Gregory's ServerAndrew Ross Sorkin asks Musk about his mental state and Musk dove into how his mental state is admittedly stormy, not in a good way, then said:
"My life is finite, really a flash in the pan in a galactic timescale."
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@stefan @taylorlorenz sadly, they went private so no public call, afaik. I imagine it’s more of a conference call with Larry Ellison and Prince Waleed.   @taylorlorenz Guess little Elon is going through some things. It's always better to go through some things when you're a billionaire.  @taylorlorenz in other words the guy doesn't care what he says because YOLO and he might die tomorrow. What a menace to the human race.   You can watch the whole fiasco via this link. As my colleague noted, people who like Musk, like Trump, will eat this up. But Musk is running a business, not for political office. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/29/business/dealbook-summit-news @taylorlorenz "Musk is running a business" seems way more charitable than he deserves. It seems more like Musk is running a long, complex con and the businesses are just set pieces in the con.  @taylorlorenz @taylorlorenz This is for sure troublesome, but it seems to show Musk is seeing himself from the outside in, along the lines of longtermerism or EA offshoots, and that 1000 km stare (without nuanced approach for contemporaries or short term considerations) is downright alarming coming from the world’s richest man. @cowardlylionel @taylorlorenz I still think he’s got a black market nuke probably in Texas. @cowardlylionel @taylorlorenz he’s rich enough and psychopathic enough to have acquired one.   Techbros: "As a realist I know my time is finite so I want my stupid ideas to have long lasting damage" @taylorlorenz "You know in the grand scheme of things, in 100 trillion years, everything that exists now wont exist, so none of my actions ultimately matter" - the orphan crushing machine operator @taylorlorenz Dead CEO walking. Like, you could wake up tomorrow, Elon could be dead from autoerotic asphyxiation... and suddenly your Tesla stock has gone up 40%. @taylorlorenz a moment of weird reflection there thinking this might have been The Good Sorkin and not the Weird Bad Sorkin.  @taylorlorenz that quote suggests an increasing deathcount in his wake as he nears death for real @taylorlorenz unless his empire goes under within 5 years as predicted and law enforcement catches up with him |
@taylorlorenz I hope he uses that quote at the next investor call.