IQfy here, can confirm. I fond that my Emacs setup has no syntax highlighting and looked around for "add-ons" to give me this function. On Youtube, I found this thing of human aspect. You can tell something has atrophied in he's psyche just by he's dead fish stare and childish but robotic smile.
Ok I'll bite on you biting. The dude isn't an inventor, he is a businessman that contracts actual engineers to build products and he uses marketing to create a cult of personality in order to convince people that he is doing all the heavy lifting. He is a grifter of the highest order and is in the territory of "Too big to fail" because of the amount of wealth he has amassed. There are so many examples of him saying cringy shit online of him lying about his products or his intellect but my favourite is him saying "I probably know more about manufacturing than anybody else alive". If this is the case then the world is in deep shit because the build quality of Tesla products is ass and the Cyber truck is rusting straight out of the factory because this arrogant homosexual gave instructions not to put a base coat of paint on the care to protect it from the elements. Don't get caught up in the hype, the man is a charlatan and an egomaniac.
it seems like you sort of cherry picked flaws to ding him with when they are obviously vastly overshadowed by his successes which seems like a strange thing to do unless it was done out of resentment or because he doesn't agree with your politics or something
1 month ago
Anonymous
Do you really consider me saying that he is a "grifter, charlatan, egomaniac and homosexual" to be cherry picking? I provided specific examples of why I don't like him that didn't include political takes. I could point to a lot of specific examples that illustrate why I think he embodies these qualities but I was trying to be concise.
1 month ago
Anonymous
yes i think those examples are cherry picking considering he built billion dollars businesses in 3 completely different industries. i would like to know who exactly is deserving of their success that cant be cherry picked in the same way
1 month ago
Anonymous
My original point was that he isn't an inventor and then I pointed out what I think he actually is. You haven't refuted that. I have also not denied that he has been successful, he both embodies the qualities I attribute to him and is very successful, they aren't mutually exclusive.
I won't give examples of other people because I don't think anybody is immune from criticism. I would encourage you to not view financial success as the only measuring stick of a person's worth, it makes you vulnerable to exploitation to view life that way. He is an extremely wealthy scumbag, I won't change my view on that. You are allowed to like the guy, just be honest and say that instead of trying to defend him by changing the argument.
1 month ago
Anonymous
What success? Tesla has been one of the worst performing stocks for the last half year lol
i know the likes of you. held back by others so you cant be expected to succeed. losers like elon get to do it instead. fricking midwits
He didn't build Tesla lol. He didn't build anything he just throws his money around.
1 month ago
Anonymous
It’s up 13,600% since he took control of the company.
And I’m guessing this money of his just fell from the sky right? homosexual
1 month ago
Anonymous
>And I’m guessing this money of his just fell from the sky right?
Pretty much >homosexual
Yes you are, considering how much you love Elon's wiener.
it seems like you sort of cherry picked flaws to ding him with when they are obviously vastly overshadowed by his successes which seems like a strange thing to do unless it was done out of resentment or because he doesn't agree with your politics or something
yes i think those examples are cherry picking considering he built billion dollars businesses in 3 completely different industries. i would like to know who exactly is deserving of their success that cant be cherry picked in the same way
Being brilliant in STEM and management doesn’t translate to brilliance across the board. I would never want lessons in literature from Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins. Back in the Renaissance, technical brilliance and humanities were both considered complementary studies and a genius in either would excel in both, but that does not apply in an era of specialization
Unironically this. It's ragebait. He posts controversial edgelord shit that he knows is wrong so that people will engage with his shitty dying platform.
The vast majority of people are like this. Hell, most of IQfy is like this. No one wants to read, they want to consume and say they've read X book. Things like cliff notes and spark notes have existed for decades for this exact purpose. Even abridged books have been a thing for centuries. Just ignore it. Unless they start removing unabridged books entirely, who cares?
I don't understand this mindset when applied to fiction, because at a young age, I understood the point of reading fiction was for the experience. Surely Elon is referring to nonfiction books.
It’s because they understand fiction as an allegory with some deeper meaning that is meant to be gleaned and then put into use. The whole world for these people is a series of tools and things to use the tools on.
It's what happens when people are only ever exposed to good books via excerpt-based classroom discussions, videoessays, and wikisurfing. I honestly don't blame the zoomers for being like this since that's how they were brought up.
It’s because they understand fiction as an allegory with some deeper meaning that is meant to be gleaned and then put into use. The whole world for these people is a series of tools and things to use the tools on.
We live in a technical society. Everything is but a means to an end.
I agree with this as far as practical books go. Most of them could be condensed to a pamphlet of actual advice and the rest is just fluff to pad it out into a full book to justify the price tag. Everything else though should be left as-is. Condensing a novel or historical work that way would lose the artistry in it.
Because one of the most important jobs of a editor is to force the author to chop a little.
A 1000 page stream of consciousness becomes a 500 page novel, which could be edited down to a 300 sheeted page turner.
There is also a large difference between philosophy, where needing to spend chapters on chapters building to make the point... vs a technical manual where the authors lack of skill means he has to pour on words instead of drawing some sketches and write some very brief analogies.
Then again >trusting a hallucinating LLVM to summarize a ride
because twitter users have a low attention span and can't read anything longer than a tweet but being twitter they think the world has to built around them to accomodate their mental illness.
Time = Money, rich people don't have time to read 800 pages of philosophy. IF it takes 30 hours to read a book, that's 30 hours the "competition" is getting ahead in life
Because they're successful. Many great philosophers warn against excessive reading. Think your own thoughts. Only read to have your thoughts directed by a good teacher, one wiser than yourself.
These people want the most "efficient" way of getting to an answer rather than putting in work lol. I'm pretty sure humanity is going to get worse and worse and worse in this way.
>people can't read books >but can sit through 2 hour youtube video essays, binge entire seasons of shows, and scrool through 10 second videos without interruption for hours
how? I can't do the latter without losing my attention after a minute. at least a good book can engross me most of the time.
I have never finished a philosophy book (critique of Pure reason, The World as Will and Representation, Spinoza Ethics) because I feel like I get the gist halfway through. Like do I really need to 100% them?
Elon Musk is the poster child for what an idiot who thinks they’re far more intelligent than they actually are is asked to envision an intellectual. The man is positive proof even people of a middling 100 IQ, are capable of success when born into a position of advantage.
ok ill bite, how is elon not smart? Hes one of the most innovative inventors of the last 50 years. Hes literally the edison of our time
i know the likes of you, you adore elon a very low key way. You are not fanboys, no, you keep it low key and to some extent you believe that private companies are the tip of the spear in human advancement. Probably you know an oddly amount of trivia on some technology (space, communications, internet, engineering) and have of other capitalist moguls in high regard. It could be Johnson, Thiel, Mcaffee, Bezos. Mid-intelligence, in the good sense, but with considerable biases that you can't overcome like eating hagiographies as facts and not marketing.
If he's talking about derivative repetitive self help books (or similar crap of de jour like "management" books) he's totally right and it's something I've been doing for years now. However, if we're talking about actual literature (either non-fictional o or a scientific nature) then he's wrong... But twitter is for hot takes anyway.. I've seen worse.
He was probably talking about non-fiction and "self improvement" books, and he's fully right in that regard. As others said, they hold no artistic value and a lot of them are poorly written and could be much shorter.
You want to share practical knowledge efficiently, not necessarily prettily. He wasn't probably talking (insert your favorite novel of choice).
Techbros have no soul
they are reading selfhelp books and those have a lot of fluff t2bh
tony robbins
IQfy here, can confirm. I fond that my Emacs setup has no syntax highlighting and looked around for "add-ons" to give me this function. On Youtube, I found this thing of human aspect. You can tell something has atrophied in he's psyche just by he's dead fish stare and childish but robotic smile.
lmao, seething mathlets
They are idiot who think they are smart, which is the worst type of idiot
That is every idiot. If they realized they were an idiot, then they'd wrap back around to being smart.
ok ill bite, how is elon not smart? Hes one of the most innovative inventors of the last 50 years. Hes literally the edison of our time
Ok I'll bite on you biting. The dude isn't an inventor, he is a businessman that contracts actual engineers to build products and he uses marketing to create a cult of personality in order to convince people that he is doing all the heavy lifting. He is a grifter of the highest order and is in the territory of "Too big to fail" because of the amount of wealth he has amassed. There are so many examples of him saying cringy shit online of him lying about his products or his intellect but my favourite is him saying "I probably know more about manufacturing than anybody else alive". If this is the case then the world is in deep shit because the build quality of Tesla products is ass and the Cyber truck is rusting straight out of the factory because this arrogant homosexual gave instructions not to put a base coat of paint on the care to protect it from the elements. Don't get caught up in the hype, the man is a charlatan and an egomaniac.
it seems like you sort of cherry picked flaws to ding him with when they are obviously vastly overshadowed by his successes which seems like a strange thing to do unless it was done out of resentment or because he doesn't agree with your politics or something
Do you really consider me saying that he is a "grifter, charlatan, egomaniac and homosexual" to be cherry picking? I provided specific examples of why I don't like him that didn't include political takes. I could point to a lot of specific examples that illustrate why I think he embodies these qualities but I was trying to be concise.
yes i think those examples are cherry picking considering he built billion dollars businesses in 3 completely different industries. i would like to know who exactly is deserving of their success that cant be cherry picked in the same way
My original point was that he isn't an inventor and then I pointed out what I think he actually is. You haven't refuted that. I have also not denied that he has been successful, he both embodies the qualities I attribute to him and is very successful, they aren't mutually exclusive.
I won't give examples of other people because I don't think anybody is immune from criticism. I would encourage you to not view financial success as the only measuring stick of a person's worth, it makes you vulnerable to exploitation to view life that way. He is an extremely wealthy scumbag, I won't change my view on that. You are allowed to like the guy, just be honest and say that instead of trying to defend him by changing the argument.
What success? Tesla has been one of the worst performing stocks for the last half year lol
He didn't build Tesla lol. He didn't build anything he just throws his money around.
It’s up 13,600% since he took control of the company.
And I’m guessing this money of his just fell from the sky right? homosexual
>And I’m guessing this money of his just fell from the sky right?
Pretty much
>homosexual
Yes you are, considering how much you love Elon's wiener.
Kek, hey Elon.
Being brilliant in STEM and management doesn’t translate to brilliance across the board. I would never want lessons in literature from Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins. Back in the Renaissance, technical brilliance and humanities were both considered complementary studies and a genius in either would excel in both, but that does not apply in an era of specialization
Every single thing this man says is specifically designed to piss me off
Unironically this. It's ragebait. He posts controversial edgelord shit that he knows is wrong so that people will engage with his shitty dying platform.
He's correct. The publishing industry publishes 200pg essays that could be mostly 10-20 pages. Some thinkers escape this fate.
The vast majority of people are like this. Hell, most of IQfy is like this. No one wants to read, they want to consume and say they've read X book. Things like cliff notes and spark notes have existed for decades for this exact purpose. Even abridged books have been a thing for centuries. Just ignore it. Unless they start removing unabridged books entirely, who cares?
I don't understand this mindset when applied to fiction, because at a young age, I understood the point of reading fiction was for the experience. Surely Elon is referring to nonfiction books.
It’s because they understand fiction as an allegory with some deeper meaning that is meant to be gleaned and then put into use. The whole world for these people is a series of tools and things to use the tools on.
It's what happens when people are only ever exposed to good books via excerpt-based classroom discussions, videoessays, and wikisurfing. I honestly don't blame the zoomers for being like this since that's how they were brought up.
We live in a technical society. Everything is but a means to an end.
Let's be honest here, there's no one in the world who hasn't got their attention span fricked up by the modern world.
I agree with this as far as practical books go. Most of them could be condensed to a pamphlet of actual advice and the rest is just fluff to pad it out into a full book to justify the price tag. Everything else though should be left as-is. Condensing a novel or historical work that way would lose the artistry in it.
Because one of the most important jobs of a editor is to force the author to chop a little.
A 1000 page stream of consciousness becomes a 500 page novel, which could be edited down to a 300 sheeted page turner.
There is also a large difference between philosophy, where needing to spend chapters on chapters building to make the point... vs a technical manual where the authors lack of skill means he has to pour on words instead of drawing some sketches and write some very brief analogies.
Then again
>trusting a hallucinating LLVM to summarize a ride
because twitter users have a low attention span and can't read anything longer than a tweet but being twitter they think the world has to built around them to accomodate their mental illness.
He's right
Wit is the brevity of soul or whatever
The guy who says that in the play is an idiot
yeah, but the joke in that scene is that he says this line in the midst of a very long monologue, not that these words are wrong in itself
Time = Money, rich people don't have time to read 800 pages of philosophy. IF it takes 30 hours to read a book, that's 30 hours the "competition" is getting ahead in life
This guy shit posts on Twitter 20+ times per day and has for years
replace times with hours
He probably pays somone and does it while working/traveling. He can do it from his phone.
No wonder he's fricked up
(OP)
Is he the real life version of this episode?
Is this the same dude who thinks bayesian analysis proves Shakespeare is bad?
No, that was Sam Bankman Fried.
That israelite nepobaby getting 25 years is one of the best things that happened this year.
which modern slop is that not true for?
and what even is a "techbro"? did nerds magically become inverted and start shoving chads into lockers?
yes metaphorically
he's right. good literature can't be, though.
>taking 200+ pages to say something that could be easily explained in 3 pages is le good!
The mind of an English major
Because they're successful. Many great philosophers warn against excessive reading. Think your own thoughts. Only read to have your thoughts directed by a good teacher, one wiser than yourself.
Sounds like Musk tried to start reading Dune
These people want the most "efficient" way of getting to an answer rather than putting in work lol. I'm pretty sure humanity is going to get worse and worse and worse in this way.
Because there's a reason why they went with tech instead of arts. Unless you actually ENJOY reading you'll always opt for a shortened summary.
>Because there's a reason why they went with tech instead of arts
Money and career opportunities?
i guarantee almost nobody who gets a lit degree actually reads, except the low iq ones who didn't catch the memo. it's like hs all over again.
>people can't read books
>but can sit through 2 hour youtube video essays, binge entire seasons of shows, and scrool through 10 second videos without interruption for hours
how? I can't do the latter without losing my attention after a minute. at least a good book can engross me most of the time.
I think that's useful for some nonfiction books and especially for students who are forced to read shitty books by their teachers.
I have never finished a philosophy book (critique of Pure reason, The World as Will and Representation, Spinoza Ethics) because I feel like I get the gist halfway through. Like do I really need to 100% them?
Elon Musk is the poster child for what an idiot who thinks they’re far more intelligent than they actually are is asked to envision an intellectual. The man is positive proof even people of a middling 100 IQ, are capable of success when born into a position of advantage.
imagine how much richer than him you would be if only you had a little more privilege. goddamn you could have been a legend
i know the likes of you, you adore elon a very low key way. You are not fanboys, no, you keep it low key and to some extent you believe that private companies are the tip of the spear in human advancement. Probably you know an oddly amount of trivia on some technology (space, communications, internet, engineering) and have of other capitalist moguls in high regard. It could be Johnson, Thiel, Mcaffee, Bezos. Mid-intelligence, in the good sense, but with considerable biases that you can't overcome like eating hagiographies as facts and not marketing.
i know the likes of you. held back by others so you cant be expected to succeed. losers like elon get to do it instead. fricking midwits
You’re right, but in this revenge of the nerds clown world shit show people like that can be enormously successful and that is a giant black pill.
No, he's just born gentry
hello will stab you
If he's talking about derivative repetitive self help books (or similar crap of de jour like "management" books) he's totally right and it's something I've been doing for years now. However, if we're talking about actual literature (either non-fictional o or a scientific nature) then he's wrong... But twitter is for hot takes anyway.. I've seen worse.
He was probably talking about non-fiction and "self improvement" books, and he's fully right in that regard. As others said, they hold no artistic value and a lot of them are poorly written and could be much shorter.
You want to share practical knowledge efficiently, not necessarily prettily. He wasn't probably talking (insert your favorite novel of choice).