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>"I refuse to acknowledge that a 20 year old can be exceptional, so I baselessly assert that literally everyone in the field must be stupid and inept instead"
by IIAOPSW 3y ago
>"I refuse to acknowledge that a 20 year old can be exceptional, so I baselessly assert that literally everyone in the field must be stupid and inept instead"
Why not both. An above average (but not savant) 20 year old who appears more exceptional than he is because the professional class he's being compared with really does have a lot of rot.
- romwell 3y ago>Why not both. Because there's no basis or evidence for the latter claim (hence, baseless). The justification "look how inept they are, they rely on a help of a 20-year old" is just circular reasoning, and nothing else has been presented.
- defen 3y agoI think it's worthwhile to ask - in what other fields do exceptional people become consensus world-class experts after four years of part-time study?
- romwell 3y agoIt's rare in any field, that's why he's coonsidered a savant. But it's possible in many fields too - including mathematics[1][2][3], aerospace engineering [4][5], theoretical physics[6], computer science[7], etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky [6] https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-lasers/ https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-la... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
- debo_ 3y agoJavascript?