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Yawn. Elon might act like a child online but you only have to listen to technical interviews with him, or hear what intelligent people (that have actually worke

Yawn. Elon might act like a child online but you only have to listen to technical interviews with him, or hear what intelligent people (that have actually worked directly with him) say about his mental processing to know he's not where he is just because he's good at lying and/or had money... he is actually 'smart'. The constant attacks on him from grifting 'academics' with a book to sell is getting as boring as Elon's online antics. Is he a 'genius'? Maybe, maybe not, there isn't a clear criteria as to when someone is a 'genius', but I'd put money on him being significantly smarter than the author of this article.

DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
He's a bullshitter (cf hyperloop) and a fraud (cf SolarCity fake solar panels). His initial plan for hyperloop is a ~200yo design[1], only he enhanced it by putting "a air-hockey table" (his words) inside an evacuated tube. How stupid can one be? He assembled an audience on a film studio set with mansions to show off non-existent solar shingles. He's well known to have been promising fully self-driving cars as well as flying rockets to the Moon and Mars year after year after year, always adding he was "confident" to accomplish that by "this_year + n" where n < 6 for "1/x th of the current market price" where x is typically 10 or 100. [1](https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperloop-is-hyper-old https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperloop-is-hyper-old): ""Lord how this world improves as we grow older," reads the caption for a panel in the "March of Intellect," part of a series of colored etchings published between 1825 and 1829. The artist, William Heath (1794–1840), shows many futuristic contraptions, including a four-wheeled steam-powered horse called Velocity, a suspension bridge from Cape Town to Bengal, a gun-carrying platform lifted by four balloons, and a giant winged flying fish conveying convicts from England to New South Wales, in Australia. But the main object is a massive, seamless metallic tube taking travelers from East London's Greenwich Hill to Bengal, courtesy of the Grand Vacuum Tube Company."
ModernMech 4y ago
Could you maybe link to one? I’ve heard plenty and I’m far from convinced he knows what he’s talking about. Seems to me he knows how to bullshit, and people who don’t know better mistake that for being smart.
- jsdeveloper 4y ago
  May be you should prove your smartness first, rather than the one which has already proven his.
timbit42 4y ago
So he's an idiot savant.

DemocracyFTW2 4y ago

He's a bullshitter (cf hyperloop) and a fraud (cf SolarCity fake solar panels). His initial plan for hyperloop is a ~200yo design[1], only he enhanced it by putting "a air-hockey table" (his words) inside an evacuated tube. How stupid can one be? He assembled an audience on a film studio set with mansions to show off non-existent solar shingles. He's well known to have been promising fully self-driving cars as well as flying rockets to the Moon and Mars year after year after year, always adding he was "confident" to accomplish that by "this_year + n" where n < 6 for "1/x th of the current market price" where x is typically 10 or 100. [1](https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperloop-is-hyper-old https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperloop-is-hyper-old): ""Lord how this world improves as we grow older," reads the caption for a panel in the "March of Intellect," part of a series of colored etchings published between 1825 and 1829. The artist, William Heath (1794–1840), shows many futuristic contraptions, including a four-wheeled steam-powered horse called Velocity, a suspension bridge from Cape Town to Bengal, a gun-carrying platform lifted by four balloons, and a giant winged flying fish conveying convicts from England to New South Wales, in Australia. But the main object is a massive, seamless metallic tube taking travelers from East London's Greenwich Hill to Bengal, courtesy of the Grand Vacuum Tube Company."

ModernMech 4y ago

Could you maybe link to one? I’ve heard plenty and I’m far from convinced he knows what he’s talking about. Seems to me he knows how to bullshit, and people who don’t know better mistake that for being smart.

jsdeveloper 4y ago
May be you should prove your smartness first, rather than the one which has already proven his.

timbit42 4y ago

So he's an idiot savant.