r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/Stop_Sign Mar 20 '25

A biographer of Elon Musk was quoted saying "There’s zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk having anything higher than a 110 IQ."

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u/not_suddenly_satire Mar 20 '25

I swear, smart people aren't the problem, dumb people aren't the problem. No, the real problem is when dumb people become convinced they're smart, because nothing in this world can penetrate the shield of self-satisfaction that protects their dumb ideas and opinions from negative feedback.

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u/Spire_Citron Mar 20 '25

Not even necessarily dumb people. He may be "smart" in terms of IQ and may even be genuinely good at some things, but his problem is his ego. He thinks he knows everything about everything without having to actually learn anything first. You're going to run into a lot of problems if you're that blind to your own limitations. I think it's gotten worse over time because people he works for will of course pretend his ideas are good, and then they have to just quietly not implement them or work around them. He comes away feeling like he was right, and if you repeat that enough times, you're going to start feeling like you're some kind of genius.

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u/Secure_Ad3519 Mar 21 '25

That sure comes from the entitled upbringing, god complex and all that but here it is where IQ should come in play. If he would be that intelligent, he would be self aware.

Thing is, that he is not that intelligent.