@neurovagrant Intelligence is a complex metric, but clearly Trump has more street smarts than Musk.
@lauren @neurovagrant , he is a good engineer, and like many good engineers, he has limited ability to understand humans. Their advantages, and their disadvantages. To compound the issue, I strongly suspect he is more than slightly autistic. Trump, for all his faults, isn't autistic, just immoral, or sociopathic.
@lauren @neurovagrant , he was the lead engineer on tesla power plants, and if you ever watch his discussions of the development of the Raptor engines, you can see he knows his stuff.
@JonKramer @neurovagrant Bull, as far as I'm concerned. He knows enough to talk about it, when you get into details he depends on other people's work and makes it look like it's his own. He's basically a fool pretending to be a genius.
@lauren @neurovagrant , I don't know him personally, I just know what is publicly available.
@JonKramer @neurovagrant Talk with the actual engineers who keep him propped up. But they usually won't talk, because he'll fire anyone instantly that threatens his public facade.
@lauren @neurovagrant talk to people who don't talk?? How many have you met at dinner parties where they feel comfortable to chat about Musk?
@JonKramer @neurovagrant It's aspirational. Sidenote: I don't do dinner parties.
@JonKramer @neurovagrant Where is your evidence that he is anything other than a mediocre engineer, if that?