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> I know. That's the trouble with talking about growing up or being highly intelligent, you end up sounding like a narcissistic prick. You've framed this incor

> I know. That's the trouble with talking about growing up or being highly intelligent, you end up sounding like a narcissistic prick. You've framed this incorrectly. The reason you ended up sounding like a narcissistic prick is because you were being a narcissistic prick. Perhaps you were just reducing his point to something a little too trivially simple. There's nothing wrong with saying things like "I've tested in the top 1-2% of dozens of aptitude and intelligence tests". That doesn't sound narcissistic. Making the unsubstantiated claim that you are so smart that the problems of 'normal' people are trivially simple to solve and shall be disregarded is narcissistic. Especially when, once called out on that claim, you respond with an example fit perfectly to your honestly very narrow solution and cover every other scenario with an aloof "well, some problems do get complex". Honestly, it sounds like jakobe was dead on. If the world seems so simple to you, you're probably not looking close enough. If you really are so good at coming up with solutions to the problems of the world, I hope you're spending your time improving it for yourself and those around you in truly substantial ways.

bane 13y ago
I didn't say every problem was simple, just that most problems most people struggle with are. I also didn't say every problem has a simple solution. You read too much into it. > If the world seems so simple to you, you're probably not looking close enough. Funny, the closer I look, the more locally simple everything seems. It's how we learn, how we work and how we simply do things. Take things that are too big to do and break them down until they're simple enough to do. You can't move a mountain all at once, but you can move it if you blow it up into truck sized pieces. There's nothing in the world that a person does that's more complex than what a person can do. If the world seems complex too you, maybe you should just look more closely? > If you really are so good at coming up with solutions to the problems of the world, I hope you're spending your time improving it for yourself and those around you in truly substantial ways. I hope I am too. With great power comes great responsibility, no? I'm definitely not working on the next photo sharing app if that's your implication.
benched 13y ago
Oh fuck you. You're just being judgmental.

bane 13y ago

I didn't say every problem was simple, just that most problems most people struggle with are. I also didn't say every problem has a simple solution. You read too much into it. > If the world seems so simple to you, you're probably not looking close enough. Funny, the closer I look, the more locally simple everything seems. It's how we learn, how we work and how we simply do things. Take things that are too big to do and break them down until they're simple enough to do. You can't move a mountain all at once, but you can move it if you blow it up into truck sized pieces. There's nothing in the world that a person does that's more complex than what a person can do. If the world seems complex too you, maybe you should just look more closely? > If you really are so good at coming up with solutions to the problems of the world, I hope you're spending your time improving it for yourself and those around you in truly substantial ways. I hope I am too. With great power comes great responsibility, no? I'm definitely not working on the next photo sharing app if that's your implication.

benched 13y ago

Oh fuck you. You're just being judgmental.