My eleventh wife just gave birth to my 58th child. Musk seems perfectly normal to me /s

So you mean that he is weird?

If I were to explore that in more detail, it would cross into armchair psychiatry, which would break my word to @dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028649

Elon Musk is doing well now the same way Elvis Presley or Howard Hughs were doing well in their final years.

Congratulations to Nvidia.

That said, I would be wary about buying shares of any company tied to AI right now.

Very few people scrambling to throw money into 'AI stocks' have any idea about technology. When the music stops it's going to be ugly.

There's no mystery to it: if one trains a chatbot explicitly to eschew establishment narratives, one persona the bot will develop is that of an edgelord.

It's like a 2D version of Brainstorm https://youtube.com/watch?v=K_ZtqsFP1Uc

It's true the phrase, as he uttered it, is ambiguous.

Amusingly, he probably didn't intend for it to be ambiguous, since on a previous occasion he chose the wording "death to every single IDF soldier out there"

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0702/1521558-uk-police...

Your dad was probably representative of many people at intelligence agencies. There's no amount of apparent evil that bureaucracy isn't sufficient to explain.

Well, he was a field agent. His job was to run assets in-country (Valerie Plame had a similar role).

He worked in West Africa, where Russian proxies were trying to foster communist insurgencies.

He was a very, very decent person; maybe too decent. The straw that broke the camel's back, was the Shah of Iran.

There are a couple Miles Copeland books on my reading list. They might be of interest to you. He was a big CIA guy (and also father of famous drummer Stewart Copeland)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland_Jr.

I suspect my father was not a fan.

That's understandable. I just read a Miles Copeland interview from 1986 in which he complains about the CIA apparently assassinating fewer foreign leaders and being too truthful to congress.

I'm not sure, in 2025, if there is a model of car that the public universally considers the world's ugliest.

In the 1980s there was such a car: it was a 1970s Pinto with wood panelling.

https://barnfinds.com/woodie-wagon-1975-ford-pinto-squire/

Cybertruck.

This shouldn't come as a revelation, but it's risky to employ people of low character. There's the risk of theft, lawsuits, etc – not to mention, nobody needs the frustration of dealing with lies and flakiness.

Then fire the CEOs, lawyers, investors, and top management with low character.

I suppose, in that case, it's risky to employ people of lower character than the people managing them.

It's fitting, since Google also once made a "don't be evil" vow.

The main reason people break the vow probably is that they have investors (not just the Carl Icahn types, but rank-and-file employees too). When the numbers for the next quarter stagnate too many times, the pressure apparently makes enshittification irresistible.