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Comment by LegitShady

2 years ago

> if you want to pretend he has 75 IQ

I don't think anyone has ever argued that. He obviously has above-average IQ. That does not automatically make his claims of working on rocket designs himself, credible. In fact, I think those claims put credence to the story that they present ideas in such a way that he thinks he's designing rockets himself.

    • > explain to me how it would work, such that elon wouldn't notice

      He's a narcissist. At least, it seems obvious to me that he is. And narcissists are absolutely amenable to co-opting other people's ideas. It's what they do, because everything is about them.

    • Please read again. I'm not arguing its truth, I'm arguing its credibility. Those are not the same thing.

      How would it work? I'm not even remotely an expert on it, but one of the things I heard they did with Trump, was to present several options, some obviously good, others obviously, bad, and then let him choose. (On that particular issue, Trump apparently picked the bad option that nobody expected him to pick. So there's a level where this trick stops working.)

      Edit: A link to the story that someone else also posted here: https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296...

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