Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
by mbreese on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:36AM
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> Wikipedia disagrees
That’s not a great source for truth. IIRC, the “founding” myths for both companies got a rewrite a little after Musk joined. The entry in Tesla is very clear that he was an investor and not founder. But the entry in SpaceX is a little fuzzier.
> Arguably the kind of AI Twitter needs doesn't pose an existential risk. He's trying to make Twitter profitable so that's obviously a waste of money.
Arguably it does. Shaping the public forum of a society can have profound impacts. You could argue that getting Twitter out of the red is more important at this stage (and that’s not a bad argument), but don’t discount the problems an AI at Twitter could cause.
That’s not a great source for truth. IIRC, the “founding” myths for both companies got a rewrite a little after Musk joined. The entry in Tesla is very clear that he was an investor and not founder. But the entry in SpaceX is a little fuzzier.
> Arguably the kind of AI Twitter needs doesn't pose an existential risk. He's trying to make Twitter profitable so that's obviously a waste of money.
Arguably it does. Shaping the public forum of a society can have profound impacts. You could argue that getting Twitter out of the red is more important at this stage (and that’s not a bad argument), but don’t discount the problems an AI at Twitter could cause.