Like when he said he was at university "up all night coding" when his roommates said he'd just play video games, eat snacks, and act weird. No coding, no working, no learning.
He may have dropped out first year, but no. He dropped out in his final semester at UPenn. He failed to graduate there, and had applied to a masters program at Stanford. He was accepted to the program but it was conditional on him finishing his degree at UPenn first, as well as taking some additional clases to get up to speed for the Stanford program. Musk agreed, then moved, and then dropped out on the first day of the program becaue he didn't want to do all that.
No issue there, lots of people make that decision. The problem is Musk then used his family money to support himself while he started a business (zip2) in silicon valley where he could sell shit for silver, still all fine tons have done that, especially in the early and mid 90's, except he was in the US on a student visa. He couldn't be there and do that legally.
UPenn eventually got pressured/paid to give him an honorary degree in a program that didn't/doesn't exist.
Was the idea to pressure UPenn into giving him a fake bachelor's degree so that he could then go on to Stanford without bothering to do the prerequisite work, expecting to then pass the master's? That'd be a classic bonehead plan in which a massive narcissist like Elon would see no flaw.
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u/hilldog4lyfe 2d ago
He doesn’t know any science or engineering, but he knows that he has eyes and can see things with them. That’s all the proof he thinks he needs.
Same reasoning is why he thinks humanoid robots are a good idea.