I started paying attention Elon Musk in 2014.
Watched probably nearly every interview with him that was then available on youtube in the following months.
To me personally he seems to be a man of integrity and genuine good-will. That's where I'd put my money if I had to.
It seems to me he has been consistent in what he has been saying over all these years. He seems to me to be one of the few people whose words you can take at face value. To my eye and ear Elon's own explanations for his own behaviour most consistently fit the facts.
He is human like the rest of us, and capable of self-deception, biases of various kinds, putting up presona's etc., but in general he seems to me to be far more self-aware, far less biased and far more consistent than the average person.
He seems to me one of the few public people with a clear and consistent philosophy and whose actions closely align with that professed philosophy.
In my view in most cases the most consistent and plausible explanation for his behaviour are his own explanations. It seems to me he is largely honest and accurate in that way.
I suspect many here will vehemently disagree.
What do you think?
Man of integrity and genuine good-will24.2%
Opportunistic amoral businessman42.4%
Evil genius3.0%
Antichrist3.0%
None of the above are close27.3%
33 votes \ poll ended
for its brilliant engineers to create something revolutionary. What bothers me is that it seems like Elon Musk developed the technology and his engineers just replicated it.