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Tulsi Gabbard is the latest official to tell her employees to ignore the email.
Musk is pushing his luck, right? It's only been a month and cracks are already forming among administration officials.
It has to catch up to him at some point. He's playing from the Tiberius Gracchus playbook. Either he will be assassinated by an insane person or the next Democratic administration will put him in solitary.
But imagine betting on black and winning every time 10 times in a row. At some point you must think you have plot armor.
I just hope he can defeat the blob before they inevitably get him.
In terms of his strategy, I think both he and Trump and throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. If they meet resistance, they move on, but they are relying on their greater energy and competency to overwhelm the defenses of the other side. They know they have 2 years to do this, 4 years max. The Trump coalition is unstable without the great man. No one can speak to the rubes like he can. So time is of the essence. And it's why the preferred strategy for the other side is delay. "Of course we want to increase government efficiency, but we just need to do it the right way", says the party that obviously doesn't want to increase efficiency.
Gabbard is not the blob, is she? I thought we were all bullish on her.
If someone with your values is pushing back on you, maybe this is one instance for actual mistake theory.
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Not just that, but betting exponentially increasing amounts on black and winning while crowds of people are insisting that you'd be stupid not to quit or stupid not to bet on red.
I fear he's currently spiraling on psychoactive drugs or something, but trying to picture things from his point of view I don't see how someone with that personal history can manage to pull himself out of making mistakes like that before it's too late. Hypothetically, if you're Musk and you think extra ketamine just gets rid of those damn depressive periods, but people are trying to tell you that they're also making your manic periods reckless, why should you listen to them? Ignoring the naysayers always worked great before!
Ketamine has merit for treatment resistant depression. Now, I don't know what it would do for someone who is bipolar (Musk has claimed, and then denied, having it), but as drugs to try to solve your mental health concerns, there are worse.
I do expect that whatever he does want to use, recreational or otherwise, he has the best doctors money can buy nominally overseeing it. Not that he necessarily listens to them.
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If he is on drugs, they are working great.
I recently learned more about xAI built Colossus, the supercluster that trained Grok3. It's amazing, and probably only Musk could do it in such a short time. Grok went from zero to top or near top in less than 2 years. And xAI is his like third or fourth most important project after SpaceX, DOGE, and Tesla.
Certainly this superhuman level of exertion isn't possible for much longer, but I'd never bet against him. It feels more and more that we're all just NPCs in whatever simulation he created.
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