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>But as a public figure I think he's massively overexposed, largely by choice, and it's doing him no favours in terms of perception lately. I think you'll find
by neurobama 3y ago
>But as a public figure I think he's massively overexposed, largely by choice, and it's doing him no favours in terms of perception lately.
I think you'll find there's a significant split in perception between, for example, the average American and the pseudo-elites who inhabit Bluesky and Hacker News. Or the latter and the average actual hacker, for that matter.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoGolly, how do average Americans perceive Elon? Is there direct evidence of Elon's personal engineering prowess? All I can find are his own boasting and second hand reports of folks impressed by his familiarity with jargon.
- neurobama 3y ago>Is there direct evidence of Elon's personal engineering prowess? Yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
- paulryanrogers 3y agoSecond and third hand accounts are nice. Even better when they come from folks no longer financially dependent on Elon's good graces. But I was hoping to see some of his source code for Zip2, some CAD he'd done himself, or even a video of him solving some intractable problem in one of these rooms full of stumped geniuses.
- Natsu 3y agoSo this guy has founded multiple successful engineering-heavy companies, did not receive any actual financial support past 18 (despite inflated myths of an "emerald mine"), is attested by multiple skilled engineers, and has given videos where he talks in depth about engineering, but we're still looking for new & different kinds of evidence that he has skills? Are we testing whether he knows anything at this point, or whether he's a literal Tony Stark? This thread started with discussion of whether he's any kind of engineer at all now we're looking for "rooms full of stumped geniuses" as if this was something every random engineer experienced.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoDidn't see any links to talks by Musk. Perhaps you can share some? Look I can go read Gates' code, so I have some direct evidence of whether his reputation as an engineer is worth the paper it's written on. The story for Musk is much less direct. Still, I'm open to studying the evidence of Musk's engineering chops.
- Natsu 3y agoA video that someone changed their perception was discussed here, earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917912&p=2#35919980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917912&p=2#35919980 The actual video it mentions is here: https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1100 https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1100