[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[spike at rainier66.com]

>> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Sent: Monday, 10 November, 2025 8:25 AM


>... but Tesla existed - and might or might not have been able to succeed (though likely on a much smaller
scale: no Gigafactory)

Ja.  Many think Musk influenced or helped design Tesla cars.  He was the money behind it.  I met the engineers who created the Tesla at Moffett Field long before anyone heard of Tesla.  Two of the three guys I met by chance died in that plane crash in 2010.

>... while Twitter was quite large and successful before he purchased it...

It was quite large but Twitter was losing 25 million bucks a month and had only about a year and a half to live.  Nervous stock holders were already looking for an exit.  It is very clear why: Twitter hired way too many humans to do what AI can do.  Musk fired most of the staff and replaced their function with software.  You and I would do the same.

I don't understand why Jack Dorsey didn't AI-ize Twitter as soon as the technology was available.  He could have saved Twitter himself, back in about 2020.  It wouldn't even require AI really.  What most Twitter employees were doing could be done by software by then.

spike


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