Elon Musk blames his son’s transition into a transgender woman on an elite Los Angeles school that brainwashed him with the “woke mind virus.”
This and much more was revealed in an excerpt from a Musk biography that was published in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Written by biographer Walter Isaacson, the excerpt notes that “Musk’s anti-woke sentiments were partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child, Xavier, then 16, to transition.”
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“Hey, I’m transgender, and my name is now Jenna. Don’t tell my dad,” Xavier reportedly texted the wife of Elon’s brother at one point.
When Musk found out about the text, he was “sanguine” about it up until Xavier (now named Jenna) “became a fervent Marxist and broke off all relations with him.”
“She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil. I’ve made many overtures, but she doesn’t want to spend time with me,” according to Musk, who was deeply pained by the rift.
As for blame, he attributes Xavier’s transformation to the “woke mind virus” that he was infected with while studying at the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica.
It’s the same “woke mind virus” that Musk later came to believe had taken over Twitter, which is now known as X, and that he believed could only be beaten by “a fire-breathing dragon.”
Isaacson explains:
“One night after it became public that he was buying Twitter stock, Musk called Parag Agrawal, the software engineer who had taken over from Jack Dorsey as Twitter’s CEO. They decided to meet secretly for dinner on March 31, along with Twitter’s board chair Bret Taylor,” his excerpt reads.
“Musk found Agrawal to be likable. ‘He’s a really nice guy,’ he says. But that was the problem. If you ask Musk what traits a CEO needs, he would not include being a really nice guy. One of his maxims is that managers should not aim to be liked. ‘What Twitter needs is a fire-breathing dragon,’ he said after that meeting, ‘and Parag is not that.'”
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Remember that all this happened before he purchased Twitter. Indeed, during his meeting with Agrawal, Musk famously agreed to join Twitter’s board, signaling that their partnership was headed in the right direction. That didn’t last long.
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“Luke Nosek and Ken Howery, Musk’s close friends and fellow PayPal cofounders, paced around the mezzanine workspace of the Tesla factory and headquarters in Austin, Texas, on the afternoon of April 6, the day after the announcement that he was joining the Twitter board. They were wary,” Isaacson notes.
“It’s probably a recipe for trouble. It’s very clear that the inmates are running the asylum,” Musk reportedly told them at the time.
Sitting down with Nosek and Howery, Musk reportedly stressed that Twitter should stop censoring free speech. In response, Howery gently pushed back.
“Should it be like a telephone system, where the words that go in one end come out exactly the same on the other end? Or do you think this is more like a system that is governing the discourse of the world, and maybe there should be some intelligence put into the algorithm that prioritizes and deprioritizes things?” he asked.
“Yeah, it’s a thorny question,” Musk replied. “There’s an ability to say something, and then there is also the issue of to what degree it’s promoted or amplified.”
He added that maybe the algorithm that decides what tweets should be promoted could be more open: “It could be an open-source algorithm placed on GitHub so people can sift through it.”
Musk also tossed out the idea of charging users to be verified.
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You can read the full Wall Street Journal piece here.
In addition to eventually buying Twitter, turning it anti-“woke,” and changing its name to X, Musk has also announced plans for a non-“woke” AI challenger of sorts to ChatGPT, the AI bot that answers questions, albeit with a demonstrable left-wing bias.
“Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team comprised of engineers from the same big U.S. technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT,” Reuters reported in July.
“The startup will be led by Musk, already the CEO of electric car maker Tesla (TSLA.O), CEO of rocket launch company SpaceX and owner of Twitter, who has said on several occasions that the development of AI should be paused and that the sector needed regulation. Musk has repeatedly voiced concerns about AI’s potential for ‘civilizational destruction,'” the site added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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