Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "The Sad Tale of William James Sidis - The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived | Random Thursday" video.

  1. Ted likely went squirrelly because he was sick as a child. He had to be quarantined as a baby. Plus who's to say that he was wrong?
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  2. A great humanitarian
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  3. You know this planet is going to be swallowed up by the Sun someday, don't you? So it will be as if we never existed. But that will be an event with significant impact I suppose. Tesla was an idiot too. He died a penniless pauper in a fleabag hotel.
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  4. Smart people have the same chance of being wrong as everyone else does. Especially when they get outside their fields of study.
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  5. He liberated those individuals. Someone needs to free you.
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  6. I am already free in this world. As far as my use of technology goes I have to use the tools of the Devil in order to defeat him.
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  7. What do they have to do with the Industrial Revolution and its consequences? You oversocalized leftist!
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  8. Ted did use his intellect for good. At least he thought it was good.
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  9. A lot of people were involved in the experiment. None of them turned into mad bombers. So that experience alone was not responsible for what Ted did.
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  10. In some respects IQ is a measure of the potential to possess knowledge and wisdom given the right set of circumstances. Although IQ is no guarantee of having either.
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  11. Who told you there was anyone around me?
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  12. Today a lot of people focus on simply making money. Inventing things is not a guaranteed road to financial success in this world either. Robbing people using complicated investment vehicles practically is though. So that's what a lot of smart people end up doing.
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  13. Ted never hurt anyone. He merely sent them packages.
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  14. Genius is hereditary. You can't teach chickens to play chess either.
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  15. 5000 IQ confirmed.
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  16. Don't think anyone becomes wise without knowledge.
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  17. It is hard to spot small details from the doorway. The Devil is always in the details too.
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  18.  @lukepalmieri9346  They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.
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  19. What did Edison steal and patent from Tesla? How did Edison even do it? I have heard the story about Edison supposedly cheating Tesla out of some money while Tesla was working for Edison but stealing and patenting Tesla ideas is one I have not heard.
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  20. I have heard the million dollar story. But in fairness Edison was probably speaking in jest when he said it. Things of that nature need to be secured in writing. If Tesla was anything it was a poor businessman. Westinghouse robbed Tesla of far more than Edison ever could have.
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  21. Tesla ripped up the contract he had with Westinghouse with his own hands. No one cheated Tesla other than Tesla himself.
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  22. When did this discussion become about success and not intelligence? The title of the video does not mention success at all. We all have our own definition of success too.
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  23. Me too.
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  24. I'd say Bobby Fischer was spot on with his assessment. All evidence would back him up.
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  25. Cathy Dee  why not?
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  26. ct92404  I just take things at face value.
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  27. She was a Pakistani named Asif.
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  28. I think you gloss over the fact that plenty of other people participated in that experiment and didn't go on to become mad bombers themselves.
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  29. I don't look to social outcasts to explain society to me.
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  30. Intelligence is the ability to combine disparate knowledge and synthesize valuable new ideas. You're welcome.
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  31. Yeah because STDs are so much fun to have.
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  32.  @lizatanzawa7910  one can never be too careful. We all still end up getting it in the end regardless though.
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  33.  @leereyno  no one is innocent. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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  34.  @elgintv  I never heard of no Balloon law. Sounds full of hot air to me.
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  35.  @trevorclive  wouldn't you like to know. If you're interested then I suggest some basic education may be a good place to start. You can never go wrong with mathematics.
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  36.  @trevorclive  human life means nothing to me. Happy Halloween!
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  37.  Andro mache  overall life expectancy is an average of everyone that lives. So when infant mortality is high overall life expectancy goes down. If a baby only lives one day and someone else lives to be 80 their combined life expectancy is 40 years and half a day. It is generally understood that people who do manage to make it through the more precarious point in life to the hardier stage they tend to live into old age. Dead is dead too. But statistics still need to be interpreted correctly.
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  38.  Andro mache  I really don't think they counted period. We've extrapolated and made estimates based on research. People simply did not compile data in the past like we do today. About anything. They had to raise up monoliths just to figure out what day it is. And you think they kept statistics about longevity? No we dug their skeletal asses up and figured out how old they were when they died.
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  39. Taken as a whole more like an idiot savant.
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  40. +One Love I've had my IQ tested and I am no idiot. Just so you know.
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