Comment by rc_mob

2 years ago

Elon is definitely not a smart human. Maybe 25 years ago he did a thing. Ok.

Okay, so what's you over-under for Elon's IQ, or are you making a subtle distinction between intelligent and smart?

Someone can be both smart and Dunning-Kruger themselves in the face.

I don't know why someone who (self-diagnosed?) as having Asperger's thinks they'd be a good fit for leading a social media company, that feels like having a an amputee selling staircases [0]; but the rocket nerds I follow seem pretty convinced Musk genuinely knows actual rocket science.

[0] as in: it could work, but you'd not expect it by default