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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Now I want to see:

  • a genius'es concept of an idiot
  • an idiot's concept of an idiot
  • a genius'es concept of a genius
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
  1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
  2. the movie: Idiocracy
  3. lots of examples, let's go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i'd nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses' genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn't crack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah true I haven't heard of him! Love to hear about autodidact geniuses.

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