His Sea steading ideas are actually pretty idiotic in my book.
Proof: Everybody who tried it just to find out how extremely expensive it is to maintain structures in the middle of an ocean.
But it's not only that. They also find out in a very painful way that the high seas are just about the most regulated entity apart from aviation and possibly medicine.[0]
It seems that very smart people are totally able to maintain very dumb ideas.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...