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Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’

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"It does not take intelligence to throw money around and buy a company or buy a politician," Seth Abramson writes The post Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’ appeared first on TheWrap.

Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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When is the biography coming out?
Also, when is that HBO documentary on fElon coming out?

Elonis a highly productive con man. He fooled me when I bought the FSD option on my Tesla in 2019 for $8k. When I sold it, the market only was willing to pay $1500.

While I agree with the premise of the book, everyone who has met/worked with/knows Seth Abramson all day what a piece of shit grifter hack he is, so I don’t know how much confidence I have in the book overall.
I do not doubt that evidence to support this assertion exists, but Abramson is always chasing the next big thing and bitches about how no one likes him on bsky like an angsty teenager. He’s just cringe.

tell us something we don't know

- Not trying to be an ass, but do you have a link to that tweet?
  
  Not op, but here you go: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886318915707375664?mx=2
  
  The ass is the one who posts screenshots of a website without linking to it. Especially if its a screenshot of text

Didn't one of Trump's professors call him one of the dumbest students he ever had?
In that light, these two are perfect for each other.
- I've met a couple people who've met Trump, and let's just say "He's the dumbest person I've ever met" is the default opinion of him.

Imagine being as stupid as this clown is and his vice president and still... STILL somehow being smarter than the average voter. The bar is on the ground, folks.

Man this book will probably be banned before it comes out

This is such a burn! "Abramson noted, “It is also a particularly American disease to confuse wealth with intelligence and corporations with those who own them."
- For many evangelicals, they also associate wealth with divine blessing.
- Those are probably corollaries to Worthington's Law. "He makes more money than you do!"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU4VRs2rro

I don't remember the quote exactly but.
"It's just so dumb" "So dumb it's genius" "No it's just dumb"
perfectly encapsulates musk.
- From glass onion lol. Great movie, btw.
  
  Janelle Monae crushes it in her role. I mean absolutely crushes it. In it she is acting in the role of a character acting in a role, which is actually really hard to do in a really satisfying way, and she absolutely pulls it off. What's more is that she lets the veil slip just enough, as an actress, for the character playing the role to be believable as an actress. Like her music and visual artistry as an R&B performer is incredible, but there's still a part of me that feels like the world lost something from her not going into acting. But if she had, she'd probably have put out an album that would make me lament she hadn't focused on R&B.
  
  Nah, I thought that quote from the film summarized it quite well…
- Miles Bron --> Mr Elon is B?
  
  Yes, he was intended to be a fictional stand-in for the muskrat.

Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess
I guarantee his IQ is made up too. Not that an IQ test actually means shit.
- What you want to bet he had someone else take the test for him lol? Judging by how he plays games and all, it seems to be his m.o….
- IQ tests are not an objective measurement of intelligence! It kinda measures pattern recognition and some other skill! Its a scam to sell preparatory classes for itself!
  40-50-ish years ago they quite popular! You were required to take one for uni admissions, for appliying to work! Before we found out its bs!
  
  I agree. Its also super biased. I wouldn't be surprised if it correlated with financial success in certain demographics in certain locations/communities, but like you say, it's not an objective measure of intelligence.
  
  It's a relative measure of performance for narrow and specific set of tasks. It's not BS, that's like saying the 100m dash is BS. It's just that people have wildly overstated the general implications of the measure.
  
  I don't know if it's fully BS. It's just another data point to add for the ahhkkksshhualllyy crowd imo. But pattern recognition I think has high importance in actual intelligence.
- IQ tests are combo test of how white and how autistic are you. All tests are biased, and what do you bet when he got his super special smart boy IQ label he was in South Africa and the test administrator was another white dude.
  
  Wouldn't surprise me if the person administering the test was also paid under the table by Musk Snr to make sure Elon's result looked better than it actually was.

I'd give the little shit 0 gold star stickers too.

Did he even get a real degree?
I'm not convinced he even knows how to code, if we are being honest.
- People who know how to code are in agreement that he has no clue.
  
  Elon doesn't think the government uses SQL. He's dumb as fucking rocks.
  
  I know how to code and during my career, I've worked with people that could only barely do it, mostly relied on others to carry their weight, and often would fail upwards into management track stuff, usually done as a defensive strategy to get them away from doing damage hands-on. Of course, some of them effectively did MORE damage later by doing incredibly bone-headed things because some of them suffered from extreme arrogance and Dunning-Kruger.
  Watching fElon in his takeover of Twitter and turning it into xitter, I was not paying too close of attention, but the level of chaos and performative bullshit seemed to be terrible at both a management/ownership level and on a technical one.

yes. and it doesn't matter. donald trump is a moron, but he's evil, and has failed upward to be president of the united states twice, first time a million americans died due to a purposefully inept covid response, this second time, he's going to beat that number by ordinates. everyone so fixated on how smart or accomplished these nazis are, it does not matter. This is a way for everyone to feel better that they're smarter, or know sooooo many people that are smarter. If we were smarter, they wouldn't keep fucking beating, and killing us. IQ means nothing, it's what you can leverage with what you have individually or within or at the forefront of a group that does. And these Nazi fucks know how to do that.
- Yes, they have a particular narrow cleverness about how to abuse people and systems for their own gain. Since fascists only care about power, pointing out that they are dumb, hypocritical or inconsistent doesn't achieve anything. All they see is that you're keeping yourself busy talking while they load their guns and prepare the camps. The only way to fight fascism is to actually fight it.
- If we were smarter, they wouldn’t keep fucking beating
  Well, the problem is that there are a whole lot of stupid people that are easily convinced to vote for people like this, even if our side believes in putting smart, experienced, educated people into power.
  So, even if we are smarter, we are outvoted by a lot of very stupid people (in some instances - in other instances, it's because of extreme gerrymandering and "gifts" like the Electoral College, so even if we get a majority of people to make the sane choice, we still end up losing ).
  Lastly, the weasel apparatchiks on their side have found ways to peel off voters with things like Gaza and the fact that Democrats have not given them a pretty pony, too.

I won't buy the book, but I'll make sure to leave the worst rating
- Why would you do that? Writing a biography is not necessarily an endorsement. Did you read the article? The author reproaches him quite a bit, accusing him of stealing an idea and having terrible programming skills.
- Are you under the impression that this book would make Musk money?
- Because you support nazis?
  
  Yeah, like, really. Author seems critical of Musk.

Eh, I despise Musk and believe he is a grave threat.
But this "Musk isn't smart" narrative is a waste of time and underestimating Musk makes him more dangerous.
Tesla was a nothing burger company before he acquired it. SpaceX has been highly successful under his leadership. Musk may not have provided much technical knowledge, but he's accomplished too much for it to be random luck, and steering such companies, even if not on a daily basis, is going to require applied intellectual skill.
Edit: guys you can downvote all you want but underestimating Musk just weakens your position and aids him. You're not going to an Ivy League school with average or below intelligence.
You're also not starting and guiding various companies to high level success if you're dumb. Yes Musk has failed projects. Essentially every company and many if not most entrepreneurs have suffered failures.
Allegedly he also got a relatively high SAT score (1400) according to Isaacson, a respected biographer (I'd want to see hard proof however).
Musk's IQ is probably something like 125, not 160. But it's not going to be 90 or other like that.
But I guess you can go ahead and play into his hand and boost him by underestimating him.
- SpaceX was the leading private space company before he acquired it - it has actually lost ground to competitors since then but has an extremely passionate team behind it.
  Tesla was the first company to seriously take a swing at automated response with an eye to FSD - they've since fallen far behind Waymo and other competitors.
  When Musk worked at PayPal Thiel described him as a crazy risk taker and had him ousted as CEO while he was on two weeks of PTO for his honeymoon.
  Musk is a huge fucking dumbass with enough money to fail horribly over and over.
  
  you're not getting into UPENN being a complete idiot. Whoever started the company, Musk oversaw periods of the growth in SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal etc.
  Musk is (edit: not) the smartest person in the world like he thinks he is. But it's nearly an objective fact that he's not stupid.
  This is such a dumb hill to die on, and more importantly it benefits Musk.
  edit: and as for failed programs, welcome to the world of business. Google, Amazon, Microsoft Apple, etc. constantly launch ideas that don't pan out. Are their leaders and engineers and everyone else dumb because a project failed?
- Imma quote from the article.
  Abramson noted, “It is also a particularly American disease to confuse wealth with intelligence and corporations with those who own them."
  
  Musk's wealth isn't the best indicator of his intelligence. It's more circumstantial evidence at best.
  "corporations with those who own them."
  This veers towards been an non sequitur. The claim isn't that Musk is the corporation or that he is responsible for every decision. However, he is one of the (and probably THE) prominent voices in his companies and his decisions can massively impact the company's trajectory. One success is luck, multiple successes suggests there's a lot more than luck at play.

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