I enjoyed the read but I wish this was much shorter, because there’s a lot of very on the nose commentary diluted by meandering dialogue.
I agree. Satire, and near-future satire especially, works best on a less-is-more basis. Eliezer has some writing on the topic of politics & art...
The Twitter long-form feature is partially responsible here, I think: written as short tweets, this would have encouraged Eliezer to tamp down on his stylistic tics, like writing/explaining too much. (It’s no accident that Twitter was most associated with great snark, satire, verbal abuse, & epigrams, but not great literature in general.) The Twitter long-form feature is a misfeature which shows that Musk either never understood what Twitter was good for, or can’t care as he tries to hail-mary his way into a turnaround into an ‘everything app’ walled-garden ‘X’, making Twitter into a crummy blogging app just so no one clicks through to any other website.
I agree. Satire, and near-future satire especially, works best on a less-is-more basis. Eliezer has some writing on the topic of politics & art...
The Twitter long-form feature is partially responsible here, I think: written as short tweets, this would have encouraged Eliezer to tamp down on his stylistic tics, like writing/explaining too much. (It’s no accident that Twitter was most associated with great snark, satire, verbal abuse, & epigrams, but not great literature in general.) The Twitter long-form feature is a misfeature which shows that Musk either never understood what Twitter was good for, or can’t care as he tries to hail-mary his way into a turnaround into an ‘everything app’ walled-garden ‘X’, making Twitter into a crummy blogging app just so no one clicks through to any other website.