I just listened to Elon Musk on a Twitter Space that was intended for advertising partners. This is what he said at the outset. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he has little understanding of human communication, or indeed behavior on the platform he owns. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlabMNOgJL?s=20
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@justinhendrix I get the vibe that he thinks humans are black box appliances.
@lumiere2016 @justinhendrix he also doesn’t seem to recognize his own hostile way of being in the world. He makes it sound like he’s running something in a really nice way, like a humanitarian 😂
@crutherford @lumiere2016 @justinhendrix "but don't you want more speech" - unironically from elon