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"Elon has built incredible companies doing incredible things. He's also made some stupid comments re: covid." I hope you see theres an issue with statements li

"Elon has built incredible companies doing incredible things. He's also made some stupid comments re: covid." I hope you see theres an issue with statements like this. Its hard for someone to be so competent in terms of founding multiple billion+ companies, and then be completely wrong on covid.

Izikiel43 6y ago
Being a genius in something doesn't make you a genius on everything. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/james-watson-honors-stripped-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/james-watson-honors-st...
- logicslave 6y ago
  I hate to tell you, but if you conceive of multiple billion dollar companies, you have an exceptional grasp on reality. CNN is the thought police.
fossuser 6y ago
“Eppur si muove” It’s not that hard - people are wildly inconsistent in views and accuracy. Someone can be contrarian and correct in one area and contrarian and wrong in another. In fact I’d bet if you are more independently minded then you’re more likely to be very wrong in some categories since you’ve succeeded mostly by ignoring convention and thinking independently. Most of the time this works, but sometimes you’re wrong and the consensus is right.
- logicslave 6y ago
  Not really. This kind of thinking is an attempt to tear down and discredit people who are capable of challenging a brainwashed narrative. Clearly elon musk has an incredibly strong grasp on reality. Just because his political leanings go against yours doesn't mean you can discredit him.
  - fossuser 6y ago
    It's not a political view - tweets about Covid being over by April were just objectively wrong. Along with tweets about it not being that serious. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 I'd suspect he'd admit as much at this point. It was a bad prediction. There have been an enormous amount of cases since then and many have died. I'm an Elon Musk fan, but on this issue he was wrong.

Izikiel43 6y ago

Being a genius in something doesn't make you a genius on everything. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/james-watson-honors-stripped-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/james-watson-honors-st...

logicslave 6y ago
I hate to tell you, but if you conceive of multiple billion dollar companies, you have an exceptional grasp on reality. CNN is the thought police.

fossuser 6y ago

“Eppur si muove” It’s not that hard - people are wildly inconsistent in views and accuracy. Someone can be contrarian and correct in one area and contrarian and wrong in another. In fact I’d bet if you are more independently minded then you’re more likely to be very wrong in some categories since you’ve succeeded mostly by ignoring convention and thinking independently. Most of the time this works, but sometimes you’re wrong and the consensus is right.

logicslave 6y ago
Not really. This kind of thinking is an attempt to tear down and discredit people who are capable of challenging a brainwashed narrative. Clearly elon musk has an incredibly strong grasp on reality. Just because his political leanings go against yours doesn't mean you can discredit him.
- fossuser 6y ago
  It's not a political view - tweets about Covid being over by April were just objectively wrong. Along with tweets about it not being that serious. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 I'd suspect he'd admit as much at this point. It was a bad prediction. There have been an enormous amount of cases since then and many have died. I'm an Elon Musk fan, but on this issue he was wrong.