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.

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    Most of thatā€™s false though. He couldnā€™t build a good smart team, Wozniak could. He was very good at screwing others out of ownership in the company they helped build though. He was also very good at one thing, envisioning a computer in every home, and a computer in every pocket. That was his one true talent.

    But he was not ā€œsmartā€. He died to cancer detected early enough to heal with modern medicine, but chose quack treatments instead. There really isnā€™t any such thing as general intelligence. Everyoneā€™s got very specialized knowledge in some topic, and are idiots in everything else.