Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his āfanboysā who have attempted to use the billionaireās IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
I feel like Musk was a symptom of Americans really wanting a genius billionaire to be a real thing as it reinforces this American dream everyoneās dreaming about.
Reading the CPAC transcript clearly shows that heās currently below average intelligence if anything.
They wanted Iron Man and got Justin Fuckin Hammer.
Phoney Starck
Well yeah, thatās the American Dream right? That if youāre smart and work hard, youāll be rich?
Yeah and you need to be asleep to believe it
And like most dreams, it just wonāt happen in real life.
My feelings are that Steve Jobs was the quintessential cultural personality CEO and his early death sent a lot of people desperately looking for the next one, who ended up being Elon.
The difference was that Jobs actually had taste and a good vision for the future. He could build a smart team and let them drive progress then motivate to go further without making things up like Elon. So the media papered over Elonās wild confabulation, instead of showing him in a true light.
Steve Jobs tried to cure his cancer with essential oil. If that doesnāt scream dumbass I donāt know what is
With an all fruit diet because everything else creates āmucusā which is bad according to his anti-scientific bullshit.
An all fruit diet IRL is horrible for cancer as cancers feed on sugars.
Had a colleague die from cancer, after being given a very good prognosis with treatment and declining all that because he read somewhere just getting a whole bunch of vitamin C would reverse cancer.
His case he had a powerful personal anecdote, a brother he lost to cancer who did try the medical route and died after a miserable treatment course. He even acknowledged that the prognosis was dire for his brother from the onset, and they described medical intervention in the brotherās case as a long shot versus his being probably curable. We tried to share our own anecdotes about friends and family that were saved by cancer treatment, but ultimately nothing could overcome his personal experience seeing how much the medical treatments made his brother suffer and it failed to help in the end.
which he inherited from a Venusian Space Magic cult who believe the Roswel landing was people from Venus who gave us the raw fruit diet to heal all human illnesses because thatās what they do on Venus.
I thought it was eating a raw fruit diet?
Most of thatās false though. He couldnāt build a good smart team, Wozniak could. He was very good at screwing others out of ownership in the company they helped build though. He was also very good at one thing, envisioning a computer in every home, and a computer in every pocket. That was his one true talent.
But he was not āsmartā. He died to cancer detected early enough to heal with modern medicine, but chose quack treatments instead. There really isnāt any such thing as general intelligence. Everyoneās got very specialized knowledge in some topic, and are idiots in everything else.
Na, that is just historically inaccurate. The original Macintosh team collected their stories/memoires at folklore.org, which give you a pretty good overview of his talents. He was really mercurial and Woz was the better engineer, but played a really important role in the vision/design of computers as we know them today. In the original Mac team others did the engineering and Jobs never claimed to be and engineering type of person, but he had a good feel on the importance of design, clear visual metaphors and good interaction design and pushed the team relentlessly into that direction.
Jobs was a salesman, Woz the engineering brain.
He was quite good at marketing. He wasnāt a technical guy and apparently wasnāt terribly good at driving technical people either. But he was great at selling whatever the tech people came up with.
His only smart trick was to sell things super expensive to flatter the ego of the buyer. Itās not rocket science.
The focus on the user experience, rather than the underlying tech, was Jobās key insight.
aka he was an idiot who didnāt want to / was too dumb to take the time to understand machines.
Thatās the opposite of genious lmao. My boss is the same.
some, like me, are idiots in everything
elseI doubt that.
Quack treatments meant he could keep working. Modern medicine would mean he would have to admit his beliefs about human health were wrong.
Time has been kind to Mr. Jobs. Read about his early years at Appleā¦ he was famous for skewering anyone that disagreed with him. He also had lovely habits like parking his sports car in handicapped spots so he didnāt have to walk as far. You canāt disagree with his talent for running a company that did an awful lot of innovation, but he wasnāt a nice guy. He named one of his first products, the Lisa after his daughter, but didnāt treat the actual daughter that well.
For a āsmartā person, his death was quite possibly a very unintelligent way to go. He basically decided to give all kinds of āholisticā crap a chance to treat his cancer and avoided medical intervention for almost a year. If he had gone with the medical path from the onset, he might still be alive today.
But he did have his moments. Like how he basically told the music industry to cut out the DRM, because it just made the ecosystem impossible. Or one time when someone was picking at him over abandoning OpenDoc in favor of Java (Java didnāt work out either, but his response was on point, without being dismissive of the person).
Cancer sucks. Itās hard to judge someone from dying when everyone dies. I do agree with you that treatment would be better. However finding out you are going to die has a grieving process. He took too long. But I kind of get it.
He also told the daughter it wasnāt named after her for most of her life.
I may be misremembering but I think she wasnāt a child anymore by the time he acknowledged that he was her dad.
Sure, just like he told her about Santa Claus for most of her childhood. Youāre right in that he did come up with some ridiculous backronym like Local Information Storage Architecture or something but letās be real ā he didnāt have a lot of daughters and he could have named that computer ANYTHING. That computer was named after her, full stop.
Musk and Jobs are both business savvy people who had good publicists. The difference is Elon fired his good publicists years ago so now we all know the truth.
Steve Jobs was a bad guy. He wasnāt much better than Musk. He was just smart enough to not fire his pr team.
Jobs was just as sociopathic as Musk. You have to be to lead any corporation that relies on profit and is public. People that worked closely with Jobs often said he was an arehle and didnāt care about peopleās feelings.
Youdonāt have to be a psychopath but it does work out that many who do lead these places are psychopaths.
It would be difficult to fire thousands of people if one wasnāt a sociopath, methinks.
Not at all, you have to weigh the loss of thousands of jobs bs the collapse of the company whereby everyone loses their job.
Thatās often NOT the case. Executives are looking at their share price each quarter. Itās rarely about the āhealthā of the corporation.
steve didnt take SHOWERS. he stunk up the office and his employees had to beg him to clean himself before meetings with potential investors and customers
You can have a high IQ and still be an utterly inept moron. I have family in Mensa and they are hands down some of the laziest, stupidest people I know.
Mensa is utterly meaningless and so is any IQ test. We hardly understand how brain works and some think we can evaluate it through some online test and assign a number to it?
Ridiculous and anyone whoād fall for that should buy a bridge from me I have in Brooklyn to become a billionaire by collecting road tax fee, ayy great deal only mensa geniuses would recognize š
Oh, I know itās ridiculous. They took my family member, thatās all I needed to see to realize that.