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Re:On All That Fuckery by watwut on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:07AM (#24291978)
I have seen super toxic dude who also was pretty good at programming. (All his failures were social non-technical.) Being talented does not guarantee non toxicity.

His ideology was atrocious. (He was actually physically violent to all his girlfriends and build worldview where he was the good one.)

Re:On All That Fuckery by DC-3 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:17AM (#24292054)
I don't deny that such people exist. There's always outliers. But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not.
Re:On All That Fuckery by pwinnski on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:51AM (#24293669)
What do you base this on? Your hopes and wishes?

It takes very few nasty harassers to harass the vast majority of "targets," since harassment is not a 1:1 activity.

In my anecdotal experience, the most gifted and capable end up with the poorest socialization from early on in life, and are therefore more likely than average to either not understand the profound negative effects of things they say, or to not care.

Re:On All That Fuckery by onion2k on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:53AM (#24293161)
But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not.

They are. They just hate different groups. People with low cognitive ability tend to hate groups based on things like sexuality or race. People with higher cognitive ability hate others based on the choices they make such as which political party someone supports.

Hate features universally across the spectrum of intelligence.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qwwzp/who-you-hate-depen...

Re:On All That Fuckery by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:40AM (#24294128)
> "But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not."

I have some passing familiarity with academia and with FAANG companies. Try doing something something that risks a professor getting publications/tenure or risks an FAANG employee their next bonus/promotion and you'll find out rather jarringly why that belief is pure fantasy.