Musk bashes $500B AI project Trump announced, backers don't have the money

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People with massive egos, like Musk, often don’t meet a good end. He supported an AI "pause"—but only until he launched xAI. In his view, anything done without his involvement is inferior. Ultimately, people like this tend to make powerful enemies who eventually bring them down.

People who know say that he shows signs of excessive drug use. IMO, he wants Trmp's notoriety and Trmp wants his fortune.

Negative sum game.

Satya Nadella responded saying they are good for their $80 billion. They have a $3.3 trillion market cap.

Elon Musk must create a new scandal every day; it’s the source of his power, or something. I mean, this is the only way I can possibly justify this man’s actions. It’s like he wakes up in the morning and thinks, “What course of action can optimize the chances that I will be the center of some drama and have everyone talk about me for another half week of news articles?”

God, I really want him crushed. It stopped being funny a long time ago. Thanks for your contributions to industry, Elon, but I don’t need a walking meme dominating a strangely large part of the news cycle every single day ..

He has a very large and loyal following. His following expects him to entertain them and be controversial.

There's a law somewhere. I forgot the name. It basically states that at first, you worked hard to get a following, then you're a slave to your following because you have to do what they want to keep them happy.

If he ever writes things that his following dislike, such as saying how he loves DEI, then his following will turn on him.

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