Comment by Mikeb85
2 years ago
Elon is undoubtedly smart. It also seems like maybe he's on a mental health episode or just got so rich he decided he's done with building companies and just wants to be an asshole out of spite. Who knows? But he's accomplished plenty of things that suggest he's not an idiot.
He is smart, but smartness is overrated.
How do I know? Because I am pretty smart as well, with a PhD from math, but that didn't stop me from making a series of stupid mistakes in my life. Sometimes out of sheer optimism, sometimes because I missed some crucial information, sometimes because closeness to some other person made me miss important red flags, sometimes because I overextended my abilities, sometimes because I underestimated my adversaries.
If I bought Twitter, I would have run it into the ground in days.
do morons get accepted into Stanford's STEM PhD programs? You can hate Musk for his personality and maybe say he has mental health issues but to say he's stupid seems strange
If this is to be believed [1], what you describe:
> do morons get accepted into Stanford's STEM PhD programs
is a lie perpetuated by Musk and co. [1] contains links to court documents.
According to the court documents, not only does he not have a physics or other technical degree, he obtained a bachelor in Econ in 1997, not a physics degree in 1995.
The scan of the diploma does not specify department, has no year date, and is a bachelor of arts.
[1] https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/159330754193247436...
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Among many other lies, Musk lied about his Physics PhD too and that's now well known and documented.
Money can get you into any university program. I did a google search, he left after two days. This is not impressive.