alt Hacker NewsI got rage baited by this so hard, cant comprehend thinking this way.
Hung out with PhD's, economists, bankers, trust find kids, scientists, and artists - who maybe weren't top tier enough, but none thought this way.
Literally the weirdest take on a forum filled with dreamers, but every take is valid.
Replies
Ivan92 • yesterday at 9:16 PM
Same lol. By the OP's logic, every student pursuing this field in a university as an undergrad/graduate student should be taking an IQ test before proceeding to the upper level math courses covering these topics. Anything less than the threshold will mean they have to focus on something different.
It's not comfortable, but this seems to be what the priors point to. I suspect that pure mathematics is one of the most intelligence-dependent fields; one where hard work, practical solving problems and a large knowledge base is less of a substitute.