← Back to context Comment by gwern 4 days ago 'Child prodigy' is not an exaggeration here: https://trout.me.uk/prec/ 3 comments gwern Reply loose-cannon 4 days ago You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole. gwern 2 minutes ago My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy. singingfish 3 days ago and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.
loose-cannon 4 days ago You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole. gwern 2 minutes ago My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy. singingfish 3 days ago and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.
gwern 2 minutes ago My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.
You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.
My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.
and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.