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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He truly is an idiot’s concept of a genius.

No one who anctually understands Unix or IP networking would ever craft that as an explanation for this concept.

That said, it’s an excellent explanation of how a lobotomy helped him embrace his true self.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Now I want to see:

  • a genius'es concept of an idiot
  • an idiot's concept of an idiot
  • a genius'es concept of a genius
[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
  1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
  2. the movie: Idiocracy
  3. lots of examples, let's go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman
[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  1. I somewhat disagree, I think a lot of real smart people overestimate idiots.
  2. Yup
  3. Alan Turing is my guy! Always remember the British government did him dirty for being gay. Shame on you, British gov.
[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

I think I just wanted to mention arrested development lol. It being a smart, well-written show about very dumb people

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

i'd nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses' genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn't crack.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 minutes ago

Ah true I haven't heard of him! Love to hear about autodidact geniuses.