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This is fascinating and exciting to me, to be honest. Like a lot of people around here I'm sure, I've spent a lot of time thinking about Twitter's influence on

This is fascinating and exciting to me, to be honest. Like a lot of people around here I'm sure, I've spent a lot of time thinking about Twitter's influence on our society and I can't say it's positive. The degree to which politicians all now depend on it unquestioningly bothers me a lot. The way our adversaries use it to subvert us is worrying. What it does to people's health isn't good. Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. He's clearly identified Twitter and social media in general as a challenge to be wrestled with. Just really glad about it tbh.

hef19898 4y ago
So the new narratibe, after all of Musks attics, is now of the billionaire pursuing humanities best that, human as we all are, had to be nudged to do that as well by honoring his acquisition of Twitter. I already how Musk would get out of it with his hero status intact, I guess I just got my answer, or at least a potential one.
- benlumen 4y ago
  What are you talking about, "new narrative"? We're not all narrative-driven bots, you know. I've been reading about Elon Musk since before anyone else I knew had even heard of him and have always admired his endeavours.
floren 4y ago
I agree that Twitter is awful, and I agree that there's no better man to absolutely drive it into the ground and pound it into irrelevance and bankruptcy than Elon Musk.
slothtrop 4y ago
> Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. I find that hard to believe now.
- concordDance 4y ago
  It's always been hard to believe. Just look at the work Bill Gates does on global health!
babypuncher 4y ago
What about this whole fiasco doesn't leave you questioning Musk's mental faculties? He looks like a toddler throwing a fit. That doesn't sound like someone who has humanities best interests at heart.
coliveira 4y ago
It you mean is that he will destroy Twitter, then I probably agree. Otherwise, the way he fools around social networks will not do anything good for humanity.
jcranmer 4y ago
> Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. I could believe that he thinks he's that billionaire. However, his competence leaves something to be desired. Just yesterday, he had a peace proposal for the current Russo-Ukrainian war that boils down to "give Russia everything it wants" on the basis that that's what the eventual peace is going to be, the fact that the Russian military and milblogger sphere is in full-blown panic over Ukrainian successes in Lyman and near Kherson. Or take this case, where Musk and his attorneys have completely shot their credibility with the judge--in a case where there will be no jury, only the judge ruling on the merits. In short, Musk does seem to have the tech-bro attitude of "I always know what the right answer is, and everyone who tries to tell me otherwise is an idiot." That is not the kind of person I want working towards humanity's best interests.
- 93po 4y ago
  > However, his competence leaves something to be desired. Elon: The richest and most successful business person in the history of humanity Hacker news: he's not competent
  - attemptone 4y ago
    >Implying that money is a good metric for the competence of a person. Why don't we go a step further and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they're incompetent? >in the history of humanity [citation needed]
    - 93po 4y ago
      Being poor doesn't imply incompetence. Growing your wealth more than a hundred fold in 10 years implies competence.
  - cygx 4y ago
    Elon: The richest and most successful business person in the history of humanity Rockefeller probably still has him bet, never mind historical figures such as Mansa Munsa or Augustus Caesar (though in rather different contexts). Personally, I wouldn't frame things in terms of competence, but trustworthiness. However, his disdain for public transport does seem rather myopic...
Barrin92 4y ago
>The way our adversaries use it to subvert us is worrying. Musk was basically repeating Kremlin propaganda a day ago on Twitter itself. If we're going to hand a platform to unaccountable billionaires maybe not to the one who is mentally unstable, is heavily invested in and praises autocratic adversaries for their working conditions and randomly accuses people of pedophilia. Musk himself is probably the most prominent mental health victim of that site and if anything he should have logged out of his account instead of buying the thing

hef19898 4y ago

So the new narratibe, after all of Musks attics, is now of the billionaire pursuing humanities best that, human as we all are, had to be nudged to do that as well by honoring his acquisition of Twitter. I already how Musk would get out of it with his hero status intact, I guess I just got my answer, or at least a potential one.

benlumen 4y ago
What are you talking about, "new narrative"? We're not all narrative-driven bots, you know. I've been reading about Elon Musk since before anyone else I knew had even heard of him and have always admired his endeavours.

floren 4y ago

I agree that Twitter is awful, and I agree that there's no better man to absolutely drive it into the ground and pound it into irrelevance and bankruptcy than Elon Musk.

slothtrop 4y ago

> Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. I find that hard to believe now.

concordDance 4y ago
It's always been hard to believe. Just look at the work Bill Gates does on global health!

babypuncher 4y ago

What about this whole fiasco doesn't leave you questioning Musk's mental faculties? He looks like a toddler throwing a fit. That doesn't sound like someone who has humanities best interests at heart.

coliveira 4y ago

It you mean is that he will destroy Twitter, then I probably agree. Otherwise, the way he fools around social networks will not do anything good for humanity.

jcranmer 4y ago

> Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. I could believe that he thinks he's that billionaire. However, his competence leaves something to be desired. Just yesterday, he had a peace proposal for the current Russo-Ukrainian war that boils down to "give Russia everything it wants" on the basis that that's what the eventual peace is going to be, the fact that the Russian military and milblogger sphere is in full-blown panic over Ukrainian successes in Lyman and near Kherson. Or take this case, where Musk and his attorneys have completely shot their credibility with the judge--in a case where there will be no jury, only the judge ruling on the merits. In short, Musk does seem to have the tech-bro attitude of "I always know what the right answer is, and everyone who tries to tell me otherwise is an idiot." That is not the kind of person I want working towards humanity's best interests.

93po 4y ago
> However, his competence leaves something to be desired. Elon: The richest and most successful business person in the history of humanity Hacker news: he's not competent
- attemptone 4y ago
  >Implying that money is a good metric for the competence of a person. Why don't we go a step further and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they're incompetent? >in the history of humanity [citation needed]
  - 93po 4y ago
    Being poor doesn't imply incompetence. Growing your wealth more than a hundred fold in 10 years implies competence.
- cygx 4y ago
  Elon: The richest and most successful business person in the history of humanity Rockefeller probably still has him bet, never mind historical figures such as Mansa Munsa or Augustus Caesar (though in rather different contexts). Personally, I wouldn't frame things in terms of competence, but trustworthiness. However, his disdain for public transport does seem rather myopic...

Barrin92 4y ago

>The way our adversaries use it to subvert us is worrying. Musk was basically repeating Kremlin propaganda a day ago on Twitter itself. If we're going to hand a platform to unaccountable billionaires maybe not to the one who is mentally unstable, is heavily invested in and praises autocratic adversaries for their working conditions and randomly accuses people of pedophilia. Musk himself is probably the most prominent mental health victim of that site and if anything he should have logged out of his account instead of buying the thing