Name: Elon Musk on Buying Twitter and Turning It Into X
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Elon Musk on Buying Twitter and Turning It Into X' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-31. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience. What has it been like you've you've owned X for a
year now?
Oh yeah. Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and have a dream that
you didn't do it?
And your life is infinitely easier? Well it's certainly a recipe for trouble I
suppose or
contention. What was it ultimately that led you to make the decision to do it?
I mean this is gonna sound somewhat melodramatic but I was worried about
that it was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having
a
bad a bad impact. And I think part of it is that it's where it's where it was
located which is you know downtown San Francisco. And while I think San
Francisco
is a beautiful city and and we should really fight hard to kind of right the
ship of San Francisco. If you walk around downtown San Francisco right near the
XFK
Twitter headquarters it's a zombie apocalypse. I mean it's rough. Have you been
in that area?
Not lately. No. I've heard. It's crazy. I've heard it's crazy. I've heard you
you
really can't believe it until you actually go there. You can't believe it until
you go
there. So now you have to say well what philosophy led to that outcome? And
that
philosophy was being piped to earth. So you know philosophy that would be ordinarily
quite niche and geographically constrained. So the debt sort of the fallout
area would be
limited. Was effectively given an information a weapon. An information
technology weapon to propagate
what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth. And the outcome of that
mind virus is very
clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end
of civilization.
And it's not just propagating the mind virus but suppressing any opposing viewpoints.
Yes. Well in order for the virus to propagate it must suppress opposing viewpoints.
So because
it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Correct. Yeah. I mean you've you've felt the
virus. Yeah.
Yeah. People try to cancel you so many times. Yeah. It's fascinating. Yeah. I
don't think you're
melodramatic at all. I think it's a it's a I mean I don't want to be melodramatic
but it's almost like
a death cult. It's a death cult. No no. That is exactly right. It's essentially
the extinctionists.
Like it's in the limit. It is that they're propagating the extinction of
humanity and civilization.
And there's some people who are like most most time it's it's implicit they don't
expect it's but
sometimes it's explicit like there's a guy on the front page of New York Times
who literally has
the thing called the extinctionist movement and he was quoted on the front page
of New York Times as
saying there are eight billion people on the world but it would be better if
there were none.
And I'm like well buddy you can start with yourself. Yeah. Does he have friends?
That's what always
fascinating. Well here he is. That guy. He looks like you not long for this
earth. I mean he doesn't
he's not young. Voluntary human extinction movement. That's hilarious. I'd like
to party with that dude.
I would just like to like. That's the that's that's that's that's that's an
explicit version of the
death cult. Yeah maybe live long and die out. I mean it's it's not the
extinction is a word he uses.
Yes. No I mean it's not a it's literally a self description. Did they cover him
glowingly? That death cult was in charge of
social media. Yeah. And still largely is at uh Google and Facebook by the way.
Yeah.
Yeah. So I'm like uh I'm not in favor of uh human extinction uh they are and uh
they can go to hell.
Well that guy is. Yeah. He can go to hell. That guy seems silly. I would like
to hang out with him
though. I would like to find out what makes him tick. I bet that guy is
fascinating. Well if you get
him alone for a few days. I mean I'm in favor of I mean I'm pro-environment but
the the the in the limit
uh if you go if if take environmentalism to an extreme you start to view
humanity as a plague on
the surface of the earth. Like a like a mold or something. Right. Um and but it's
it's this is actually
false. Uh the earth could could take probably ten times the the current
civilization. The population
could be you could 10x the population without uh destroying the marine forest.
So the the the
the environmental movement and I'm an environmentalist uh has gone too far.
They've gone way too far.
Um you know if you if you start thinking that that humans are bad then the
natural conclusion is humans
uh should die out. Now I'm headed to an AI safety international sort of AI
safety conference uh
late at night leaving in about three hours. Um and um I don't meet with the
British Prime Minister
a number of other people. Um so you have to say like how could AI go wrong?
Well if if if AI gets programmed
by the extinctionists it will it's utility function will be the extinction of
humanity.
So I mean there are times when when masks are warranted but most of the time it's
it's actually
counterproductive. Well that was one of the things about the old twitter was
the propaganda and yeah the
adherence to whatever the CDC was saying and the dismissing of legitimate
scientists. Guys like uh Jay
Bhattacharya from Stanford and legit guys. Yes. And they were suppressing them
and even banning them.
They banned Alex Berenson. I mean it's just it was wild. They banned Alex for
essentially reading
peer-reviewed papers. Yeah. No I mean all twitter was basically an arm of the
government. Yeah.
So was that shocking like what was that like because that to me that was the
most bizarre was the twitter
files when you let Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi and all those guys get in the
Twitter and the response
where Matt Taibbi gets audited. I mean which is just wild. I mean it's just so
blatant and so in your face.
Yeah it's weird. Yeah it's weird. No I I mean
the really yeah the really which and by the way Jack didn't really know know
this but the degree to
which twitter was simply um an arm of the government was not well understood by
the public and uh it was
there was no it was whatever the official government it was like Pravda
basically um you know it's a state
publication is the way to think of old twitter it was a state publication. And
was the justification
from their perspective that they are progressive liberals they have the right
intentions it's
important that they stay in power the progressive liberals stay in government
and power because this
is the this is their there was there was uh basically oppression of um any any
views that would even
i would say could be considered middle of the road um but certainly anything on
the the right i'm not
talking about like like far right i'm just talking mildly right the people like
republicans were
suppressed at 10 times the rate of democrats um now that's because uh old
twitter was fundamentally
controlled by the far left it was like completely controlled by the the far
left and that's why i say
like like you know like san francisco berkeley is a niche ideology it's hard to
say like is there a
place that's more far left than san francisco berkeley maybe portland maybe
portland but it's like
it's right there yeah it's like it's those two places are the the most far left
places uh in america yes
um so from their standpoint everything is to the right including moderates
right right so but now
if if but if you internalize a far left position uh everything seems wrong to
you that if that is not
far left right and so they naturally oppressed any anything that didn't agree
with their views that's
why i say that it was an accidental far left information weapon so uh is it
because it's like silicon valley
attracts the smartest engineers the smartest sort of technologists and
programmers from around the world
um they created an information weapon that was then harnessed by the far left
who could not
themselves create the weapon but happened to be co-located where the technologists
were
it happened to be aligned politically with the people that possessed it the
technologists uh generally are
moderate maybe moderate left but they're they're not they're they're not far
left that's why i say san
francisco berkeley it's it doesn't even extend to south san francisco or even
to palo alto
so so sf berkeley is the most far left um perhaps you know in a competition
with portland but i'd say
sf berkeley is more far left even than portland
but like literally in america it's we're talking about an area that's maybe a
10 mile radius
and so the normally the the effects the negative effects of a far left ideology
that is would be
geographically limited to a 10 mile radius that's like not it's small like so
so any bad effects of
that ideology would be geographically constrained under normal circumstances
and have been in the past
but when you have uh basically a technology technological megaphone which which
was twitter and
and social media in general suddenly the the far left are handed a megaphone to
earth
at a an incredibly powerful technology weapon that they themselves could not
create
but they happen to be co-located with the technologists who created it by
accident
is it shocking that more people don't understand how dangerous that is
i think some people understand um some people do some people understand um so i
mean from the standpoint
of of some people who used to be at twitter uh that people like well it's a big
shift to the right that
is correct it is shift to the right because everything is to the right if you're
far left everything is to
the right but it's but how many far left people have actually been suspended or
banned from from twitter
now x zero
so it's really just moved to the center but from the perspective of the far
left it is it's moved to the
right it's like everything's right it's like everything's relative the the the
the difference
in a moderation i should say it's probably propagated that far left philosophy
not just to america but
to everywhere on earth right yeah yeah and with the same level suppression in
other countries as well yes
but the taliban is on twitter right like i always think of like hey mr taliban
telling me a banana
hey mr taliban i mean there but there's definitely some people on twitter that
are daylight coming i want
to go yeah um yeah so the point at the point is um i that i from my standpoint
uh that is that
fk twitter um should uh represent the sort of collective consciousness of
humanity
so now that that means that there are going to be views on there that you don't
like
or disagree with um but that's humanity so are you going to exclude them or or
not now i mean if if
if somebody you know breaks the law then then the account is suspended i mean
if they uh actively
advocate murder then the account is suspended we do have what we call like the
kind of united nations
exclusion rule which is that you can have say the ayatollah who you know uh
would prefer that israel
didn't exist for example um and um but he's allowed to go to the un building in
new york
um and uh in fact generally officials from iran uh do in fact go to the un
building in new york
uh even though they're a heavily sanctioned country so so i think that there's
there's merit to having
uh just like there's merit there's some merit to the un one can disagree with
the un and i think one
we shouldn't have a world government that we bow down to but in fact that's
risky for civilization
but i think you do want to have the leaders of countries uh represented um on
social media
Thank you.