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Why do you presume that the intelligence gap would converge to zero?
by pragmatic8 2y ago
Why do you presume that the intelligence gap would converge to zero?
- ziddoap 2y agoEventually everyone dies, thus becoming equally intelligent!
- behnamoh 2y agoeasy: how many genius people do you know who were also prodigies? early intelligence only gets you so far, the rest depends on hard work, passion, etc.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoIf your later work overshadows your earlier, you're not generally remembered as a prodigy.
- behnamoh 2y agoIt's just that I don't any example of an adult genius who used to be a prodigy. The most obvious counter example was Einstein.
- sph 2y agoMozart?
- bee_rider 2y agoGauss and Von Neumann are the two that immediately come to mind.
- lolinder 2y ago"Prodigy" and "genius" both lack rigorous definitions, so your problem might simply be one of cherry picking. Going with my own gut on each definition, here are a few examples to add to those already provided by sibling comments: * Magnus Carlsen (chess grandmaster by 14, world champion for 10 years as an adult) * Frédéric Chopin (concert pianist at 7, one of the top composers for piano) * Blaise Pascal (rediscovered Euclid on his own at 12 with no training, went on to become one of the most famous mathematicians of all time). * John van Neumann (could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head at age 6, learned calculus by 8, went on to be a founding figure in computer science). Shall I go on, or is this enough?