Comment by mcv
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...
what part of being offered choices and picking one would convince someone they came up with it themselves? That doesn't even make sense.
Arguing credibility vs truth for something you have no evidence for is a fine hair to split that actually makes no difference. You're inventing it whole cloth either way, you can pick whichever word makes you happier and it doesn't give you any insight or make repeating baseless defamation suddenly credible.
>Edit: A link to the story that someone else also posted here: https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296...
Story start with:
>I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller compan
this person never had any access to elon and is repeating things he heard. His example is:
>The funniest example of “stage management” I can remember is this dude on the IT security team. He had a script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that would output random garbage, Matrix-style, so that it always looked like he was doing Important Computer Things to anyone who walked by his desk. Second funniest was all the people I saw playing WoW at their desks after ~5pm, who did it in the office just to give the appearance that they were working late.
If you're buying this you'll buy anything, just not if elon is selling it you because you don't like him.