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> The fact that people still trust him on literally anything boggles my mind. Long-distance amateur psychology question: I wonder if he's convinced himself tha
by netsharc 8mo ago
> The fact that people still trust him on literally anything boggles my mind.
Long-distance amateur psychology question: I wonder if he's convinced himself that he's a smart guy, after all he's got 12 digits in his net worth, "How would that have been possible if I were an idiot?".
Anyway, ego protection is how people still defend things like the Maga regime, or the genocide; it's hard for someone to admit that they've been stupid enough to have been fooled to vote for "Idi Amin in whiteface" (term coined by Literature Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka), or that the "nation's right to self-defense" they've been defending was a thin excuse for mass murder of innocents.
- weirdmantis69 8mo agoI've always wondered how people who are not 1/10th as smart as Elon convince themselves that he is not intelligent after solving robotics, AI, neuralink, and space all simultaneously.
- netsharc 8mo agoAnd what fraction Elon-Intelligence is needed to believe he actually invented/solved all that by himself? Or did I miss the sarcasm?
- gf000 8mo agoThe guy quite clearly couldn't put a html page up (see his tweets around Twitter's acquisition), and that's a field where he supposedly "worked". At all the other topics he couldn't even name the field. The only thing he is good at is scamming people dumb enough to fall for this.