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AI Summary
- Elon Musk is often considered a modern genius based on co-founding PayPal, revolutionizing electric vehicles at Tesla, founding SpaceX, and pursuing interplanetary colonization
- Helen Lewis's book 'The Genius Myth' questions what actually constitutes genius and whether Musk possesses particular qualities or merely performs the role society expects of geniuses
- Episode examines whether Musk's offensive behavior is excused by genius, a result of it, or unrelated, and why society deifies genius to extraordinary degrees