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Not that I know of. It is remarkable how much of Goldstein he has turned into among the online set.
To be fair, the Elon fanboys are just as bad (in the opposite direction). But I do agree it's ridiculous. Elon is neither a hero come to save us all, nor is he a mustache-twirling villain straight out of a morality play. He's just a guy. He does things that are stupid, smart, good, and bad. I see no real reason to believe that he is particularly skewed on any of those axes.
Don't think "skew", think "high variance". The most consistent thing you can say about Musk is that he really tries to live up to his engineering protocol, under which it's a bad sign if you're not doing stupid things often enough because that means you're not trying radical enough changes or you're not testing them fast enough.
This is a very good thing in unmanned rocket development, where even a prototype that blows up teaches you something invaluable about how to replace it with a better one.
This is not such a good thing in social media development, where a user base exodus may be irreplaceable if bad decisions blow up in your face.
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