Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Every time I see stories like this I feel sorry for the kid. Never learning to socialize with other kids their own age, and not getting taken seriously by adults until they’re much older.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah, her educational track allowed her to skip right past the “She thinks she’s sooo smart. Let’s show her she’s not so smart,” phase of her life, disappointing many student and teacher bullies.

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sad truth

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never learning to socialize with other kids their own age

    Even when going through a normal education system, this would not happen. The difference in both ability and interests is so large that there’s little shared basis for socialization.

    not getting taken seriously by adults until they’re much older.

    Why do you think that’s the case?

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And it usually turns out there were a number of loopholes or special exceptions made. Every community wants to have a “child prodigy”

    Still extremely impressive and way smarter than any of us, but the gap is not as drastic as it is often made out to be

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  • Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never learning to socialize with other kids their own age

    Yeah, thats why she can be smart. Most people are stupid, some are very stupid. Staying away from stupid does wonders for mental clarity.

    Personnel anecdot here, my brothers and I were homeschooled and didn’t engage with many that werent on the same accelerated curriculum we were on. We didn’t have to suffer from dumb downed lessons and constant repetitive busy work.

    I usually finnished my weeks work of school in 2-4 days. I never understood how kids stayed busy at school all the time?

    Anyway, thats all to say that, socializing can be done correctly, or to one’s own detriment.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      same here. socialization made me dumber and it actively discouraged learning and achievement.

      becoming anti-social was the best thing I ever did for my mental health, and academics. my grades went from Cs to As once I stopped wasting time getting drunk with people who didn’t give a shit about me.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What shape is the earth?

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    everything costs a cost.

    is it better to be ‘normal’ than be extraordinary? you don’t know if this person is unhappy.

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• echo@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Incredibly smart and without the wisdom to understand that extending the lifespan is actually a very bad thing in nearly every conceivable way.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?

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    • skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the article, the kid himself explains that he is doing all this because he wants to create support humans who are biologically immortal

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can’t wait for this kid to usher in a new form of Ubermensch to opress the rest of us.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Relax, they’ll burn out in two years and kill themselves in an overdose at 23.

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    • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m not too worried.

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• Assian_Candor@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  These stories almost never end well

  Good luck to the kid

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