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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by dclowd9901 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:15AM (#41911671)
Something about this sniffs as elitist to me. A person who’s intelligent is curious and a person who’s curious should be curious about all things, not just some limited set.

Now, that’s not to say the only issue is someone’s curiosity. Traditional teaching methods make it very hard to be interested in some topics (history and language comes to mind), but barring that, I’m not sure I accept “it’s not interesting” as a reason not to explore a subject.

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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by ben_w on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @09:52AM (#41914280)
The only intelligence on earth capable of being equally curious about all things, of not needing to discriminate and focus only on preferred subjects, is the artificial kind of intelligence.

The rest of us don't live long enough compared to our reading speed.

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