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"Perhaps men of genius are the only true men.... Without the help of the real man, we should have found out almost nothing at all.... And the rest of us -- what are we? Teachable animals."

Huxley on Sidis


That video is a chilling cautionary tale.


Yes...a cautionary tale about giving too much weight to the Intelligence Quotient metric, and how it might lend a semblance of credibility to conservative agitprop dismissive of Darwin, the university system, and progressive federal expenditures. ;-)


I think I would've been a bully rather than a hacker had I met someone this arrogant and pretentious in high school. The only amusing part of that video is when he tells the story of getting chained to a truck and dragged up the street. Clearly, that didn't happen enough times.




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