Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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4am@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anyone who doesn’t believe Elon is taking Twitter on purpose is a fucking moron.
PHLAK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I see that rule posted a lot, but imo it doesn’t really apply to people in power. Infact, trying to apply it to that context is actually dangerous… take Trump as a case study: he’s done immeasurable damage to the US and consistently skirts any kind of real consequence because we just keep giving him the village-idiot pass.
Better to assume every action and outcome are calculated and intentional when we’re talking shit like oligarchs or politicians. Even if they sincerely are just a dumbass, hold them to that same standard, as we really ought to disincentivize dumbasses from running corporations/countries/etc anyway.
PopularUsername@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah it is exactly what people engaging in fraud rely on. The more money that is on the line, the less likely the heuristic works. Reddit had an obsession with popular heuristics. The whole point of one is to quickly make an assessment when you don’t have either the time or resources. It is not a proof, never has been. The other one people always bring up is Occam’s razor. All razors are heuristics, heuristics are never proof.
Although in this case the claim is that Elon is intentionally tanking twitter, which is also a ridiculous claim.
MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hanlon’s razor.
rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I always say that about conspiracy versus ineptitude.
art@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just because he was good at buying his way in to tech companies doesn’t mean he’s smart.
fidelacchius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Elon running Twitter is the best thing that has happened on the platform tbh
scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure… If you believe what’s best for it is a slow, miserable, yet hilarious death.
Exusia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I do, and I’m tired of everyone pretending we haven’t wanted this to happen forever either. Twitter and Facebook gave the rise to celebrity worship that plagues us. Being able to follow their every waking moment like you’re a part of their circle or something has been a pox.
More importantly, a massive company never dies a “peaceful” way. There’s no “glorious death” for a corporation or entity. It’s always a train wreck of bad decisions and failed attempts to save the ship going under. They do not simply run out of money and go quietly into the night when they are a high profile brand. The nicest death a company this size can hope for is being quietly folded like taffy over and over, into other companies like AOL was.
WrittenWeird@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I won’t pretend to not be enjoying the shitshow along with you, but celebrity worship has been around LLLOOONNNGGG before social media, and will continue to be so until there are fewer than 3 humans left alive on the planet.
wtvr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
…or (hear me out) Elon is a fucking moron and is terrible at running a company
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep. You can’t tell me you don’t know a manager who would completely unintentionally do just as shit of a job as Musk.
Well, Musk is that manager when he’s unrestrained. The way he was publicly arguing with software engineers who built the software while himself being clueless, should have been the last confirmation anyone ever needed.
Musk is perpetually sitting at the peak of Mount Stupid of the Dunning Kruger scale.
Teodomo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s what you say but since he took over the “he is doing it on purpose” theory has been grown and been repeated so much that he’s gotta be aware of it (especially with how too online he seems to be) and will probably endorse it in the future to shield himself behind it.
JohnEnigma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
¿Por qué no los dos, mi hermano (o hermana)?
atempuser23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
These are both compelling arguments and it is difficult to know which side has the edge. What are the arguments both for and against deliberate destruction vs incompetence?