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> When, occasionally, genuinely significant things happen to Musk, Isaacson largely ignores them. In May 2002, Elon’s first wife Justine gave birth to their first child, a son. They named him Nevada, because he’d been conceived at Burning Man. When Nevada was ten weeks old, he… https://t.co/lBwKPOjvwN
@pachabelcanon i got like reverse gell-mann amnesia when he talked about roko's basilisk. he explained a thing i am more familiar with than he is and gets it like 99% right including its relationship to musk. and it's probably not even something he cares much about. incredible stuff
@QiaochuYuan Thank you for sharing this Isaacson greatly lowered his reputation with me with the shallowness and thoughtlessness of his Jobs bio, and for some reason I didn’t see any commentary on whether or not that pattern persisted when this came out