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Musk to PG: Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls

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Wow, obviously hit a nerve.

I do get the impression that he wants desperately to be liked, but is just, well, really really good at giving people reasons to dislike him.

PG responds that he was thinking mainly of conversations with ordinary people not polls.

Then Musk goes unhinged.

Answer: "Don't be a retard who fakes playing games."

I think when one experiences enough odds in their favor, they begin to disregard indications of prior probabilities that aren't in their favor.

Many Musk related posts get flagged.

Being the wealthiest guy on earth who constantly puts himself on public display, I would imagine he pays an army of people to protect his perception of himself. I wonder: is this an example?

I doubt it. Users who flagged this post also flagged these, for example:

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Show HN: The only way to build a lean SaaS today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708872

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To me it looks like normal flagging behavior.

I still think this link is hn relevant. We sometimes paint ourselves too narrowly.

So who is PG?

The creator of this site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

Thank you.

This is priceless:

> Paul Graham @paulg·22h

> I was thinking mainly of conversations I've had with ordinary

> people. I don't think you realize the size of the gap between how

> your tweets about the UK seem to people in Texas and how they seem

> to people in the UK.

> Elon Musk @elonmusk·10h

> Oh please. You live in an aristocratic country house in the English

> countryside.

> Your kids go to an elite private day school and you sit at home all

> day on the Internet.

> Mr. Paul Graham hasn’t run into an ordinary person in years.

Elon is as always projecting and only talking about himself.

PG is earnestly trying to help Elon and this is the response.

How can you gift the man who has everything? How can you help the man who knows everything? We're mere mortals and can only bow our heads in the presence of our Overlord.

I imagine the approach is some analogy of how you continue to love your adult child who suffers from a severe addiction and needs help, but is going to cause a lot of harm along the way to either recovery or self inflicted death. Try to improve outcomes when opportunities present themselves, but also protect yourself.

The actual quote:

> Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls

Why did you alter it in the title of this post? The original phrasing fits in the HN title limit.

mistake. @dang pls fix

You should be able to edit your own title for a few hours after posting.

Unless that's disabled for new accounts?

my anti-procrastination settings prevent me. This is OP.

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