That's typical ASD.
Most peeps think Elon is a narcissist, but he's just thinking, perceiving and acting the ASD way. He merely has a chance to adapt to social concepts like empathy, only by a "ethical modeling", but he has to reason the ethics he chooses to follow.
The narcissist, in contrast, can't ever follow ethical rules and is using empathy as a concept, in a clever way against his environment.