Speaking of someone undervedly viewed as smart, I endured the Musk/Carlson interview a few months ago, and while Carlson is a yapping moron, I was not impressed with Musk at all. It was easy to take his measure; his thoughts were poorly sequenced, he rambled and groped for words, it was, classically, the kid doing a report on a book he h…
Speaking of someone undervedly viewed as smart, I endured the Musk/Carlson interview a few months ago, and while Carlson is a yapping moron, I was not impressed with Musk at all. It was easy to take his measure; his thoughts were poorly sequenced, he rambled and groped for words, it was, classically, the kid doing a report on a book he hadn't read.
It was only in finance that he was at all linear. The guy is no genius.
Tyson doesn't strike me as much of an astrophysicist. I haven't read his papers but there have been so many like Feynman who could explain a topic in lay terms and make it illuminating, Tyson completely lacks that. And Feynman was by all accounts a humble man.
Speaking of someone undervedly viewed as smart, I endured the Musk/Carlson interview a few months ago, and while Carlson is a yapping moron, I was not impressed with Musk at all. It was easy to take his measure; his thoughts were poorly sequenced, he rambled and groped for words, it was, classically, the kid doing a report on a book he hadn't read.
It was only in finance that he was at all linear. The guy is no genius.
Tyson doesn't strike me as much of an astrophysicist. I haven't read his papers but there have been so many like Feynman who could explain a topic in lay terms and make it illuminating, Tyson completely lacks that. And Feynman was by all accounts a humble man.