Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his āfanboysā who have attempted to use the billionaireās IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
Eh, I despise Musk and believe he is a grave threat.
But this āMusk isnāt smartā narrative is a waste of time and underestimating Musk makes him more dangerous.
Tesla was a nothing burger company before he acquired it. SpaceX has been highly successful under his leadership. Musk may not have provided much technical knowledge, but heās accomplished too much for it to be random luck, and steering such companies, even if not on a daily basis, is going to require applied intellectual skill.
Edit: guys you can downvote all you want but underestimating Musk just weakens your position and aids him. Youāre not going to an Ivy League school with average or below intelligence.
Youāre also not starting and guiding various companies to high level success if youāre dumb. Yes Musk has failed projects. Essentially every company and many if not most entrepreneurs have suffered failures.
Allegedly he also got a relatively high SAT score (1400) according to Isaacson, a respected biographer (Iād want to see hard proof however).
Muskās IQ is probably something like 125, not 160. But itās not going to be 90 or other like that.
But I guess you can go ahead and play into his hand and boost him by underestimating him.
Youāre really underestimating the contributions of people like the COO (Shotwell, who by all accounts, really reigns Musk in) and the actual engineering talent at SpaceX. Musk is hardly the first to come up with some of the aerospace ideas, but SpaceX is the first to push through the failure to success through a rapid prototype model.
lmao I am underestimating no one. Guysā¦ touch some grass.
Musksās technical knowledge is probably pretty mid. Musk sure as hell isnāt designing the rockets.
Acknowledging that Musk isnāt an idiot in no way devalues the work of the many, many intelligent people around him. Why youād think that Iām taking anything away from anyone else is baffling. Literally baffling. How did you come to that conclusion?
Imma quote from the article.
Muskās wealth isnāt the best indicator of his intelligence. Itās more circumstantial evidence at best.
ācorporations with those who own them.ā
This veers towards been an non sequitur. The claim isnāt that Musk is the corporation or that he is responsible for every decision. However, he is one of the (and probably THE) prominent voices in his companies and his decisions can massively impact the companyās trajectory. One success is luck, multiple successes suggests thereās a lot more than luck at play.
SpaceX was the leading private space company before he acquired it - it has actually lost ground to competitors since then but has an extremely passionate team behind it.
Tesla was the first company to seriously take a swing at automated response with an eye to FSD - theyāve since fallen far behind Waymo and other competitors.
When Musk worked at PayPal Thiel described him as a crazy risk taker and had him ousted as CEO while he was on two weeks of PTO for his honeymoon.
Musk is a huge fucking dumbass with enough money to fail horribly over and over.
youāre not getting into UPENN being a complete idiot. Whoever started the company, Musk oversaw periods of the growth in SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal etc.
Musk is (edit: not) the smartest person in the world like he thinks he is. But itās nearly an objective fact that heās not stupid.
This is such a dumb hill to die on, and more importantly it benefits Musk.
edit: and as for failed programs, welcome to the world of business. Google, Amazon, Microsoft Apple, etc. constantly launch ideas that donāt pan out. Are their leaders and engineers and everyone else dumb because a project failed?
You are getting into UPenn if your daddy owns an emerald mine and has pseudoslaves to work in it.
And yes there are a lot a looooottttt of dumb people at google, amazon, Microsoft, and apple.
Evidence he bought his way in?
Sure, there are a lot of dumb people at those companies. But thatās not the point. Failures donāt prove that the leadership or specific individuals are dumb. Plenty of smart people have failed.
But have fun inadvertently supporting Musk!
And everyone there said it was because they had a dedicated team distracting Musk from the real work. He is, in fact, very dumb.
everyone where? Can you link the evidence or provide details so I can try to find it?
You can still think heās grossly incompetent without dismissing him as a threat. I donāt care about his IQ since heās never done any tests to prove anything; his actions alone tell me that heās a dangerous moron.
Heās not playing 4D chess here. His goals are to increase control, enrich himself and punish opposition. Heās done this before with Xitter and Tesla. There is literally a pattern.