There are parts where he goes totally /r/redpill that would get him in trouble today if he were still alive.
Could you please rephrase what you wrote here, but without using the word "problematic" when describing a person? Thank you very much.
To do this requires resisting this sort of provocation in oneself—i.e. waiting until the activation dies down, and then either moving on to something else or finding a more interesting response to share. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Also, please don't use allcaps for emphasis and please don't go on about downvotes. These things are all in the site guidelines—would you please review them (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and stick to the rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it, because we're trying to avoid the internet hell in which everything becomes consumed by the never-ending flamewars.
But they spent time around him in a working context, and they are all absolutely clear in their minds that, beyond the showmanship, he was a genius.