Lots has been said about Musk owning Twitter.

In reality I think it's Twitter that owns him, make something viral on Twitter and this guy will feel the need to inject himself into that topic or regurgitate his opinion on whatever it is that is trending.

Rule #1 that any smart dealer knows is to never get hooked on the stuff that you are selling.

What's amazing is that, with all the internal Twitter info Musk is privy to, he is still getting sucked in.

It’s not that different than the owner of a club getting into whatever artist is getting traction in his club.

However the club owner supposedly has friends around him and he’s taken along for the ride

Musk is getting sucked in by a bunch of people who he never met.

With enough coordination twitter users could pull a psyop on him and he’d never know any better

Maybe he hired someone to tweet.

Musk was already hooked - he just bought the delivery operation because he wanted to mainline the good stuff without risking the dealer flake on him.

Why are they pretending Musk is running the company? Why is whoever will actually be running the company okay with that?

Possibly money. Also, there is an appeal to the idea of being able to run a capable, well resourced research team while Musk acts as a lightning rod for the idiots on twitter.

> the formation of what he’s calling xAI, whose goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.”

Sounds ( a bit ) like the plot of Devs: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/

The Devs is an amazing mini-series, and I think highly underrated (or just unknown) among the nerds. The summary doesn't really give away how big the plot gets.

Let's hope this is being run by the SpaceX Musk and not the Twitter Musk.

You can see the team at https://x.ai

SpaceX is run by Gwynne Shotwell, not Musk.

This is pedantic. Everyone associates SpaceX with Musk obviously.

To be pedantic he would have to be right. He's just wrong. Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, Shotwell is the COO and president.

Sure. But in terms of the actual day to day stuff that prevents chaos and clusterfuckery, that's what actually matters

No one has ever complained about Musk running SpaceX.

Yes, for the exact same reason nobody has ever complained about me running SpaceX - because neither of us does.

Well, only one of you two is listed as the CEO of SpaceX. And I would expect that if there was much to complain about, it would be directed at that person, not at a random unaffiliated person on HN.

Fact: Musk does not run SpaceX. It doesn't matter if he has the CEO title.

Cool. CEO is still a title of a person representing the face of the company, regardless of whether he or Gwyneth Shotwell actually runs the company (which, i believe, is very common knowledge at this point that Shotwell is).

My point being, sure, you can say complaints should be directed towards Shotwell instead of Musk, despite Musk being the CEO. However, claiming that directing complaints towards entirely unaffiliated random HN users makes as much sense as directing them towards the company CEO is just bs.

Ok, so going back: Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple and Tim Cook the COO. Who ran Apple at this time?

Hint: The COO is just an executor.

That’s because he doesn’t.

Aka not Musk.

Hopefully Dan Hendrycks advises them to pack their bags and go home before they fuck everything up.