> Most people can't handle that
Right, we can't handle a billionaire demanding that everyone risk their lives to boost his stock price.
And since when are arguments derived from first principles delivered in 3 word all-caps tweets?
Right, we can't handle a billionaire demanding that everyone risk their lives to boost his stock price.
And since when are arguments derived from first principles delivered in 3 word all-caps tweets?
Is there any nuance when it comes to Elon Musk, or only fan-boys and haters?
It's the same thing with the mini-submarine paedophile fiasco. Some regular dude who has experience in what he's actually talking about tells him to go away and he can't handle it because he thinks he's Tony Stark or something.
I don't think his eccentric behaviour really leaves much space for nuance, that's not really on anyone commenting here.
Now is it narcissistic to think that he has to do it? Maybe. Often times though I would think that the people that changed our way of life have to be narcissistic. Gates, Jobs, Rockefeller, Ford, Edison. They are real people with flaws but sometimes those flaws also drive them. Not malignant narcissistic though, there is a difference.
He is definitely ill served by his twitter account though and these recent tweets are not great in regards to the opinions of many of those that support him.
No one reasonable is criticizing Musk for being a visionary CEO, someone who is interested in taking risks that overcome historically difficult challenges.
They're criticizing him going completely off the handle; calling someone a pedophile on Twitter when they disagree with him, talking completely out of his ass about "taking the company private", or trying to play armchair epidemiologist when he _clearly_ has a vested interest in a potentially risky avenue of behavior.
I'm very happy to see the things that SpaceX has achieved [0] and I'm also happy that Tesla has done such a good job popularizing EVs [1], but I'm blown the fuck away whenever I see people responding to _entirely justified_ criticisms of Elon's character by pointing out what he's accomplished and how lofty the rest of his goals are.
Do we just not have standards for people in Musk's position? Do folks really think it's reasonable for someone to comport themselves the way he _routinely_ does?
[0] Although let's be honest, the company treats its employees pretty damn badly.
[1] Accurately representing the self-driving capabilities of their vehicles, on the other hand, leaves quite a bit to be desired.
I think the guy is a once in a life time visionary. With that said I would never want to work for him but I hope he succeeds.
It really is frightening and there are some strong responses, both rational and irrational on many sides.
If the price of Tesla stock ever goes down too far his whole empire risks crumpling.
I have friends who have a lot of difficulty distinguishing expressiveness and rationality. I can't do that in a post.
The best way to see the difference: find a CS/psychologically-minded person that is capable of being rational but has a default state of being creative. Yep, kind of describing myself here (= easiest description to give). They're quite easy to spot:
- they have some creative thing they like (drawing, music, anything pertaining to multimedia)
- they are also capable of going from existential and psychedelic to rational and focused within one second
- they are capable of explaining why they act crazy when they do and tell you their emotional, rational perspective on it (on parties, for example, it has a lot of instrumental value).
Hangout with them for a year. And you'll see how expressiveness is mixed with rationality.
FYI the 3 word all-caps tweet is the expressive part of Elon.
Also, I could be wrong about all of this obviously, this is simply my current opinion about it, I thought quite a bit about it (also about my biases, can't rule them out) and I think I'm right but I've been proven wrong (and right) in beautiful ways before in my life. So I could be (horribly) wrong.