Having Tesla engineers over to review Twitter code is definitely that. It’s ridiculous.
The people rolling their eyes when they hear bullshit are not the people writing the checks.
> Epistemic arrogance: Measure the difference between what someone actually knows and how much he thinks he knows. An excess will imply arrogance, a deficit humility. An epistemocrat is someone of epistemic humility, who holds his own knowledge in greatest suspicion.
The mythos he has created around himself is comical and it's mind-blowing that anyone actually believes it. He literally spends his entire day trolling on social media, yet people think he's out there solving the world's greatest engineering problems.
Note: not all smart behavior is programing, engineering, or even product design.
Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
But doesn’t that imply that Elon knows he’s a fraud and is trying to trick others? I don’t think Elon realizes he’s a fraud.
It’s like the opposite of impostor syndrome. When someone speaks with total confidence and absolute garbage comes out of their mouth.
Elon's biographer for example is on the record saying he's convinced that Elon disingenuously proposed Hyperloop and created Boring Company to spread FUD and try to weaken California's high speed rail project and other public transit proposals.
Actually I’d suspect it’d be very likely if he’s high on the IQ / autism spectrum as he seems to be.
So at the very least, in asserting that the entire profession is dumb and wrong he is suffering from delusions of grandeur that he is smarter than he actually is.
"It's not a lie if you [the teller] believe it". -Seinfeld/David
Nailed it!