If it involves Elon being a bad guy, it is certain to have HNers salivating at the thought.

Elon isn’t a good guy. But he’s not a bad guy either. He’s just bipolar with no one to constrain his mania.

Can we please stop trying to diagnose mental health issues when we have no background to do so and don’t actually know the patient

My apologies, however Elon has identified as bipolar publicly.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4746914/Elon-Musk...

As someone who has bipolar as well, I think it’s an important thing to talk about and glad he has. Now that he has, I hope we can too without being shut down. It’s not uncommon in our field but it has a huge stigma attached to it that’s unhelpful to the people with it, or to the people are are affected by a friends, coworkers, or loved ones mania or depression. When I’m under a lot of stress I tend towards mania, especially when it’s “good stress” like an achievement or great new job or something really exciting to work on. Inexorably I get drawn into a pit of despair, especially as I start to realize the impact my mania has had on my relationships and reputation. I have a good network and good self awareness built over 30 years of meditation and Buddhist study, so the impacts are mitigated.

I suspect if people understood bipolar and were willing to discuss and learn, we might understand better what Elon does and why. He’s not bad. He’s just different. Bipolar is considered an dimension of neurodiversity, and like other aspects like autism, is nothing to be ashamed of.

He literally tweeted that he’s maybe not medically bipolar. Don’t take daily mail headlines at face value

At this point, after attempting to start a literal fight with Zuckerberg, Musk is proposing a penis-measuring contest.

He appears to be decompensating in real time. If that's salivation fodder, so be it, but it just makes me sad. You hate to see it happen... or at least I do.

He's joking but making less than no effort to communicate like someone who owns a large company normally would.

Maybe Russia has been injecting lead into his water supply lol.

I’m also saddened.

Musk is not really a hero or a villain, but his manic stages have given us our first realistic shot at becoming a spacefaring civilization, and moved the needle big time on the lock that the perro cartels had on the automotive industry vis-a-vis electric cars.

I hope elon gets better. Losing a billionaire tech maximalists manic episodes is going to set us back decades as more reasonable people chase profit instead of dreams.

It feels very ignorant to think you can diagnose someone has having manic episodes when you know nothing about them as a person, their motivations, their mental health history, and base all your opinions on mainstream outrage over tweets that are less dumb than most people’s

I don’t have a diagnosis obviously, I mean manic as a description of his apparent behavior, not as a pathology. Still, he seems to be not doing great if his social media is to be taken at face value (which is dicey at best) so I do hope that he gets better.

He has admitted it.

I mean, seemed like an obvious joke to me. I thought it was funny.

I think this commentary was pithier in your head...

https://hackernoon.com/how-openai-transitioned-from-a-nonpro...

A "capped" profit of 100x is absolutely ridiculous. That is not even the slightest attempt to stay in the same ballpark as nonprofit.

Blaming any loss of Elon money for that is spin.

And he still gave them a hundred million.

Not sure what you're on about, both my comment and the article are about how they went for-profit.

They went for-profit because they needed to raise.

They raised after Elon reneged a fraction of the way into his promise of $1B. (and not 100MM deep: he silently revised his figures after TC started digging.)

It's not complicated but you seem to want to make it complicated.

They didn't need to go that far, and they gaslit people about it. Elon is not responsible for either of those.