World's smartest person wrote this one mysterious book

[@tibees]

My latest video, The Test That Terence Tao Almost Failed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHzTpZRnjKt-aJI

[@jimcarrington6744]

"Each and every time that a human speaks, their thoughts are simultaneously BROADCAST in a much richer way than can be fit into words." No belief included, I simply remember before being taught verbal language. (mom later said that I was not a year old) Our languages serve NO greater purpose than to enable dishonesty. The lies go back much farther than anyone realizes.

[@Oouri.0.2.0]

TTTTTAF

[@Qwerty8]

Well… that’s a need of our society because humans are acting on a global scale now. We solved the needs of connectivity but same time we lost our connection 🎉

[@Naksu..]

Read the Quran

[@kwgm8578]

Toby, I'm always skeptical of these so-called geniuses that are supposedly brilliant but don't want to interact with other people. We've all known them. They have a reputation for always knowing the answer to an instructor's question, but they don't want to sit down with you over coffee, and explain that answer. Actually, they often adopt a cynical and superior attitude over you because you need an explanation. Social skills, like making and keeping friends, requires one set of intellectual skills. Renowned mathematician Steven Strogatz outlined and organized these skills with humor and a degree of mathematical rigor in his 2009 book, The Calculus of Friendship. On the other hand, solving difficult problems in science requires another set of mental skills, as anyone watching your videos must know. While scientists and other professional problem solvers might assign the latter of these skill sets of greater importance, they won't get very far in teaching research or creating new technologies if they can't work with their colleagues. Perhaps playing "the savant" may have served as a well accepted archetype for a scientist in the 19th century, we now live in an age of teamwork and have built an infrastructure around communication. The Internet was originally developed as the DARPANET for academics and engineers to more easily exchange messages using electronic mail, transfer files automatically with UUCP, and inform colleagues of the latest scientific and technical developments, or recruit expertise for solving particular problems via News. Anyway, that was then. Personally I believe the scientific savant of old was a poor excuse for someone unwilling to be outgoing, friendly, and generous. Einstein knew that and was known to be quite charming at Princeton. Anyone who obfuscates purposely and cannot communicate their ideas in various ways for clarity isn't a genius, but has a disability.

[@chuckgaydos5387]

My favorite IQ story is when Isaac Asimov wrote that he once scored 150 on an IQ test, but he used only half of the allowed time so he claimed an IQ of 300.

[@u.v.s.5583]

I did the test in 1/5 of the time allowed, my IQ was measured to be 70. So My IQ is 350.

[@KristopherNoronha]

@@u.v.s.5583 don't answer any questions and submit in 0 time... your result will tend to infinity 😁

[@ronofthesea5953]

@@KristopherNoronha That settles it. The smartest person in the world - is you. :)

[@faustus09]

IQ testing cannot be defined by the time it takes to answer the test. An extra 20 points could be permitted, but twice as much? I doubt it!

[@chuckgaydos5387]

@@faustus09 I suspect that Asimov was joking.

[@Lehmann108]

There is no standardized IQ test that can measure an IQ with any reliability beyond 165. The reason for this is that there are not enough people with IQ's in this extremely high range to create a norm or standard for comparison.

[@josephfilm73]

And as the results go higher, error rate overtakes any credible result. It's like the Drake equation. A bunch of terms, all estimates, which multiplied together mean next to nothing for the final result.

[@stinkycheese804]

Yes, I have experienced this myself. At a certain point, I saw test questions and was wondering to myself, how intelligent was the person who designed this question because that determines which answer to choose, lol. My scores have varied over the years but always bounced around 150-something to 180-something. I'm not even sure if there needs to be a norm or standard, it all gets pretty subjective after a certain point, not just subjective to the person taking the test but also subjective to what the meaningful outcome of the test might be. We all have our fortes and a scores has to be applied in application in some meaningful way or else pointless.

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@stinkycheese804 My IQ is almost double digits if the decimal point is applied.

[@rientsdijkstra4266]

This.

[@c.b.1542]

Thanks for pointing out that he did not necessarily fail in life and that it might rather be society that is unable to understand his personal way of having a good life.

[@jackschwartz1783]

Some Hyper Intelligent individuals see the Hypocrisy in the world and discover how much control world leaders have over what is allowed to be known by the masses and just choose not to engage in Paradigms that society calls Success. Look what happened to Tesla. Look what happened to Sidis. Would you want to offer your knowledge to people that ridicule you or use your knowledge for destructive purposes?

[@tomten2539]

Correct, he sort of bugged out......

[@cringevidshub3767]

I fully agree, there are a lot or Einsteins living in solitude across this world im sure of it. They only decide not to show themselves cause the mystery of the universes plain existence is more than enough to entertain them till the day they pass

[@ICEnovaTI]

❤

[@JosefMarc]

Hi. Was one of your sources "The Prodigy" by Amy Wallace? I was Amy's husband, co-researcher, proofreader, and I wrote a chapter. I'm happy to see that you are making this video about Sidis. When we made that book, KZbin wasn't yet a thing. Keep going!

[@mujtabaalam5907]

Did you research his father? I wonder if his knowledge of hypnosis and psychology played a role

[@sarahbailey6723]

I’m sorry for your loss, sir. Thank you for contributing to the world! Do you still research?

[@narojnayr]

hi Josef! I loved that book! I used it as one of my research books and remember getting lost in it I enjoyed it so much. Congrats!

[@JosefMarc]

I still research. My last six technical papers are in video tech and color science. My next one will also be color science.@@sarahbailey6723

[@JosefMarc]

Thanks for reading the book. No congrats necessary, I got to touch all the extant copies of William's writings. That's a good month!@@narojnayr

[@noahschreiber2988]

For those interested in knowing more about Sidis’ life and his sad ending, a biography of Sidis called The Prodigy was written in 1986 by Amy Wallace.

[@JarodM]

Thanks~

[@origenward3845]

Thank you

[@julius43461]

Is there an ending of life that is not sad though?

[@scopolamin1]

I want to know more about Amy Wallace.

[@scopolamin1]

@@julius43461 Greta Thunberg

[@charcolew]

Interesting side-note: Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, about fantasy reverse-worlds, were written by Lewis Carroll, a mathematician.

[@natem1579]

Thought you were about to say Lewis Carroll was one of his pseudonyms lmao

[@chrisoneill3999]

Lewis Carroll's third novel - Sylvie and Bruno - contains a chapter where Albert Einstein's 'elevator' thought experiment is featured as a joke. Carroll was onto the major feature of General Relativity, but missed the point entirely.

[@kostaftp]

More interesting side notes: Lewis Carrol was a mason, and his books are packed with symbolism.

[@nickmiller76]

And of course Lewis Carroll wasn't his real name.

[@theverhohnepeople8934]

And he was a paedophile.

[@purklefluff]

His ideas seem to also have a whiff of the concept of dark matter about them, don't they. Definitely interesting to see someone postulate stuff like this from the restrictions and understanding of his time, but also in an intuitive way. I bet it's a fun read for sure

[@thisorthat7746]

I thought so too!

[@amritasridhar2452]

Yup

[@TylerBaham]

I find it funny everybody still thinks they know what time is

[@bodkie]

@@TylerBaham I know what it is, it's relative and also a construct, which makes it a robo-aunt or something ina similar vein.

[@oldchunkofcoal2774]

​@@TylerBaham It's clearly time to rock you nerd.

[@maxblast8210]

I'm noticing a pattern that the smartest people tend to end up realizing they want nothing to do with public life and end up living more or less as hermits.

[@theodentherenewed4785]

Such decision is a function of personality, not intelligence. Intelligence is a factor shaping one's personality, but there are a lot of other factors. William Sidis was a recluse and it was to his own detriment. What I want to say is, don't think that there are no smart people leading a very public life, because it isn't true. Moreover, being a hermit is not a smart decision.

[@Rctdcttecededtef]

We should find the hermits and ask them to do an IQ test

[@TuxedMask]

*Ted Kaczynski enters the ring*

[@Mastermindyoung14]

@@Rctdcttecededtef Pretty sure he hated that the press followed him around...Leave the hermits to alone

[@volcmaster]

Google Chris Langan

[@c.s.hayden3022]

I’m glad to see someone spotlight this. Buckminster Fuller’s “Synergetics” is another great one too. He had scientific integrity and always built models to verify, but his ideas were so wholly out there.

[@finddeniro]

Yes..I met him Late 1960s.. He was visiting Ohio State .Professor next door had him Visit..

[@skyjuiceification]

He was just far ahead of the times. synergetics is maverick science.

[@nobodynoone2500]

Bucky wasn't a child prodigy, he was the real deal. Don'tr compare him to this hack.

[@MrVvulf]

I used to walk under a Buckminster Geodesic Trispan everyday on the way to classes at Drexel. Not sure if it's even still there since that was 40 years ago.

[@coldfirelightpoe6803]

I have this book, but have held onto it for nearly 10 years. Perhaps it’s time.

[@yourself88xbl]

Idk how I've stumbled upon your channel but I'm so happy I did. Your ability to organize this information in a way that's easy to digest, and is interesting, is a gift.

[@infinitum5425]

It's called video editing ... 😂😂✂🎬🎥

[@chirag47]

same

[@reneedwyer751]

Ditto

[@jaredloveless]

My whole being says this is true.

[@chendaforest]

I have no idea what this is all about but her voice is so relaxing and soothing its basically maths ASMR.

[@Saxena-anokhelal]

😅

[@mysiann]

This

[@duggydo]

She’s using a bad microphone or has the settings wrong. That’s what’s causing the audio to sound like it does.

[@gehirndoper]

@@duggydo The audio settings are clear and enjoyable as they are, imo.

[@rocherfield410]

I do not understand what she explain about, but the way she talk make my brain say "please, do not leave the video let me relax here",

[@prostokrasavchik8837]

I like her voice. It's like people at her place are sleeping and she is trying really hard to not wake them up

[@cooliipie]

It's good for when I can't sleep 😴

[@JMnyJohns]

Thank you for a pretty balanced report. He is a fascinating and controversial figure who is largely misrepresented and misunderstood. It's nice to see someone making an attempt to understand and communicate some of what he was trying to say. There is a lot to learn in his various writings if you have the patience and interest.

[@peterpehlivan157]

Thank you for researching the dubious claims. :3 Even when it comes to Stephen Hawking and Einstein, those IQ figures probably don't originate from anywhere solid. Stephen Hawking said he's never taken an IQ test and has no idea what his IQ is.

[@aug3842]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo dw i don’t plan on it

[@quintessenceSL]

There is the presumption with IQ that it should be manifest, but always in very cultural/situational, specific ways (if you become a titan of industry, you're a genius. If you think the whole game isn't worth playing, well...). Dad (he had a background in psychology as well as other things) stated most IQ tests are little more than display that you can think like the author, with various framing gimmicks that once you recognize them, play more like a game than a measure of IQ. He could score near perfect on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, but as he described it, "I'm nothing but a dumb country boy".

[@pvs_np]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo Ok I will not.

[@rsmith31416]

It is not that such measurements are even dubious. Psychometric tests were never designed to measure high intelligence because by definition, it is extremely difficult to obtain a statistically significant sample of such individuals (which in itself is a very subjective procedure) in order to design a test and grade individuals accordingly. As for the scores given to people in early 1900s, I don't know for sure in each instance, but in cases of highly precocious children, they used to get scores based on interpolation taking age into account, and that often resulted in astronomical figures. Another recent example of this is Marilyn Vos Savant.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Hawking might not have recognised as a child when he was taking an intelligence test, especially if it was presented as a game, such as Raven's Matrices. I'm a few years younger than he was, and a group IQ test was one of the formalities before selection at primary school for a secondary school placement at 12, the Scottish equivalent of the English "Eleven-Plus." I don't know if his county in England did that. We kids in Scotland were not told our IQ score.

[@AntithesisDCLXVI]

His humility, and understanding he might be wrong, reveals his true genius.

[@MichaelGroenendijk]

Because one is never done learning 😌

[@janglestick]

that's nice, but not really

[@quellenathanar]

I thought I was wrong, but I may have been mistaken.

[@Epck]

@@MichaelGroenendijk yes..and also if one were to theoretically think up new knowledge or a revolutionary idea, you would naturally question the reason it doesn't exist with how much information is available in the modern world

[@ggrthemostgodless8713]

sounds nice but is not true... humility is not a sign of anything except uncertainty, not "genius". If someone is certain of something that always comes across as NOT humble. Humility was elevated to a virtue with christianity, before it was just a desirable thing (perhaps), or a trait in a person's character.

[@nj1255]

Like some other comments mention: it seems like his theory about the universe touches upon dark matter as well. Dark matter or dark energy. His prediction of black holes (or "reverse stars" as he called them) is also hauntingly accurate with what we know today. It doesn't necessarily mean he had an IQ of 300, but he definitely wasn't stupid, and might very well have been the most intelligent human to ever live. His incredible imagination and thinking definitely puts him up there together with Einstein and Hawking as the biggest thinkers in modern times. It's a shame that he didn't publish more of his theories, and that he didn't get the recognition he deserved while he was still alive (although he probably preferred it that way).

[@JosefMarc]

I think he preferred it that way. He carried a box of papers that he wrote, and some written by others, particularly an Indian mathematician. Most of that box survived.

[@thenullvoidabyss]

@@JosefMarcis there any place where I can read those books or find more about what they were about?

[@ebigarella]

Except the black holes are not the inverse of the 2nd laws of thermodynamics. He got the answer right with the wrong maths hehe (who never)

[@Togidubnus]

It seems to me he was very close to realising the true nature of our universe, composed of the ether in which points of potential energy manifest as matter. His published work was soon after the established view that the ether does not exist, as proven by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment. This is now largely regarded as nonsense, predicated as it was on the assumption that the ether is some sort of fluid. We now have the quantum field, but it really isn't the same thing. It's all too late anyway. We're stuck with the train wreck that is the Standard Model. For all we know, Sidis may have presented countless papers for publication which were rejected.

[@LEDewey_MD]

I have never heard of William Sidis before. Fascinating, but a little bit sad story. His ideas reminded me of something that Erwin Schrodinger said about life - that life extracts negative entropy from its environment.

We inhale what plants exhale.

[@freshtoast3879]

Are you really an MD

[@madisonbrigman8186]

what’s so fascinating about the checkerboard thing is not that he predicted black holes… but arguably alluded to dark energy and matter and potentially where they could have come from (multiple universes hypothesis)

[@elijah6342]

exactly. the fact he basically outlined dark energy and dark matter through a priori reasoning is truly amazing

[@wesstone7571]

@@elijah6342 not amazing to me...pretty good, though.

[@elijah6342]

@@wesstone7571 the question is whether it was Kant's synthetic a priori or traditional analytic a priori

[@havenbastion]

An intelligent person can believe anything that matches the data they've got, but a smart person will seek out Sufficient data using an adequate epistemology, not merely take what's in front of them. Anyone who accepts multiple universes is not very smart because if you think it through, any idea that is more complex than what it seeks to explain (multiple universes) is intellectually regressive.

[@Mastikator]

Not really. Dark energy is what we don't understand why the universe is expanding. Dark matter is what we don't understand of the extra gravity found in most galaxies. Dark energy is called dark energy because we don't know what it is, and the only thing we know about it is that there's energy. Dark matter is called dark matter because it's moving slower than the speed of light and has mass, but it's not any of the known types of matter. It's not related to the reversal of entropy.

[@igelkissen9912]

As a biochemist I can confirm that life does obey the second law of thermodynamics. For our complex order we pay with breaking down other complex things, like food for example. How efficient our bodies are at doing that is really impressive, though.

[@helicalactual]

i imagine what the gentlemen was after was actually (lowest common denominator), intentful effect. This is the metaphysical construct separating living things from non. I am impressed with this persons work being it so old, and having some intuition into somethings that weren't quite right, however definitely in the right direction. as a training biochemist myself, i loved that Prof Doc Sean S. Carroll borrowed the quote, "the purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide"! lol

[@greensleeves7165]

One can equally say though that we "pay" for the simplicity of broken down foods and expended heat by the negentropic build up within living systems. This seems to be what Sidis was getting at. I'm not saying that he was right or wrong, but its eerie relevance to such topics as Black Holes, so-called "dark matter" and energy, and symmetry of laws, should be discernible to any thinking person.

[@apextroll]

@@helicalactual Check out John A. Gowan General Systems Theory.

[@Hunter-oi9xc]

This is why I have been saying we need to make machines out of flesh!!!

[@aaronfranklin324]

It's the trend towards ever increasing complexity and order in life that is suggested as the LOCAL reversal of entropy. And there is a lot we don't understand about how what even just the life we are familiar with metabolises energy. Quantum Processes are not subject to the second law, and there is much evidence for biological nuclear processes. In all manner of bacteria, plants, and our own cells. There is a Bacterium for example that you can put in a test tube, sealed with distilled water, and a microgram quantity of sulphur. Come back a few weeks later and the whole inside of the test tube will be coated in sulphur crystals. There was a press release from the LHC in 2013 that announced the analysis of the quark fluid hydrodynamics in the collisions had revealed that gravity was the result of a tension of wormholes connecting every subatomic particle in the universe to every other one. Perhaps as life develops well past where we are now, these subspace connections become reinforced to the point where a local area of the universe does pass through the event horizon and the arrow of time reverse. If information has mass, getting too smart, may well lead to disappearing up your own buttholes? 🤔🤭

[@brianvance9048]

I’ve been interested in WJ Sidis for many years. Another book he wrote, “The Tribes and the States” (briefly pictured in the early portion of the video) has nothing to do with math, physics or cosmology, and is an alternative history of North America that weaves both Native American and European histories in ways that are unique and fascinating. Sidis was also a linguistic savant fluent in dozens of languages both living and dead (Latin, Ancient Greek, etc) and his sense of history was tied to his unique understanding of linguistic etymology. He was also able to read wampum belts as historical texts and had unique insights into tribal ideals of individual liberty and freedom that he says had profound influence on colonial British political philosophy. The early chapters go as far back as Atlantis and the linguistic origins of Indo-European languages. Truly unique and fascinating insights, even if some have been discredited, but well worth investigating nonetheless.

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

I mean, that atlantis features in it at all is pretty solid evidence that his ideas did not actually have much value. If you can't distinguish an obvious rhetorical device from a myth with any possible basis in history, you have no business writing about history.

[@JosefMarc]

Yes! When Amy Wallace and I wrote The Prodigy, we had trouble figuring out how to position his languages, how and where he learned them, etc. We decided to intersperse them with his wanderings across the USA, because that's how and where he could have heard the Tribes' languages. [He lived before the Tribes' languages were audibly recorded.]

[@henrimoll9621]

@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Not history mate, but anthropology. But maybe you'd better read it first...

[@bigol9223]

​@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Thats possible. Also possible that you havent read it and have no idea what he said about it, or what sense he used it in, and are being dismissive based on thirdhand claims in youtube comments.

[@JosefMarc]

Wampum belts! Good catch!

[@marcelkossacl6136]

There is a very nice Book about his father and him if you are interested. Its written like a novel but is based on real life facts. Its called The Genius by Klaus Cäsar

[@veross466]

His theory of pockets of the universe that we are unable to observe or interact with, but that still have an impact on our side of the universe, really reminds me of dark matter and dark energy.

[@ronanzann4851]

give me all your cars and trucks and be pulled apart in 11 dimensions you fool

[@Dubsizzla]

Dark matter doesn't exist.

[@veross466]

@@Dubsizzla I never said it was? I just thought it was a cool similarity with other hypotheses we have today, such as dark matter.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

The "underside" of the space time fabric

[@kalimbodelsolgiuseppeespos8695]

Scientist know this since 2009. The year I was trying to solve sociological issues in Italy. So we are wait for Nobel money to rewrite the history of the known universe. (And money for new instruments). At the moment we need dark matter /dark capital. The universe seems to work like a CVT transmission of bubbles very similar to black holes. And is the same for national bankings around the world, and expanse economy regions. Sorry. I have to go fast. (I'm not forever)

[@kurtmueller2089]

Great Video. From what I read, manufacturing Geniuses seems to have been a minor fad at that time. I recall from Norbert Wiener's autobiography "Ex-Prodigy" that he was essentially classmates at university with Sidis and that his (Sidis) parents treated him even worse than Norbert's when it came to public spotlights and handling the press.

[@michaels4255]

yes, there have been quite a few parents who tried this, typically smarter than average parents, with varying degrees of success. Not all of them were excessively heavy handed.

[@innosanto]

Sidis was extremely intelligent. There were claims by famous MIT professor and MIT graduate who reported that he was “extremely intelligent” at least according to Wikipedia.

[@bannol1]

People turned William Sidis into a carnival attraction and William figured out very quickly and rejected the nonsense that is society. People speculated about his sexuality, which is nobody’s business. However, too many people are poor conversationalists, are opportunistic, predatory, needy, huge time wasters and they smell. Avoiding connections with them, beyond what is absolutely necessary for one to get by, saves a whole lot of trouble.

[@Deutschebahn]

Thanks for this very interesting video! I feel a bit sad reading the comments. Sidis was clearly gifted, and it sounds like his parents (not sure if both or just his father) were pretty controlling and abusive. It sounds from everything I've read that he was an OK guy who was quite introverted and had a heavy burden. Giftedness does come with some asynchronous development and it makes it very hard when you have to socialise with people much older than you. Reading about him it sounds like he was bullied and harassed. If he had parent(s) who weren't crazy and obsessed with creating a genius, perhaps he could have grown up to feel more fulfilled, successful and supported in an area of his own choosing - where 'success' is gauged not by accolades but by wellbeing. I think that is the tragedy. Not that he could have 'changed the world' or that 'he had a breakdown', but that he was not treated well either as a child or as an adult. Society also treated him badly. It is a shame to me to see judgemental comments that aim to 'knock him down a peg' by saying his giftedness was meaningless or 'nothing'. It was a trait that he had, and he was a human who endured suffering because the way his giftedness was treated by his parents and society. Seems like society has not improved much.

[@ivoryas1696]

Deutscheban Oh, wait. People are saying his genius wasn't anything? That's a shame.

[@Deutschebahn]

@@ivoryas1696 yeah unfortunately some commentators were concentrating on "genius doesn't mean you'll be successful!" rather than the humanity of the poor guy :/.

[@bluefernlove]

Extreme pressure creates diamonds. He was one. And his theory will be proven correct. The vocabulary will be different but it's all there. Black holes, black matter, gravitational waves, multiverse.

[@GCAT-zv9in]

We need to take away the idea that it is up to us as individuals us to take action when we see these social cripplings. Without making a spectacle, reach out and become a friend to someone who needs us. I try all the time and have had mixed results. I am blinded by my hope and take people into my home only to have damage done to my own well being when taken advantage of. I feel it is bc they don't know any other way. In any case, I won't give up bc those who are more in control of their impulses and self aware truly appreciate a place they can trust will serve everyone's best interest and allow the time to reflect and set a course. I continue to get so much insight to humanity and my purpose that regardless of the outcome ,we seem to grow from the experience. I am lucky to have met so many willing to share with her stories.

[@ivoryas1696]

@@GCAT-zv9in Yeah, that seems about right. Helping individuals only helps so much... Still clearly worth your time though, so I'm not telling you to _stop._

[@aboodyabdulqadir5487]

I know you've probably been told this before but you got one of the most relaxing and calming voices I've ever heard in my life

[@cuorset]

i think you left the word “voices” out 😭

[@aboodyabdulqadir5487]

@@cuorset lmao yes, this is just like "one of the video games of all time"

[@joshuadiliberto1103]

sometimes i click on tibees videos just to hear her voice.

[@tensaibr]

I absolutely agree!

[@Yusuf-u8c7z]

@@aboodyabdulqadir5487 one of the movies ever made

[@leswallace2426]

This video could almost be an ASMR one it's delivered in a beautifully soft voice.

[@lolguy-x9n]

I thought she was tge smart one.

[@welovephilippineswithmylov5419]

ahhhmm

[@GAwildflower]

Totally fell asleep to this!

[@argusfleibeit1165]

It drove me up the wall, and I had to turn it off after 8 minutes.

[@xpez9694]

this is the most low key way to tell her how attractive she sounds..LOL

[@edwarddejong8025]

I am so impressed with the careful research behind this video. i had never heard of this very interesting person. Child prodigies usually amount to little, because it is so socially awkward to be so much younger than your peers in school. There is an excellent book by Norbert Wiener, where he wrote an autobiography with the title Ex-Prodigy. He was a pioneer in cybernetics. I hope she does an episode on Wiener. His book " Human use of human beings" is still relevant today.

[@cosmiclounge]

I find it perhaps all the more remarkable for the prevalence of socially-maladjusted former 'prodigies' that the likes of Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) and Magnus Carlsen (FIDE champion) can appear so grounded, even relatable by comparison; Hassabis, in particular, is disarmingly affable, self-effacing and charismatic.

[@adayinthelife5496]

Schrodinger wrote about negative entropy and life 20 years later too. Very interesting and well presented.

[@mikemondano3624]

Both were wrong, of course.

[@Ruin3.14]

I've known about William for many years, but nobody seems to know who he was. I am glad that your channel is covering his short(sadly) but brilliant life.

[@verlax8956]

Same. We smoked a blunt once on top of Mt. Fuji while talking about our favorite anime. Miss that man.

[@dong2793]

@@verlax8956this is true I was the blunt

[@hiramabifgsm]

time line is bout to change... it happend with tesla and django reinhardt ...

[@hglbrg]

@c0ckhead684 I've know about this standard for millennia before you even mentioned it. Needed to preface my comment with that so you don't assume I'm some normal pleb.

[@mr.blackhawk142]

Does William have a surname?

[@nightworg]

Thanks! I find the story about him interesting and you are good at putting it into words. You would be such an incredible teacher to have. I would listen to everything you explained.

[@napadave58]

I was thinking wife, but teacher? Sure. That too.

[@AjaySharma-me1sy]

Content organization, narration style - you're so so different from most of the content creators. Based in facts, real conversation. Kudos! And please keep doing these videos.

[@arthurw8054]

Fascinating, thanks. Sidis must have been aware of the work of Boltzmann who, AFAIK, was the first to comprehensively lay out the probabilistic character of the 2nd Law, the implications of which remain almost imponderable. I can't take his view of what distinguishes "animate" vs. inanimate" very seriously, but love the imaginative speculation. Stuff relating to entropy and the arrow of time is right up my tree.

[@marshallsamford3240]

What's wrong with defining life via entropy?

[@xxportalxx.]

@@marshallsamford3240 you probably could, however the entire idea of 'reserve energy stored in the brain' is pretty much archaic hogwash, along with the "only use 10% of the brain.' As for entropy reversal that's half true: organized systems, like life, do not utilize it as an additional energy source tho, through the process of organizing you reduce the local entropy while simultaneously increasing the global entropy by a larger amount (i.e. you 'expend' energy in order to do things). Additionally Shannon and Von Neumann expanded on the idea of entropy into the field of information theory and effectively showed that Laplace's demon would actually increase entropy globally as well, due to the processing of the information necessary to open and close the gate at the right times. This basically means the entire idea is fundamentally impossible. However there are real phenomena of random, and sometimes anti-entropic, motion that can be taken advantage of such as diffusion and brownian motion.

[@ivoryas1696]

@@marshallsamford3240 Eh, they're related. But how intertwined are they?

[@marshallsamford3240]

@@ivoryas1696 Theres some tendency towards

[@ivoryas1696]

@Angelspawn That seems about right. But, yeah; that means that defining life by reverse entropy requires more rigorous wording, or different words altogether.

[@coldfirelightpoe6803]

It seems like William Sidis was trying to work out Quantum Mechanics before it existed

[@karlmahlmann]

That's a fascinating story. - well told. It's good to see that he had the enjoyment of thinking creatively; he wasn't just a savant.

[@davidwilliam6555]

Stupendous analysis! You made justice for his story. What a well-spoken, elegant, smart lady. A genius defending the other. Congrats!

[@secretvoiceunlocked]

She has studied how to communicate thats why she's so much better than a normal teacher

[@Ryanstuff]

Her voice is so lovely. This is a great unintentional ASMR video.

[@rgh622]

There is nothing unintentional about this channel...

[@SeveralGhost]

It is part of the entertainment my guy

[@theclitcollector]

why did you have to point it out

[@physicsg33k]

Yeah, gives me goosebumps. That mixed with her obvious intelligence and attractiveness makes her videos mesmerizing.

[@Helelsonofdawn]

@@rgh622 not even the 2 sec foot shots in only 3 videos?

[@marcabramsky1736]

Where I used to work I had a friend whose adopted children were very intelligent. Doing work at MIT in math at ages 11 and 9. Obviously, the man (Sidus) had good genes from his intelligent parents. So no mystery there. The problem resides in ostracizing yourself from the rest of humanity. Thinking you are gifted or extraordinary. Probably more the fault of his parents than him even if he was gifted. These young children that my friend looks after think other children their own age are stupid. That is a problem. Any child can make bold claims but actually doing something to benefit humanity remains to be seen. An example is my own father. From his military tests, he showed an IQ of 184 which is pretty incredible. They thought it was a mistake until he took the test again and got the same grades. I watched him score as high as you can on a mensa test with two extra points for finishing faster than the allotted time. So I suppose there was some truth there. However, given such a remarkable gift what did he do? The answer is "not much". He went to the war and when he returned he spent the rest of his life as a furniture salesman. A kind, loving, and decent man as the father he was. However, I often wonder what he might have done if only he had applied his gifts. Yet that is the point, isn't it? It really doesn't matter what gifts you have if you don't use them. If you don't apply yourself. If you don't take proper action. Einstein on the other hand worked tirelessly all his life formulating equations and theories that have changed our world as we know it for what we have today. He himself died pennilessly but thanks to his work our lives our better. Good video.

[@PeaceMaker669-c1i]

Doing supposed good things does not equate to intelligence

[@vauchomarx6733]

This book actually sounds relevant today: There's the Black Hole Information Paradox, which might potentially violate the 2nd Law, and there's a a lot of dark matter in the universe which we still don't know what it actually is. And the idea of life decreasing entropy was also expressed in Erwin Schroedinger's "What Is Life?". Also, beautifully delivered and explained!

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

Material for more pseudoscience I see. There is a lot of undermeasured normal matter... But fairytales have a better press in this era... Also pay better

[@DanielLeschziner]

@@szymonbaranowski8184 yes, with a little help from nasa, the liars, pseudoscience is at its apex

[@markjaycox8811]

Look at the document proclaiming you have reached an age, and you will find it is void of that age-0-your missing link-0. The day you're born is your Birthday, remember? Make your Zero Birthday Card, and in 365 days you become a One formed by your HALO-0. When no void is forming you, no void exists, and when no void exists, neither does Earth, neither does the Universe. Outside our Dome is the Moon and I have memory of there, because I am the 1st space traveler. Space travel begins like this: 10,000,000,002,022. Feel that? You just moved Eternity. You moved it from thought to sight. Space travel. Make your Zero Birthday Card-0, and put your Halo-0-on. How else can you be seen from above? Have you ever dug for an ant named George? Then nobody is digging for you. CONTACT OCCURS ON TIME'S SURFACE: 10,000,000,002,022-AKA-COMMON GROUND. Your 2022 is not common to anything but you. FYI Vaucho Marx, you are not conscious you are not conscious. Go ahead describe the moment you gained consciousness, because everything that is, began. I will be right here.

[@michaels4255]

We don't actually know that there's a "lot of dark matter," but we need for there be to make the current theory work.

[@markjaycox8811]

@@michaels4255 You can't explain the moment you gained consciousness because you have not consciously measured that moment yet, by making your Zero Birthday Card. IS YOUR BEGINNING IMPORTANT? What happens when you change your beginning-0? You change your end, because your "REAL" Beginning-0-has no end.

[@Wyatt1314.]

I listened to the audiobook, and it was heavily emphasizing that every particle/thing has an opposite; with opposite characteristics. It is possible to follow along. An unsung genius he is!

[@thenullvoidabyss]

Where did u listen to the audio book might I ask?

[@secretvoiceunlocked]

​@thenullvoidabyss use operators when searching it makes finding things much easier. I'm gonna look for it

[@holihsredlumednil6847]

Imagine how interested in Rick & Morty this guy must have been

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

How richer his theories would have been.

[@Benni777]

@Benjamin David Lurie yeah, perfect for me 😂😂

[@Benni777]

If Sidis created Rick & Morty, or even Steven Universe, he would’ve made the current ones look like 2 year olds created it 🤭

[@lilbu223]

@Benjamin David Lurie woosh.

[@fookyu1621]

Hes probably the real rick with a brain that big the show is his life story

[@markdeffebach8112]

The modern idea that everything is information makes his idea of the brain storing energy more acceptable as it stores information.

[@nate9952]

I stumbled onto the book 7-8 months ago and was super curious. A lot of it went over my head but he had some wild ideas.

[@ryancox5097]

This story reminds me of the time I caught a 475-lb bass.

[@franklinguallpa6072]

What a fascinating story about William. She was being outspoken about him in articles found in the attic in 1979; but, mostly in his books highlighted up close.

[@safebox36]

Whether he's right or wrong, I like his thought process. It's intriguing.

[@Erebus369]

Thank you for this learning. Sidis sounds like an amazing person. I truly believe that he knew the solice he seeked calmed his mind to help him think more clearly without the pressures of modern society to live up to expectations of others.

[@tropickman]

SOUGHT

[@Tisicajedna]

Note: Black holes were first proposed in 1783 by Reverend John Mitchell, based on Newton’s theory of gravity. He figured a star’s gravity might be so high that the escape velocity would exceed the speed of light, so the light from the star would fall back down to the surface, making it a “dark star”. Also the Gustav Meyrink wrote the story "The Black Ball" (Die schwarze Kugel) in 1903, where the black hole is described. However it is not because of the gravity but is is rather result of mystic experiment where the soul of Prussian officer is materialized, devouring everything in its vicinity :)

[@Anders01]

"All that IQ tests show is your ability to solve little puzzles. Intelligence is so much vaster than that." - Eckhart Tolle

[@Himmelvakt]

No

[@Anders01]

@@Himmelvakt I think Tolle was exaggerating it a bit to make a statement. It's true that there is more to intelligence than just IQ, such as EQ and social skills. I believe that general AI will soon be able to score 200+ IQ, and I think it was Ray Kurzweil who said that emotions are more difficult to simulate but AI will be able to generate convincing emotions he said.

[@Chafflives]

I have met more intelligent people who lack common sense.

[@grimsobad8545]

@@Anders01 How can you quantify something so complex like Intelligence in a 1 dimensional quantity

[@Anders01]

@@grimsobad8545 I think that's what Tolle was hinting at, that IQ test are merely "1-dimensional" logic. Probably AI will soon (if not already) be very good at solving IQ tests. EQ and other forms intelligence are probably more difficult for AI to simulate.

[@yibaibashimu6223]

The video was very insightful. I'm most excited about his brick theory because if only slightly twicked it also points to dark matter. Let's not forget that black holes represent a singularity, and that singularities have neither time nor space such that, speculatively, every Black hole might well just be collecting all material in its vicinity and returning it to the origin (from our perspective.) We don't need the whole universe to collapse. We just need the tendency for local regions to collect all available energy and return it (through time) back to its original source.

[@gnomiefirst9201]

I like this spin.

[@drunvert]

If black holes speed up broken down matter to near S.O.L. THEN , the matter may, relative to our time, not yet reached the "singularity" if such a thing exists.

[@justdave9610]

@@drunvert I think that if you take the nature of what a singularity would imply that it would take infinite time for anything to actually reach that theoretical point that is defined as the singularity and since we're pretty sure that black holes will evaporate over significantly less than infinite time until it reaches a critical limit of low mass induced instability and explode I agree that nothing ever actually reaches the point we define mathematically as a singularity regardless of how incredibly close it is able to approach an approximation of it that's measurably too small a difference as to be indistinguishable. At least as far as any current or near future prospective observational measurable data would be concerned

[@lavellelee5734]

@@justdave9610 maybe an extreme case of time dilation? That's the only way I can think of for anything to reach infinite time

[@juliavixen176]

If you squint your eyes, maybe it looks like he is describing something in current astrophysics... but he isn't. None of what he said is at all in the slightest way related to any of the several dark matter theories, or to black holes. Life does not reverse entropy at a global scale. Like a refrigerator can reverse the entropy of material placed inside of it, but it is increasing the entropy of the environment outside of it. Life on Earth is sitting in the middle of the energy gradient between the sun and outer space, and uses some of that energy to make glucose and stuff.

[@JesterTBP]

This is the third video I've watched about this man... I never expected someone to break down his forgotten thoughts! TYSM

[@jimystimz4731]

I'm happy for Williams family that his legacy has been held up with such important insights.

[@dylanparker130]

“Do not try to become a person of success but try to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein

[@mikedavis979]

Amazing. I've head of Sidis (from reading Pirsig's "Zen and the Art"), but I never knew he wrote a book like this. I wonder if Erwin Schrodinger ever read it, or was influenced by his ideas, since he described life as "feeding on negative entropy" in his book "What is Life?" (which itself inspired numerous physicists to study biology, such as Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, etc.). Not sure if Rosalind Franklin ever read the book, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did. Tons of early players in the Molecular Biology revolution were influenced by that little book (which is amazingly readable, definitely worth a read).

[@RootinrPootine]

@ozzymandius666Dumb little kid didn’t amount to anything. What a waste.

[@redrob6026]

Are you trying to sound smart?

[@mathamagic1541]

🙌

[@TheShamansQuestion]

Fascinating connection

[@anthonyhughes8026]

@@redrob6026 …are you aware that your question could be interpreted as a compliment?

[@AndogaSpock]

I had the same thought about life being opposite of entropy. Does this mean I am genius too? I don't think so. 😂

[@nadeeshani]

Toby, your videos cure my anxiety and they make me want to stay curious and passionate. Love you🥺💕

[@nadeeshani]

@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus Oh my god 😅😅😅 But I'm not a cat 😌

[@TheGreatConstantini]

His ideas may seem odd but I think he may have been onto more than he is given credit for.

[@concernedfriend.9329]

Your voice is exceptionally pleasant and wholesome. Very nice to listen to thank you.

[@Corusame]

Every time I watch your video's it always elicits a feeling of wonder. One of my most favourite content creators, keep up the great work!

[@nomorenames5568]

I'll read his book. He also wrote another book about folktales and personal stories about the White Mountains of New England, a place I have had the pleasure of hiking quite a lot in so I'll check that out too.

[@thegrayshaws]

That was really fascinating, we might find that he was onto something not only with black holes, but also with dark matter.

[@yepyep266]

Very interesting idea! Seems like he already understood that the second law was implying a beginning to all time and could not accept such asymmetry! His answer was to mirror that phenomenon and try to make sense of it. How else could existence be eternal? Mathematically, beyond the event horizon time becomes imaginary, so it feels like he might have been onto something.

[@andrew69novak]

Intelligent people are often loaners and reclusive. Putting up with ignorance gets tedious...

[@riddhimanna8437]

The part where he theorized about black holes and the event horizon is pretty awesome!

[@finn6988]

LIstening to Tibees' voice reading theory is like listening to Burton recite the phone book. I could listen to her for hours.

[@StockTraderClassLive]

It’s possible Sidis did exactly what he was supposed to! Because people should apply themselves to the things they enjoy doing and with regards to developing something revolutionary or what other people would call useful / expected from a genius, is not dependent upon his efforts, but on other’s merits, in my view we are all connected this way, for both good and evil. “So stay thirsty my friends” 🤩

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

What he wrote can serve as a second confirmation about what we already know about black holes and dark matter, and also time travel, he was intelligent in area of language hence was able to draw these conclusions without any experiment or mathematical proof, it is definitely not much useful for research but act as proofreading of what we now know, and who knows his other conclusions might be proven true someday

[@VishalBondwal]

William James is a legend, and much more than just the energy reserve theory (there were all sorts of crazy theories about the brain in the 1800s). His book on Psychology is so full of insights that copies are still in print

[@jazzsoul69]

You have the sweetest voice, sooo agreable to listen to ! (In addition to you very interested subjects on maths)

[@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants]

"How unfair, to expect the masses of normal people to accept and appreciate the work of a genius."

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

a vary flexible mind, for sure, excelling in rigid studies you might brake some ground, but being flexible in thought you have a much better chance.

[@Dr_Wrong]

I'd agree with this, except it's the internet therefore I'm required to post; "no! Yur dum!! hahahaha!"

[@albertreyes9870]

It's because people don't understand Genius's , some of them just get mad, like me l have an lQ of 155 to 170 but people are not happy and they just don't want you to be heard about like they fell they should be ahead of you before your ahead of them , those are just silly people with nothing better to do how sad 🤭.😮.

[@tinto278]

Beauty is often bestowed, not chosen. For some women, the accompanying attention can be curse. Similarly, those with a natural inclination to daydream about science may find their abilities exploited, for better or worse, by people with good or bad intentions.

[@PhilLesh69]

I argued with someone over that " we only use 10% of our brains" idea when I was a kid. He insisted it meant that 90% of our brains were not used for anything. That's pretty much the way most people think when they hear that. But I argued that it doesn't mean the same thing as having a ten gallon bucket with only one gallon in it. What it means is that our brains all have the same capacity to learn, know and understand some finite amount, but most people only know ten percent of what they are capable of learning and understanding.

[@leslielandberg5620]

It means nothing. It is nonsense and has been roundly disproven. One thing that is indisputable is the many people are willfully stupid and refuse to use their brains at all.

[@The80sWolf_]

We use 100%

[@drcola143]

@@The80sWolf_ did you even understand his point.

[@TyDyck]

I’ve always taken it to mean something akin to we only use about 10% at any given point in time. It all gets used at some point, just not simultaneously. Its not even that we’re underutilizing the true extent of our capabilities, tho I’m sure there is a grain of truth to that, its simply that our brains aren’t going full tilt redlining to the max every second of every day.

[@drcola143]

@@TyDyck That's not really true. All of our brain is active when we are awake. Even if you're sitting idly there is a lot of things that your brain is processing.

[@TheMusicolophile]

I think the biggest and best takeaway from this wonderfully presented chunk of information is that the world’s smartest person stated a perfect life was one of seclusion.

[@abhishekarora4007]

No wiser words were ever spoken

[@neveo9428]

maybe because of the pressure on him from such a young age to learn learn learn

[@arturoguerra3110]

@@neveo9428 I think is because you can only be the real you and you can only understand the universe in seclusion, every great scientist/philosopher/entrepreneur used seclusion as a tool for greatness. The opinion of others and the energy of others corrupts the information within you. Is really interesting to me how clear is my mind when I don't consume information or interact with others, I can't speak for every person but that is my case. You can achieve with deep thought more than what you can achieve through reading, for every word a human has written was born in a thought.

[@peezieforestem5078]

@@arturoguerra3110 how would you explain writing this comment then?

[@paulhelberg5269]

It seems to me that Sidis was referring to dark matter and dark energy in the positive and negative treatise. I shall have to investigate this book more thoroughly as inspiration for thought. Thanks for sharing this.

[@joshuaambali9109]

This is exactly what I was thinking of as well! The dark pockets in the checkered space is a strong foreshadowing to dark matter and energy, years before it was even discussed by the science community.

[@lironlevi]

With the advent of strong AI, debating IQ scores is similar to ants discussing who is smarter. Total waste of your time.

[@michaeldillon3113]

Have you thought of doing a talk on the connection between high intelligence, existential depression , introversion and other psychological challenges ?

[@assistantto007]

Is it your belief that those who are existentially depressed are extremely intelligent?

[@michaeldillon3113]

@@assistantto007 Yes -:and I think there is lots of good evidence for this .

[@Ruchsacksepp]

@@michaeldillon3113 yea buddy you are very smart because you are sad. We get your implication

[@michaeldillon3113]

@@Ruchsacksepp Dabrowski's work on the relationship between existential depression and gifted children .

[@cathoderay305]

What about the likelihood that some geniuses are actually higher functioning autistics? Asperger's Syndrome?

[@Bob-wx1op]

It is interesting that William Sidis's life partially resembles William James who had a exended period of mental breakdown but managed to recover.

[@wyboo2019]

this story makes me feel a lot better about my own decisions. while im not even close to being as smart as some people are, let alone Sidis, i have often been told by people that i need to go to college and do something important with math/physics/computer science (i taught myself calculus when i was in fourth grade; not a brag but context for the kind of nerd i am). but i don't want to. there's lots of deeply ideological roots in why i don't want to go to college, but Sidis's story makes me feel better about myself. i am continuing to self-study higher mathematics in my free time while also working full-time as a butcher. it's kinda funny but i have this mental image sometimes of a mathematician happening to come into the butcher shop i work at and seeing some huge, bearded butcher and then being sideswiped when mathematics comes up in conversation

[@kvnjng]

Sorry for the late comment. Ditto. There are numerous paths that one can take in life, based upon incalculable micro-decisions we make every second. We have to search for what works best for us, not what others want us to do. Who knows, maybe your name will be mentioned some day in some math publication somewhere, however mundane or forgotten it will be by then. Personally, I did have my IQ tested, the result which I promptly threw away as it told me exactly what I thought. I wanted just to confirm that I had capacity in me, because I decided some time ago that I had a duty to do what I believe is right, and since I always was extremely lazy and arrogant as a kid I ended up wasting a lot of time in my youth. Though, I'm still young. In the end, I realised that since I had more nerd in me than others (perhaps the way you did as well) I didn't want to let my future self down. Its nothing as great as legacy or leaving a mark, and more about just wanting to spare myself regret on the deathbed of not at least exploring what I had in me.

[@RicardoCostaCiabotti.]

Bom espero que com seu nível alto de QI deves ajudar com seus dons a Mãe Terra irmão do Norte, vá para Tesla e contribua para o bem da humanidade por favor largue o açougue e tu do canal Tibees também, salva-nos por favor !!! Salvar A Mãe Terra !!!​@@kvnjng

[@calvinjackson8110]

I think that people who show greater than average intelligence feel trapped and feel the burden of having so many people expect so much from them, as if they owe some great gift to the world. Thats probably why most of them just want to be left alone. And if that is what they want, that is what they should have.

[@DK-hv7xp]

That man was incredibly smart to theorize that back with the information and tools they had.

[@chrisseekell]

A few years ago, I was researching the Native American tribe that inhabited my small town in New Hampshire prior to European colonization. One of the few authors who mentioned them was William Sidis in another book called The Tribes and the States. There were some major claims in this book, including that the American government was inspired by native federations, and that those federations were the tradition of an ancient Atlantean society. When I saw the title of this video, I wondered if it might be about Sidis. It's fascinating to hear his scientific theories.

[@kentimmins9171]

Absolute nonsense....Iron age barbarians

[@artugert]

Prove it

[@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants]

@Ken Timmins perhaps you would consider using complete sentences. They might make your exclamations more intelligible to those of us not privy to your internal dialogue and emotional state.

[@robtherub]

I got 180 on an iq test but the test said results over 150 were considered innacurate. I ammounted to nothing, obviously, isolated, lonely, avoid company. There is a reason humans do not evolve to get cleverer and cleverer and cleverer. Intelligence can be a disadvantage at a certain level. I want to get this book, have a physics philsophy book i have been intending to write for some time. His physics sounds like it is even worse than mine, he must be clever, takes a really high iq to be that certain kind of stupid.

[@CopperMoon4747]

I'm sure he was tired of people using him and pushing him. Solitude is Divine!

[@thomasbarton1050]

These are wonderful ideas! It wasnt out of the realm of possibility and if anything describes a tendency that whatever goes up will go down and whatever is down will go up again.

[@asinner9096]

I know somebody who has 2 master degrees in 2 different stem subjects, a PhD in each of them and a German habil in theoretical physics. He is fluent on 4 languages and became ultimately professor of theoretical physics.. Yet he struggled hugely several times to pass through IQ tests, repeatedly scoring 70 to 80 points, i.e. actually at the level of a clinical idiocy. This was really the reason for him being rejected in a number of applications.

[@mikeb.7068]

What you describe is not possible.

[@paulleach3612]

I hear ya. I was measured at 135 as a teen, then a decade later after a brain injury I scored 97. Since then I've earned a 1st in my B.A., went on to get an M.A. and now contemplating my PhD. Speed of thought is not the same as depth or clarity of thought - and boy do you need to be quick on those I.Q. tests...

[@jameslast3192]

IQ does not equate to intelligence. Depending on how you define intelligence!🤣

[@Alexander_jade]

70 to 80 consistently? with everything you described sounds impossible.

[@alexandertaylor7316]

IQ tests are strongly biased towards those who are in fields such as physics, maths or chemistry due to numerical questions, pattern recognition and understanding of symmetry. I highly doubt that anyone with more than a bachelor's degree in physics would score consistently below 120 in any standard IQ test.

[@rwfrench66GenX]

OMG, I'm in tears from the line about the dad and his psychologist friend who came up with the idea that we only use 10% of our brain and decided to test it on a little kid! I mean, the look on the little kid's face mixed with the Bob Ross story like narration just put 1,000 thoughts into my head!

[@EriPages]

Lol

[@thecritiquer9407]

if the outcome of if is a genius, there's no tears.

[@DAMfoxygrampa]

It's not worth it ^ maybe me and you would like to be that smart and would subject ourselves to what we have to to get there but this is a child we're talking about.

[@domedagskatten]

@@thecritiquer9407 A child should never be an experiment, regardless the outcome.

[@toodrunktotastethischicken]

I always thought it was that we typically only used 10% of our brain at any given time, not that there's 90% of unknowns to unlock, but that you could concentrate more areas at a time, even if that meant 15-20%.

[@andalonds]

145 iq here sad life though. You see people for who they really are and all their games. It is like looking down on the earth from the sky. Being aware of the universe is great but lonely.

[@bryanmccaffrey4385]

This is why I'm going back to study neuroscience. All of it. Fascinates me.

[@alexlilano1931]

It actually quite hard to measure intelligence at the highest level. What questions do you ask when it is the limit of intelligence.

[@honeyz6386]

It's a good question

[@buzhichun]

I'd argue it's quite hard to define intelligence in the first place, let alone measure it. IQ tests identify people who are good at the things IQ tests measure (i.e. things which are easier *to* measure), which are specific ways of analytic and abstract thinking. They don't measure emotional or social intelligence, intellectual curiosity, learning, how someone engages critically with their own thoughts and beliefs, handles cognitive dissonance and uncertainty,... There's a million things that make up "intelligence" in any well-rounded sense, and IQ tests measure only a few of those.

[@alexlilano1931]

@@buzhichun I agree. IQ testes are flawed. I read a few books on IQ and a lot people with high IQ ended up having average or even way below average lives.

[@markstanbrook5578]

@@alexlilano1931 IQ doesn't measure success only capability. There are plenty of reasons why most of us do not achieve our theoretical potential.

[@helgefan8994]

Wow I have never even heard of Sidis, thanks for these awesome videos! I think "something like a black hole" was theorized long before Chandrasekhar though. The general idea goes back to Laplace and John Michell in the 18th century.

[@SummumBonum.]

Wouldn't "between 250 and 300" be an extremely wide range?

[@jayall00]

This guy could be the original theorist of black holes, hands down. Why is his work not at least mentioned in schools?

[@candide6005]

Because he's not... It's Karl Schwarzschild (1915/16)

[@Gabrooxy98]

i assume this is sarcasm

[@innosanto]

@@Gabrooxy98 i dont think so, the idea of all phenomena are reversible through time and that entropy doesnt is one of the most important ideas used even now when trying to explain nature of time etc.

[@LoneEagle2061]

He doesn’t theorise black holes at all. He talks about universes where the fundamental laws are reversed , and despite the commentary that is nothing like a black hole. As to why his work is not “mentioned” in schools, it’s much the same reason other marginal theorists, or the plum pudding atom aren’t; they’ve been superseded and no longer contribute to that level of understanding.

[@samjohnson2801]

It don't make dollars

[@adirmugrabi]

i got 136 in the IQ test. and though i'm smart enough to know that 140 is bigger than 136. i still don't think i'm that close to be a genius. besides, i know people who got 120, yet are both smarter and more successful than i'll ever be. IQ is BS.

[@madman7544]

136 IQ is VERY high and IQ tests are one of the most reliable tests around here. But you should also understand how the places we end up in our lives are hardly aligned with our IQ scores. Life is too complicated. That's why probably even our ancestors didn't evolve for being only intelligent super computers as life requires many things along with intelligence(including pure luck). If you're lacking those in your life it's expected you won't end up successful.

[@epgui]

@@madman7544 The only thing IQ tests are a reliable indicator of is how well you perform on IQ tests. They're not a particularly great measure of intelligence, and they're only really used in research because they do correlate with aspects of intelligence, and because their results follow a normal distribution and are repeatable.

[@BGBTech]

Similar here... Roughly 140 in a past test, but I still don't really feel all that smart sometimes. In most other areas, my life hasn't amounted to much, and even the things I have done are arguably "not very useful". I write a lot of code in C and Verilog, have designed my own ISA with C compiler / emulator / a CPU core (written in Verilog, can run on an FPGA). The design is VLIW, and this is less common (RISC is a lot more popular; but VLIW still has merits). But, other people have "done more for themselves" by doing something other than burning pretty much their entire lifetime nerding about computers...

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@madman7544 IQ tests measure and summate many qualities which lead to academic success, but not all of them, and definitely not all the requirements for "getting ahead." Many of the latter belong instead to the Psychopathy Check List.

[@MiqelDotCom]

Buckminster Fuller (mentioned in the video) was actually the world president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.

[@LENZ5369]

Based on what you said about his parents -He may have been intelligent but his accomplishments as a child seem to rest on an extremely accelerated and heavy education. Also: again based on what you said in the video -he did not describe a 'black hole' because he couldn't; it seems he had an incorrect understanding of stars and thus his 'opposite of a star' is also incorrect, and only superficially sounds like a black hole in a simplified and geneous retrospective light.

[@vk2ig]

" like a black hole in a simplified and geneous retrospective light". I see what you did there ...

[@Rudol_Zeppili]

And he also describes them as perfect black bodies, he is referring to when entropy reverses and so energy goes back into a star instead of radiating out of it, which is not at all what a black hole is. On the technicalities though black holes were actually predicted back in the 1700’s by John Michell, called dark stars, which are actually black holes just in Newtonian physics rather than general relativity.

[@simonelemer6623]

Yet you fail to take in consideration the entire context, meaning his time, and the "knowledge" of his time that he could use. Do you really believe that genius minds are born with the "knowledge" or rather they have to use the existing knowldege to try to take a step closer to a more integrating knowledge. Also he mentions right at the begginig this is a speculative work. And giving this aspect, his take on the subject given the knowledge of that time, was pretty nuts, as was metioned in this video, trying to describe something like a black hole 50 years before the term was coined. Please take in consideration the entire context, not just that he is "wrong" given our existing knoweldege. We may even be wrong as well as far as we know and as far as we seem to find that the reality of this existence is way more complex that we "know".

[@GedMaybury23]

@@simonelemer6623 Many good points there, Simon. Context is everything, and without it, everyone is free-ranging on judgements and opinions.

[@michaelshannon9169]

Being Ashkenazi jew helps im sure

[@Theravadinbuto]

He lived before the development of theories of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which answer the questions he was addressing.

[@sojolly]

You should review Cecilia Payne's pHD thesis called Stellar Atmospheres written in 1925. It is an amazing discussion about what stars are made of at a time when we had no clue. Love your voice 😎

[@TechyBen]

I would say he stumbled on the observation that some systems are self reinforcing (stellar fusion from gravity pulling in matter, bacteria eating food and metabolising). But instead of realising these are specific definable systems similar to the opposite of entropy, he defined them all as "life". A better definition would be "self sufficient systems" with life being a much more complex one, and one that is self referential (a bacteria has DNA referencing it's body plan and behaviours, *a star does not*, even though both form an energy gradient/flow). Sad that the quack/mistaken belief systems around him held his progress back.

[@TillerSeeker]

Was he necessarily so wrong to broaden the definition of life to include anti-entropic (syntropic,) self-sufficient systems, whether self-reproducible and whether sentient or not?

[@TechyBen]

@@TillerSeeker Yes. Life has a self referential system in the flow of the information (usually generational via some form of genetic code, but now with humans we can confirm even memes/informational transfer via language and intelligence). Crystals and inanimate objects have informational flow, but not self referential ones. (A crystal encodes for a crystal, not for any other form, DNA encodes from Genetic information any code). The "universal constructor" of life is a very important aspect of such a system.

[@richiegray6847]

In film trivia, Good Will Hunting the 1997 film about a Boston child prodigy William Hunting, to a near 90% overlap, was based on the true life story of IQ 225+ cited Boston ‘Southie’ William Sidis (1898-1944) a Harvard-trained, MIT-working, war-protesting, officer-assaulting, FBI-followed (film: CIA recruited), asylum-inmate, child prodigy, lawyer-mathematician-physicist, who fell in love with a girl he met in jail (film: girl he called from jail), who was released from jail on the condition that he see a psychologist (reality: psychologist was his father, Boris Sidis).

[@vk2ig]

One of my favourite scenes in that film: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnrHpJ2EfKh6sJY

[@miyamotomasao3636]

One more interesting bit of trivia about CIA brainwashing people through Hollywood movies : people with a huge IQ should join the CIA ! Of course ! What a bunch of clowns !

[@markstanbrook5578]

Matt Damon wrote the movie from his imagination and added in some personal stuff - the charafter Skylar, the problem outside the classroom amongst them. It has nothing whatsoever to do with William Sidis.

[@chrissinclair4442]

Sidis either seemed to either be overwhelmed by the corrupt world around him, or he was secretly ultra successful. Either way he seemed to be smart enough to make his way through the world.

[@Danielle216trans]

Success is very subjective.

[@kelseyoglesby9545]

Smart enough to know he didn't want to be a part of it!

[@Noelciaaa]

@@kelseyoglesby9545 exactly! only the corrupt and/or fools can bear to remain in modern academia...