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Does he have one? Surely he's not stupid enough to believe that Tesla will actually deliver real self-driving cars any time soon. He keeps making absurd claims in public. I have three theories about Musk and none of them fully make sense to me:
1) He is a sociopath who lies while fully knowing that he is lying.
Problem - surely he understands that this would only get him into deep trouble fairly soon.
2) He is stupid.
Problem - he is smart enough to have gotten this far.
3) He has gone insane from buying into his own optimism and bullshit.
Problem - then why do his lies seem so carefully calculated?
What am I missing here?