āAs an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110,ā Abramson tweeted Thursday afternoon. āThereās zero evidence in his biography of anything higher. And I want to repeat that now, lest you think it a typo. Thereās zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk having anything higher than a 110 IQ.ā
The author then stepped away from the platform (āon the basis of this not being a platform worth spending time onā) only to return Friday morning and find his initial message had gone viral in online MAGA communities ā and ābecause Nate Silver thinks Carlyleās 1800s theory of history, the Great Man Theory, is still relevant to historians in 2025,ā Abramson continued.
Makes sense to me. Heās just another overconfident mediocre white man, with an especially wealthy background.
Born on third base, thinks he hit a home run.
And weāre overpopulated with them in the first place.
I like Fred Allenās take on someone like Musk: He was born ignorant and heās been losing ground ever since.
(this is presuming you know who Fred Allen was.)
One neednāt know to agree that thatās a great way to put it.
Musk is retweeting Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian fascist who supports total invasion of Ukraine and is sometimes referred to as āPutinās Brain.ā
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1iuytjw/musk_is_promoting_dugin_now/?rdt=42605
So, average then.
Average, overconfident, and high.
And a nepo big baby.
ā¦manchild loser idiotā¦
we could go on and on.
Starving for validation, seeking it among reprobates who spend half their time on the dark web.
I donāt know what elseā¦
Of course the most important thing for actually being intelligent is not direct processing power, however that is supposed to be defined, but actually putting in the work to use it properly. Humanity has built up literal libraries of things people have already figured out, and people different from you will have different experiences you can and should learn from. Working together is what makes us smart.
Meanwhile there is a type of man (mostly) that instead believes a genius ought to ignore the inferiors and rederive everything themselves, and even when theyāre otherwise clever they always end up with the stupidest things imaginable. Musk of course has given us tangible examples, like what happens when you thrrow out everything other people have figured out about trucks.
Iām reminded of when Elno āhelpedā to get ventilators into the US during covid, that turned out to be (broken) cpap machines, which would have been useless even if they werenāt broken. I imagine he similarly āhelpedā here, and the CEO was beingā¦ diplomatic, shall we say.
ā St. Clair is a popular conservative influencer who gained fame on X. She previously worked with The Babylon Bee and The Post Millennial. She authored the childrenās book āElephants Are Not Birds,ā about gender.ā
I have sympathy for the child.