And the most relevant theme to the state of Twitter is that Musk has a track record of making claims & plans that don’t have factual reality like this one: https://
theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424
592/tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration
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Musk’s False Claims: Tesla Autopilot and Twitter Reality
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Product Quality Determines Ad Performance Success
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Your ads are doing well because you have a good product people want. Your ads are doing bad because you have a bad product that people don’t think they need.
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Social Media Scale: Followers vs Friends Paradox
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I can have 2M followers. I can’t have 2M friends.
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Model: Economics Without Ads or VC Funding
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That's the fascinating thing about Mastodon though: sure, having everyone join the same couple of suggested servers would improve the onboarding UX no end… but it would make those services prohibitively expensive to operate – and there are no ads and no VCs funding it
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Human-produced Internet content will approach zero
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The fraction of Internet content produced by humans will inevitably dwindle to near zero.
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Startup Founders’ Wealth Contradiction: Ineffective and Miserable
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people who claim to hate wealth and guiltily chase it anyway are both ineffective and miserable the weirdest subset of startup founders for sure
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Artificial Intelligence: The New Electricity Transforming Society
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Artificial intelligence may be considered the new electricity, as it will fundamentally change all industrial sectors and our entire society at large. Also, AI is a general-purpose technology, exactly like electricity, as it is … https://
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Amazon deploys robots to address human workforce shortage
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Amazon can't get enough human workers — so here come the robots
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Society Takes Longer Than Expected to Adopt Powerful AI
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(this is a little bit different than 'slow takeoff'–i think it will just take society longer to figure out what to really do with very powerful than intuition suggests)