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When Musk tweets on technical topics one can tell that either he's just trying to fool people or is completely clueless himself.

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And the top 1000 replies for any stupid thing he says are nothing but positive reinforcement from boosted blue check bot accounts that bury any actual criticism.

If you hide the boosted replies, you find Twitter's thread loading stopping after about 200 while it's trying to fill the space you made, so you're lucky to get more than a few non-boosted replies under one of his "popular" Tweets, they're bidding for a very limited space under there.

Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies - if you speak confidently about a topic where I know better I should judge your false confidence for other topics on which I know no more than you, because you're probably bullshitting just as much.

Crichton claimed this effect was unique to popular newspapers - but actually I think today we can say it applies elsewhere, people will see that Musk hasn't the faintest idea how software engineering works and then go straight back to believing on aerospace.

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