No one owes anyone else ideological consistency, so it's certainly possible Musk is just some dude musing on the world. However, it's also possible that there

No one owes anyone else ideological consistency, so it's certainly possible Musk is just some dude musing on the world. However, it's also possible that there are finite families of ideas in the world which all have similar flavors and consitencies, and when we have seen many of them we can start to draw conclusions both about their obvious and more nuanced features. We might consider that no one really has a "cohesive philosophy" into which our thoughts congeal: we might not need someone to write a manifesto in order to draw some reasonable conclusions about their thoughts. And, further, when the conclusions we draw about those thoughts (less so about being-of-people, if you will, but about thoughts) are validated, we might take that as data for how well we are listening to what folks are saying. In the case of Musk, since I had been exposed to a lot of ideas about technology in the 90s and 00s, what he has been saying over the last 15 years or so has seemed both very clear and, to my ears, very consistent. And very authoritarian and very anti-humanist.