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Your impression about his intelligence is way off. Mark was part of the study for mathematically precocious youth, which has a math cutoff at the 1/10K rarity.
by tmule 3mo ago
Your impression about his intelligence is way off. Mark was part of the study for mathematically precocious youth, which has a math cutoff at the 1/10K rarity. He also has ambition at the same level. What’s probably missing, of late, is good taste and judgment.
- glimshe 3mo agoIt is an impression, as you said. If his intellect is so vast (vs just scoring well on the math skill tests), we should have seen some sort of evidence in the things he writes or says. He was called a programming prodigy but we've seen other actual programming prodigies delivering much more impressive results (Bellard, Frankel, Carmack etc).
- tmule 3mo agoI don’t know what definition of intelligence you’re using, but scoring extremely well on math tests qualifying him for that study is fully aligned with the psychometric POV.
- eikeq1 3mo agoThis has no bearing on anything. Did Steve jobs have any of that? No. But he shits all over any tech ceo in history and it’ll probably stay that way.
- tmule 3mo agoHuh? I was addressing a specific claim - not even sure what you’re trying to refute.