how cool spacex is and now its just miserable to be associated with this guy.
- regularjack 2y agoGetting teenagers to siphon your data is definitely a right move in my book
- dialup_sounds 2y agoIndeed, it's hard to imagine how he could move any more to the right.
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- disqard 2y agoWell-played!!
- Maxatar 2y agoSingle point of failure does not mean failure. It's an engineering term that refers to the risk associated with consolidating numerous responsibilities under a single system.
- nashashmi 2y agoHe failed at Twitter. He failed at getting Tesla profitable sooner. So many job losses resulted in his erratic behavior. He fails by not doing as well as someone else in his position.
- theoryofx 2y agoI really thought his inauguration performance (the drugs, the saluting) would finally wake people up to what's going on what Elon Musk. To anyone who can see it (maybe it takes some relevant life experience), it's patently obvious he's been spiraling down a dark hole of drugs, depression, ego, burn out, and addiction. He's in a very dark place and lashing out, hurting himself and others, like so many people in dark places do. The man desperately needs help, as much as someone on the street doing fentanyl does. But being rich can actually make it harder to get clean. Wealth can insulate a person from consequences, which can make it harder to hit rock bottom which is often the wake up call people need to shock themselves out of their problem. Elon Musk isn't the devil, he's actually good and useful person deep down, but right now he's fighting demons and they're winning.
- disqard 2y agoYour take is radically empathetic, and we have seen (e.g. with Tony Hsieh) how it all unraveled. I wonder if Shitter is a big factor in this spiral. Jaron Lanier pointed this out in Nov 2022 [1]. Unfortunately, if so, we have a worst-case scenario of "getting high on your own supply", and nobody can cut him off (or stage an "intervention"). [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-twitter.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
- theoryofx 2y agoHe's been posting on Twitter obsessively for years now, it's definitely one of his worst addictions. He blew $44 billion to satisfy his cravings, which has to be a record spend on an addiction. But he's also addicted to drugs, work, gaming and who knows what else. He will either shake his demons or die early after having destroyed his life and probably many other people's lives. I wish him well for everyone's sake.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoyou now have a significant percentage of the educated populace thinks he's an asshole at best and fascist at worst; this was most not the case before he bought twitter and went full-MAGA I'd call that a fail. Also, he was supposed to "save" Twitter and make it into a bigger social network and "everything app" (like WeChat). He instead decimated its revenue and so poisoned the brand that it'll never become an "everything app" other than among the same people buying $Trump coins.
- wilg 2y agoworse, he was quite clear he planned to make it politically neutral which he absolutely didnt
- tasty_freeze 2y agoSome failures: the boring company hasn't done much of anything, other than a very short loop in Las Vegas. Do you know anyone who has bought one of his solar roof systems, and when was the last time anyone mentioned it? The hyperloop idea didn't go anywhere. Twitter is worth about 25% of what he paid for it, though one could argue being in control of it is worth $30B to him personally. He also said he was going to get rid of bots, and failed at that. Obviously, he has had some huge successes too. Tesla has a huge valuation based on the assumption that it was going to win everything, but growth has stalled -- the 18 wheelers are nowhere to be found, the cybertruck is an article of derision to everyone but fanboys. The sedans growth has stalled, in large part due to Musk going out of his way to alienate his core group of buyers -- liberals who think buying a tesla is green. Space-X is doing great things. The jury is out if starlink and thousands of LEO satellites will be a win or a loss. His final big win is his support of a particular minority group: Nazi's and the Nazi-adjacent. They are platformed on Twitter, and he is doing his best to normalize giving Nazi salutes (at the presidential inauguration no less). Musk is a ruthless businessman, but make no mistake - when it comes to engineering, he is an empty suit. https://archive.li/bePMk https://archive.li/bePMk
- Vecr 2y agoHe bought Twitter and all he got was congress, the senate, and the presidency. Trump's 2020 loss was a wakeup call for him.