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It's a back handed compliment at best on Elon's "gaming skills" Elon has deep knowledge in some areas — engineering questions, particularly — and some hobbie
by defrost 2y ago
It's a back handed compliment at best on Elon's "gaming skills"
Elon has deep knowledge in some areas — engineering questions, particularly — and some hobbies and interests (sci-fi, video games). Still, they’re pretty middlebrow, and his tweets make clear that he’s frequently outside of his depth in other areas.
Middlebrow hobby / interest level seems generous, sure, but it falls between zero knowledge and good enough to not need to fake it.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI read that as genuine belief in knowledge and skills in areas that Nate doesn't respect. Apparently he doesn't respect them enough to be able to tell if someone is faking them. It's less clear cut than his gaming fakery, but Musk's comments on sci-fi (including Iain M Banks Culture novels) are beyond cringe, somehow taking exactly the opposite message intended by the author.