How can you still like Musk?
Post last updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A few days ago, as I was going through my RSS reader's unread posts, one particular post about AI from BearBlog Trending caught my eye because it had an interesting title1. I proceeded to read it. While it started decently, it soon devolved into something that sounded like classical AI-bro propaganda: AI will free us from the boring and hard stuff and will bring us to an epoch of prosperity never seen before. At the end of the post was an Elon Musk quote.
Sigh...
I didn't want to jump to conclusions too fast and went to read more from that blog. I didn't make it very far, as the second post was an ode to X, Grok, and Musk. The tone of the post was kind of like an AI-written text, but I'm not sure about that. What struck me even more was that the post had a considerable number of likes, more than I usually see on posts by some established Bear bloggers. Instinctively, when something online contradicts my expectations or views, my reaction was to think, "These must be likes by bots."
But what if people-and not a small number like I thought-still like people like Musk, Thiel, or Bezos? What if, despite everything abhorrent the majority of these ultra-rich have done to our society in the last decades, the average Joe still finds them cool, trustworthy, and worth looking up to? How could one still harbor such feelings toward such devilish people?
This encounter was another reminder that I'm probably too deep in my own idea bubble, and the worst part is that I don't seem to be able to want to see the other side, either.
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I won't link it in my post, but if you were reading the BearBlog Trending these past days, you probably saw it too.↩