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@hankg Musk confused me for the longest time. I am familiar with social media companies, and we all saw the advice and basically everybody gave Musk:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

I couldn't figure out why Musk was ignoring all that and just of all value.

@hankg Then, long after it aired, I saw Musk's SNL episode and it clicked for me:

https://youtu.be/fCF8I_X1qKI?si=es9q59c6e6l9C2Y6

I think Musk is just . He enjoyed a particular niche of users on Twitter that most people would block and that regularly violated Twitter's terms.

In the past I thought Musk just overestimates how much people hate what he hates, and he underestimates how much people hate what he loves. But he was able to , so I am reevaluating Musk all over again.