• by rsynnott on 1/16/2025, 3:59:27 PM

    Wow, obviously hit a nerve.

    I do get the impression that he wants desperately to be liked, but is just, well, really really good at giving people reasons to dislike him.

  • by grajaganDev on 1/16/2025, 2:44:45 PM

    PG responds that he was thinking mainly of conversations with ordinary people not polls.

    Then Musk goes unhinged.

  • by GuestFAUniverse on 1/16/2025, 2:54:13 PM

    Answer: "Don't be a retard who fakes playing games."

  • by kkaatii on 1/16/2025, 2:59:43 PM

    I think when one experiences enough odds in their favor, they begin to disregard indications of prior probabilities that aren't in their favor.

  • by keernan on 1/16/2025, 5:04:04 PM

    Many Musk related posts get flagged.

    Being the wealthiest guy on earth who constantly puts himself on public display, I would imagine he pays an army of people to protect his perception of himself. I wonder: is this an example?

  • by pmdulaney on 1/16/2025, 2:56:53 PM

    So who is PG?

  • by DemocracyFTW2 on 1/16/2025, 3:18:35 PM

    This is priceless:

    > Paul Graham @paulg·22h

    > I was thinking mainly of conversations I've had with ordinary

    > people. I don't think you realize the size of the gap between how

    > your tweets about the UK seem to people in Texas and how they seem

    > to people in the UK.

    > Elon Musk @elonmusk·10h

    > Oh please. You live in an aristocratic country house in the English

    > countryside.

    > Your kids go to an elite private day school and you sit at home all

    > day on the Internet.

    > Mr. Paul Graham hasn’t run into an ordinary person in years.

    Elon is as always projecting and only talking about himself.

  • by lysace on 1/16/2025, 2:49:43 PM

    The actual quote:

    > Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls

    Why did you alter it in the title of this post? The original phrasing fits in the HN title limit.