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It's kind of crazy how conspiratorial much of HN is about Elon. Many people simply aren't capable of not letting their valid political differences crossover int
by reducesuffering 3y ago
It's kind of crazy how conspiratorial much of HN is about Elon. Many people simply aren't capable of not letting their valid political differences crossover into their evaluation of his aptitude. You'll have many people around Elon all vouching that he's a smart, technical engineer, but hordes of people on HN who have never met him, let alone spent an hour in a meeting discussing a technical topic, all very sure of themselves that Elon is a midwit who simply orders people around.
From Karpathy: "he understood how it works about as quickly as you'd expect a PhD student to. The fact that he can do this across many technical disciplines is impressive and borderline superhuman. I don't think people understand or would believe how low-level and technical typical meetings with him are."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617