# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 138
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2762 "2025-11-16T07:58:56Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Commit a crime, get a free robot AND a get out of jail card. > > [https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/92a1be78-e1d6-4f58-85b8-10fb568f65be](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/92a1be78-e1d6-4f58-85b8-10fb568f65be) I gather that the concept here is that Elmo’s pile of bolts that cannot even serve popcorn in his new “diners” without falling on its face is going to be capable of pre-emptively detecting criminal intent? > [@Atamasama](#): > > Sounds like the ketamine talking. At least. It may be other substances, too, all working together. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2763 "2025-11-16T08:39:34Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I gather that the concept here is that Elmo’s pile of bolts that cannot even serve popcorn in his new “diners” without falling on its face is going to be capable of pre-emptively detecting criminal intent? Paraphrasing Dick Jones: “I have guaranteed correctional facility sales with Elon 209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it works or not!” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2764 "2025-11-16T08:58:23Z")
The problem is that we hear that and say “Elon, you’re a drugged up idiot”; investors hear it and say, “Awesome! Take another billion dollars!” We live in very stupid times. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2765 "2025-11-16T14:19:48Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Sounds like the ketamine talking. Ket is disassociative hallucinogen, in a similar class to PCP. You don’t talk on those drugs. You suffer the consequences. I’ve… ahem… some experience in the matter. Musk is an arrogant idiot, sober or not. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2766 "2025-11-16T14:40:51Z")
IOW … Hubris is a hell of a drug! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2767 "2025-11-16T17:09:23Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Commit a crime, get a free robot AND a get out of jail card. This was thought up over fifty years ago. [![](https://opus.ing/_assets/stills/thx-1138-george-lucas.jpg) ](https://opus.ing/_assets/stills/thx-1138-george-lucas.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2768 "2025-11-16T22:44:51Z")
Can you summarize? The link is very broken (1011 error), though I could make some guesses as it’s a George Lucas link. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2769 "2025-11-16T22:56:36Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/8THIe3e_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand) ](https://i.imgur.com/8THIe3e_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand) I moved it to Imgur. I tried Imgbb but wow that site sucks. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2770 "2025-11-17T01:13:14Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > it’s a George Lucas link. It is. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2771 "2025-11-17T01:20:27Z")
Also, this just in… > **[Chinese Satellite Crushes Starlink With 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM in...](https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/chinese-satellite-crushes-starlink-2-watt-laser-fired-in-space/)** > > Using a laser weaker than a fridge light, it quietly achieved something five times faster than Starlink—from a place most experts thought was impossible. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2772 "2025-11-17T01:40:45Z")
Article dated Nov 16 references another article from June, when this was first reported. And it’s all kinda junk reporting, as this is a research project and the technology has little to do with Starlinks market niche. Just FYI. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2773 "2025-11-17T07:30:36Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > is going to be capable of pre-emptively detecting criminal intent? Easily and ineffably, It will be equipped with a standard “big data” or more modern “AI” paper bag test. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2774 "2025-11-17T07:53:50Z")
Not content with fucking Iain M. Banks over with his shitty barge names, now he’s just wholesale nicking [slap drones](https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone), too. Real original thinker, there. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2775 "2025-11-17T13:18:52Z")
I’m sure that’s literally where he got the idea. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2776 "2025-11-17T13:47:57Z")
Yep, me too. Note, he doesn’t say jack about _how_ it’s going to stop anyone doing crime. Culture slap drones have force fields and other tech. Is his NaziBot going to, what, physically restrain people? With all of its 45kg of bodyweight? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2777 "2025-11-17T13:56:17Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Note, he doesn’t say jack about _how_ it’s going to stop anyone doing crime. But don’t you see? It’s not one enforcement drone, it’s ALL of them. Robots will prevent all humans from committing crimes. They will also keep us from harm. Even existential harm. Bad feelings, sadness. We will be allowed to do anything, except anything that has the smallest possibility of harm. And we will sit, [with folded hands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands_...), forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2778 "2025-11-17T14:10:03Z")
Thank you for letting me know. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2779 "2025-11-18T06:10:29Z")
Sounds like the Zeroth Law Paradox to me. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2780 "2025-11-20T05:52:18Z")
AI, AI on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:27cyfde4eacczulju5wbl565/bafkreidvhwrm5e45rfvomnq5yjsz5ppj6gzwyvqkhtuczj6fznq2csoyae@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:27cyfde4eacczulju5wbl565/bafkreidvhwrm5e45rfvomnq5yjsz5ppj6gzwyvqkhtuczj6fznq2csoyae@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2781 "2025-11-20T12:24:56Z")
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