[ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!

[Giulio Prisco]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:35 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
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> On Apr 26, 2022, at 8:25 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >>… Ja.  But there are more than two sides.  Musk is African American and
> a libertarian (oh what a fine example of a libertarian is he, the modern
> John Galt.)  spike
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> >… he’s hardly a John Galt.  Dan
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> ### Is Musk a "scion of a wealthy family"? Did he step his way up the
> financial ladder via dipping into the tax fund?  Rafal
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> This is what Elon actually said:
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> Rafal, people appear to be second-guessing Musk’s intentions and then
> arguing against the intentions they assigned to him, in flat contradiction
> to what he actually said.  When people do that, I judge the detractor as
> contradicting what Musk actually said.  I believe he means what he says.
> So… detractors are arguing against the notion that free speech is the
> bedrock of a functioning democracy, arguing against making Twitter better
> with new features, arguing against increasing trust, against defeating spam
> bots, etc.
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> Think about that.  The detractors attack the man for perfectly irrelevant
> reasons, assign him motives based on speculation, ignore his actual words.
> I still haven’t seen a single sound argument against the intentions clearly
> outlined in the comments Musk actually made.  It looks good to me.  Can
> anyone find something bad in there?  What?
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Elon Musk is a smart and strong person who gets shit done instead of
whining all the time. In today's sad parody of culture, this is a capital
sin.


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> Fun aside: if Elon-haters inside the company wanted to destroy 44 billion
> dollars in Musk-wealth, could they not just block everyone?  They have
> about six months, the estimated time to close a deal that size, to
> completely destroy the value of the company.  They could burn the place
> down on their way out the door.
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> I don’t know how software configuration control works in media companies.
> Anyone here know?  Is there some kind of lock-down procedure?  If they were
> shadow-banning, is there a way to un-ban and cover their tracks?  Or can
> Elon go back and figure out if the conspiracy theory is true?  It would be
> interesting to see if they really shadow-banned anyone who suggested that
> covid-19 originated in a research lab in China.
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