Anti-gun activist and Harvard undergrad David Hogg wants to know why Elon Musk would buy Twitter in the first place:
“A man doesn’t bet half his life‘s work and fortune on freedom of speech,” he tweeted. “Musk sees something here that is worth far more than 40 billion. The question I have is what is it?’
A man doesn’t bet half his life‘s work and fortune on freedom of speech. Musk sees something here that is worth far more than 40 billion. The question I have is what is it?
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 26, 2022
Then Hogg suggested Musk will use the data from Twitter users to create “the first prototype of his humanoid robot” and a “general purpose Artificial Intelligence”:
I have a feeling it has to do with natural language processing, artificial intelligence and GPT 3. Maybe it’s creating the first prototype of his humanoid robot on the way to creating a general purpose Artificial Intelligence?
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 26, 2022
Or maybe it’s a “digital version of Rupert Murdoch”?
Or he could want to be the digital version of Rupert Murdoch
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 26, 2022
Oh, and he was very surprised to learn just how rich Musk is:
He was actually asking a decent question and then he went off the rail with the robot talk:
CZ Sir Hogg has a great question here…and promptly blows it with the rest of his thread. I guess this goes into the "blind squirrel" bucket. https://t.co/ZBpd9QbOrt
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) April 26, 2022
Which he doubled-down on by the way:
Hear me out- this is just speculation but I think the value Musk might see in twitter is using the data to build out way better natural language processing for the first prototype of his humanoid robot. An even half way decent general AI Would make back that 40 B and then some. https://t.co/xFNpD8JueC
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 26, 2022
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But it’s pretty indicative of Hogg’s generation where they don’t really see freedom of speech as that important:
Men have bet their very lives on freedom of speech, you ignorant child. https://t.co/BqnsiMWVkS
— Learning to code (@jtLOL) April 26, 2022
Maybe Harvard has a class or two on the subject?
Freedom of speech.
Also it was only like 16% of his fortune. https://t.co/CguLu3iVOq— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) April 26, 2022
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