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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Propositions:<br><br>1) Musk is an accelerationist that wants to redirect federal funds to things he thinks are worthy. This has the convenient overlap with his business endeavors. Trump (and gullible Americans) were the means to do that. Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, education, foreign aid, all are not worthy to him. His idea of what is worthy may be more fully developed than the average MAGA voter, or even average person, but are impoverished compared to say, the average university professor. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br>2) He’s at the helm of several companies full of people smarter than he is, and things work better when he is kept away. Like Trump, he’s a man-child with a large but fragile ego. He can’t substantially improve the functioning of Tesla or Space X or X or xAi or Neuralink, other than to raise money, and do publicity stunts. So, he fills up his days getting the attention he needs on social media and now with DOGE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>steve smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] OpenAI and the fight between Elon and Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2/13/25 12:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>"Elon really wants to save the world - but only if it's him who does it." <br>-- Sam Altman</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p>and save it in his own image (that one impressed on him by too much "old fashioned future" SciFi?)<o:p></o:p></p><p>I sometimes worry that Musk in his "autism-spectrum" affect and Altman in his "affable, bright young man" got together long ago to form a "good cop"/"bad cop" alliance? I don't want to think that but Altman seems to keep wandering further into that realm?<o:p></o:p></p><p>I find Musk to be Trump's "porch dog" chained up under the porch with a chain just long enough to keep him from biting walking down the sidewalk until one day Trump adds another few feet of chain... <o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>