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Imagine if people saw only a few different colors, and few saw the whole rainbow. Those who saw red would point to the trees and discuss the fine aspects of app
by dzink 3y ago
Imagine if people saw only a few different colors, and few saw the whole rainbow. Those who saw red would point to the trees and discuss the fine aspects of apples there, while the rest would have no clue or wonder why they care. Empathy is a color some see more than others. Timeliness is a color. Indexing life tasks and items to where they should be or how efficiently that can be organized is a color. Math and problem solving are colors that some find a lot more compelling than others.
You are extremely fortunate if the colors you see brightly are commonly seen by others or a part of a self-training loop like math, Montessori games, programming, and language. You have it harder if your favorite subject requires funding to practice, such as chemistry/advanced physics, etc. And you’d better learn how to make millions or billions if you like space stuff or care for gatekeeper-protected disciplines like some niche academia, medicine, regulated stuff, etc.
That said, the world changed recently. GPT4 came out those who have deep interests have a sparring partner they’ve never had before. I doubt it’s anywhere in their priority list, but OpenAI can probably run a fantastic networking mesh for people with niche interests. They’d have to keep the spam /obscenities out, but a group chat for anyone in a topic would be fun and a voice group lounge would be even more amazing. ChatGPT would beat facebook and much other social media for the gifted audience. It’s already the best teacher available (if you discount errors and hallucinations, which are on the decline).