The Twitter Deal Pierces Elon Musk’s Reality Distortion Field

On the evening of September 30, a Friday, the richest man in the world stood on a stage in Palo Alto and showed off a humanoid robot. Elon Muskchief executive i Tesla Inc.had first announced the effort a year ago, promising to revolutionize artificial intelligence by introducing a robot that was truly a dancer wearing a costume. This time a “production unit” of the droid, named Optimus, had to be wheeled out by three engineers because its legs still didn’t seem to work.

Under normal circumstances, deficiencies like this would…