>I'm sort of terrified about the opportunity cost to humanity when billionaires want to settle an idle theory about markets and start devoting cycles to that.

you act like tesla is giving away electric cars to underprivileged minorities and spacex is ferrying school kids to better school districts. it's always all fun and games and that anyone believes otherwise speaks to efficacy the marketing/ideology machine

Call me a sucker, but I do think electrification, AI, and space tech have a nonzero chance of improving humanity's future. Gil Scott Heron's right that rockets don't put food on the table though. So for more immediate problems, note that Buffett has also pushed tech billionaires towards charitable causes in other interactions:

https://givingpledge.org

sucker

Right on the money. Looks like Elon is the one taking it a bit too seriously. His behavior is erratic, flying too close to the Sun

> His behavior is erratic, flying too close to the Sun

If anything I'd say he's working too much. His behaviour has always seems to have been outgoing but now it's downright hostile.

He needs to take a few weeks off surely someone in his companies can run them without being micromanaged every minute of every day by Musk?

Exactly what I meant, my words should have been less poetic perhaps. He's putting so much pressure on himself and his companies (a lot of the time self imposed), and the media treats him unfairly a lot of the time. What I'm seeing is nothing but signs of burnout indeed, nothing personality related

> (...) and the media treats him unfairly a lot of the time

I find the idea that the media treats Elon Musk unfairly laughable. He is consitently portrayed either as a genius that can make anything happen or as a lunatic that can make anything happen. He couldn't have more favorable media coverage if he was writing the headlines himself.

That's exactly what unfair means: he's not a genius nor a lunatic. Favorable (never used that term) ≠ Fair