Lawyer, journalist and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson has both Elon Musk and his 'fanboys' who have tried to use the IQ of the billionaire as an indication of his intellectual ability in a series of messages that have shared on Thursday evening and Friday. “You are in a cult,” he wrote in one before he later noticed that Musk has “zero * personal * intellectual performance.”
“Like an Elon Musk biographer I would pin his IQ as between 100 and 110,” Abramson on Thursday afternoon. “There is zero evidence in his biography of something higher. And I want to repeat that now, otherwise you think it's a typo. There is zero evidence, from his life history, that Musk has slightly higher than an 110 IQ. “
The author then stepped away from the platform (“Based on this that it is not a platform that is worth applying time”) Only to return on Friday morning and discover that his first message had become viral in Online Maga – Communities – And “Because Nate Silver thinks Carlyle's from Carlyle is historical theory from the 1800s, The Great Man Theory, is still relevant to historians in 2025, “Abramson continued.
What followed was a long series of messages, each designed to decimate the reputation of musk in some circles as a kind of genius.
Musk “was sued for stealing the idea for ZIP2 – which fired him as soon as investors got involved” and “PayPal was in the ground after his company merged with it – he was fired.” Then “he invested in Tesla when it was sad and started to walk quickly in the ground.”
Musk founded ZIP2, described as “a kind of digital yellow pages” through the panel of Belmont Hill School Online, with his brother. The outlet reported that Musk impresses in an attempt to invest in investors in the company, a large, fake housing around the ZIP2 Computer to make it look like an extremely advanced supercomputer ” – a movement that worked, but investors who put $ 3 million in the company did this only after Musk agreed to resign, so” someone who is more experienced for his place to take it. “
The code that was used by the program that Musk taught himself, “was soon exposed to be so movable that a majority of the program had to be rewritten by more advanced programmers.”
Musk eventually returned to the company as CEO and benefited financially when it was sold to Compaq in 1999. He used the $ 22 million that his 7% share was introduced to an “internet bank” on X.com – the same company that he has compiled with the founders of PayPal. He was appointed CEO after the merger in April 2000, but was removed from the position six months later.
SpaceX, Abramson continued, is the only 'really successful and new company' by Musk and part of the success was due to President Obama, who 'successfully lobbyed Musk' after 'Russen had laughed Musk from Moscow'.
“I don't have to tell you that the boring company is a failure that has done no more than producing an illegal flame thrower for fun, one that cannot be sent legally and caused many legal problems of people,” Abramson added . “Neuralink is entangled in ethical investigations and Musk does not do any of his science.”
“Everything” Musk said about Twitter/X was “a lie,” he said, “and Business Schools will learn how he got this platform in the ground for 200 years.”
“Feel free to put all the things that Musk did, to struggle people by thinking that he had made a successful trip to robotics,” Abramson continued. “No intelligence is needed to throw money and buy a company or buy a politician. Everyone could/could. “
“No intelligence is needed to have thrown money to a politician, use the influence that you have built up to benefit your own companies to hide that fact. '
“If you assign intelligence to only spend money, you are in a cult,” he added. “If you attach intelligence to simply possessing a successful company whose work has nothing to do from day to day and with whom you are considerably more an obstacle than help, you are in a cult.”
Towards the end of his reports, Abramson noted: “It is also a special American disease to confuse wealth with intelligence and companies with those they own. In most of the world, the conversation we have to have seems completely ridiculous, because again there are no indications that Musk * has intellectual * performance. “
“I don't think IQ is a valuable measure,” he also clarified. “I introduced the term in this conversation because it is used by * your fans * as a kind of supposed proof of Musk's intelligence – although no one of you has any proof of an IQ test that the man ever took.”
The entire thread of Abramson can be read on X, formerly Twitter.
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