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Comment by jamesredd | Hacker News Reader

This guy calls Elon Musk a "walking talking Dunning-Kruger syndrome". That's the level of discourse you can expect from him.

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I have never read a more apt description of a person. Sure, it’s childish, edgy and inflammatory. See now I accidentally wrote another Musk characterization.

Writing someone’s entire being off because they have a one liner you don’t agree with is kinda small minded, isn’t it?

In my experience it feels like people have more hits than misses given enough chance, even those you disagree with /shrug

True though

Elon Musk mostly speaks about things he actually is an expert on though?

What is Musk an expert in? Besides being a rich school boy?

Highly automated car manufacturing and rockets for starters.

Not to mention ridding Gotham city of crime.

Sorry, damn, that was Bruce Wayne.

The irony of making a claim that Elon Musk has a bad case of the Dunning-Krugers and not being able to support such a claim with anything beyond unfunny jokes.

No, no, you see he runs those companies but he's also a complete idiot who doesn't understand anything about the underlying technology. This is a sensible conclusion which many people draw because of how plausible it is.

And unfortunately is “inspiring” a whole generation with his behaviour. Very sad actually.

Don't worry, an entire generation can't all become buffoonish rambling trillionaires with bizarre personality cults. The planet simply cannot sustain the number of bootlickers that would be required to join said cults.

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