Yes. The whole 'If I'd had a stable childhood I could have got a Nobel prize' and 'DUCY' chapters from years ago showed us that.

No its not. Although I understand why some people think that. I don't really care if people are in error about my political stance because politics doesn't help nearly as many people as scientists. But I will write one last political thought that I doubt would ever be written by a conservative:

The arguments for the "hidden hand" or "pursuing self interest" or the advantages to letting the market decide or the benefits of trickle down economics all have one thing in common. If they happen to be correct it is a crying shame. When successful people invoke those arguments and then go on to claim that the workers benefit from their success they have NO RIGHT to feel any pride that they may be helping people. Their greed and ambition is what drove them and helping other people was almost always incidental and irrelevant. They have no right to exhibit fervor when they extol the benefits of capitalism even if they happen to be right about it. It was just a lucky coincidence. They should admit this every time they speak.

I have thought the above ever since I was a kid.

His parrot warned us all.

Also, america is the greatest nation on earth, this guy is a billionaire



Nuking japan made the japanese healthier. I have no idea how you can say that and not be crazy.

Also, he's the one who financed trump's campaign WAAF.

A CEO of a multi billion dollar company isn't fatigued easy. Those guys work 80+ hours a week for decades.

Sklansky's hidden hand is reverse sort by Erdos number.

Every US president is in one way or the other. Lets not pretend Bush or Obama didn´t kill thousands with their wars.

The fear is this is a false equivalency argument. It looks like it's gonna be far worse. The word Nuke is way too casually thrown around.

The cryptic writing is on purpose because leaving out steps sometimes helps people think.

Most of my posts try to show cleverness and/or uniqueness because there is a chance that I can parlay that into money. On the probability forum I still sometimes come up with solutions that are unique enough that I think would impress even you.

My standarized test scores in high school were the highest in New Jersey at the time so it isn't ridiculous to think that I am could compete with a journeyman mathematician if I took that route.

I'm not exactly an auto didact because my father taught me a lot when I was still young. He would have easily been world class if my mother didn't detour him from academics. You are new here so I will repeat his professors:

A Adrian Albert, Ernest Nagel, Mortimer Adler, Edward Kasner, Norbert Weiner, Lise Meitner, and Arthur Compton. I wouldn't be surprised if no human being has ever had this many world famous teachers. So he isn't an auto didact for sure. Nor is his cousin Jack Sklansky who basically invented computer sight or the other David Sklansky who may be the world's best professor of law, now at Stanford.

Of course non of this stuff is related to whether I am a creep or not. But I'm not a complete fraud.

Yeah, probably true. I was just relieved for a moment because instead of killing foreigners the USA might kill themselves for a change. But the plans to increase investment in the military + the incompetence of Trump Admin + the gutting of the SoS + white nationalists+ Trumps instability is a horrifying combination. I have to admit right now i hate America for making the world fear nuclear annihilation again through to sheer ignorance.

Yes your Pete Rose post was the epitome of uniqueness and cleverness.

So clever that it is unique in comparing baseball records and genocide.

I left South Korea in 2010.

As for what locals think:




Take Bill Burr's advice

The smartest people on this forum did in fact realize that it was apt because it addressed the general concept of extrapolation. They won't come to my defense because for what they perceive is the greater good they won't acknowledge dumbness in people who share their values.

https://books.google.com/books?id=y_...nalogy&f=false

To be fair, a lot of P members are overly aggressive in attacking people who disagree with them even in the slightest. We've seen plenty of that towards Sklansky.

But still lol Sklansky

If an English-speaking martian came to Earth and posted on 2p2, the posts would be near identical to what DS writes here.

Even the dumbest people in this forum understood what you meant.

wow - mad parrot disease definitely kicking in.

There isn't a Nobel Prize for mathematics, if that's what he was thinking of.

Politely requesting an end to the Sklansky derail, unless someone can think of a way to make it more entertaining in a hurry

I asked nicely

Since I enjoy wasting my life...

Seems like by posting you would only be giving other people a chance to parlay the same idea into money.

I'll save you some time by mentioning that I already know your rebuttal will involve the suggestion that other posters are too stupid to do such a thing.

Ignoring the absurdity of bringing up standardized test scores at your age, it is unclear how you would know whether your scores were the highest in NJ and what that would even mean. When I took the SAT in 2004, I recall perfect scores being fairly common, like one in every thousand. So tied for highest wouldn't say much.

Also, the math portions of standardized tests only involve knowing certain common techniques (caveat: this may no longer be true, but it was the case when I took the SAT in 2004 and the GRE in 2010). No exceptional intelligence is required to get a perfect score. And this was even more true in the past than it is now.

Finally, raw intellect (IQ) is not all that is required to be a good or even journeyman mathematician. There are people who I view as less clever than me that are way better mathematicians because they possess other qualities that I don't. For example, patience and focus. Related, they also do not post on 2p2.

I don't recognize these names except for Compton and maybe Wiener, although skimming his Wiki I'm not sure why I'd know him. It seems to me that any advanced student at a top university would study under a comparable number of world-famous people.

It's worth taking all the hyperbole and speculation together here:

These claims are about as credible as that guy you knew who was a good quarterback in high school, but tore his ACL and now spends his time at the bar telling everyone how he would be Tom Brady if only things had gone differently. Just completely worthless blather.

I don't think you're a complete fraud. I enjoyed The Theory of Poker as a child. But your ego outstrips the quality of your posts. By a lot.

Sorry. That text wall will be my last response.

Working theory still holds for me... Trump can't see very well.

Does being good at math even qualify as smart?

Its not coincidence that math is the human cognitive ability most easily replaced by a machine.

Good at math =! good at reasoning.

Being good at statistics and probabilities is certainly beneficial for real life reasoning. A lot of people with no "math" skills reach wrong conclusions from limited information because they don't instinctively think about credibility and inference.

David,

Donald Trump was the guy in High School who thought learning math was dumb and made fun of those who felt otherwise.

Regards,

Jman220

Edit: In High School the poor people were the ones getting made fun of and beaten up by the Donald Trump's of the world because they wore stupid clothes.

Crime is down in Baltimore.