I haven’t had a chance to give my opinion on what is without question the most important takeover in my lifetime. The town square, the place where opinions are created and promoted, has been acquired by the greatest industrialist in generations. On the surface people are viewing this as a rebuke against the fascist tendencies of Twitter married with the overly oppressive US govt. Of course the spin is, twitter was just trying to protect people from disinformation and prevent bullying; but anyone who is on Twitter and not just reading the talking points understands that US govt policy is married to the corporate policies of Twitter, which made it big brother — an oppressive venue that cast out dissenters or people who posed a threat to US policy.
Elon simply isn’t concerned with US policy and is a businessman. He says the economics don’t mean anything but he’s been evasive regarding his true goals for Twitter, which has nothing to do with small minded ads or absurd pro versions. Elon, being a long time advocate for AI, will tackle bots to eradicate false data inside the platform and then create various engines which could then use clusters of data to predict the future. Forget about the google search engine. It’s antiquated compared to the real time Twitter streams.
What Elon is after and what he will build, and the reason why he’s going to open up the API to allow developers to create on top of the platform, is an artificial intelligence engine that can eventually be manipulated with inputs to cause outcomes.
This might sound like batshit sci-fi stuff but google and IBM are already working on super computers to do this very thing.
Whoever is in control of the most data can A/B test the fuck out of human behavior to eventually be able to comfortably peer into the future.
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“can eventually be manipulated with inputs to cause outcomes.”
Nailed it.
They already can do this, but lots of room for improvement or more accurately gain of function
Reading that he’s going to open source the algorithms. This is a genius move; I expect this to become a trend in Silicon Valley in the same way that Microsoft was eventually forced to embrace open source and make investments in Linux. Where are your algorithms, Google?
One of the things that makes Tesla valuable is that they have about a 98% share of the world’s vehicle road user data – they are always and everywhere collecting real time data from their vehicles and training their neural networks with it.
Same idea can be applied to Twitter, with linguistic AI systems that I understand Musk already possesses. If I’m not mistaken these were open source until recently but were closed as Musk felt it too dangerous to release in the wild.
Interesting times. I think that in a few years this will be seen as the deal of the century.
Bezos seems pissed off about it.
All Jokes aside, I canceled Bloomberg because ZeroHedge and TheRealFly provide market news quicker.
Big Upside for Musk to fk Google
I’ve been seeing ZH relying on The Real Fly more frequently for news content.
iBc and The Fly’s Twitter feed before ZH for news.
I’m going to start referring to him as Señor Cronkite.
Rumor has it that Soros is considering a hostile takeover of News Corp/Fox. The Murdoch kids are ready to cash out.
Hope he does. That would turn Fox into CNN causing massive financial losses to Soros. Not that he can’t afford it.
I saw a now infamous clip from an extreme leftist “news” network where the commentator/fakenews broadcaster said words to the effect of: ‘but it’s SO dangerous, what if Musk allows the banning of a candidate or bans information from one side only, he could CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF AN ELECTION!!’
Really? Hmmm..
Our fellow kiddos have already chosen the Chinese to track them via TikTok. He’s got two years to make a better hook…
This was my thought as well. Elon is buying the data and access to the data. It’s not difficult to see.
twitter blows. @this @that #this #that….who gives a rat’s a$$. although I can appreciate the fact that millions do utilize it to communicate, many of them terrorists or freedom fighters…I have no use for it.
Hope he shuts it down.. won’t happen bummer