I do think there might be connections between Musk's beliefs regarding living inside a simulation and this whole Twitter thing.
1) There has always been something about Musk that seems to be a little bit disconnected from reality. Until now that has not stopped him from achieving huge levels of wealth. Perhaps that has just been more luck than any real business skill.
2) Twitter itself seems to be a big exercise in observer created reality. Its past biggest practitioner being one Donald Trump. Trump's connection to reality was always quite tenuous, yet he exercised an inordinate influence over politics. Almost because of his willingness to not just spin the news a certain way, but also dismiss what he labeled as "fake news" and substitute his own paranoid fantasies instead. This may very well have acted as a magnet for Musk. Both seem to share a sort of subjective idealist philosophy. In this case:
Subjective idealism, or empirical idealism, is a form of philosophical monism that holds that only minds and mental contents exist. It entails and is generally identified or associated with immaterialism, the doctrine that material things do not exist.
In such a world, ideas as formed and described on Twitter become paramount. Inconvenient truths can be simply shrugged off as "fake news." The virtual world of Twitter can very much enable this sort of thing.
I am not sure I am really making sense here, but then neither do Trump or Musk always make sense.
Quote taken from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism Don't mourn, organize.
-Joe Hill
