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Comment by raspberry1337 | Hacker News Reader

It's humoring how many geniuses there are on the internet with the full authority to denounce the intelligence of the worlds currently richest man.

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Yep, there's never before been a rich man with a loose grasp on morality, nor a poor man with a strong one. History shows that this just doesn't happen.

None said anything about morality. You seem very intelligent.

He's so rich because Tesla is incredibly overvalued. I don't think Musk is an idiot, but he's done nothing to demonstrate he's a genius, just smart in some areas.

The whole money=intelligence makes no sense, many field require high level intelligence but don't monetarily reward comparatively well (e.g. scientific research)

He could make spacex go public and make up for the fact that Tesla is arguably overvalued, and the market is wrong and you are right. Which you must be, since you are an internet genius!

It’s also humoring just how many stans there are on HN.

Who would have thought that the engineer who initiatived and led both Tesla and SpaceX would have a lot of fans on an engineering forum

This is ridiculous. We should only air our opinions about people poorer than us?

So if you think his “intelligence” is transferable, would you let him perform brain surgery on you?

Intelligence is not the same as knowledge of a particular domain, such as surgery. You seem very intelligent. Yes, I believe intelligence is something that is applied, just like wisdom.

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