Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless
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The fallacy is that psychometric intelligence is all that you need to "be smart". The intelligence does not change lot and degrades little when we get older, so if Musk is intelligent, he should continue behaving intelligently.
Executive functions (the higher-level cognitive skills you use to control and coordinate your other cognitive abilities and behaviors, like attentional control, cognitive inhibition, inhibitory control) are just as important. These things can degrade with age, mental issues, motivation, drug use,..
And with regards to the accomplishments the judge is still out on each and everyone of Musk companies which up to now have succedeed solely in moving vast amounts of cash from other stakeholders into the pockets of mr. Musk, without any practical improvement in the quality of life of consumers.
At least Amazon, Facebook, Google, Mircosoft and Apple (each spearheaded by their own "smart guy" and hence subject to smart guy fallacy of deeming somebody smart without sitting in a room with them) already had a trajectory where there is conclusive evidence that consumers had their quality of life improved in some way or had novel experiences thanks to such companies.
If intelligence is the ability to satisfy consumers, prostitution in all of its forms, both literal and metaphorical, is the most intelligent work anyone can do.
I believe in the entrepreneurial sector it's about signing off novel products and services for the consumer which unlocks a new level of quality of life for the masses and a new level of consumer satisfaction which was never seen before.
Prostitution is not new, as a matter of fact it's the same experience ever since the stone age.
Bill Gates, Bezos etc go to bed knowing that they have signed off GUI OS for the masses or shopping with almost real time delivery for the masses, or Zuck with social media and the Google guys with search engine, they signed off something new and unprecedented.
Musk goes to bed knowing that he has signed off an elaborate financial engineering scheme to enrich himself by riding off of a political goal imposed from above which consumers would never voluntarily elect to pursue, and in ultimate analysis it's the same old car ownership experience which is a 120 years old experience, except old cars were more durable and better assembled than Teslas because they were not the front to an elaborate financial scheme.
You don't get to go back in time, the pioneering entrepreneurial pleasure in the automotive sector was already taken by the likes of Henry Ford and Karl Benz etc. now what's availible is the pleasure of using automobiles as a front for financial engineering schemes and it's nowhere as rewarding, that is also the reason why Musk is acting crazy and can't find satisfaction despite his net worth being higher than every other person in history, because the person who arranges his affairs in order to have their net worth go up would never be as satisfied as the person who just tried to build something they wanted to use and then happened to stumble into larger commercial success.
If they think they are smart this guarantees they will be idiots outside their core areas because they won鈥檛 make any effort to learn or have respect for other domains.
If you think you鈥檙e smart it makes you dumb.
Arrogance about one鈥檚 intelligence also tends to cause age related stagnation. If you think you already know everything there鈥檚 no reason to keep learning. I鈥檝e seen 70 year olds learn fundamentally new skills and ways of thinking many times.
I鈥檓 convinced arrogance or complacency is the root of age related stagnation more than neuroplasticity decline. The latter just means it takes a bit more time and effort to learn, not that you can鈥檛 (unless you actually have a degenerative neurological issue).
1. People will learn that everyone is merely human, and not to expect, nevermind worship, a "captain of industry."
2. Other people will learn that a mere huckster can bamboozle millions of people and that becoming a huckster is easy and potentially lucrative.
N.b. The second richest person on the planet is suave and sophisticated and sells overpriced handbags. So consider what that yardstick is actually measuring.
Similar happening with Musk now; the penny is dropping that maybe he is _not_ in fact a magical super-genius (this is, of course, a penny that dropped for anyone sensible with, at latest, that Thailand cave diver thing, but HN鈥檚 hivemind is slow on the uptake).
I never ever visited twitter, but I'm happy with X. So much good content, if you know where to search, and this was only possible because censorship is basically removed now (I mean censorship of PERSONS, not tweets).
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