Scott Alexander’s review of a 2015 biography of Elon Musk. Elon Musk, to me, is one of the world’s most confusing people. He’s simultaneously both one of the smartest people in the world, creating billions of dollars of value in companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and one of the dumbest, in burning billions on Twitter. Scott’s review I think is a good explanation of what’s up with Musk.
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The Twitter throttling that Musk has detailed since he took over was worse than most "conspiracy theories".
He had Twitter add the public view count so to provide future transparency about throttling.
You are referring to the throttling over accounts, yes? Wherein Twitter would deboost certain accounts? That's a related claim, but not what's in contention.
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