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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by akudha on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:06PM (#43007035)
What did you like about him until 2018? He is not some visionary or genius or even smart. Neither is/was he a decent person to deal with (read up on his PayPal days). He is however, extraordinarily ruthless and thin skinned.

So what is it that you saw in him that you liked him?

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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by dialup_sounds on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:18PM (#43007751)
Circa 2010 he still had the image of being an outsider and optimist instead of whatever we've got going on today.
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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by creato on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:23PM (#43007796)
(Not OP) I liked his willingness to invest so much in exciting, lofty goals (Tesla, SpaceX).

Twitter wrecked his mind. I'm not talking about buying it, I'm talking about being such a heavy user of it.

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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by johnnyanmac on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:41PM (#43007972)
Shows how vulnerable anyone is to propoganda, no matter how high your quality of life.
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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by braymundo on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @06:59AM (#43011820)
This. He is definitely not a genius and not even smart. He can’t formulate any interesting, original thoughts. He parrots, daily, dumb ideas and state propaganda (for example, russia) without any critical thinking.

The average person on the street is smarter than him.

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