The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.
[…] However, Musk has posted pictures or referred to his laptop on X several times in recent months, and public evidence suggests that he owns and appears to use at least one computer. […]
Archived: https://archive.is/5Bg9m
Ah, the Jordan Peterson defense. “That depends on your definition of ‘have’, ‘used’, ‘a’, and ‘computer’.”
God damnit I read this in his dumb voice
Why not use the Clinton defence “That depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.”
Which gets made fun of a lot but it’s not as vapid as it sounds. He said “There’s nothing going on” with Monica Lewinsky because, at the time he was asked, there wasn’t. He was accused of lying, and that was his defense, because interpreting “is” in the typical sense of referring to the present tense made his statement accurate.