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Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Todd’s urgent dismissal of the documentary reads to Hoback like an attempt to throw Satoshi-hunters off the scent. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that Peter would go on the offense. He’s a master of game theory—it’s what he does. He has spent a lot of years now muddying the waters,” says Hoback. “He’s an unbelievable genius.”

I haven't seen the docu, but I did like his (Hoback's) docu about Qanon, Q: Into the Storm.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist

"I haven't seen one so it must not exist" ?

I've met one. He's unbelievable. He's a great guy, but sometimes a little hard to follow if you're only taking part in one conversation at a time when he's talking in two and listening to a third because he expects you to be on the ball in your own discussion when he jumps in to drop a tidbit or ask a question like a chess master playing 4 games in the park at once -- in heated discussions about topics as diverse as economy, politics, technology, and the history of Coffee. He's so nice and so unfathomably intelligent that when he's working you just naturally want to see if he needs anything on the way back to his desk and otherwise leave him alone to craft miracles in the environment of his choosing.

Like, I've sat down and taken those tests from back in the day when measuring IQ was a thing. I did well. I'm proud of how well I did. This guy cannot be measured by any yardstick built by mortals.

[–] GamingChairModel 6 points 1 month ago

He's a great guy, but sometimes a little hard to follow if you're only taking part in one conversation at a time when he's talking in two and listening to a third because he expects you to be on the ball in your own discussion when he jumps in to drop a tidbit or ask a question like a chess master playing 4 games in the park at once

If it's like simultaneous chess, why isn't the single thread sufficient context for everything that happens in that thread? It just sounds like the guy you're describing has low cognitive empathy and doesn't understand other people's minds. At that point you're just describing a neurodivergent person who may or may not be a genius in certain domains, while being a moron in this one domain that you've described.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Downvotes because I've seen someone gifted?

I kinda wonder where he's going now that VMware is being squeezed dry. He'll pop out and get snapped up by someone else, but there aren't many doing actual kernel dev for money anymore.