Elon Musk’s Struggles with X Reveal the Limits of Genius

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda/2024/10/03/why-comparisons-between-elon-musk-and-batman-fall-short/

Here’s Forbes, calling Elon Musk a comic-book genius:

«why would Fidelity, among many other enormously sophisticated institutions, put tens of billions behind Musk’s purchase of a social media company – especially when he only made that purchase under threat of a lawsuit?

The failure in judgment both [Musk and Fidelity] made stems basically from a comic book view of genius. In Iron Man Tony Stark is the greatest weapons designer who has ever lived. Designing weapons is, in and of itself, a multi-disciplinary task. Modern weapons require huge teams, not just individual geniuses. But okay, let’s say that’s possible. By the final Avengers movie, Stark is also a physicist so brilliant he can, literally, invent time travel. He’s hardly the only example. Bruce Wayne is a better athlete than most Olympic Gold medalists, but also better at forensics than the Gotham police department and better at coding than the engineers employed by Wayne Enterprises. Bruce Banner has seven PhDs (maybe the radiation isn’t what turned him into a giant green rage monster).

Genius in the real world doesn’t work that way.»

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