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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Apr 26, 2022, at 8:25 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>>… 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<br><br>>… he’s hardly a John Galt. Dan<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>### Is Musk a "scion of a wealthy family"? Did he step his way up the financial ladder via dipping into the tax fund? Rafal <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is what Elon actually said:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=398 height=433 style='width:4.1458in;height:4.5104in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D859BD.CDF053C0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>