For him it's like he's born between a bunch of monkeys. Just imagine if everyone around you was mentally disabled that's how the world would look like from his perspective. I only know of Micheal Kearney as an example of someone with about the same level of intelligence.
This contradicts your IQ 200+ Smartest Person Ever where you say Sidis was a lawyer. He skipped the fall quarter and attended <2 months of the winter quarter of his 3L.
IIRC (saw it years ago), Hunting did not go to, much less graduate from, college, and much less Harvard. Haven't read about Sidis coming from a poor, dysfxnal family and having a foster father who severely beat him on a regular basis. That sounds a lot more like Langan than Sidis. Hunting may be a composite of both (and more?).
@phantominca Sidis dropped out of Harvard Law School during his last year while in good academic standing for no apparent reason and shortly there after defended himself in court, just as did Hunting. Read the full article in the drop menu for more details.
@HumanChemistry101 Just because someone defends *themselves* in court does not make them a lawyer. The relevant question is: Was Sidis ever admitted to a state bar? As far as I know, that's the only way one can legally become a lawyer.
Thx for the linked article. I'll read it later. Didn't realize there was more info in the pulldown. Nite.
@phantominca I added a link to Sidis' Harvard Law School transcripts in the dropmenu. While you are more than welcome to describe him as you like, I can only best describe him as an "American prodigy mathematician, lawyer, physicist".
Will HUnting didnt run away and do remedial jobs, the director leaves it ambiguous. He tells Williams character that hes going to find Skyler at the end of the movie :-)
What is this garbage? This is nothing but senseless rambling that has ZERO to do with science. This guy is rambling on and on (He is really attacking these people deep down, he is dehumanizing them). Obsessing over people who would laugh at "human thermodynamics". Weird.
If you are so intelligent you got so much realization of things we hardly can imagine, because of that, i think you have a lot higher chance to become depressed.
@dokterwouterkabouter Look no further than Dr. Gregory House on Fox and you'll see genius, boredom and barely restrained lunacy along with depression. There are a lot of high-functioning spectrum autistics that exhibit similar behavior as well.
Overall the guy was far beyond a genius. "Could'a, would'a, should'a" in the end someone push the first domino and ended with him distancing from what could have been the best discoveries of his time. Plus right now we could've been "chatting in mars" =-)
One noted and significant inconsistency between the film version and the real life version, that I noted today, is that in the film Hunting assaults the officer while prominently wearing a gold Christian cross, whereas in real life, Sidis was a confirmed atheist at age 6 and at age 21, while in court for assaulting the officer, when asked if he believed in god, he replied “No” and clarified that evolution was his god.
@HumanChemistry101 So it was through reason he became a genius? It's pretty relevent to comprehend, of course. Do you know anybody else who may have influnced, young & old, William James Sidis?
@HumanChemistry101 Also, Sidis never banged Minnie Driver. As for Sidis' atheism, it brings to mind George Orwell's observation that some ideas are so foolish only intellectuals will believe them.
@loccysmif So what? It doesn't change the fact that Orwell was right when he stated that some ideas are so foolish, only intellectuals will believe them.
Yes, that DOES change that fact. And that becomes clear from the CONTEXT. You are not ENTITLED to quote mine George Orwell to bash atheism or agnosticism, because Orwell would laugh you out of the room. Orwell is your ideological adversary, not your ally. Should I make it any clearer? Because I will.
@loccysmif One day you'll hold hands with a real, live girl. She'll probably be spotty and have unfortunate bone structure, and her palms will be damp, and well, okay, she'll be your mother. But at that point, much of your weird anger will start to dissipate.
I've had sex with more women by accident then you've ever had on purpose. But I know, I know, when you lose an argument, the loser's last resort is wimpy and unintelligent personal attacks.
No, he was pretty much an atheist because he realised with his superior intellect that religion is hogwash. While people like you, of lesser intelligence, will continue to thrall and gasp to the whims of the irrational notions that is religion.
@BennyDACHO Deciding the merits of a belief based solely on the intelligence of its adherents may not be a road you want to go down. "Sidis was smart. Sidis was an atheist. Therefore atheism is correct." Because, peep this: "St. Thomas Aquinas possessed the finest philosophical mind in history. St. Thomas Aquinas was a Christian. Therefore, Christianity is correct." At some point, you've got to think for yourself, and stop being lazy, writing piffle like "religion is hogwash".
It's exactly the road I want to get down. It is a well known fact that smart people use religion to control the masses. Thomas Aquinas (I guess you are religious using the honorific religious title 'saint') did not possess the greatest philosophical mind in history. I consider Baruch Spinoza and Maimondes his superiors (and several others obviously). Most intelligent people are atheists or agnostics. The reason most people weren't considered atheists or agnostics before was because it was....
Whatever. I speak five languages and I have 60 keystrokes per minute, so mistakes happen every so often since I don't want to spent the extra time correcting my typos on YouTube.
But just to make you happy:
"Your intelligence is an affront to all of humanity. Now go hide under a rock."
in a way forbidden. People who renounced the church were ridiculed, assaulted, excommunicated, and sometimes forced to sign false confessions that they believe in the trinity. The reformation is a fine example of this intolerant policy of the Catholic church. Dissenters were oppressed.
@BennyDACHO The Reformation was the movement that established the Protestant churches. It was a a movement in defiance against the Catholic church. Are you perhaps thinking of the Counter-Reformation? The Inquisition?
I think perhaps you're not tall enough to go on this ride, so to speak.
I'm thinking about the reformation that Martin Luther initiated. Martin Luther saw the papacy as the antichrist, and actually believed the Turks (the Muslims) were agents of God meant to remove the papacy. The papcy tried to have him assassinated and when that didn't work they excommunicated him. This is how all dissenters were treated, and calling him a heretic is just an excuse.
Kid, I think you should sit down now, you are clearly out of your element.
@BennyDACHO But Benny, you originally wrote that "the reformation (sic) is a fine example of this intolerant policy of the Catholic church". Then you defined the Reformation in entirely different terms in your next post. Are you a tad confused, Benny? Or has operating on the assumption that you're more intelligent and informed simply because you're an atheist set you up for this very public internet pants-shitting, you mouth-breathing lout?
Yes, and you understood it the wrong way on purpose -- that's your fault not mine. It shouldn't be necessary for me to elaborate, but your lack of intelligence necessitates it. What I meant was that the Catholic church rejected Martin Luther and the reformation and tried to have him executed and the reformation quelled. You are just a pathetic quibbler.
I read an article that he might have been autistic. He did have some autistic traits. Too bad he was treated so poorly in the press. If only he were born today, at least he would have been treated better. He was a remarkable genius that not many people know about
@sgreen4 A great many of the men that we have always lauded as a genius or prodigy probably had Asperger's Syndrome (a type of autism) due to the available historical accounts of their habits. The most obvious clues to a physician that a child may suffer from Asperger's is the characteristic flat and emotionless conversational tone (exactly like the narrator's), inability to understand body language and facial expressions, and lack of empathy. As high as 50% of all Savants have autism.
@StuffyG Sidis did not have autism, he was breed into genius through the meticulous educational training methods of his father, similar to Adragon de Mello, Edith Stern, the Polgar sisters, and Sufiah Yusuf, each of which educated on the motto that “geniuses are made, not born.” Aaron Stern even publicized the raising of his daughter as the “Edith experiment”, the finishing of which he concluded that he could “foster the same meteoric IQ (203) in the children of the stone-age Tasaday tribe.
@HumanChemistry101 I don't think he was bred into genius like Edith. The guy did wacky things. He didn't relate to other humans very well and he was totally asexual. You can drill all the knowledge into guys all you want but they will still want to get laid. He wrote very intelligent things but at the same time he wrote about wacky things as well. If you read about his behaviors you might think he was autistic too
@AbuBishir You are incorrect. In 1890, eight years before Sidis was born, his father was a student of William James (whom Sidis was named after), who was developing his “reserve mental energy theory”, the idea that if you push the mind to the edge, second and third mental winds will kick in, similar to the second wind you get when hiking. Boris specifically stated, in 1910, that “I raised my son based upon the principles laid down by William James.” See the 10% myth link, in drop down menu.
@HumanChemistry101 Fathers push their sons all the time but they can't push 'normal' human drives out of them. Tiger Wood's father had Tiger hitting golf balls before he was two. Andre Agassi's father had him spend nearly his whole childhood playing tennis yet both of them still had 'normal' lives. They got married, they had kids, they have close friends. Sidis didn't have those things so you can't say he was 'normal' Even Stephen Hawking, with his genius and handicap got marries and had kids.
@AbuBishir Buddy, do some research before you post anymore. Sidis' father locked him in an insane asylum for a year (in which he was drugged and mentally tortured), after which, when Sidis was finally released, he roamed the country in hiding from his parents who were always trying to get him back to "the old tortures", as Sidis described things, in retrospect. A person in this position has no wish to perpetuate the linage of such a corrupted seed. The greatest geniuses tend not to leave seed.
@HumanChemistry101 I am not saying that Sidis was autistic. I read an article that said Sidis might have been autistic because of some of his traits. I have read plenty about Sidis. He displayed many traits that autistic people display. That doesn't prove he's autistic and since he is dead there is no way we'll ever know. Sidis did not behave 'normal' in many ways. What do you mean by ' the greatest geniuses tend not to leave seed'? There are plenty of geniuses that have had kids.
And Sidis also protested against the first world war presumably on the basis that it was in his opinion unjust. The conclusion I think he drew from these to observations was the obvious one, that he he couldn't be a part of the system and thereby support it.
I don't think Sidis went nuts. I can ofcourse only speculate but I think it's rather clear that he realized that the society that he lived in was not as free and democratic as it claimed to be. For example he writes in "The Tribes and The States", chapter II that "Thus the eastern tribes of red men enjoyed a degree of democracy that the white invaders of their country were never able to understand".
@Neueregel If I remember correctly, that he went nuts is a myth. He wont some kind of defamation lawsuit after decades in court with some newspaper for publishing false things about him, etc. He simply published anonymously in later life and wrote books in secret. I guess someone pointed out that he might have predicted the existence of black holes with one of his publications, not that I'm qualified to judge either way.
@giovanni9107 yeah, but the people who made the movie, didn't build it on this guys life, they would've mentioned that, but they gave me the impression that it was a fictional character, HumanChemistry101 just seems to be a little upsest with good will hunting
@Zee96969696 Read the full article, Good Will Hunting (William Sidis), in the drop down menu, the YouTube video underestimates the full overlap. For those who don’t like to read, you can look at the pictures. Skylar’s hair, with her side part, is styled *exactly* as Martha Foley’s hair is styled as pictured in the book.
It is far from based on William James Sidis, but more on Ramanujan. Sidis came from an well-educaded family, a genius father and phychiatrist. Sidis was arrested for demonstration, etc.
@milnusthegnome Well, they mention ramanujan several times in the movie. And the story resemble....a self-thought genius coming from bad/poor circumstances, found by a professor, etc.
A lot of this is vilification by the press. The man was totally put off society by the jealousies of others, his idea of a perfect life was one of seclusion after leaving Harvard. He continued to write and think, i imagine his ideas were not liked and so no one has ever heard of him. I recommend his book "The Tribes and The States", especially for anyone who thinks they know anything about American history. This man could have achieved so much, but was destroyed by the ignorance of others.
Still no groud-breaking creation/invention, another random "wizz-kid".
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mannydegger 1 month ago
I have an IQ of 45 ! =D im a genius??
mishkaf07 1 month ago
@mishkaf07 you're too smart for planet earth sir
MrClosercloser 3 weeks ago
For him it's like he's born between a bunch of monkeys. Just imagine if everyone around you was mentally disabled that's how the world would look like from his perspective. I only know of Micheal Kearney as an example of someone with about the same level of intelligence.
dekippiesip 3 months ago
I have an IQ of 160. What does that make me?
cougarplayer20 3 months ago
@cougarplayer20 full of shit.
TrianosDellas 2 months ago
@cougarplayer20 a skank
Hampro1 1 month ago
@cougarplayer20 an idiot
I0o 1 day ago
If I watched this video again.I would probaly go into a coma because I feel like a complete dumb bell.
brsfan66 3 months ago
This contradicts your IQ 200+ Smartest Person Ever where you say Sidis was a lawyer. He skipped the fall quarter and attended <2 months of the winter quarter of his 3L.
IIRC (saw it years ago), Hunting did not go to, much less graduate from, college, and much less Harvard. Haven't read about Sidis coming from a poor, dysfxnal family and having a foster father who severely beat him on a regular basis. That sounds a lot more like Langan than Sidis. Hunting may be a composite of both (and more?).
phantominca 5 months ago 2
@phantominca Sidis dropped out of Harvard Law School during his last year while in good academic standing for no apparent reason and shortly there after defended himself in court, just as did Hunting. Read the full article in the drop menu for more details.
HumanChemistry101 5 months ago
@HumanChemistry101 Just because someone defends *themselves* in court does not make them a lawyer. The relevant question is: Was Sidis ever admitted to a state bar? As far as I know, that's the only way one can legally become a lawyer.
Thx for the linked article. I'll read it later. Didn't realize there was more info in the pulldown. Nite.
phantominca 5 months ago 2
@phantominca I added a link to Sidis' Harvard Law School transcripts in the dropmenu. While you are more than welcome to describe him as you like, I can only best describe him as an "American prodigy mathematician, lawyer, physicist".
HumanChemistry101 5 months ago
Will HUnting didnt run away and do remedial jobs, the director leaves it ambiguous. He tells Williams character that hes going to find Skyler at the end of the movie :-)
jmc1987jcgc 5 months ago
Circushead, don't be an asshole, correcting people's typos. That's a douchebag move.
spec24 6 months ago
Could he speak 737 different type of ethnic languages that are scattered throughout Indonesian archipelago..? o.o
suckmydickissmyass 6 months ago
Guys --- James William Sidis was Jewish. I hope that doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
Wow. This is amazing!
ElixClarexHP13 8 months ago
What is this garbage? This is nothing but senseless rambling that has ZERO to do with science. This guy is rambling on and on (He is really attacking these people deep down, he is dehumanizing them). Obsessing over people who would laugh at "human thermodynamics". Weird.
treasuretroveofmath 9 months ago
If you are so intelligent you got so much realization of things we hardly can imagine, because of that, i think you have a lot higher chance to become depressed.
dokterwouterkabouter 10 months ago
@dokterwouterkabouter Look no further than Dr. Gregory House on Fox and you'll see genius, boredom and barely restrained lunacy along with depression. There are a lot of high-functioning spectrum autistics that exhibit similar behavior as well.
southport97 9 months ago
@southport97 You are aware that Dr. House is a character, right? He's not real? He's a creation of someone's imagination? Also, he's not a house.
circushead 9 months ago
Overall the guy was far beyond a genius. "Could'a, would'a, should'a" in the end someone push the first domino and ended with him distancing from what could have been the best discoveries of his time. Plus right now we could've been "chatting in mars" =-)
Quinto666Elemento 1 year ago
One noted and significant inconsistency between the film version and the real life version, that I noted today, is that in the film Hunting assaults the officer while prominently wearing a gold Christian cross, whereas in real life, Sidis was a confirmed atheist at age 6 and at age 21, while in court for assaulting the officer, when asked if he believed in god, he replied “No” and clarified that evolution was his god.
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago
@HumanChemistry101 So it was through reason he became a genius? It's pretty relevent to comprehend, of course. Do you know anybody else who may have influnced, young & old, William James Sidis?
comehithershesays 11 months ago
@HumanChemistry101 Also, Sidis never banged Minnie Driver. As for Sidis' atheism, it brings to mind George Orwell's observation that some ideas are so foolish only intellectuals will believe them.
circushead 10 months ago
@circushead Sidis did bang (or at least date) Martha Foley which was the model for Skylar's character.
HumanChemistry101 10 months ago
@HumanChemistry101
was this the basis for the big bang theory and searching for the perfect black hole?
00Billy 10 months ago
@HumanChemistry101 I thought he died a virgin?
jhoughtaling1 7 months ago
@jhoughtaling1 I'm not exactly sure about sex, but he did die with Martha Foley's picture in his wallet.
HumanChemistry101 7 months ago
@HumanChemistry101 he did. loved her until he died but found sexual acts and sex itself to be completely repulsive. personally, i tihnk he's asexual.
Conneisseur2 1 month ago
@circushead: Orwell was an agnostic. Do I have to point out the bitter irony of quoting Orwell, of all people, out of context?
loccysmif 9 months ago
@loccysmif So what? It doesn't change the fact that Orwell was right when he stated that some ideas are so foolish, only intellectuals will believe them.
circushead 9 months ago
@circushead:
Yes, that DOES change that fact. And that becomes clear from the CONTEXT. You are not ENTITLED to quote mine George Orwell to bash atheism or agnosticism, because Orwell would laugh you out of the room. Orwell is your ideological adversary, not your ally. Should I make it any clearer? Because I will.
loccysmif 9 months ago
@loccysmif One day you'll hold hands with a real, live girl. She'll probably be spotty and have unfortunate bone structure, and her palms will be damp, and well, okay, she'll be your mother. But at that point, much of your weird anger will start to dissipate.
circushead 9 months ago
@circushead:
I've had sex with more women by accident then you've ever had on purpose. But I know, I know, when you lose an argument, the loser's last resort is wimpy and unintelligent personal attacks.
loccysmif 9 months ago
@loccysmif
"I've had sex with more women by accident then you've ever had on purpose."
Sorry to hear of your premature ejaculation problems. I think there are exercises you can do to cure that.
circushead 9 months ago
@circushead WHo would fuck minnie driver?
themooddisorders 8 months ago
@circushead
No, he was pretty much an atheist because he realised with his superior intellect that religion is hogwash. While people like you, of lesser intelligence, will continue to thrall and gasp to the whims of the irrational notions that is religion.
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO Deciding the merits of a belief based solely on the intelligence of its adherents may not be a road you want to go down. "Sidis was smart. Sidis was an atheist. Therefore atheism is correct." Because, peep this: "St. Thomas Aquinas possessed the finest philosophical mind in history. St. Thomas Aquinas was a Christian. Therefore, Christianity is correct." At some point, you've got to think for yourself, and stop being lazy, writing piffle like "religion is hogwash".
circushead 7 months ago
It's exactly the road I want to get down. It is a well known fact that smart people use religion to control the masses. Thomas Aquinas (I guess you are religious using the honorific religious title 'saint') did not possess the greatest philosophical mind in history. I consider Baruch Spinoza and Maimondes his superiors (and several others obviously). Most intelligent people are atheists or agnostics. The reason most people weren't considered atheists or agnostics before was because it was....
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO You're not bright enough to have this conversation.
circushead 7 months ago
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BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO
"You're intelligence is an affront too all of humanity."
Benny, the word you want there is 'your'.
'You're' is a contraction of 'you are'.
Would you like a lesson about when to use 'There', 'their', and 'they're'?
How about 'It's' vs. 'its'? Do you have trouble with that one, moron?
circushead 7 months ago
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Whatever. I speak five languages and I have 60 keystrokes per minute, so mistakes happen every so often since I don't want to spent the extra time correcting my typos on YouTube.
But just to make you happy:
"Your intelligence is an affront to all of humanity. Now go hide under a rock."
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@circushead
in a way forbidden. People who renounced the church were ridiculed, assaulted, excommunicated, and sometimes forced to sign false confessions that they believe in the trinity. The reformation is a fine example of this intolerant policy of the Catholic church. Dissenters were oppressed.
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO The Reformation was the movement that established the Protestant churches. It was a a movement in defiance against the Catholic church. Are you perhaps thinking of the Counter-Reformation? The Inquisition?
I think perhaps you're not tall enough to go on this ride, so to speak.
circushead 7 months ago
@circushead
I'm thinking about the reformation that Martin Luther initiated. Martin Luther saw the papacy as the antichrist, and actually believed the Turks (the Muslims) were agents of God meant to remove the papacy. The papcy tried to have him assassinated and when that didn't work they excommunicated him. This is how all dissenters were treated, and calling him a heretic is just an excuse.
Kid, I think you should sit down now, you are clearly out of your element.
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO But Benny, you originally wrote that "the reformation (sic) is a fine example of this intolerant policy of the Catholic church". Then you defined the Reformation in entirely different terms in your next post. Are you a tad confused, Benny? Or has operating on the assumption that you're more intelligent and informed simply because you're an atheist set you up for this very public internet pants-shitting, you mouth-breathing lout?
circushead 7 months ago
@circushead
Yes, and you understood it the wrong way on purpose -- that's your fault not mine. It shouldn't be necessary for me to elaborate, but your lack of intelligence necessitates it. What I meant was that the Catholic church rejected Martin Luther and the reformation and tried to have him executed and the reformation quelled. You are just a pathetic quibbler.
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO You're inarticulate. You're muddled. You're really bad at this, Benny.
circushead 7 months ago
@circushead
Yeah, and I heard your birth certificate is an apology letter from the abortion clinic. What else is new?
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
@BennyDACHO Bad stock jokes won't mask the fact that you shit your pants here, Benny.
See how I used 'your' there, Benny? Not 'you're', but 'your'.
Can you tell me why I did that, Shitpants Benny?
circushead 7 months ago
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@circushead
You must have been born on a highway because that's where most accidents happen
BennyDACHO 7 months ago
Omg is it Data from star trek speaking? errr... er.001..err.1100..... can not compute..
Serethen 1 year ago
I read an article that he might have been autistic. He did have some autistic traits. Too bad he was treated so poorly in the press. If only he were born today, at least he would have been treated better. He was a remarkable genius that not many people know about
sgreen4 1 year ago
@sgreen4 A great many of the men that we have always lauded as a genius or prodigy probably had Asperger's Syndrome (a type of autism) due to the available historical accounts of their habits. The most obvious clues to a physician that a child may suffer from Asperger's is the characteristic flat and emotionless conversational tone (exactly like the narrator's), inability to understand body language and facial expressions, and lack of empathy. As high as 50% of all Savants have autism.
StuffyG 1 year ago
@StuffyG Sidis did not have autism, he was breed into genius through the meticulous educational training methods of his father, similar to Adragon de Mello, Edith Stern, the Polgar sisters, and Sufiah Yusuf, each of which educated on the motto that “geniuses are made, not born.” Aaron Stern even publicized the raising of his daughter as the “Edith experiment”, the finishing of which he concluded that he could “foster the same meteoric IQ (203) in the children of the stone-age Tasaday tribe.
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago
@HumanChemistry101 I don't think he was bred into genius like Edith. The guy did wacky things. He didn't relate to other humans very well and he was totally asexual. You can drill all the knowledge into guys all you want but they will still want to get laid. He wrote very intelligent things but at the same time he wrote about wacky things as well. If you read about his behaviors you might think he was autistic too
AbuBishir 1 year ago
@AbuBishir You are incorrect. In 1890, eight years before Sidis was born, his father was a student of William James (whom Sidis was named after), who was developing his “reserve mental energy theory”, the idea that if you push the mind to the edge, second and third mental winds will kick in, similar to the second wind you get when hiking. Boris specifically stated, in 1910, that “I raised my son based upon the principles laid down by William James.” See the 10% myth link, in drop down menu.
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago
@HumanChemistry101 Fathers push their sons all the time but they can't push 'normal' human drives out of them. Tiger Wood's father had Tiger hitting golf balls before he was two. Andre Agassi's father had him spend nearly his whole childhood playing tennis yet both of them still had 'normal' lives. They got married, they had kids, they have close friends. Sidis didn't have those things so you can't say he was 'normal' Even Stephen Hawking, with his genius and handicap got marries and had kids.
AbuBishir 1 year ago
@AbuBishir Buddy, do some research before you post anymore. Sidis' father locked him in an insane asylum for a year (in which he was drugged and mentally tortured), after which, when Sidis was finally released, he roamed the country in hiding from his parents who were always trying to get him back to "the old tortures", as Sidis described things, in retrospect. A person in this position has no wish to perpetuate the linage of such a corrupted seed. The greatest geniuses tend not to leave seed.
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago
@HumanChemistry101 I am not saying that Sidis was autistic. I read an article that said Sidis might have been autistic because of some of his traits. I have read plenty about Sidis. He displayed many traits that autistic people display. That doesn't prove he's autistic and since he is dead there is no way we'll ever know. Sidis did not behave 'normal' in many ways. What do you mean by ' the greatest geniuses tend not to leave seed'? There are plenty of geniuses that have had kids.
AbuBishir 1 year ago
And Sidis also protested against the first world war presumably on the basis that it was in his opinion unjust. The conclusion I think he drew from these to observations was the obvious one, that he he couldn't be a part of the system and thereby support it.
infiniteinfiniteinfi 1 year ago
I don't think Sidis went nuts. I can ofcourse only speculate but I think it's rather clear that he realized that the society that he lived in was not as free and democratic as it claimed to be. For example he writes in "The Tribes and The States", chapter II that "Thus the eastern tribes of red men enjoyed a degree of democracy that the white invaders of their country were never able to understand".
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Dirtfire 1 year ago
Sidis = one of the smartest people ever. Too bad he went nuts like Nietzsche
Neueregel 1 year ago
@Neueregel If I remember correctly, that he went nuts is a myth. He wont some kind of defamation lawsuit after decades in court with some newspaper for publishing false things about him, etc. He simply published anonymously in later life and wrote books in secret. I guess someone pointed out that he might have predicted the existence of black holes with one of his publications, not that I'm qualified to judge either way.
asfesesease 1 year ago
this is a little hard to believe
Zee96969696 1 year ago 6
@Zee96969696
i know, but its true... there are plenty of sources where you can check this
giovanni9107 1 year ago
@giovanni9107 yeah, but the people who made the movie, didn't build it on this guys life, they would've mentioned that, but they gave me the impression that it was a fictional character, HumanChemistry101 just seems to be a little upsest with good will hunting
Zee96969696 1 year ago
@Zee96969696 Read the full article, Good Will Hunting (William Sidis), in the drop down menu, the YouTube video underestimates the full overlap. For those who don’t like to read, you can look at the pictures. Skylar’s hair, with her side part, is styled *exactly* as Martha Foley’s hair is styled as pictured in the book.
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago
@Zee96969696 it's real!
ameseize 1 year ago
Did Ed Witten narrate this?
smckenzie25 1 year ago
It is far from based on William James Sidis, but more on Ramanujan. Sidis came from an well-educaded family, a genius father and phychiatrist. Sidis was arrested for demonstration, etc.
Ko252 1 year ago
@Ko252 lol it wasn't based on ramanujan you silly billy
milnusthegnome 1 year ago
@milnusthegnome Well, they mention ramanujan several times in the movie. And the story resemble....a self-thought genius coming from bad/poor circumstances, found by a professor, etc.
Ko252 1 year ago
Yeah cause I care
mwhite4324 1 year ago
A lot of this is vilification by the press. The man was totally put off society by the jealousies of others, his idea of a perfect life was one of seclusion after leaving Harvard. He continued to write and think, i imagine his ideas were not liked and so no one has ever heard of him. I recommend his book "The Tribes and The States", especially for anyone who thinks they know anything about American history. This man could have achieved so much, but was destroyed by the ignorance of others.
jacksawild 1 year ago 12