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Smartest guy ever. Are you similar to him?
Here is a partial list of William James Sidis' idiosyncratic and acultural behaviors:
>Utter disregard of sports and physical activities — learned from his father.
>Utter disregard of things monetary — learned from his father.
>Utter disregard for academia, academicians, academic bureaucracy and their 'titles.'
>Collected street car transfers. Knew most details of most routes in USA.
>Rabid atheist by age six. (His father, Boris, was too, but intensely studied great religious works.)
>His only fear was dogs.
>Learned to hate mathematics in grammar school; later at 7.5 years he started a life long love of math.
>Avid interest in politics.
>Dressed in Russian peasant clothes as a minor.
>On hearing a Bible read aloud, declared he didn't believe in that and didn't want to hear it.
>In school, only worked problems to which he didn't know answers.
>After 3 months in high school, parents withdrew him; teachers were relieved.
>Thinking was his chosen refuge from media antagonists.
>Essence of Billy Sidis: On page 106, of The Prodigy, Amy Wallace quotes Billy on his view of the perfect life, "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." These sentences, in your reviewer's opinion, are an excellent micro-biography of mankind's finest known intellect.
>Celibate: Vowed never to marry. (One of his 154 rules for life.) "Women do not appeal to me."
>Considered traditional classrooms, 'stifling.'
>Billy was a pacifist, anti-war, conscientious objector.
>He was a reformed communist/socialist — eventually found both intellectually disgusting.
>Paradoxes were his logical specialty.
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>>8529256
what paradoxes did he come up with?
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>>8529264
Do your research. The best thing about Sidis is that he didn't do things to impress others or to advance mankind
He was so superior everyone else that he didn't need to impress the lot of human larvae.
He got marriage proposals from the top WASP New England females of his time, and rejected them. Not a slave of money, fame, pussy nor human larvae.
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>>8529281
I tried google but couldn't come up with any paradoxes...
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>>8529285
That's because this stuff is all weapons grade bolognium
> "I have been researching the veracity of primary sources of various subjects for about twenty-eight years, and never before have I found a topic so satiated with lies, myths, half-truths, exaggerations, and other forms of misinformation as is in the history behind William Sidis".[2]
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>>8529256
>Utter disregard of sports and physical activities
Kek what a fucking retard
>Celibate: Vowed never to marry. (One of his 154 rules for life.) "Women do not appeal to me."
And a permavirgin as well. Confirmed for dumb as fuck. So who said he's the "smartest" person ever? Please don't tell it was because he took some IQ tests...please don't
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>>8529295
250 iq points there buddy. and as we all know, iq equals smarts
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>>8529295
His father was a genius, and the kid got into Harvard at 11 with many different geniuses that left their mark in the last century.
Sidis was an outlier inside a group of outliers.
He was subject to bullying by idiotic classmates in Harvard, because he was teaching younger people than him.
Retards at Harvard would say
>what a virgirn retard omg lol
While the kid was writing advanced physics and discovering black holes before anybody else.
He was very active in politics too.
After dealing with retards like you he stopped giving a fuck about anything and just had meeting with friends to talk about Indian history (he was an expert), talk about libertarianism, write some books about different topics, etc.
Do you think you would have deserved any of his inventions? What for? To harass and mock people online?
>Harvard University and college life (1909–1915)[edit]
>Although the University had previously refused to let his father enroll him at age 9 because he was still a child, Sidis set a record in 1909 by becoming the youngest person to enroll at Harvard University. In early 1910, Sidis' mastery of higher mathematics was such that he lectured the Harvard Mathematical Club on four-dimensional bodies.[6] MIT professor Daniel F. Comstock predicted that Sidis would become a great mathematician and a leader in that field in the future.[citation needed] Sidis began taking a full-time course load in 1910 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16.[7] Another child prodigy, cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener, also attended Harvard at the time and knew Sidis.
>According to The Prodigy: a Biography of William James Sidis, he briefly served at the League of Nations before leaving because U.S. president Woodrow Wilson would not withdraw troops deployed during the Great War. He was outspoken about his pacifism.
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>>8529256
Wow if I pick up autistic behavior I will become a genius too?
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>>8529314
>While the kid was writing advanced physics and discovering black holes before anybody else.
Really? So that's why no one ever even mentions him when it comes to black holes and physics? He was an autistic nobody, a big hoax, and you fell for it
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>>8529256
>Utter disregard of sports
Stopped reading there, fucking disgusting
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In The Animate and the Inanimate (1925), Sidis predicted the existence of regions of spaaaaaace where the second law of thermodynamics operated in reverse to the temporal direction that we experience in our local area. Everything outside of what we would today call a galaxy would be such a region. Sidis claimed that the matter in this region would not generate light. Sidis's The Tribes and the States (ca. 1935) employs the pseudonym "John W. Shattuck", purporting to give a 100,000-year history of the Settlement of the Americas, from prehistoric times to 1828.[18] In this text, he suggests that "there were red men at one time in Europe as well as in America".[19]
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>>8529336
It means meme drive works.
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>>8529303
dude that was his civil service exam score, please be considerate before you meme like that
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So basically this guy invented the >tfw too intelligent to do x meme before anyone else
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