Better to Amputate the Tail Slowly?

S M Chen
6 min readSep 10, 2023

Elon Musk is sui generis.

Bulu Patel. Pixabay. Free use

In addition to being the richest man in the world (not that there is anything intrinsically laudable or wrong about that), he is a genius.

His IQ has been estimated at 155.

Who else has founded multiple state-of-the-art companies, the most successful arguably Tesla and Space X?

His innovations have been handsomely rewarded, and he has become a billionaire from Tesla alone.

Who else has come up with the notion of reusing space rockets which, in itself, is an enormous cost saver?

Who else has named their children (with Grimes, aka Claire Elise Boucher) X, Y (nicknames) and Techno Mechanicus?

OK, that last one about the children with Grimes I wrote tongue-in-cheek.

A person is entitled to name his children whatever he (or she) wishes.

The child/person is always free to change their name later.

Some do.

But the rest is weightier.

Sure, there have been some blips along the way, one of the latest his challenge to Mark Zuckerberg for a mano a mano duel.

This may or may not happen, but the outcome is guaranteed not to increase the IQ of the high-tech world.

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