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People who work for him may well be experts. That doesn’t mean he knows anything at all about it himself. Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companie

People who work for him may well be experts. That doesn’t mean he knows anything at all about it himself. Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companies he has ownership in did.

pjkundert 4y ago
So he simultaneously has limited competency in areas (AI, passenger vehicles, spacecraft, tunnel boring, computer/nerve integration, …) yet he is capable of isolating and hiring and keeping world-leading experts in (checks notes) EVERY one of these areas?
- pinewurst 4y ago
  As painful as it may be to realize, Tony Stark is a comic book/movie character and not a real person. Musk is a bullshitter who has bootstrapped his way to success, admittedly successfully. However, when you look at his well covered statements (too darned many of them :) post-Twitter, it’s obvious that he, for example, knows nothing about software, datacenter admin, nor the world of advertising. I’m willing to extrapolate to believe that he knows little more than the veneer of science and technology that’s necessary to persuade others to finance him.
  - pjkundert 4y ago
    QED
  - tsuujin 4y ago
    You’re going to need to prove that you know what you’re talking about. Go print out all of the code you’ve written and be ready to defend it. /s, hopefully obviously.
- version_five 4y ago
  The (checks notes) thing is such a poor rhetorical device.
TheBlapse 4y ago
Well these people know they can't reach where he is at, they might be finding some meaning trashing him
sam_goody 4y ago
Steve Job didn't "understand design", but he understood what a good design can do for his product, and knew what he liked. So he put the design team as the highest in Apple, and had every other team answer to the constraints of the design. It worked. Musk may not "understand AI", but he understands what AI can be made to do, and he knows what he likes. Which frankly, for the boss, is more important than understanding the code. And, he knows how to find and hire the right talent, how to excite them, and how to keep them. And how to ship. IMO it is unfair to say "his company did it" especially when his rivals in each of those industries failed where he succeeded (including OpenAI, which he gets at least some credit for). He understands enough of what he needs to about both AI and business to make it work.

People who work for him may well be experts. That doesn’t mean he knows anything at all about it himself. Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companies he has ownership in did.

pjkundert 4y ago

So he simultaneously has limited competency in areas (AI, passenger vehicles, spacecraft, tunnel boring, computer/nerve integration, …) yet he is capable of isolating and hiring and keeping world-leading experts in (checks notes) EVERY one of these areas?

pinewurst 4y ago
As painful as it may be to realize, Tony Stark is a comic book/movie character and not a real person. Musk is a bullshitter who has bootstrapped his way to success, admittedly successfully. However, when you look at his well covered statements (too darned many of them :) post-Twitter, it’s obvious that he, for example, knows nothing about software, datacenter admin, nor the world of advertising. I’m willing to extrapolate to believe that he knows little more than the veneer of science and technology that’s necessary to persuade others to finance him.
- pjkundert 4y ago
  QED
- tsuujin 4y ago
  You’re going to need to prove that you know what you’re talking about. Go print out all of the code you’ve written and be ready to defend it. /s, hopefully obviously.
version_five 4y ago
The (checks notes) thing is such a poor rhetorical device.

TheBlapse 4y ago

Well these people know they can't reach where he is at, they might be finding some meaning trashing him

sam_goody 4y ago

Steve Job didn't "understand design", but he understood what a good design can do for his product, and knew what he liked. So he put the design team as the highest in Apple, and had every other team answer to the constraints of the design. It worked. Musk may not "understand AI", but he understands what AI can be made to do, and he knows what he likes. Which frankly, for the boss, is more important than understanding the code. And, he knows how to find and hire the right talent, how to excite them, and how to keep them. And how to ship. IMO it is unfair to say "his company did it" especially when his rivals in each of those industries failed where he succeeded (including OpenAI, which he gets at least some credit for). He understands enough of what he needs to about both AI and business to make it work.