Comments by "Plato\x27s Cave alum" (@platoscavealum902) on "Lex Fridman"
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christoforos meziriadis ...
🚀 Elon Musk didn’t start out as a rocket expert either... Nonetheless, few would say that he is not a rocket expert at the present moment. (Everyone has to start as a non-expert before they they can become an expert.)
I suspect that your thought process may be clouded by motivated reasoning. As such, you are mounting an ad hominem attack against Musk rather than challenging his ideas directly. Here’s more about that:
Ad hominem is a term that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue.The most common form of this fallacy is "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong".
⬆️ source: Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
+ more on motivated reasoning:
If we WANT to believe X, we ask:
"Can-I Believe-It?"
If we DON’T want to, we ask:
"Must-I-Believe-It?"
— Jonathan Haidt
Motivated reasoning is a phenomenon studied in cognitive science and social psychology that uses emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications or make decisions that are most desired rather than those that accurately reflect the evidence, while still reducing cognitive dissonance. In other words, motivated reasoning is the "tendency to find arguments in favor of conclusions we want to believe to be stronger than arguments for conclusions we do not want to believe". It can lead to forming and clinging to false beliefs despite substantial evidence to the contrary. The desired outcome acts as a filter that affects evaluation of scientific evidence and of other people.
⬆️ source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
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christoforos meziriadis ...
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Elon Musk invented Zip2, arguably the first ever electronic city guide. This was his first software company and he wrote the software himself. When building this software, he developed a few new technologies for radius searches and directory management. Ultimately, this company was sold to Compaq. Following that, Elon Musk co-founded http://X.com, which was, so far as I can tell, the first E-Bank. While the company was co-founded, he was the architect and principle developer for the software. Another idea that he invented, and patented, was a method for making phone calls over the internet (filed back in 1997).
Insomuch as rocket technology or electric car technology is concerned, it becomes more difficult to determine exactly what he specifically invented vs what was designed as a team overall. In some cases, Elon might have had the idea and the engineers that work for him fleshed it out. In other cases, the engineers came up with an idea and Elon took it upon himself to work it out. In the end, really, the end product is much more important than who gets the credit.
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source: https://www.quora.com/Has-Elon-Musk-invented-anything-himself-personally
Here’s the link to the aforementioned patent from Elon Musk:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6185194.PN.&OS=PN%2F6185194&RS=PN%2F6185194
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christoforos meziriadis , Thomas Edison had even less formal education than Elon Musk. Yet, he is known as one of the greatest inventors. Similar to Musk, Edison was largely an autodidact — a self-taught success story:
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In 1854, Edison’s family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where he attended public school for a total of 12 weeks. A hyperactive child, prone to distraction, he was deemed "difficult" by his teacher.
His mother quickly pulled him from school and taught him at home. At age 11, he showed a voracious appetite for knowledge, reading books on a wide range of subjects. In this wide-open curriculum Edison developed a process for self-education and learning independently that would serve him throughout his life.
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source: https://www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edison
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“Had Edison been formally schooled, he might not have had the audacity to create such impossible things.”
— source: https://fee.org/articles/the-education-of-thomas-edison/
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"Had [Thomas] Edison been formally schooled, he might not have had the audacity to create such impossible things."
— source: https://fee.org/articles/the-education-of-thomas-edison/
christoforos meziriadis , above statement was made about Thomas Edison at his funeral. Edison proves that it possible to have exceptional results without formal education.
Thomas Edison had less formal education than Elon Musk. Yet, he is known as one of the greatest inventors. Similar to Musk, Edison was an autodidact:
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In 1854, Edison’s family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where he attended public school for a total of 12 weeks. A hyperactive child, prone to distraction, he was deemed "difficult" by his teacher.
His mother quickly pulled him from school and taught him at home. At age 11, he showed a voracious appetite for knowledge, reading books on a wide range of subjects. In this wide-open curriculum Edison developed a process for self-education and learning independently that would serve him throughout his life.
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source: https://www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edison
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