I can actually pinpoint the exact moment I became disillusioned with Elon Musk. It was back in like 2014 or 2015. I also thought he was a genius until I saw him talk about whether or not we live in a simulation. He said something to the affect of “if we are to assume that it’s possible for technology to progress to the point of simulating universes indistinguishable from our own then the possibility of us living in a prime universe is one in billions.” A bunch of people at the time ate that shit up but I immediately recognized that he pulled that shit out of his ass given that the whole thing is predicated on a giant assumption that by all accounts isn’t even likely like at all and that there is absolutely no basis whatsoever for the ‘billions’ figure. Ever since then it’s been blatantly obvious to me that he mostly doesn’t know what he’s talking about 90% of the time. And when he does know what he’s talking about he’s willfully deceitful in order to try to manipulate everyone.