[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[Kelly Anderson]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 5:14 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *And I would NOT have spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter, and at the
> time I publicly said as much on this list. Musk was not a trillionaire in
> 2022 and way back then $44 billion was real money; if instead he had used
> that money for AI research then today Grok would not be an also ran in the
> rapidly accelerating AI race and the man would be a multi-trillionaire.
> Instead poor old Musk is barely a trillionaire and all he got from that 44
> billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy
> theories, lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis.*
>

At the risk of feeding the troll, I want to address the purchase of X by
Elon Musk. Honestly, I didn't get it at the time either, but now that I
understand the objective, I think it was a pretty smart move.

The reason for acquiring Twitter was primarily to obtain the raw data to
feed his own insatiable AI, Grok. When you look at the value of the data as
AI training data—which nobody else has such easy access to— I believe it
starts to make sense. To my knowledge, nobody does a better job of putting
all the pieces of the Elon-verse together than a YouTuber named Farzad.
This guy previously worked for Elon and has made it his life's work to
understand how all the parts work together. When viewed through Farzad's
very wide angle lens, everything Elon has done (with the exception of DOGE,
so far as I know) fits into a big overall picture that is really pretty
amazing.

-Kelly
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