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Dan Romero
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cf. stated preference vs. revealed preference https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1648373383099297792
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fwiw as someone building a product that’s competing with Elon every day, I can tell that I take him seriously and wish I was competing with the caricature that many like to think he is. :)
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I think there are enough snapshots of public behavior to judge him as a petty person who often falls short of thoughtful. I do think he has redeeming qualities, but the caricatures I see and hear don’t seem to be wildly fabricated. I also think you are competing with something much much much bigger than Elon.
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Dan Romero
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The rockets and market-leading electric cars would suggest otherwise. :)
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Alephwyr
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I would suggest Elon Musk fulfils the same functional role as a king or emperor and that said role is mostly a means of facilitating social and economic coordination. He is basically just a Schelling point for motivated intelligent people who is offering them access to capital and other intelligent people.
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I mean historically you have to be a Caligula or an Elagabulus or a Nero before the institutional consensus becomes "you are an incompetent leader", because humans instinctively close ranks. You can literally do nothing and be an effective leader. That we are even having this discussion is a huge red flag.
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Red flag indicating what? “Just” is the part I have a problem with here. In a world without him no reusable rockets, no enormous forcing function to move to electric.
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Alephwyr
@alephwyr
Unprovable
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About as provable as “just a a schelling point”
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Suppose you just left a giant pile of cash equivalent to his investments behind an electronically locked door that only opens if you can answer high level physics and engineering questions about rocketry, pass a background check, and submit a 90th percentile CV. Does this automated solution work better or worse?
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It… doesn’t work at all?
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Alephwyr
@alephwyr
Explain your intuition
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Ok I’ll play. I don’t really know what the experiment is supposed to accomplish but the thing is - what you described is the entire financial sector in terms of IQ & Cash availability amongst others. There’s nothing without will & vision
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I'm sure will and vision are doing something, but that something feels purely related to increasing coordination somehow. I don't know that "increasing coordination" is an endogenous property of individuals. If it is, I don't know that it can be called a skill in any way.
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Isn’t the repeated success across hard domains - payments (late 90’s) to cars, solar, rockets, satellites proof of anything?
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