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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by jstummbillig on Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:56AM (#47375373)
Why would you start to work for elon musk if you consider yourself a decent person, but him unworkable for? Have you not heard of elon musk beforehand...? Did you let yourself be employed with the specific goal of sabotaging the work, in what must be the least effective (but certainly very lucrative) coup possible?

What is it? Am I to believe this person is a chaotic mastermind? Or a selfish idiot? Or non-existant?

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:24AM (#47375966)
> Why would you start to work for elon musk if you consider yourself a decent person, but him unworkable for?

Anyone working at Twitter at the time of its acquisition could have found themselves in such a position.

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by ben_w on Monday March 16, 2026 @07:34AM (#47397671)
His reputation did not start out in the current state; if it had, I suspect he would never have been able to hold the importance/monetary power that he currently holds.

Changing one's mind about him can take a while.

With the benefit of hindsight, it certainly took me longer than I am happy with to change my mind about him; to be specific, I should have more radically changed my opinion of his personality when he libelled that cave expert in response to being told a submarine wasn't going to help, I should have recognised that only someone with a very fragile ego would react that way, that it wasn't just a blip on his record but something deeper.

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