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I don't think you understand what a polymath is. I am essentially self taught. I have no degrees although I did go to 5 years at a state school. I've read mor

I don't think you understand what a polymath is. I am essentially self taught. I have no degrees although I did go to 5 years at a state school. I've read more than every person born before a certain date - I estimate that date would be within my lifetime. I retain everything I read and I can revisit it in seconds if I chose and all the information is at my fingertips and I frequently access it. I read 3 volumes of encyclopedias before I was 9 - I got the Internet at around 12. I can't spend 3 minutes googling something before I have to prove that I'm a human being. I fell into the art rabbit hole a few years ago - I got kicked off of two different art info sites I paid for monthly access, one I got a week the other two. None of my efforts to work with their customer support could change their mind that I was using bots. I was not. I read the translated Nag Hammadi library and then I went onto everything in English that has come out of the ground. I can kinda read Latin solely from the amount of exposure I've had to it. I fell into Tesla and I can say that he never did wirelessly transmit electricity even tho he did "electrify" the world's fair wirelessly - I understand what I just said. There are political systems that exist only in my head that are arguably superior to any that exist now. I can already identify stuff from the DSM 5 that won't be in the DSM 7 or 8 bc their stupid. Truthfully much of psychology will be redone. I fundamentally reject the multiverse as it's commonly understood. With time, our scientist will realize they are confusing aspects of our singular reality that deal with probability and possibility for "other universes" of course they will not be able to see this until they start operating under the pretense that we live in a constructed reality - which this is, I know that like I know the sun will come up and I'm not a religious man - tho I've read all/a sh*tload of that also. I've collaborated with nobody. I try to go thru my days in first gear - that's literally how I think of it. I shouldn't be around people in third gear bc I lose a lot of social skills bc most of conversation is absolute BS and I cant deal with conversation for conversation sake. Lastly, I don't need to pat myself on the back - I have a confidence in myself and my own ability, that is separate from my ego - it just is what it is. I don't need your approval, it changes nothing. Based on my experience what I've typed will bother a lot of people - it's all still true tho. I'm at a point where every other living person could tell me that I'm wrong about something and I understand them to be right, they are not. That said, if someone challenges me about something and proves me wrong, even if it's the most fundamental change to my world view, I will adopt it that day. I'm actually still chuckling at the pat myself on the back thing - like I brag about these things, I hide who I am to even those I love, bc if they understood how far away from them I actually am they would be afraid of me. I know that bc every now and then something happens and I get caught up and real intensely focused on something and I quote exactly a conversation we had 6 weeks ago or I complete a really complicated problem requiring actual math in a few seconds (everyone knows I'm bad at math) - people don't like that shit. Anyways, tell yourself whatever - I assure you polymaths do exist, as I am here, as I am. No amount of collaboration will arrive at my perception of reality. Nobody reading this over a certain age can catch up to me unless they have always been like me and are very committed. I'm also certain that I'm not the smartest person, there are people ahead of me, likely some I cannot catch. I'm about to fully adopt AI into my own life - so that I'm able to consume more information more quickly and better revisit information I've already consumed. There is reason for me to do this, it's habit at this point. So yeah, this the most I've ever patted myself on the back or ever even tried to convey what I actually am I guess. Frankly tho, I'm just sick of people believing people like me are not real.

aodonnell2536 3y ago
Do you provide any evidence to support these claims, perhaps on a website?
- NemoNobody 3y ago
  Why? Some of those ideas would require I write books to fill in the information needed to know before they could be understood. I've debated doing a blog or having like resource website - I haven't done those things or anything like that bc what's the point? I could know how to cure cancer but I will never be taken seriously by the society that exists now bc I haven't played along with it and I never will. This post was clearly a moment of weakness - I am human after all, this is literally about me and people like me, all being discussed by people that are not, all arriving at conclusions that support their world view. That's the rant of a crazy person, right?
  - dev-slash-zero 3y ago
    Produce useful work, and nobody cares about whether you played by the rules of society. If you cannot effectively convey information to others, then, I'm not sure you are a polymath. This skill is the same skill that you should already be using to consume and comprehend information to begin with, so it should be second nature to you. And, go ahead and go through life thinking "I am a polymath, but, I feel no need to prove it either directly or indirectly through the work that I do." If that's the path that you take, then, enjoy being completely indiscernible from everyone else, and thus effectively lying to yourself to feel special. Because you can not even trust your own perception of yourself except through the work that you do -- this is the litmus test that avoids large swaths of cognitive bias if you can pass it.
dev-slash-zero 3y ago
You need to produce work that others can evaluate to earn you the title of "polymath" -- otherwise you are not. It's too easy to self-proclaim titles, and to others, naturally, entertaining statements like these are a waste of time. All that anyone can gain from your comment are the claims that you consume a lot of information, and that you can recall said information. And that you're good at math despite others not knowing it. But, that says nothing about the ability to use said information usefully. Maybe another person consumes 10% of the total information that you do, but, they select this information more carefully, and can produce insights more effectively than you. This is at least in part the difference between fluid and crystalized intelligence. Maybe a person that consumes 10% of the information that you do is in fact a polymath, but you are not. Not that I really care to prove that you specifically are or are not a polymath, because, the designation is meaningless, anyway. This designation never meant anything to those that society has retroactively identified as polymaths, either.

aodonnell2536 3y ago

Do you provide any evidence to support these claims, perhaps on a website?

NemoNobody 3y ago
Why? Some of those ideas would require I write books to fill in the information needed to know before they could be understood. I've debated doing a blog or having like resource website - I haven't done those things or anything like that bc what's the point? I could know how to cure cancer but I will never be taken seriously by the society that exists now bc I haven't played along with it and I never will. This post was clearly a moment of weakness - I am human after all, this is literally about me and people like me, all being discussed by people that are not, all arriving at conclusions that support their world view. That's the rant of a crazy person, right?
- dev-slash-zero 3y ago
  Produce useful work, and nobody cares about whether you played by the rules of society. If you cannot effectively convey information to others, then, I'm not sure you are a polymath. This skill is the same skill that you should already be using to consume and comprehend information to begin with, so it should be second nature to you. And, go ahead and go through life thinking "I am a polymath, but, I feel no need to prove it either directly or indirectly through the work that I do." If that's the path that you take, then, enjoy being completely indiscernible from everyone else, and thus effectively lying to yourself to feel special. Because you can not even trust your own perception of yourself except through the work that you do -- this is the litmus test that avoids large swaths of cognitive bias if you can pass it.

dev-slash-zero 3y ago

You need to produce work that others can evaluate to earn you the title of "polymath" -- otherwise you are not. It's too easy to self-proclaim titles, and to others, naturally, entertaining statements like these are a waste of time. All that anyone can gain from your comment are the claims that you consume a lot of information, and that you can recall said information. And that you're good at math despite others not knowing it. But, that says nothing about the ability to use said information usefully. Maybe another person consumes 10% of the total information that you do, but, they select this information more carefully, and can produce insights more effectively than you. This is at least in part the difference between fluid and crystalized intelligence. Maybe a person that consumes 10% of the information that you do is in fact a polymath, but you are not. Not that I really care to prove that you specifically are or are not a polymath, because, the designation is meaningless, anyway. This designation never meant anything to those that society has retroactively identified as polymaths, either.