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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@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! -
Responding to popular replies:
- 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:
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- Comparisons to Miles Bron are, of course, dead on target. I was •amazed• when I saw that movie that Rian Johnson wrote it •before• Musk purchased Twitter.
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@inthehands while the sources are not open for scrutiny, what value do they have?
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@hsolerkalinovski
That's a good question! What value does uncertain information information have? The answer is not “none.” What is it?I'm muting you now, but do think about it on your own time.
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- Finally, shout out to everyone in the replies who managed to pivot this into a “bUt THe dEmoCRatS” train of thought. Good job! I'm impressed at your dedication!
