AndromedaAnimated t1_j28xo6f wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:37 PM

Reply to comment by Cryptizard in the singularity is already a threat to our mental well-being by Ohigetjokes

How do you know what he really cares about? Do you know him personally?

Creating scandals is a way of attaining popularity too. He could totally be trolling you all.

Cryptizard t1_j28xw9q wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:39 PM

He lost like a hundred billion dollars buying Twitter on a dare basically. He tweets all day long, mostly yelling at random people. Do you think that is something a well-adjusted billionaire would do?

AndromedaAnimated t1_j28z4sl wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:48 PM

I think yes. If I was a billionaire with an idea or two, and knew that humanity is pretty stupid in general and would not listen to my ideas if presented seriously, I would DEFINITELY do things like this to make myself heard.

Seriously suspecting it’s a method, no joke here. Trump is doing the same by the way just a bit more obviously.

sideways t1_j2awp0a wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:22 PM

As you pointed out, we don't know Musk (or Trump) personally.

Given that, follow Occam's Razor - narcissistic behavior indicates a narcissist not some subtle master plan. Don't fall for the halo effect.

AndromedaAnimated t1_j2azobj wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:42 PM

Behavior can be interpreted as narcissistic without being such. I am very sceptical of the „every person that behaves offensively in any way is a dysfunctional or even malignant narcissist“ hype, as there are other personality flaws or peculiarities that produce similar behavior. There are psychopaths and sociopaths (both summarised as antisocial personality disorder), there are neurotypical humans with strong „dark triad“ traits, there are other personality disorders like histrionic or borderline personality disorder that also show similar symptoms etc. etc.

I am not a fan or judging people by their silly behavior on Twitter and such. I prefer judging by deeds in science and market - and Elon Musk has good ideas and has done lots of interesting things. So I suspect that what he does is strategic more than disordered.

But that’s just me maybe.

sideways t1_j2b5ktc wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:23 PM

You are right that it's a mistake to jump from what someone says on social media to a psychiatric diagnosis!

Still, "silly behavior on Twitter" has a lot more impact when you are the owner of Twitter or the leader of a political movement than for regular people and it's reasonable to be held responsible for that impact.

At any rate, I agree that it's more important to judge people by what they do than what they say.