[jiggawatts]

I'm not saying the Thailand cave diver tweets weren't... a bit too colourful for a CEO.

It's just that I wouldn't attribute that necessarily to an inherent malicious personality type.

You've got to keep in mind that at the time Elon was under enormous pressure because the Model 3 production numbers weren't up to expectations. He was working round-the-clock, sleeping in the office, and taking sleeping pills. Ambien especially is known to cause people to behave erratically.

There's a fundamental difference between leaders that are outright evil, harming others directly for their own gain, and leaders that just fucked up late at night while zonked out on medication.

Take the Sacklers for example. They knowingly, deliberately, purposefully marketed addictive painkillers to make money. They addicted hundreds of thousands of Americans to drugs, and directly killed thousands.

Elon tried to make self-driving as safe as possible. He's limited by technology, not morals.

[mullingitover]

> There's a fundamental difference between leaders that are outright evil, harming others directly for their own gain, and leaders that just fucked up late at night while zonked out on medication.

Generous to assume, given recent revelations, that prescription medication is the drug he was zonked out on while behaving erratically.

> Elon tried to make self-driving as safe as possible. He's limited by technology, not morals.

Arguably the end goal was the make billions of dollars for himself, and self-driving is the lever he found. If he was doing all this for a researcher's salary I'd have an easier time believing he was doing it for humanity's sake.