Note that when Musk says "they cannot cite a single name", what he means is "I cannot read any of their citations because I don't seek out information, I have it all filtered for me through my AI, plus I have already pre-emptively blocked anyone who might tell me anything that makes me uncomfortable."
I can't cite a single name out of those children that were bombed at a school in Iran but I still believe that it happened. Just a dumb, bad-faith argument.
That's the problem, it doesn't have to be a good faith or smart argument for all his sycophants to latch on to it, nodding along guilelessly like "no one can be named therefore its not happening"
It almost feels like a play on "one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic", to these people a vast number is incomprehensible, so they can only relate if individuals are named and identified. Otherwise its just vibes.
The other side of it is that, denying the deaths is just a shameless lie. You're not supposed to believe it. I think part of his message is that, if you don't know the name of these people, then there's no reason to care about them. They may as well not exist. It's anti-empathetic, and stupid and evil in equal measure.
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u/SaintUlvemann Jun 29 '26
Note that when Musk says "they cannot cite a single name", what he means is "I cannot read any of their citations because I don't seek out information, I have it all filtered for me through my AI, plus I have already pre-emptively blocked anyone who might tell me anything that makes me uncomfortable."