[nvy]

>I saw Elon Musk questioning why we have medical regulations the other day, he was saying that it "slows down innovation" and so he thinks medical regulation should be abolished

Is he just posturing for his fans?

I see so many statements of this nature from him and I just can't believe that a person that successful can be so monumentally stupid.

[phs318u]

> I see so many statements of this nature from him and I just can't believe that a person that successful can be so monumentally stupid.

Clearly, you're not a student of history then. The trope of folks being good at one thing and believing that this can be extrapolated to other things is based on an almost infinite history of humans doing this exact thing, from politicians, business leaders, engineers, scientists, artists and just ordinary folks. When you couple this with the amplifying effects of having the money to surround yourself with 'yes'-folks that continuously reinforce your 'brilliance', and having the power that results in politicians kowtowing to you, then it is incredibly difficult to break out of that supreme belief in your own genius. It is literally a trap as old as humanity.

[mandevil]

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

[jpalawaga]

I see many, many tech people take an extremely simple position on a topic contrary to general knowledge.

Then they say something like 'I believe in strongly held beliefs, held weakly'.

I'm so bored of debating people with opinions on things they've spent zero time researching or even thinking about. Just say you don't know. It's okay.

[ineedaj0b]

this is like complaining about small talk. small talk is meant to draw people in. same with saying outrageous things. no one wants to chat in depth immediately and saying wild things draws a crowd.

no one is going to talk with you if you're drawing out all the nuance of medical regulation (nearly an 5k essay to broach) with nuance.

[Sabinus]

As a 'captain of industry' and generally wealthy man, Musk is much more constrained by regulation than he is protected by it. Unlike the common man.

So he's responding to his incentives, railing at the constraints on the ingenuity and productivity of people like himself. Likely underdeveloped empathy does not help.

[reaperducer]

I see so many statements of this nature from him and I just can't believe that a person that successful can be so monumentally stupid.

Don't forget that he is an unapologetic, very public drug user.

Every time he says or does something stupid, I just assume he's high. It helps explain a lot.