Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Survivorship bias.

    You donā€™t hear about all the Elons who made a bad bet with the money from their dadā€™s apartheid emerald mine, and ended up living meager multi-millionaire lives instead.

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      18 hours ago

      This. A million times this! For so many things in life. So many persons fail to get this. Entrepreneurs, billionaires, success-stories.

      Succeeding doesnā€™t mean you made the right decision with the information you had; it means you made the right decision now that we know the outcome.