Deep understanding and being able to reason about problems is more important than speed. Offloading too much to LLMs has a detrimental effect on our brains.
I'm not saying don't use LLMs. Use them in ways that increase your skills, and be wary of using them in ways that atrophy your skills.
Even if it is, Musk won. He got his $44 billion value back through getting premium position for all his government-contractor companies by becoming the President's right hand man. This is reflected in his share values climbing.
If this kills Twitter, I think Musk will be annoyed but it's still a net success for him.
On the other hand, spending huge amounts of money to become a Presidential advisor and then advising in a way that favors your own companies arguably is anti-competitive.
Next time Democrats are in control he may be looking at an antitrust lawsuit.
> Next time Democrats are in control he may be looking at an antitrust lawsuit.
The rule of law looks pretty ineffectual at that level. Only one of the various trials against Donald Trump got a verdict in the 4 years that he was out of office. Everything else ran out the clock and at this point is dead in the water.
That dog has no teeth anymore, and it likely won't in better health after Trump's people restructure the FTC and the Justice Department - considering Trump and Musk's respective run-ins with financial regulations I think it's safe to say those won't be stronger in 2028.
Given how fickle Trump is, and the fact that he is already talking shit about Elon ... it seems too soon to predict a massive success.
Heck, even the S&P 500 has already taken back all the gains from the post-election spaz. I don't think the economic prospects for Elon or anyone else look assured at this point.
I don't follow Musk's personality foibles closely at all, but from what I have seen, I get the sense that profit is not one of the things he ties closely to his aggrandized self-image. Wealth, yes, but only in the sense that it is for spending to do great things, even if the profit isn't there, like "protecting freedom of speech" (there aren't enough quotation marks in the universe). I.e. Tony Stark, not Gordon Gekko.
Don’t assume network effect trumps all else. The annals of the internet are full of dead social networks where the network effect was overwhelmed by operator stupidity (see Friendster, MySpace, Digg, Livejournal, arguably Tumblr).
I use Ethereum / Arbitrum every week at least. I use it for managing a lot of my finances. I provide liquidity on exchanges, provide liquidity for lending protocols, and use GMX for opening long/short positions and trading perpetuals. I also use USDC a lot, and also do self-custody
