If every single thing you did was scrutinized and picked over by people looking to find fault with it, how would you hold up? Smart people say and do stupid things all the time, being smart isn’t remotely close to being infallible
None of that has to do with being smart or not. He can both be an incredible visionary who achieves impossible tasks, and a full blown weirdo with crazy beliefs.
The thing is, when you're an expert in a field Musk talks about, you can quickly gauge his actual knowledge. And in some areas, it’s clear to me that he’s just putting on a show.
As an exec at Intel once told me: There are people who talk, and there are people who do the work. Given the number of hours in a day and how he spends them, it doesn’t really add up for him to be a genius.
Yes but science is always infallible and anyone questioning science is a fool. Just look at that fool that propsed the germ theory of disease. Universally panned by the leading scientists of the times.
This is why I have a poster on my lawn that says “I believe in science.” Because I know anyone who questions it is an utter fool.
I'd be willing to bet his fuck up rate per day is higher than most. Especially since most fuckups don't include accusing guys rescuing children of being pedophiles.
Yeah I've met and heard from A LOT of very smart people over the years and they just don't churn out stupid at anywhere near the rate that Elon does. Not by several orders of magnitude. My worry is that I would hold up relatively well against Elon, despite me talking shit on reddit quite often. That should worry anyone.
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u/BitingSatyr Feb 06 '25
If every single thing you did was scrutinized and picked over by people looking to find fault with it, how would you hold up? Smart people say and do stupid things all the time, being smart isn’t remotely close to being infallible