We need to get to a point where tech companies are more honest about their missions. E.g. Google's mission is not really "Organize the world's information", but rather, something like "Connect advertisers with the most relevant audiences through search".
This is incorrect and in bad faith. Apple's mission of "to create technology that empowers people and enriches their lives" is actually closer to what they do. A less embellished version would be: "sell consumer devices with integrated software, with a focus on ease of use for non-technical users, and superior build quality"
If your goal was to empower people you'd want to lower prices until margins are reasonable in order empower more people, especially given the fact Apple has more money than it knows how to spend.
Apple sells tablets that fold in two and glue slab computers. That's only superior quality for a meaning of quality that aligns suspiciously with profit maximization :)
It’s not empowering when I accidentally tap an address while driving and my iPhone sends me to the App Store to download Maps instead of recognizing that Maps has failed me too many times and I want to use google maps which is already open…
So.... people stopped farming and moved to cities and you're excited they are not starving, even claiming they're not starving because they moved to city.
"Farming life is better than city life." - citation needed.
Farming life is long, hard, and expensive. The difficulty in even running a small farm, never mind something larger - and that's ignoring being priced out by huge corporations buying out land and farms - is significant.
Spend most of your days doing physically taxing labor (even with machines to help), and still be at the mercy of weather or pests (for crops), and markets / health scares (for animals), having little access to healthcare, mental health support or financial support, and then come tell me how much "better" it is.
Farming life is more than just fresh air and being less densely-populated. Saying it's "better" when farmers have some of the highest suicide rates, issues with mental health, and levels of poverty and income disparity - never mind the significantly higher risk of death or serious injury from machinery or livestock - is totally inaccurate and incredibly disingenuous.
I still marvel at how many people think that being wealthy is indicative of some sort of superiority. The fewer people that buy this bit of nonsense, the better.
Some of the "puritanical beliefs" that put me off of Musk and his companies are also not that extreme, like:
"It's bad to make statements about "return to office" critical of your employees while they are calling you out for poor working conditions."
"It's bad to make anti-labor statements in general while your companies are being held up as a model of shoddy workmanship and poor safety practices."
"It's bad to repeatedly make statements affirming your belief in American rights of citizenship like free speech and then take action that directly limits the speech of anyone you disagree with using your wealth."
While not entirely bipartisan or free of judgement, I think are pretty reasonable.
> I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful.
> Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence.
I read it and it wasn’t all that enlightening. It’s exactly what anyone 80% burned by any egomaniac would write, which was exactly what it looked like from the outside too.
FWIW Esther has no way of knowing if he has any exceptional talents outside of cult-building.
-pedoguy was verified as common slang in his area of SA: https://www.news24.com/news24/bi-archive/elon-musk-pedo-guy-...
Is it odd/stupid to call someone an asshole on Twitter? Yes. But obviously some people think it is okay because their moral framework is…
-visionaries suffer from too much optimism, but that is known and seems to be required to move the needle.
-he tried to get out of the purchase deal but would have been forced to purchase, so it was all a shit show requiring more than one lacking human.
The title of your link literally states that it wasn't common, and the slang means "creepy old guy". It's like if I called someone rapey, but I just meant pushy frat-bro like, and the insinuation that I meant they would rape someone is unfounded.
There's a whole urban dictionary page for "rapey" that explicitly includes "You don't think he would do it". "Rapey" could be considered common slang.
I still think calling someone "rapey" or "pedo guy" directly implies rape or pedophilia, given that that's the whole point of using it as derogatory slang
> I guess that’s just the natural envy in every human being.
The resentment toward the very wealthy isn't generally because of envy at all. It's what happens when people use their wealth and power in a way that harms others.
You can't see how some people could have the opinion that Musk is a problem (without invoking political stances)? I think they make their cases pretty clear. Musk has been considered very problematic by a lot of people for quite a long time.
Not crazy as in wacky and creative, more crazy as in NPD or sociopathy.
You can be creative and driven and wacky without believing falsehoods 5 minutes of reading or even just observation plus a modicum of intellectual honesty could correct, such as that nonsense about billionaires. And surely without trying to swat whistleblowers [0] or firing engineers for correcting things you made up [1]. That's not at all how so many well known and very successful people behave, actually. That's not what leaders do, either. That's what sick people can't help but do.
History in the long run doesn't care about how successful "celebrities" were for themselves, but whether they gave more than they took.
Musk nervously stares around in his view, not focusing but like a person pretending to think hard to prepare a lie. Licks his lips. Seemingly distressed by the question or his immediate answer. Says
Not an idiot. I know it’s something we say in passing as a way to belittle ourselves to our mistake and that nobody takes it at face value but by you saying you’re an idiot, even in the most casual passing, deeply ingrains a thought that you are indeed an idiot. Which you are not, because if you were an idiot then you wouldn’t even know and therefore wouldn’t even be calling yourself an idiot if you were.
This isn’t a dig at you specifically but just a comment to anyone who reduces themselves over a minor mistake.
Could simplify further by just referencing the count of the number of Xs:
E.g. 1, 2 and 3.
Or for further clarity, each entity could in fact be denoted by a key feature, e.g. Messenger, AI Shop, etc.
Any particularly memorable phrase may do well to differentiate the specific entity from others in the market. All kinds of analogies can be used here creatively!
Maybe Elon owned it going back to Paypal Mafia days, pointed it at OpenAI while they were friends, and then remembered recently about owning the domain (I assume being the wealthiest person in the world involves constantly forgetting about all the things that you own) and changed the CNAME or whatever.
I’d bet someone else owned it, had it pointed at chatgpt hoping they’d buy it, and just made a ton selling to Elon and crew for the vanity domain (which is pretty funny since x.ai is actually shorter).
.com matters now as many people know that is a very common ending of the url. Once years pass as people know about other possibilities, it matters less and less.
Plenty of people think that a url needs to have a .com to be correct, and the only time a different higher domain is used is when they go from a .com website(like google) or a bookmark/automatically opens. They just think of them like doors in a building. They have to go through a door to access the "other internet." (Go from a .com site to crossover to the other levels of the internet) while bookmarks and other methods are essentially literal shortcuts in a physical sense(even though they can type it into the address bar) equating a shortcut to a button on an elevator, etc.
The messaging is getting to a comical level at this point. It's like a bad version of a character from "Silicon Valley"...