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Matt was a child prodigy, and child prodigies have it notoriously tough. He and I worked closely for a while. There is someone else important in my life that
by singingfish 1y ago
Matt was a child prodigy, and child prodigies have it notoriously tough. He and I worked closely for a while. There is someone else important in my life that has somewhat close to mst's intellectual gifts, and similarly to mst they also have difficulty controlling their reaction to other people. However, unlike this other person in my life, mst did know how to express accountability and had been on a learning process to deal with his limitations. Matt and I never had beef, perhaps because we recognised that our respective strengths and weaknesses were complementary.
- gwern 1y ago'Child prodigy' is not an exaggeration here: https://trout.me.uk/prec/ https://trout.me.uk/prec/
- loose-cannon 1y agoYou're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.
- singingfish 1y agoand child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.
- gwern 1y agoMy 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.
- chris_wot 1y agoPeople like him made my life hell. Sad he died, but if he was an arsehole, then he was an arsehole.
- capisce 1y agoDoes his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?
- singingfish 1y agoI totally get it, some people found his mess very difficult and it could easily lead into a death spiral. Others had a very different experience. He was certainly someone needed to be managed by those who knew him well from time to time, when possible.