An important thing about Elon Musk that’s widely known in tech circles but perhaps not in the larger world: he’s kind of an idiot.
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I see Dud people!replied to Matthew Merkovich :clippy: last edited by
@MattMerk Marconi also fits that description: Took a lot of other people's ideas, put them in a box, and claimed it as his own. @inthehands
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Import Antifascistreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands when I despair and get into a “fuck everything” mode is when I’m most vulnerable to bad ideas. I’ve learned to look past the surface feeling when I get that way and see what’s really driving that despair.
BTW this was not a magical transformation that I decided to do one day. This was the result of years of therapy and practice.
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Every Business major wannabe techbro I've ever met has so much praise for Musk and they tell me that whenever they find out I work in IT.
But I know very few tech people who have a nice thing to say about the guy. Maybe a few at my old job, but that was over run by MAGA and MAGA-lite folks. So they were mostly impressed with his fascism.
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@inthehands so in the Horizon series of video games, the whole apocalypse was triggered by a CEO with a personality complex going from developing robots to weapons development and overriding the safeguards. so i’m afraid that series is more prophetic than i realized.
fuck ted faro #fucktedfaro
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@BackFromTheDud @MattMerk @inthehands It's interesting that those are the names that go down in history. The loud mouthed get remembered for what they did not create, but did promote.
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@inthehands I can confirm this.
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@inthehands Yeah, I discovered that we he spoke to the Twitter devs just after he bought it. He was just using jargon in a meaningless manner and told them to “rewrite“ the system.
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@inthehands He is the /ne plus ultra/ of the Dunning-Kruegeroids; so amazingly confidently incorrect that the normal run-of-the-mill Dunning-Kruegeroids see him as some kind of genius, because he obviously knows many more things to be wrong about than they even know exist.
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@inthehands do you have the sources of what you are claiming, or is it just "widespread knowledge"?
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I'd demand a refund for that education. Man is dumb as hell
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@inthehands it takes an insurmountable compartmentalisation of your brain to develop something complex, especially software, and also sell it to someone keeping a good conscience
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Supportive Tree-based lifeformreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands elizabeth holmes had the same "talent" his other talent is "outrunning consequences of fraud."
We've allowed people to make too much money by just lying about shit.
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@jgeorge @inthehands A dumb person's idea of what an intelligent person is like.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Jeff Miller (orange hatband) last edited by
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I really, really need to watch that! -
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- I understand why some people push back against post 2, and yes, I understand the urge to refuse that dingbat credit for •anything•, but…look, if we're going to understand the present moment, then I think we do need to reckon with the fact that being a con artist •is• in fact a special skill. It's a skill we need to figure out how to counter (individually, institutionally, and societally).
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Paul Cantrellreplied to The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus last edited by
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The link I posted appears to already be paywall-free — was for me, anyway — but I appreciate the archive link too. -
@hsolerkalinovski
It is very much “widespread knowledge,” and I've heard from enough people with direct experience of him to back that up as more than rumor. -
@chu @shannonpersists
Something I'm always saying as a teacher is that the student is •always• the one who does the learning. All we can do is provide good challenges, good support, and a rich environment. -
@zauberlaus
I prefer the approach of clear communication about expectations and tradeoffs, but that's why I'm in engineering and not sales, I guess. -
- Comparisons to Edison (credit for others' work) and Marconi (same but extra-fashy) and Howard Hughes (unhinged from reality) are all apt, but I think all the above were quite a bit brighter than Musk. Same with my Barnum comparison. And on that note, @hugoestr makes a good point:
https://functional.cafe/@hugoestr/113535006880063784
