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. [...]

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[–] 127 points 1 year ago (5 children)

He live streamed himself playing path of exile 2 from his private jet.

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He doesn't use computers in the same way he doesn't abuse ketamine.

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  • [–] 197 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Doesn't this guy regularly stream from a laptop in a desperate attempt to seem cool?

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  • [–] 110 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    He has streamed path of exile 2 which is pc-only.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    this argument from his lawyer is probably going to twist the English language beyond obscene

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    Ah, the Jordan Peterson defense. "That depends on your definition of 'have', 'used', 'a', and 'computer'."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why not use the Clinton defence "That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is."

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That should be pretty easy to disprove with all of his path of exile streams.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He’s paying someone e else to do those. Except for the ones where he sucks.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So are we not doing perjury anymore?

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well we all knew he wasn't the one playing the path of exile

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A liar's lying lawyers lying? Inconceivable!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They clearly have no idea what a computer is.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All Tesla cars have computers inside.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Meh, doesn’t use his brain either.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can't tweet without a computer. It may be a mobile one, but even that is a computer. This is a stupid claim which could only fool an idiot.

    So depending on the judge, we'll just see what happens...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Most people draw a distinction between a phone/tablet vs a desktop/laptop. It's not a distinction that can be easily defined, but most people instinctively categorize them as such.

    But regardless, the issue at hand has nothing to do with that definition. The discovery process requires them to process any applicable devices that might have info, potentially including all of the above (and more). His team said they already did his phone, but that the laptop in question is not used by him. His opponents say that he has not complied with the requirements of discovery.

    The judge will rule on whether that laptop is included in the discovery order.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A particularly fancy drainage pipe is a computer. I think its reasonable to make the distinction that a phone /= computer for the sake of normal definitions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    At which point does it become a computer? Raspberry is smaller than a phone. Steam deck feels like a phone, but runs linux. My old PDA that looks like a smartphone is definitely by definition a pocket computer. If I can make calls with my PC, is it by definition my phone?

    How many batteries do you need to push into a power bank for it to be defined as a power station? I'll shut up now.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Didnt he have a big thing about getting bigger monitors in the white house so he could game?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't use his brain either.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    So, Elon, you said that you totally legit play PoE 2, but you also said you didn't use computers. So which is it?

    Which is it, Elon?

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    Disbar these lawyers. Disgraceful.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Maybe he means like one of those women at NASA.

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    All ridiculouness aside like him showing videos of him playing games, I was gonna be like, how do you suppose he sends emails or writes his posts on X?

    But they counted his phone as something separate to a computer.

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    This just struck me, this is the key. They can argue that a phone is traditionally thought of as a phone. Even though technically it’s a computer, in common parlance it is called a phone. Then by extension, he wasn’t streaming on a computer, he was streaming on a laptop. So they will argue a computer is desktop.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They'll argue that a computer is a woman who performs calculations and since slavery is illegal he doesn't own one.

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  • He doesn't use drugs either

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So many comments from people who, if they read the article, would realize that the article already said that.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I am shocked I tell you, shocked. Well, not that shocked.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Depends on your definition of a "computer". A shitty laptop surely doesn't count, even less so if it runs Windows.

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