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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by hayst4ck on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:44PM (#33514156)
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this. Musk for a while was a fairly laudable person who garnered a lot of respect. He had a dignified public image. Sometime around the Thailand cave thing he went pretty off the rails and seems to likely have started a pretty serious drug problem.

Just like Rogan, the dilbert guy, and many others he seems to have gone from mostly reasonable to corrupted and self contradictory and it's not really clear how or why that happens. It's hard to know if he was always the way he appears to be now or if there was some kind of transformation.

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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by EFreethought on Monday November 07, 2022 @07:09PM (#33514376)
Call it the "Jordan Peterson Effect", since he seemed to go through that cycle the fastest.
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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by empathy_m on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:28PM (#33514924)
The phrase I've heard is "audience capture": people who spend a lot of time in the public sphere end up tailoring their statements and behavior to whatever gets them the most engagement from their most responsive audience.

I read a thoughtful (but long) discussion of this phenomenon at https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-p...

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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by memish on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:02PM (#33515121)
Elon and Rogan haven't changed.
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