Uh. I don't know, you see many more dimensions that causes you to harshly devalue a significant amount of individuals while finding you missed out of many good people. Less Wrong people are incredibly hit or miss, and many are "effective narcissists" and have highly acute issues that they use their high verbal intelligence to argue against.

Also there exists a tendency for speaking in extreme declarative statements and using meta-navigation in conversations as a crutch for lack of fundamental social skills. Furthermore I have met many quasi-famous LW people that are unethical in a straightforward fashion.

A large chunk of less wrong people you meet, including named individuals turn out to be not so great, or great in ways other than intelligence that you can appreciate them for. The great people you do meet however significantly make up for and surpass losses.

When people talk about "smart LW people" they often judge via forum posts or something, when that turns out to be only a moderately useful metric. If you ever meet the extended community I'm sure you will agree. It's hard for me to explain.

tl;dr Musk is just more trustworthy and competent overall unless you are restricting yourself to a strict subset of Less Wrong people. Also LW people tend to overestimate how advanced they are compared to other epistemic blocs that are as elite, or are more elite.

http://lesswrong.com/user/pengvado/ <---- is some one I would trust. Not every other LW regular.