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Honestly, how the fuck do you cope with this? How the fuck is this possible
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>>16904230
If it makes you feel any better, there are plenty of people who have been tested and shown to have extremely high intelligence, who have fairly ordinary lives and are more or less successful.
What we have here is an example of the greatness that can be achieved when all the relevant factors come together.
You shouldn't be jealous. This is the future, and it is amazing.
More important than his academic progress is what he and his equals have proven and continue to prove from time to time.
With the right choices, we can make this happen for everyone.
We can set new standards and we can build the framework to meet them. Humanity can achieve greatness.
>>16904237
I have to deal with this shit eater logic whenever I frag people in vidya games.
>He must be cheating
>If he's not cheating, why is he in our lobby instead of making money in esports events
>He must be a fake
>If he's not a fake, then why is he getting worthless quantum physics university degrees at age 15 instead of starting New Amazon
It's pathetic and retarded. Keep coping.
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his phd is worthless because he didn't earn it and he will end up like every other meme prodigy with narc parents: burnt out, drugged out and washed out
let tranny-hair have his fun, or rather, let his parents have their fun
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>>16904234
Why would you waste such a large part of your life to get a paper that says "bravo, you did it jimmy". You're a parrot, just like that kid. You're gonna step into the rat race and live a meaningless unhappy life till you die, because it's all you know.
Autodidacticism is the only true way of personal development and the road to happiness.
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>>16904359
Honestly it's fuckin tragic. The poor kid has had his whole life optimised to this outcome, he's not had a childhood, made friends, first kiss etc. Even worse, he's specialised too narrowly too soon, he's not had cross discipling interests and been allowed to properly explore and fail on his own.
Nobody changed the world by getting a PhD at 15, the kid needs to have 10 years travelling the world, going sports, meeting people, trying and failing and learning how to pick himself up again.
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Can we generally talk about speedrunning the academia? Like, what is the point of it? Say, you work your ass off skipping grades, cramming the exams, your parents argue with the schools about how you need special treatment. All this to what end? So you get into a university at what, 12? I just don't see how this is a win, compared to doing it at a normal age.
I'm not talking about learning itself, which is obviously good, if it's indeed quality learning and not rushing to pass the test. Just the ahead-of-time academic progression. What's so good being a PhD by 15?
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>>16904261
>do what makes you happy until you die
That would be mogging on old people as a young, brash, know it all, with no experience but undeniable contributions.
If I dont start out at the finish line...then I might as well be dead.
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>>16904234
I'm a gas station casheer and I ask myself the same question every day.
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>>16904596
But how exactly does it increase that likelihood? He's gonna what, start working at 16yo? That only increases the cage-span, doesn't it. If the goal is to decrease it, you should rather try delaying the onset of the cage.
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>>16904230
It's just massive parental influence. If your parents are academics or MDs they can help you with homework, get tutors, know the loopholes in the academic system allowing for skipped grades, get you research experience to apply for a phd then you're all set up. If you have parents in the trades and want to go for a scientific career then you're already 10 steps behind. With clueless/dumber parents you get bogged down by high school busy work, get into trouble because you're bored with that work, then you choose a university that's close to home and doesnt have high research activity with no scholarships because nobody told you how to get any, then it takes you years at that school to build up a reputation of being a good student to finally get into a professor's lab, only for the lab to be dogshit and not produce a figure of publishable data, then moving onto a phd program you struggle because your undergrad didnt train you properly. Its like a snowball of negative effects if you didnt come from a family steeped in academia.
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Wolfram was doing research as a teenager too and look at what he's doing now, talking about ruliads and computation when his colleagues are not taking him seriously. The kid's contributions are going to be bogged down to the midwit level by midwit academia. He might either end up depressed like perelman or figure out that intelligence doesn't matter in liberal academia and pivot to industry.
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>>16904623
So bascially I have to get rich and live vicariously through my grandson who will probably turn out to be a fag with a tranny gf and my bloodline will die?>>16904623
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>>16904645
you can still pave your way forward into a good career like going to medical school and setting up your family for success. But becoming a big dick influential researcher is a brutal path if your parents arent already academics. Im talking like these guys with distinguished profs as parents have been doing research at the university since sophomore year high school and have their name on 7 biochemistry publications when they graduate college, while tradie parents are still forcing their children to play high school football and are relaxed on figuring out their child's career. It's unironically like a modern day royal caste where if youre a prof your son works for another prof down the hall and then that prof's daughter comes over to work with your lab. God forbid you're an undergraduate at the university you better have at least grad student skill to not get stuck doing rote dilutions or dish washing.
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