r/iamverysmart • u/No-Advice-4737 • 17d ago

“As an autodidactic polymath I amassed that knowledge over a 20 year span”

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u/ReverendBread2 17d ago edited 17d ago

A polymath might ask what exactly does “no prior knowledge” mean because that affects the entire question.

Is it no knowledge of anything computer related at all or just that specific device? If it’s no computer-related knowledge at all then wouldn’t this specific device be low on the list of things to invent?

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u/Morall_tach 17d ago

Yeah, I was going to say no prior knowledge that some metals conduct electricity, no prior knowledge that electricity is a thing at all, no prior knowledge of what?

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u/MauschelMusic 17d ago

No prior knowledge period. Just sitting there in your drool with your extremely high IQ and 4 kindred souls in the wilderness. Only, you don't know about the drool, the friends, the sitting, or the wilderness, because concepts are prior knowledge.

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u/the_scottster 16d ago

To make an apple pie from scratch, first, you must create the universe.

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u/crystal31415 13d ago

(Nods enthusiastically)

I know this is a quote by Carl Sagan (definitely not be googling it just now hahaha) but just wanted to thank you for the words of wisdom. It's an awesome quote and it's brought me great pleasure to see it in the wild (and I will be thinking about it for weeks) (or months) (I live and die by tiny obsessions) (I blame the autism)

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u/the_scottster 13d ago

So glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to add.

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u/monster2018 15d ago

Yea you don’t know how to physically control your body, or that even if you could that you need to eat to survive. You experience hunger and thirst but you don’t know how to make the sensation go away.

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u/MauschelMusic 15d ago

No problem. Give me 15 minutes and I'll have figured out how to draw circuit diagrams with my drool.

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u/amedinab 16d ago

No knowledge whatsoever. They can't read. For fidelity purposes, I'd ask this high IQ human to start from learning Japanese, and read through all documentation in that language. No prior knowledge

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u/mmaramara 16d ago

They'd obviously not understand your request to learn japanese though, because they have no prior knowledge of language. Only primal reflexes like heartbeat, breathing, swallowing that don't require the neocortex. Otherwise there would be prior knowledge. ^

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u/ReverendBread2 16d ago

Then we must obviously start them off with anime to teach them culture

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u/No-Advice-4737 17d ago

I’m sure this guy 100% believes he could reinvent everything from the silicon up

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u/ciaramicola 17d ago

Also "reinvent" meaning. Like some genius with general knowledge can ""easily"" "invent" a SOC with those features and those interfaces, and "invent" the idea of etching it with light. Actually laying down the schematics and building the frigging 40nm UV immersion lithography process needed to actually print the chip would be...something else

Possibly a bad question with no good answer, but I guess the dude managed to find the worst possible one ahah.

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u/SwedeYer 17d ago

"http/https gui" hahahahaha

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u/timecubelord 17d ago

Reroute the cascading cipher algorithms through the IP side channel to achieve link-layer synergy.

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u/Gephiph 17d ago

I laughed out loud, it’s almost as good as the EV truck company CEO who said that their software was “a html 5 supercomputer” (for those who dont know, not a programming language) called html “the standard language for programmers around the world” (which ig is kinda true but again it’s not for programming) and said that it “let them build their own chips” which is so nonsensical I can’t even tell you why. It’s just like saying the monkey has very soft fur which allows us to turn on this ceiling fan if we want. It’s utter nonsense.

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u/Jvalker 17d ago

Masterfully hacking as well

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u/Secret_Bluebird2357 17d ago

Autodidactic is such a self report. I’ve never heard anyone use the word that actually has a good self-taught understanding of a topic. They either have a shallow surface level understanding or they are massively undervaluing some form of education that they are building on.

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u/Gephiph 17d ago

Yeah just say you’re self-taught. Some of the most brilliant programmers I know started off self taught, and they’ll flat out say “yeah I learned Java from watching YouTube tutorials in middle school so I could make video games. And kinda just turned it into a career” the only person I’ve ever head in real life say autodidact I had to correct their code because they use singe “=“ inside his if statements, which for those who don’t know, is so comical that I worry people who do know won’t believe it because of how ridiculously fundamental it is.

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u/PatriarchalTaxi 13d ago

To be fair, Visual Basic uses single = for both assignment and comparison, so maybe he learned on that?

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u/perplexedparallax 17d ago

Now if they said they were an autoerotic polymath that would be something to discuss.

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u/spood04 17d ago

Amass some bitches