[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
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> > Ja of course.  But everyone has a voice on TwitterX now.  So it provides rebuttals to its own stories.
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> >…But thanks to Elon Musk's algorithm those rebuttals are going to be buried and difficult to find, especially if they are rebutting something that Musk himself has said.’…
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> Sure.  Difficult but less difficult than it was before.

I would say it is impossible for an average or a smart person to sort
out the facts from what passes as "news". Even if that person spent
every waking hour trying.  Consider Colin Powell, a very smart dude
with far more resources than we have, who was taken in by the stories
about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction we now know were false

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> JA!  Exactly the point I was making: Reagan was against ALL tariffs.  No country should have tariffs.  All countries should eliminate all import tariffs, which is my position too.  The current tariff trade war is all about getting US trade partners to stop adding tariffs to American imports.

As far as I know, the Chinese had no tariffs on American imports
before Trump. The same was true for Canada and Mexico under NAFTA.

On test of fact is stupid.  Stupid enough, and it is probably true.
Like the ICE raid that shut down the car plant in Georgia  8000 jobs
will never happen.

We deny China AI chips, and are surprised when they shut off rare
earth elements.

Keith

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