Interesting. Would you share your current measurement, and prediction of change over what timescale? In my circles (which are not mostly self-identified as “rationality etc”), most of the change happened already—a shift from “annoying crazy person, with a genius for getting cool stuff into production” to “complete maniac who had lucky results when his lunacy was constrained, but that’s no longer the case”. This change happened mostly before and during the Twitter/X runup, not since the actual sale and changes.
I see fandom. I hardly see people discussing that Elon Musk retweets and promotes very problematic things, which seem like he builds his political worldviews on very low-quality sources. And I hardly see people noticing that such concentration of power can in itself be a problem.
And I hardly see people noticing that such concentration of power can in itself be a problem.
Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done. If you take robert Moses, the concentration of power around him was problematic but he got things build.
Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.
As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.
“Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done.”
Sure some amount of power may be productive, but very high concentration of power can be problematic, for example as it puts people on the powerful person’s Mercy.
“Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.”
I assume “feature” in this cases means correlate, not cause.
“As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.”
This is hard to compare. Influencing opinions is relevant.
I would also say that Musk’s tweets are informative in forming expectations about what he might use control of strategically important technologies for in the future. In general, I would prefer if a person did not have infinite power to determine the ability of societies to act, and I guess there is an amount of power lower than infinite at which this becomes problematic.
It’s always surprising (which means it should be never surprising) how much of a bubble I (and you, it seems) am in. I have multiple partially-overlapping groups, NONE of which view Musk as overall admirable, though some are more balanced in evaluating his successes and offenses.
Interesting. Would you share your current measurement, and prediction of change over what timescale? In my circles (which are not mostly self-identified as “rationality etc”), most of the change happened already—a shift from “annoying crazy person, with a genius for getting cool stuff into production” to “complete maniac who had lucky results when his lunacy was constrained, but that’s no longer the case”. This change happened mostly before and during the Twitter/X runup, not since the actual sale and changes.
Measurement would be an exaggeration.
I see fandom. I hardly see people discussing that Elon Musk retweets and promotes very problematic things, which seem like he builds his political worldviews on very low-quality sources. And I hardly see people noticing that such concentration of power can in itself be a problem.
Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done. If you take robert Moses, the concentration of power around him was problematic but he got things build.
Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.
As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.
“Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done.”
Sure some amount of power may be productive, but very high concentration of power can be problematic, for example as it puts people on the powerful person’s Mercy.
“Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.”
I assume “feature” in this cases means correlate, not cause.
“As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.”
This is hard to compare. Influencing opinions is relevant.
I would also say that Musk’s tweets are informative in forming expectations about what he might use control of strategically important technologies for in the future. In general, I would prefer if a person did not have infinite power to determine the ability of societies to act, and I guess there is an amount of power lower than infinite at which this becomes problematic.
It’s always surprising (which means it should be never surprising) how much of a bubble I (and you, it seems) am in. I have multiple partially-overlapping groups, NONE of which view Musk as overall admirable, though some are more balanced in evaluating his successes and offenses.