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Let's not pretend Musk has fucking clue what's going on or the science behind it.
He isn't down in trenches making discoveries. That's just the image he presents.
He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.
He's been doing it since PayPal.
He's not a genius, he just has enough money to get actual geniuses to work for him.
Someone put it well, if insensitively, about Sam Bankman Fried (FTX etc):
Not actually smart but just LARP-ing the “Aspy genius” persona.
However accurate that take is or offensive, I think it captures something about how nerd culture has gone mainstream and how it’s perceived.
'nerd' has disappeared as an insult now that we're all on the computer all the time
As The Boys lovingly put it so many years ago, "nerds is cool now and jocks is pumping our gas."
I think that's pretty romanticised.
Assuming they leave their home town many end up in sales or similar making really good money.
Sometimes he actively interferes with those competent people too.
No he doesn't. He meddles and interferes constantly and convinces himself that he's adding value by doing so. That's why Neuralink is dangerous. Meta or Alphabet or Microsoft or whoever can be trusted to let the scientists and the legal team ensure there's very little risk of everything blowing up in their face horribly. Elon's little empire is constantly on the verge of an absolute disaster. I would not be remotely surprised if Neuralink messes everything up so much that it sets back brain implants and BCI's in general by decades. Purely because Elon can't just supply the people at his businesses with the tools they need then get out of their way.
I'm hoping this becomes another Chernobyl type incident where instead of people being against nuclear energy, it's people against brain implants over the fear of how dangerous they are. At least for the implants that are not made specifically as medical devices that help instead of dumb people down with forced ads and memes.
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Peter Thiel sacked him as a PayPal boss?
He didn't "invent" Paypal.
It was formed by merging his company X with Confinity. All he did was profit off it but many people seem to think he created it.
To be clear, he did try to make them use his own work instead and it was awful so they pushed him out to protect the company.
LMFAO, I had no idea this wasn't even the first time he called his dumb company X. He really is obsessed with that letter.
X.com, SpaceX, now changing Twitter to X. Dude has an obsession
Don't forget his dumbass name for his child.
He was just looking for a reason to use the domain name I'm pretty sure.