Twitter is not an engineering problem. It is a political problem, he says. The height of hubris is to think you can reduce political problems to first principles and try to solve them in the way that you could on Twitter. Elon wants to sell Teslas in India. There's just all these points of leverage. You have to go there and convince them to let you do what you want. They're not going to back down. Why did he pick up this nightmare? I think fundamentally this is a project of hubris.