175 sats \ 9 replies \ @Aardvark 30 Oct \ on: What is Elon Musk's greatest contribution to humanity? alter_native
Purchasing Twitter has to be up there. It's hard quantity how much that will contribute to humanity, but I do wonder what it would look like 100 years from now if only one political voice was ever allowed to speak on the internet. It was starting to look pretty ugly for a while.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DesertDave OP 30 Oct
If he is for the people and smart, wouldn't he help grow nostr, instead of buying Twitter. It's still censorship. Just different censorship.
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54 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 30 Oct
That's a very weird sentence. It's like saying "if my doctor was for good health, wouldn't he be working to cure cancer instead of treating patients"
There's always multiple paths to solving problems.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 30 Oct
It is a weird sentence. Sometimes I say things in weird ways. And it bring up a great example. If doctors were for health, they would encourage fasting, meditation and breath work. And yet they don't. Why is that? It isn't because they are all bad. It is because they are part of a sick system. And our sick system is confused about what is best for us. Maybe Elon has good intentions and isn't that smart. Or maybe he is very smart, And is a taker from man. And maybe I am completely clueless and he is doing great things. I am just sharing my perspective.
But answer the question about nostr. Do you think what he is doing with Twitter is better than supporting open source decentralized technology?
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 30 Oct
It's not a question with a quantifiable answer. There's no guarantee that nostr will ever become popular, even with elon musks backing. It's actually less likely now, since half of the internet seems to hate him.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 30 Oct
Well I don't want him backing nostr. I was just making a point. Nostr is like Bitcoin. Nothing is certain. But the writing is on the wall. Some can see it. Some can't. Elon doesn't see it. He is feeding fiat world still. Which doesn't make him bad. But if he is soo smart and visionary...
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 30 Oct
He is for the data and he saw important when he was in Open AI board.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 30 Oct
Guess it depends if he, you know, gets jail time in case they lose election lol
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 30 Oct
For?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 30 Oct
no idea, but he said something like that in a talk recently... "how long do you think my prison sentence will be"?
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