It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter.

Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy

I thought you literally meant Elmo and I found it hilarious.

But srsly bro you shouldn’t be dreaming about celebrities.

To be clear - I’m just agreeing that we could all benefit from being offline . I shouldn’t even be online at 2am!

To paraphrase hitchhikers guide, it may be the clear minded take is Elon needs to get off the internet and you’re fine.

For those who haven't seen it before, HN has a "noprocrast" feature on your profile page, which you can turn on to block access to the site for X minutes.

Can't wait to see the promised payment part of "x".

It's gona have crypto and KYC, doesn't it?

Conveniently the advertizers will likely like the additional info.

As will regimes like the saudis.

I think I'm going to trust Karpathy on this one over random HN commenters, but that's just me:

"Elon also understands deep neural nets a lot more than I think people imagine. He starts with good intuitions and mental models, but also actively asks for technical deep dives, and has very good retention. E.g. I recall teaching him about our use of focal loss in contrast to binary cross-entropy for the object detection neural net (I said it had given us a 5% bump and he asked to know more) and he understood how it works about as quickly as you'd expect a PhD student to. The fact that he can do this across many technical disciplines is impressive and borderline superhuman. I don't think people understand or would believe how low-level and technical typical meetings with him are. Just saying because I get triggered reading way off innacurate takes on this topic (original comment)."

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617

It just fails basic logic, I seriously don’t understand on any level.

I believe in you. You can do it. Dream big.

Legal Disclaimer: not actual advice.

Interesting things start to happen to you once you have too much money. This is a case study that will be written about in the, er, DSM, most likely.

Maybe this is a variant of the long-rumored affluenza?

It's true that the need for all of this right-wing adulation didn't really blow up until Grimes left him for a trans person, but he was always this person. Ask Peter Thiel.

Remember, the entire point of this X exercise is revenge on people who wronged him at PayPal (where he demonstrated total incompetence at managing software projects and people). He's going to show them, dammit. He's going to show all of them!

I don’t know if we know. But they have changed the metric they’re measuring publicly to one that is more “accurate” (according to them) and going up quite a bit.

So I’m sure it’s all wine & roses and they’ll be profitable any day.

I prefer to measure in fortnightly active users per hogshead.

But if you're a bit less fussy about the exact metric, Pew Research has some data on the topic:

> "A majority of Americans who have used Twitter in the past year report taking a break from the platform during that time, and a quarter say they are not likely to use it a year from now, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted about five months after billionaire Elon Musk acquired the site." -- https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/17/majority-...

> "The majority of highly active Twitter users continue to use the site following Musk’s takeover but are posting less frequently on average." -- https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/17/how-us-ad...

Sorry forgot that aspect of the master plan: increase “engagement”, raise server costs, and cut revenue in half at the exact same time to prove once and for all that traffic as a universal measure of site value is an entirely corrupt idea that should be abandoned to focus on actual revenue.

50 steps ahead. Man is a genius.

Probably but only because musk removed actual moderation tools and now spends 24x7 furiously refreshing the timeline to manually permaban anyone not sucking up to him.

Almost all engagement metrics are self-reported, and companies in the "attention economy" tend to lie about them; I don't expect elon musk to be any better.

No, he’s not. He’s something so much better than that we don’t even have a word for it. He is a human singularity, I can’t believe we get to be alive on this earth at the same time as this man.

You are in good company: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

Grandparent comment probably meant to say "no profit" instead of "no revenue". But yeah killing half of your revenue when you aren't even making profit yet is probably a bad idea.

It would make complete sense even if the total revenue was $1, which of course it wasn’t.

I suspect you know exactly what was meant by those two statements..

The phrase "no revenue" should have been "no profit".