Refusing to engage billionaires on twitter—especially ones that are sufficiently open to being convinced that they will drop $44 billion for something as pedestrian as a social media company.
What on earth are you talking about? In the hyperlink you mention he is engaging him; he’s just stating the brute fact that it would be really hard to deploy the money, which is something true and necessary for someone to understand if they were to try this. Doing the standard political thing of just grifting and assuring him that all he needs to do is pour money into the field would be unhelpful.
Notice the last time that someone “engaged” Elon Musk we got OpenAI. It is empirically extraordinarily easier to pour gasoline on the problem with barrels of money by accelerating race dynamics than it is to get meaningful work done.
What on earth are you talking about? In the hyperlink you mention he is engaging him; he’s just stating the brute fact that it would be really hard to deploy the money, which is something true and necessary for someone to understand if they were to try this. Doing the standard political thing of just grifting and assuring him that all he needs to do is pour money into the field would be unhelpful.
Notice the last time that someone “engaged” Elon Musk we got OpenAI. It is empirically extraordinarily easier to pour gasoline on the problem with barrels of money by accelerating race dynamics than it is to get meaningful work done.