[jfray2k22]

As an ex-tweep, there are plenty of architectural decisions that I didn't agree with or that didn't go as well as had hoped. On the other hand, there were some amazing feats of engineering going on as well and a lot of super-talented folks. Just like any other high-visibility, high-scale system.

As much as I'd like to blame Musk's tantrums on his obvious lack of technical chops, I think it's far more likely that they're due to a combination of his piss-poor emotional intelligence and realizing that he was wrong about so many of his pre-purchase criticisms.

Now that he can actually tell that right-wing provocateurs were actually being algorithmically boosted and not suppressed, that there was no concerted "censorship" efforts (moderation is not censorship), and that the people he's been championing are full-on toxic to Twitter's viability and any chance at monetization, he'd rather burn Twitter (the service, it's most devoted users, and it's employees) down than admit he's wrong.

[BulgarianIdiot]

$44 billion say he can't burn down Twitter. If he burns down Twitter, he has to sell most of his Tesla shares. He'll fight tooth and nail to make Twitter work.

The problem is that eagerness to do a lot of work combined with incompetence & arrogance is by far the worst combination for a CEO, and I think Elon is exhibiting it with Twitter.

[jfray2k22]

If he was in any way trying to save his stake in Twitter and Tesla, he wouldn't be acting out the way he is. Dude's completely divorced from reality at this point.

My wife's tinfoil-hat theory is that, after reading about the amphetamine problem at FTX, that many of the Effective Altruism cultists (Elon included) are hooked on speed and making some really horrible decisions.

[_djo_]

Thanks for the insight, I think you’re right about those motivations.