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The smartest kid in the world

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Lifer
and this is no joke
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134859999_boygenius31.html

love this part 🙂
There never was a chance of steering Greg away. He could recite the alphabet at 1. He turned to vegetarianism at 2 after studying dinosaurs and realizing that humans, like herbivores, had flat teeth. At 4, he was doing basic algebra and reading Jules Verne. He deduced the truth about Santa Claus on a library visit that year when it dawned on him that books about St. Nick were filed as fiction.
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(if anyone reading this belives that Santa is real, then I'm sorry)

his own webpage
http://www.gregoryrsmith.com/
 
He's not too smart if he became a vegetarian based on the fact that dinosaurs had flat teeth and some of our teeth are relatively flat.

He certainly looks like a vegan.

amish
 
Feel sorry for that kid.

Some (many?) exceptionally gifted children get hoisted onto pedestals by family/friends and they suffer for it. He'll never understand the joy of rock-hard bubblegum from a pack of baseball cards or enjoy mindless fun playing video games.
 
It's cool that he is smart, but I really wonder about his goals in life. World peace and saving the children? Trying to discover the Unifying Theory?
 
Originally posted by: fyleow
It's cool that he is smart, but I really wonder about his goals in life. World peace and saving the children? Trying to discover the Unifying Theory?
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Unifying theory would be cool-ass work. I dream of being able to work on that kinda stuff.

Personally I'd say fsck the children.

amish
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Feel sorry for that kid.

Some (many?) exceptionally gifted children get hoisted onto pedestals by family/friends and they suffer for it. He'll never understand the joy of rock-hard bubblegum from a pack of baseball cards or enjoy mindless fun playing video games.
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Originally posted by: conjur
Feel sorry for that kid.

Some (many?) exceptionally gifted children get hoisted onto pedestals by family/friends and they suffer for it. He'll never understand the joy of rock-hard bubblegum from a pack of baseball cards or enjoy mindless fun playing video games.
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I suffered from it. I was pruned to go to Cal Tech or Oxford as a child. My parents were extremely overprotective. I couldn't even spend the night at my cousin's house as a child. I wouldn't let my kids skip grades, even if they were gifted. It's hard to learn how to socialize at 17. My friends can attest to that 😉
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Feel sorry for that kid.

Some (many?) exceptionally gifted children get hoisted onto pedestals by family/friends and they suffer for it. He'll never understand the joy of rock-hard bubblegum from a pack of baseball cards or enjoy mindless fun playing video games.
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That's a little presumptious. On Oprah it showed him having fun playing video games and being a big fan of Price is Right.
 
Originally posted by: fyleow
It's cool that he is smart, but I really wonder about his goals in life. World peace and saving the children? Trying to discover the Unifying Theory?
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In essence, WTF is the Unifying theory?
 
Originally posted by: Lyfer
He got got B's in Undergraduate work, he's not smart.
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Did you read why? He got B because he didn't take the prerequisite, or because he missed classes due to travel.
 
Originally posted by: idNut
Originally posted by: fyleow
It's cool that he is smart, but I really wonder about his goals in life. World peace and saving the children? Trying to discover the Unifying Theory?
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In essence, WTF is the Unifying theory?
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The theory that unifies gravity with all the other forces of the universe.

amish
 
i'm going to be the cynic here, but what about when good old fashioned hormones kick in? when's he gonna crack? gotta have some of that teen rebellion in there. 😛
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Most people that are that smart usually waste their lives because they can't settle down to one thing.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking when he mentioned getting 4 doctorates by age 30.

amish
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Most people that are that smart usually waste their lives because they can't settle down to one thing.
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Where the hell are you guys getting these assumptions from?
 
Having done the child college thing, I have to say he's in for a rough ride. He'll get sick of it - REALLY sick of it.

If he pulls it off, great. But IMHO in 5 years he'll be burned out & doing nothing of any value.

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish


Personally I'd say fsck the children.

amish
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That sounds like a typical asshole Amish remark. I'm not surprsied.

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Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: idNut
Originally posted by: fyleow
It's cool that he is smart, but I really wonder about his goals in life. World peace and saving the children? Trying to discover the Unifying Theory?
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In essence, WTF is the Unifying theory?
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The theory that unifies gravity with all the other forces of the universe.

amish
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Not entirely correct. It unifies quantum mechanics with relativity.
 
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Most people that are that smart usually waste their lives because they can't settle down to one thing.
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Where the hell are you guys getting these assumptions from?
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From real life cases? I don't have any specific examples, but I can look for them in a minute... but some of the smartest people in the world spent their lives moving from one trivial job to another. I want to say that it was the person with the highest recorded IQ that was like this, I'll look.
 
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