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An important thing about Elon Musk that’s widely known in tech circles but perhaps not in the wider world: he’s an ignoramus.

His technical knowledge is shallow and careless, full of parroting and fantasizing.

People who’ve worked on the small amount of code he actually wrote long ago describe his work as an unskilled mess.

At every company he runs, there are teams of people devoted to keeping him away from the engineers, who largely succeed to the extent that he forgets they exist.

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Paul Cantrell
Musk does have a special talent, but the talent is for hype: projecting the kind of overconfidence that gets investors who also have shallow technical understanding to give him money.

That kind of overconfidence •requires• ignorance. Any actual understanding of technical details might give him a dangerous sense of nuance and complexity, which of course would scare away investors looking for an infallible Supergenius Unicorn who can offer huge returns.

He's basically P. T. Barnum.

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Tucker Carlson's Nuts
🥥 Elon Musk is P T Barnum with an unlimited checkbook and an unbridled ego. Born with an emerald mine up his butt, Musk is a huckster with a grossly inflated sense of self. He's the perfect shiny object for a press incapable of separating truth from public relations and perfectly willing to create heroes out of tinsel. 🥥
#ElonMusk #Huckster #PTBarnum
#elonmusk #huckster #PTBarnum

Denis Buckley hat dies geteilt

jgeorge
He is the /ne plus ultra/ of the Dunning-Kruegeroids; so amazingly confidently incorrect that the normal run-of-the-mill Dunning-Kruegeroids see him as some kind of genius, because he obviously knows many more things to be wrong about than they even know exist.
Paul Cantrell
One of my students remarked the other day that Musk seemed like a supervillain straight out of a comic book — and I agree. Sort of Lex Luthor but a dumbass.

This piece you gives interesting dimension to that observation: charismatic incompetence can be appealing as a destructive force when people don’t believe the status quo is worth saving.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/books/review/supervillains-joker-elon-musk-wicked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Paul Cantrell
And I guess I need to close the obvious-but-needs-stating loop on that:

This nihilistic desire for destruction is how fascism gets in the door.

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Paul Cantrell
Responding to popular replies:

- I understand why some people push back against post 2, and yes, I understand the urge to refuse that dingbat credit for •anything•, but…look, if we're going to understand the present moment, then I think we do need to reckon with the fact that being a con artist •is• in fact a special skill. It's a skill we need to figure out how to counter (individually, institutionally, and societally).
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