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The case for judging Elon Musk by his irreversible decisions
A user argues that people focus too much on Musk’s individual bad decisions and too little on the rare, consequential calls they say he gets right.
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The user argues that Musk can retry most bad decisions but keeps getting the few consequential, irreversible ones right. In a follow-up, they compare his approach to AI’s “bitter lesson” applied to free markets, though they say they cannot yet neatly explain the analogy. They speculate that everything will require exponentially more energy, compute, infrastructure and autonomy.
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