The more I understand how success and popularity works the more I realize that there are probably millions of Einsteins dying in poverty every year.
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@tsoding The fact that there are only ~2 people in history on the level of Einstein makes me doubt "millions". But for sure some
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@tsoding Talent needs nurturing. A supportive environment is crucial for potential to flourish. How many are lost because it's missing?
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@tsoding This is true and a lot dying from aging even not in traditional sense of poverty too ... Hopefully we can kill aging
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@tsoding That’s the sad part of reality. A lot of rich people or people who have fancy jobs are actually grifters who cheated their way into them. More often than not the smartest person is not hired by grifters because grifters don’t want to hire them at all.
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@tsoding We live in an attention economy. Many high IQ people despise attention. Posers and other people good at self-promoting get all the rewards, the Perelman(s) of this world don't. We see this here on X too, including its incentivizing model rewarding post popularity over quality.
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@tsoding Yeah man - its pretty fucked. It's even more fucked when you consider: Humanity? The people in the world? Like all of em? There's no reason anyone needs to starve. We make plenty of food. Fuck, we destroy a good portion of it annually just to keep prices competitive.
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@tsoding Welcome to the real world kiddos. Intelligence & success are not always synonymous. Those with loudest voice or able to entertain the masses are usually the most popular. So nothing really different from schoolyard shit ... 😏
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@tsoding We should have zero sympathy for "hidden Einsteins" who refuse to put down the computer for a minute and learn some social skills. A little bit of self-promotion is what's needed, but that makes them uncomfortable, so they cower away, unnoticed and unimportant.
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@tsoding Einstein only made $10k a year and gave his first wife his nobel prize check--just to get rid of her. 10k back then was pretty good but not stupid money. Neil deGrasse Tyson makes $50k a pop just speaking...
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@tsoding There's lots of criticism against standardized testing but it's the cheapest way to find these people, especially in terms of raw IQ. A poor kid in a village won't launch a startup or write a physics paper but they can do insanely well on an end of HS test and get discovered
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@tsoding Probably, actually in the modern days being smarter just gives you depression faster instead of money and fame. It's ofter times better to be dumb and genuinely happy then know about everything and see that the world is actually shit. Have you watched Don't Look Up?
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@tsoding Not trying to be a reductionist I think intelligence is really complicated and has many areas, that being said, don't you think that if a person is truly intelligent he would understand the game and use it to his favor? Even if it's just as a means to pursue what he really wants.
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@tsoding Being smart, hard working, even being a good person, is a curse. Most of time, people will envy, explore and finally, sabotage you. People love mediocrity.
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@tsoding this is a very famous quote > I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. ― Stephen Jay Gould
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@tsoding That's why it's better to fear poverty than to fear that Cause everyone dies but not everyone gets rich What's the point of being scared of what is certain?
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@tsoding Much smarter folks say fame warps talent paths. Imagine a tech kitchen where hidden genius really shines. Let's serve talent on the real stage!
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@tsoding worked in a night club for a year (a lifetime ago) can confirm having met many such people; brilliant, rich, and either bored out of their minds or mad they're not getting recognized, so they drink it all away
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@tsoding True brilliance often goes unnoticed—society rewards visibility, not always intellect, leaving countless geniuses unrecognized.
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@tsoding I had the exact same thought. Wish we could identify gifted people and help them flourish. I want to find the next Elon Musks, Einsteins, Teslas and help them out somehow If I am able to. I think we would all benefit from that.
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@tsoding Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is rare. No one’s coming to pull you out you’ve got to fight your way up and create your own chance
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@tsoding einstein is a nobody and was not an actual genius imo. largely plagiarized his wife seems like and was essentially an actor. i agree with the idea behind the point though 100%
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@tsoding there is millions of us just like you plenty of computational power going to waste. so much potential remaims untapped
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