Except its important to get the direction of causation right.

Trying to achieve higher rewards generally necessitates risk taking. Desire for the first leads to the second.

High entropy events, by themselves, do not necessitate greater possibilities of higher rewards. There is no great benefit to sticking your face in a fan, as high entropy as that might be.

So the question comes, has Elon lately been doing things high entropy because he's chasing higher rewards by doing them, or are they just high entropy because they're high entropy.

At least for a couple of recent "Elon specials" (paedophile smears, SEC, dope smoking), it looks to me like you would be very hard pressed in arguing that this individual isn't one just partaking in "face in the fan" type entropy...

I think everyone is in agreement that we'd like the good parts of Elon Musk without any of the parts that have got him into trouble recently, but that's kind of a difficult ask. It also seems a lot less rude than confronting a CEO of a declining company with the question "Why are you so good at deflecting bad media and so bad at innovating?"

Please let me know if you can find any perfectly behaved geniuses with a track record of pioneering multiple world-changing companies/technologies.

No.