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>Why not both.

Because there's no basis or evidence for the latter claim (hence, baseless).

The justification "look how inept they are, they rely on a help of a 20-year old" is just circular reasoning, and nothing else has been presented.




I think it's worthwhile to ask - in what other fields do exceptional people become consensus world-class experts after four years of part-time study?


It's rare in any field, that's why he's coonsidered a savant.

But it's possible in many fields too - including mathematics[1][2][3], aerospace engineering [4][5], theoretical physics[6], computer science[7], etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

[6] https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-la...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds


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