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I think the statement “people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math” is incredibly revealing

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      4 months ago

      And unfortunately also not incorrect. At least in the US, pretty much all of the most wealthy and successful people are psychopaths. :(

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        4 months ago

        It is incorrect. No one is so good at math that they can design and build a full useful system on their own. That means they have to work with other people as part of a team. That means that their lack of social skills will doom or limit them.

        It is also a mistake to equate psychopaths with having no social skills. They don’t have empathy, but they often have excellent social skills.

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          Yeah, it’s also survivorship bias. All the successful psychopaths would make you think that a) you need to be a psychopath to succeed, and b) all psychopaths will succeed. It’s wrong on both counts, but we can conclude that c) being a psychopath does not preclude success. It might even be easier to succeed, since capitalism abhors a principle, but I don’t have the statistics to support that.

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        4 months ago

        the billionaires and hundred millionaires are, they are also kinda stupid, because they have yesman to tell them nothing is wrong.

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      4 months ago

      Thee day result of “STEM is all that matters” is a bunch of miserable, emotionally damaged kids who can do quadratic equations but can’t understand consent