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Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius?
An anonymous reader writes CBS's upcoming hacker show Scorpion is pitched as based on the real life of Irish 'eccentric genius' Walter O'Brien a.k.a. "Scorpion". Some of the claims made for the real Scorpion are extraordinary. A child prodigy with an IQ of 197, hacking Nasa at age 13, [supplying] Ireland with more Personal Computers than DELL and Gateway together. Searching online I wasn't able to find anything which, for me, clearly backed up any of these (or other) claims. For example, rather than being the sixth fastest programmer in the world in 1993, his team ranked 90th out of 250 teams. Curiously, his degree grade was an ok, but hardly stellar B+ (II-I). Does anyone know anything to back up the genius claims being made about Scorpion?
Get in the way of a good story.
And he's not in jail, so sure, he's a genius. But are his exploits legendary? Well, much like fishing stories, I take hacking stories have more elaborations then truth.
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...before you are ready signifies immaturity, not intelligence.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I used to say that all TV was fiction except the weather, but then I saw Fox lying about that too: severe winter weather does not contradict global warming/climate change.
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I have have a 163 IQ. I was capable of making straight A's in high school, but was bored I just acted out and got in trouble. What they called Advanced classes was the top 25-30 students out of a class of 100 people (small school), which was a joke. I was the person who made an A on the test but didn't do a few daily grades here or there and things of that nature. In college I have a 4.0 but it was mind numbing to keep that grade. College for the most part was pure memorization and doing the daily work..
The point of this is that grades do not reflect IQ.
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http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/the_founder.html
He probably is a smart guy, but these claims here would make me not want to hire him. He's so obviously full of himself that he'd probably never admit he might be wrong about something and that is just plain dangerous. So it's not just the hollywood drama, it's based on his on ludicrous claims.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
His website proves itself false. He claims it was founded in 1988; however Whois records for the domain only go back to 2000, and the web address doesnt appear in the Wayback Machine until 2003.
Looks like the guy has tried to mix his own marketing material into google results, but you can see where his highly touted ScenGen actually comes from here:
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/wi...
This version of MAGICC/SCENGEN was developed primarily with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but it rests on developments carried out over the past 20 years that were funded by a number of organizations.
So the "ScenGen" you keep seeing in all the results is not the same as the one this O'brien dude keeps blathering about. In fact, hes apparently the only one who cares about it; he did do one talk at IEEE in 2010 (though strangely theres no mention of it anywhere except the bog-standard event page), but there doesnt appear to have been any chatter on the internet about it whatsoever.
So, to the AC who posted this: hopefully this is a useful lesson. Anyone can say anything on the internet, and even make it look passingly believable. But if it sounds "too perfect", its probably rubbish.
He gave one talk at an IEEE event at a doubletree hotel in 2010. You would be very hard-pressed to find it unless you narrowed your search quite a bit; literally noone was talking about him at that point.
fuckin' Frank Dux gets a big picture movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme and all I get is a puny tv show?
in making other people post\talk about him
I haven't heard of this show until now. I wonder Anonymous Coward is just a sort of straw man trying to drum up interest.
Leaving aside the fact that an IQ score in the 190s is absurd (no one has curved a test over a large enough population for such an answer to reflect actual score distributions), as far as actual, normed IQ tests conducted by actual psychologists go, it's hard to find a test with a ceiling higher than 160 these days. The Weschler, easily the most popular among these, has a ceiling of 160, and getting a score above the low 140s requires doing very well across most of the individual batteries, some of which aren't especially g-weighted. No, the quiz in Omni is not, as far as most psychometricians are remotely concerned, an IQ test. To define it as such is to destroy most of the meaning of the term.
Occasionally, you see high scores due either to very old versions of the Stanford-Binet that did reach above 160 (it's likely that Ted Kaczynski got such a score) or the use of extensions of the old Stanford-Binet to investigate young people who hit or near ceilings, typically on verbal parts of these tests where raw scores tend to have a little more variance, but extrapolations to actual IQ scores aren't valid today due to the Flynn effect (ie: more young people are properly nourished and in intellectually stimulating environments than were in the early 20th century) and the fact that old versions of the Stanford-Binet weren't necessarily normally distributed along the 15-point sigma most tests are today. Though people have attempted to write on the upper echelons of performance on tests of cognitive ability, there's remarkably little that is peer-reviewed.
The tl;dr of all this is that whenever you hear reports of IQ scores above 160, you can more or less assume someone is talking out of their ass.
Well yeah, he's a "hacker" who sold computers. He's no hacker, but more of a salesman who happens to know more about technology than an actual sales rep.
IQ tests are not accurate because you can score better the more times you take it. Practice makes perfect and all that. While IQ itself is useful as one indicator of a person's capability to solve complex problems, it's only one of many such indicators. What good is IQ of 150 if a person is lazy? Or has limited attention capability? Or fails at abstract thinking?
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Having both makes one a genius.
Not true. I work with EE faculty, and a number of them can't seem to grasp the concept that the being a brilliant engineer doesn't automatically confer one with expertise in diverse other areas such as patent law, accounting, videography, etc.
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If you read, he supplied more computers than Dell and Gateway combined....... Before 1993.
While both Dell and Gateway existed since the '80s, neither were international powerhouses until the mid-90s. I'm sure both HP and IBM were blowing this guy out of the water in Ireland.
I mean, I sold more cell phones worldwide in 2006 than Apple and Google combined, for crying out loud! (AKA: I sold one.)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
The standard deviation of IQ seems to be 15
octave:16> erfc((197-100)/15)
ans = 5.9493e-20
That means only a fraction of 5*10^-20 of total humankind would exceed his intelligence.
Let me make a few remarks:
-That would mean humankind could exists in it current size for another 10^11 years without finding a second one like him
-Normal itelligence tests dont resolve in that region. It's pretty impossible to design a tests which ca resolve between 100 and 140 and at the same time distinct between 180 and 190. i am not sure if designing a test between 190 and 197
-The most likely other option is that the distribution of measured IQs is heavy tailed (instead of normal). In that case, the IQ measurement needs to be corrected for that.
I wish that journalists would turn their brain on and not off at every number they cite
The web site reads like they're a big consultancy, another McKinsey. Then the testimonals are all about Walter. Oracle manager: "Walter showed a great depth of knowledge in Word, WordBasic Macro programming". He still has recommendations up which mention Turbo Pascal. Not seeing rocket science here. The biggest success reported was translating some large English-only application into multiple languages, which made it valuable in Asia. That's nice, but a routine job. He claims to have written a general-purpose program to help with such jobs.
He also claims to have written ScenGen, a "scenario generator". It looks like that originated at Boeing in the mid-1980s. Running on a Compaq PC with 2MB back then. The pitch for the current model sounds like the one from back then, although the graphics are probably better now.
The web site is awful. There are lines of text with excess white space in the middle. I looked at the HTML, expecting to find some overly complex Javascript which was misbehaving. No. The HTML source just has explicit non-breaking spaces in the wrong places.
He seems to speak at a lot of strange conferences, such as the Family Office Association. A "family office", in this context,is a staff which manages the family fortune for a large, wealthy family. The Rockefellers have one.
This is getting weird.
Never heard of this dude. In 93 Kevin Mitnick was old news, it was all about this crazy finnish dude doing something on 386s. And a neckbeard with some african animal talking about freedom. Oh and everyone was praising a rich geek dude from Seattle.
"genious level" smart people mostly don't do well in school, they can't cope with the system.
Ahh - unsubstantiated willy-waving of IQ scores which are meaningless other than to show how well you took an IQ test. God, I love the internet. Never has there been a greater facilitator of self-important low self-esteem.
Man I wish could flaunt my IQ on the interwebs, but I can't because I'm too damn smart. Typically we of the IQ > 220 crowd keep quiet in public, allowing ourselves only gentle stroking of our nipples and an intolerably arrogant half-grin - well, that and some posting on /. obviously.
You're right:
From http://www.irishtimes.com/cult...
"I was coming home from school and encountered a house surrounded by black cars. Mom was on the couch, crying; Dad was not too happy. A lot of men in suits were wanting to yell at me for what I had done but were a little surprised when out of my schoolbag I pulled an extradition waiver â" which calmed the conversation down. If they signed this [the extradition waiver] then I would show them where the holes are in their network. We ended up doing a deal â" which happens in most hacking incidents you never hear about.â"
and:
"The showâ(TM)s creator, Nick Santora, introduced him as a man who âoehas saved the world several times over, things he canâ(TM)t even tell us aboutâ."
or:
"One of Scorpionâ(TM)s executive producers told Comic-Con, âoeWalter personally caught the Boston bombers by writing an algorithm that tracked motion on all the cameras within a two-mile radius of the blast. That kind of thing makes for a really compelling episode of television. He also stopped nuclear meltdowns from happening.â"
It's so full of weasel words it's unbelievable. An algorithm that tracks motion? what you mean checking if one frame is different to the next? that's tracking motion, hardly rocket science, any CS101 student could do it. Helped stopped nuclear meltdowns from happening? Well so have I, by not becoming an incompetent nuclear engineer that goes on to produce a flawed reactor design I assure you have also done exactly this. Things we can't be told about? Oh well, I'll assume they just don't exist then or I might as well just mention that I'm personally better than this guy because I saved not only the world numerous times, but the entire universe, I just can't tell you how.
Which is a shame because it sounds like the show may be a bit like Numb3rs, the sort of show that might interest me, but with this insurmountable pile of tosh and bullshit that's apparently surrounding it I'm going to steer VERY clear. This guy is obviously an egotistical self-publicist and a serial liar, and the guys writing about him are obviously absurdly naive and have failed to realise that they could've made up these exact same stories without getting him involved.
Everything he says is something many people could say and it would hold as much validity, there's literally nothing about this guy that's actually in any way verifiable - the incidents he claims to have been involved in, the things he claims to have done, absolutely none of it is verifiable. A genius that got a bog standard degree at a run of the mill UK university? - Christ, it's not like his "intelligence" even got him into Cambridge early, or even at all. It says he graduated in the late 90s, so if he was 13 in 1988 then that implies he only followed the same path of literally millions of other teens the same year he did. Why if he was such a genius wasn't he doing his A-Levels or degree early like real actual genius kids consistently manage to do? Even my fucking cousin got an A-Level at 14 because she was ahead of her years and yet she wasn't exactly exceptional - a few others in her school did too. I have two degrees, one of which I studied for whilst working full time, this means my academic achievements at very least are well ahead of this guy and I'm not exactly stand out either.
I can find not a single shred of evidence that this guy is anything other than mediocre at best.
My IQ is so huge it can only be expressed in hexadecimal. I am posting this directly from my mind while my body drives to the gym for a workout with my supermodel girlfriend.
hacking stories have more elaborations then truth.
That's why I always skip to the end.
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Actually, the score (in answer points) plus the age (as inputs to a function, not as in arithmetics) make the IQ result. The tests are calibrated for different ages already.
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There are highly trained generalists who lack humility and don't make fools of themselves. They're the rarest of individuals but they do exist. ;)
A Real Genius uses a Space laser to pop the worlds largest popcorn container IN the home of his enemy.
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And just as unrealistic, I mean wouldn't a tattoo of the prison layout on your back be a bit of a givaway.
'Written by the team behind Prison Break, the show “follows an eccentric genius and his international network of super-geniuses as they form the last line of defence against the complex threats of the modern age”, according to its makers.' ref
Has Walter produced any actual papers on computer science that were published or reviewed or cited in reputable journals.
Anyone who lacks humility will, sooner or later, make a fool of themselves. However, self-confidence in one's ability is often mistaken for a lack of humility, especially when the one who is self-confident is highly gifted
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Anyone will, sooner or later, make a fool of themselves
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Of course it's based on a true story. Once, there were some kids, and they thought they were badass hacker geniuses.
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> hacking Nasa at age 13
He's currently 39, which means this took place in the 1980s. A dog could "hack" NASA in the 1980s. Hell, they were already so far back down the other side of that bell curve of interest, they were talking about it as passé in "Out of the Inner Circle" which was published in 85.
I dunno about the degree thing. I mean, the kid is full of bullshit talk, but hey, I've had bad grades in school. My Statistics teacher was pissy because I had Ds and I got like 4 exam problems wrong all year--I never paid attention in class, I never did any homework, I was always goofing off, and I chewed through stat exams like a correctly working version of Mathematica. Obviously, I knew my shit hard; but I was failing the class.
It was boring. Well, homework was boring. I got better shit to do than waste time relearning things I already know. I'll relearn things I've forgotten, thanks.
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All IQ scores are age calibrated.
English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.
Nothing else.
First off, there are two Mensa-grade IQs on every bus at rush hour, statistically. Secondly, High IQ and no ability in music will not make you a 'genius' in music. High IQ and no work ethic will mean you'll end up in your underpants, yelling at the TV about the government.
At best, high IQ is useful for certain types pf intellectual problem solving. That's it.
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Well, My IQ is so large that it can only be expressed in terms of its prime number factors, each of which has yet to be discovered by contemporary mathematicians who search for such trivial things. I'm posting this from 1960, as I've perfected backwards time travel. Changing history just to screw with you mortals. My wife,? Just Marilyn Monroe.
Self-confidence is a mark of delusion.
Man I wish could flaunt my IQ on the interwebs, but I can't because I'm too damn smart. Typically we of the IQ > 220 crowd keep quiet in public, allowing ourselves only gentle stroking of our nipples and an intolerably arrogant half-grin - well, that and some posting on /. obviously.
How I wish I could share in the pleasures of the simple folk.
We of the 300+ crowd find that somewhere in the range [263.4, 267.2] the nipple stroking becomes intolerable. The harmonic frequency of the human nipple bears a subtle, but undeniable, relationship to the cosmic background radiation. The resulting vibrations enhance our awareness of the approaching heat death of the universe while heightening our sense of ennui.
Unfortunately the only body part we can massage without distress is our left pinky toe. As such we tend to spend much of our time practising yoga to maximally extend our remaining toe stroking years.
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It says right there on the bio page. That's a lot of technologies.
Now *that* guy means something to this world!
Well all my friends did that facebook quiz and it proved they were all geniuses with IQ's all north of 130!
You might as well call yourself a pyromancer or a techomage at that point.
Probably has about the same amount of credibility so far as I am concerned.
Adult IQ's of Famous Geniuses: Bobby Fischer (Chess Player) 187, Galileo Galilei (Astronomer/Philosopher/Physicist) 185, Rene Descartes (Philosopher/Mathematician) 180, Immanuel Kant (Philosopher) 175, Charles Darwin (Naturalist) 165, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer) 165, Albert Einstein (Physicist) 160, George Eliot (Writer) 160, Nicolaus Copernicus (Astronomer) 160, Rembrandt van Rijn (Painter) 155
He's no more of a Genius than Frank Dux is a Kumite Champion and responsible for the popularity of MMA...
I had to wait years so I could sign up to /. and have a UID that's larger than my IQ.
We don't do A-levels in Ireland!
I'd appreciate it if you could keep my secrets on the down low... ;)
Not true. I work with EE faculty, and a number of them can't seem to grasp the concept that the being a brilliant engineer doesn't automatically confer one with expertise in diverse other areas such as patent law, accounting, videography, etc.
What's it got to do with EE's? This applies to a vast majority of people who have Money/Power/Fame. You can usually tell when at some point in a conversation with them they utter "Don't you know who I am?"
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Intelligence is a boulder sitting on top of a mountain. Ain't nothin' hapennin' until someone gives it a push.
Having a higher IQ just means you have a bigger boulder to push against.
The life if full of hot air. Those that "do" usually don't brag about it. Those that wish they did make all the noise.
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That's neat!
I think this is some sort of scam though. Hackers usually brag about exploits, one claiming to have a high IQ is inviting another hacker to one prove that he's smarter that him; plus being seemingly impossible.
Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Boole.
Contributions way the freak ahead of their time, and not just the knowledge they knew, but what they decided to do with it, was probably pure genius in my opinion.
There are lots of smart people in the world, but very few of them really contribute anything beyond paper test scores or academic nonsense.
To be a true genius in my opinion, you look the world straight in the eye, tell it your full of crap, and whack upside the head with a contribution that challenges civilization at the time.
All of the above men did that, some centuries before their contributions fully took root.
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Under-confidence (shy/pathetic) or Over-confidence (arrogant) is the problem.
A balanced amount of confidence is perfectly fine.
There is nothing wrong with past experience that proves to yourself that you know how to apply your knowledge and wisdom to build self-confidence & healthy self-esteem.
But the Humpty-Dumpty sense is the best sense!
And, of course, you are completely correct. I should have used i.e., not AKA.
It was a dumb Americansism-abused-grammar mistake. I shall claim "it was written half past midnight in a sleepy stupor" as my excuse. :-P I am normally a spelling/grammar pedant; this just shows that even OCD grammarians screw up once in a while. (In general, if my spelling or grammar is incorrect, it's on purpose for humorous effect.)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
Sometimes. Confidence combined with deference and recognition of that which you don't know is a different sort of confidence than brazen overconfidence like this "Scorpion" guy. If you can admit what you don't know easily, I'm more likely to believe you when you say you actually do know something. But it takes confidence to know the difference.
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From the promos it looks like he doesn't even know how to generate properly formed XML:
</SCORPION>
should be
<SCORPION/>
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Does anyone know anything to back up the genius claims being made about Scorpion?
I know he's made it onto the Slashdot front page without having accomplished anything much more in his life than I or half a dozen other folks of my generation can boast. My grades were similar to his, I also had a really high IQ on some bogus test when I was a kid. I don't remember exactly how my ACM programming teams did, but 90 of 250 sounds roughly in the right ballpark. I've done NASA work, and know at least one way to "hack" some of their systems. Yet, I seriously doubt you'll ever see an article about me up on the Slashdot front page (and if you do, most likely it means I screwed something up epicly).
So clearly he's at the least a genius at self-promotion.
You can be a genius and not get an A in your typical school. You get bored too easy. As you age you still have the raw genius brain power but you if you don't have self discipline no one else would think you are a genius.
When you're not good at anything, you think everyone else is faking it. When you're gifted and you don't challenge yourself, you think you're good at everything. But, if you're gifted and challenge yourself regularly, you learn to acknowledge what you do and do not know. Once that happens, you claim the mastery that is your due, respect it when you see it in others, and lose patience with those who constantly want to dispute the validity of what you've become. You learn to despise the word "opinion", because you constantly have it thrown in your teeth by people whose ego is incapable of acknowledging that expertise exists at all, let alone acknowledge that you might have it.
At least, that's been my observation and experience. It's part of why I like volunteer work. When people are benefiting from your brilliance and watching you let others lead while you learn from them, they're less inclined to constantly challenge your capabilities, and more pleasant to be around. Purely social environments like bars and parties on the other hand, are a psychologically draining environment where bullshit flies, assertions are never compared against objective reality, and just listening to people talk threatens to make you stupider by normalizing a lack of rigor and discipline in acknowledging that you have areas of ignorance that no inherent brilliance can overcome.
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Very smart EE's are the relevant group I happen to have interacted with the most, so that was the example I used. This issue is certainly not specific to them - and not all of them have this particular blind spot, either. A number of our faculty know very well in which areas they are experts and in which areas it makes sense for them to rely on the expertise of others.
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Most things we do with computers, whether "hacking" or anything else, are really not that difficult to do. There are some challenges, but it's not rocket science. However, most people don't understand computers, so anyone who does is seen as a "genius". Sure, maybe one or two are, and a few others are maybe of particularly great intelligence. But most "nerds" are really not that smart, just dedicated, which is really all it takes to become proficient at any particular skill.
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Did all of the /.ers somehow forget that this is another media-hyped fictional storytelling program on CBS? Heck, they even fabricate sources in their everyday news reporting! Why would they somehow base their television programs on any actual facts?
CBS' motto is simple: If Mikey's Little Website has it typed up in color-blinding BLINK tags, then it must be true.
you didn't do any of the work and you're sad that you got bad grades? did you ever think that there could be more going into a grade than the score on a final test?
"...mine is only 186" Well, if anybody was heretofore unclear as to the definition of "humblebrag"...
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My I.Q. score is 119, which is pathetic because I couldn't even muster up enough Brawndo to bust out one more point and make it an even number. I punch myself in the balls every morning for breakfast, and have been doing so since I was four. I can read, but only out loud and I still haven't mastered punctuation. I believed everything I read, saw, and heard as a teenager and as such contracted every venereal disease known to man, got convicted for cattle buggery, and am forbidden to set foot inside the state of Rhode Island. When asked to program using Vi, I do so in EMacs, and I do so by flogging my keyboard with my limp penis. I blame Obama for having the nerve to be Dubya's father, I choke on chewing gum when attempting to walk, and I make all my phone calls while I'm on the toilet experiencing my weekly bout of dysentery. I keep on trying to run Android on my iPhone 3G, Windows on my Linux desktop, and I still cannot wear matching socks. I, sirs, am a complete retard.
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However, it's a really fun disadvantage to take in a role-playing game.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Mods, this is both +5 Insightful and Informative.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those that thinks that degrees are essential, or an indicator of inherent knowledge or skill - I did crap at Computing A-Level for example because I was already doing sockets programming in C at home, whilst they were managing to stretch out the teach of what was little more than "Hello World!" in Pascal over about 3 months at college so I just simply wasn't motivated enough to succeed. So I'm exactly with you on that one. Part the reason I did a second degree was because I went back to have another pop at the subjects I'd previously not done great in and hadn't had much professional experience with but wanted to improve my knowledge of some more - specifically pure maths topics like number theory.
But I think in this case the point is that this guy actually went to a Uni - something he just wouldn't do if that wasn't his thing and he didn't go to a stand out one. I didn't go to Cambridge because I wouldn't have gotten in at the time, this guy had no reason not to go to Cambridge, because regardless of his grades Cambridge would've looked at his supposed IQ of 197 and given him a place as that's the exact sort of thing that intrigues Cambridge far more than grades (because it plays to their PR view if nothing else - "Look we netted the most intelligent person in history!"). In fact, chances are Cambridge would've even sought him out explicitly upon news of perhaps the greatest IQ ever known reaching them. Unless of course it never actually did, because the whole thing is fabricated.
Cambridge is also the sort of place that would've challenged him, it's the sort of place that gets geniuses that are unmotivated because they're not challenged because it has a whole massive long history of working with such people and turning them into the greats.
So I get that people like you and me wouldn't have such an easy ride yet still do perfectly well in the real world (I've done far better career wise than every single better graded pupil at the schools I went to for example), but if this kid is as gifted as he claims then that alone would've made the big players like Cambridge notice. Apparently though the only ones that notices were the University of Sussex. It's possible even MIT or similar would've taken him given that he apparently went outside of his home country of Ireland anyway, but rather than ending up at a top 10 world university, he ended up at one that slips outside even the top 100 - there are 16 more highly ranked universities than Sussex in the UK alone. Again, the amount of universities that would be clamouring to take in the most intelligent person ever as measured by IQ would be far higher than just the UK's 16th best university even if Cambridge or Oxford missed him.
Who cares? I knew the material better than anyone. If the point of the education system was grades, I'd just cheat.
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TV is fiction, even if 'based on real people or situations'. Get over it and move on. I plan on watching anyway. If they make a compelling case, I will watch more, if not or if the acting is unreasonable (either over the top or to bad) I'll drop it like any other fiction. Even the news is fiction to me (or at least under suspicion) until I get the same feed from other sources preferably outside the news media, or at least outside domestic or others known to have a 'dog in the hunt' sources.
... "When you pry the source from my cold dead hands."
A balanced amount of confidence is perfectly fine.
What is a "balanced" amount of confidence? That's where the delusion comes in. None of us knows nearly as much as we think we do, but confident people don't realize this.
Confidence combined with deference and recognition of that which you don't know
If you truly recognize how little you know about the world, you aren't going to be very confident.
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