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Re:"Ripples They Cause in the World" by gwern on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:10PM (#44527113)
'Child prodigy' is not an exaggeration here: https://trout.me.uk/prec/
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Re:"Ripples They Cause in the World" by loose-cannon on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:59PM (#44528271)
You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.
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Re:"Ripples They Cause in the World" by singingfish on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:37AM (#44530589)
and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.
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Re:"Ripples They Cause in the World" by gwern on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:12PM (#44564704)
My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.
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