Viral take: if Elon had stayed at OpenAI he'd own the 'civilizational OS'
signulll · x · 2026-10-09
A viral post by @signulll argues that had Elon Musk never left OpenAI, he would control cognition (OpenAI), locomotion (Tesla), exploration (SpaceX), connection (Starlink), and communication (X) — 'not a portfolio, the civilizational operating system.' The counterfactual reignites discussion of Musk's empire and his OpenAI history.
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