I encourage as many people as possible who are less wacko than Musk to try to beat him at his own game. Will be good for everyone.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1903)

Absolutely.

Steve Jobs, patron saint of tech that he now is, was neither reasonable nor a pleasant person to work with or be around ($hole in today's parlance). (However, this changed considerably as he was nearing the end of his life.)

That kind of nuance is often lacking on this website and reddit.

I strongly disagree with that take. Pushing the envelope does not require treating others like &hit. Also, there are degrees of "niceness", it's not a binary state.