It's intellectual dishonest to the extreme to say he's stupid.
If you really can't see the evidence in front of your eyes, here's John Carmack: "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."
Here's Kevin Watson, who developed the avionics for Falcon 9 and Dragon and previously managed the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory:
"Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.
He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.
He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years."
Garrett Reisman, engineer and former NASA astronaut:
"What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does."
Have you listened to him speak for any length of time? It's painful.
That take frankly says more about you than about Elon Musk. Yes, his manner of speaking was unusual for somebody in his position, but it's perfectly compatible with great technical depth.
I didn't meant to paint stupid as an absolute. He is smart too. Some of the smartest people I know are some of the stupidest people I know and vice versa -- its all relative. I think in this arena he's behaving stupidly. I mean hey I think he does in those other arena too but I'm not going to argue against technical people that have been in those rooms with him.
Sounds like you’re arguing that he has engineer’s disease, and that other people are falling prey to it in their perception of him. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Engineer%20S...
This backpedaling is atrocious. Your comment had absolutely no qualifiers. Just “he’s stupid”.
It’s okay to be like, “oh, now after seeing that my preconceived notions of him based on Twitter hot takes were wrong, I retract my statement.”
also can you please explain why you have all of these quotes about elon on deck.... are you elon? or just a little obsessed
It’s political. It’s no different than having quotes about Biden, Trump, etc. When people have a habit of habitually lying about people who support missions you believe in, you tend to save evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, but some of those people are fucking idiots.