Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 months agoI don’t think most people could have the capacity to store the knowledge in their brain (with immediate recall) no matter how hard they worked.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I bet, but that’s just my intuition, that being a linguist and an academic, again just by the very practice of having to study the tool that is language and writing about it, makes it a very different situation compared to “most people” who have never written essays since high school and I but a very basic understanding of grammar, etymology, etc. I bet the very topic and context makes his situation not normal.
That does not mean he does not have cognitive capacities that most people might not have, but, again the practice itself most likely changed him, not solely “selected” him for the practice.