[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 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.

I might buy that except for one detail.  Did Elon know at the time he
started negotiations to acquire Twitter that this need for training
data was coming?