@gabriel1: with elon, people focus too much on trying to find individual bad decisions there are extremely few decisions that matt…
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The tweet argues that Elon Musk's few critical and irreversible decisions are key, comparing this to the 'bitter lesson' in AI applied to free markets.
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with elon, people focus too much on trying to find individual bad decisions
there are extremely few decisions that matter and that are irreversible, and he continues to get those right, the others he can try again
whatever bitter lesson is for ai, he discovered for free markets
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