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by jqgatsby 1419 days ago
plot twist: the spam analysis tool is correct, and Elon is actually a robot, ala Stephen Byerley in Asimov's "Evidence".
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I quite like the plot twist where Elon isn't actually a robot, but he becomes fully convinced he is. He's already expressed sympathies with arguments we're all living in a simulation, right?
His Tweets are all done with an iPhone, as Twitter allows you to see what client a tweet was made from. The only way bot behavior could be done on a smartphone, is if the phone is an iOS virtual machine, and the tweets are programmatically generated using some algo.
You're neglecting the simple solution of a hot dog moved around by a few actuators. Musk could totally be replaced by one of these.

Or some other stylus that you can use on a touchscreen with your hands in non-conductive gloves. But a hot dog is funnier.

I'm now seeing Elon Musk in that one universe from Everything, Everywhere, all at Once.
Not if the bot has a physical form and is able to interact with a physical iPhone.