Musk’s twitter use reminds me a lot of Trump’s “mean tweets”. It seems some tweets are just what he thinks, but sometimes it seems he’s just poking the bear to make people realize there are problems that aren’t even on their radar. Lucky for us, he does lots of stuff, so we have plenty of actions to also judge his character on. To me, he seems like a mixed bag and to be watched closely…

Also: If AI goes where Musk says he thinks it will in the next 100 years, a wild majority of people will be as unemployable as particularly low IQ people are now. So unless he’s like the cabal types that are happy to just “delete” people, universal basic income would be needed.

Also if the concept of UBI is simply just as distasteful sounding to you as it it for me… Consider this: Companies/governments are collecting MASSIVE amounts of data from MASSIVE amounts of people to create AI intended to replace them. So perhaps the only ethical version of “UBI” should actually just come in the form of people receiving dividends for them inadvertently being part of creating their replacements…

I suppose we could just change what IQ makes you considered disabled legally based on how common AI replacements are, but that really doesn’t sound great for human mental health overall.

While I don’t agree with him on plenty of stuff, he seems to at least maintain his stance on being pro-humanity and has consistent lines of logic.