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Hard to judge without knowing why he's doing it.


Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he must be brilliant and we simply must wait until he reveals his genius on this one.


Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.


I agree entirely, why decide what's happening based on our own eyes, we just dont know!


Yeah, after all, thinking about things rationally rather than jumping to conclusions is a good habit for people who value the truth highly.




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