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In the new biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, there's a story about a friend of

Musk, walking Musk's phone in a hotel safe one night, with only the friend having the

combination code, so Musk couldn't tweet anything destructive in the middle of the night.

Later in that passage, there's a quote from Musk saying, I've shot myself in the foot

so often I ought to buy some Kevlar boots.

That story is intertwined with the idea of an impulse-controlled delay feature for Twitter

that apparently Musk thinks might be a useful tool for himself as well as ordinary Twitter

users.

That's just one small anecdote from the 600-plus page book, already a New York Times best

seller, simply called Elon Musk.

The author, Walter Isaacson, has also written biographies of Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci,

Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, and Jennifer Dudna.

He's written other books as well, then the CEO of CNN and the Aspen Institute and Editor

and Chief of Time magazine.

The book wrappers with Musk as the richest person in the world who created Tesla and SpaceX

and other things and now owns Twitter, and according to the book is both very concerned about

the implications of artificial intelligence for the future of humanity, but is also interested

in using your tweets in mind every tweet ever to help train AI programs so he can make more

money.

He's quoted in the book saying it's a monetization opportunity.

Of course, there's Elon Musk, the right-winger, who's unleashed much more hate speech and

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