>>10967695Not anyone but IMO 2019 had more than 600 hundred competitors. To that number you may add the hundreds of students from the US, China, France, Russia, Korea, Japan, Germany, etc; that didn't make the cut because of harsh competition and you may get around 1500 students.
Those would be the best of the best of the world, and I think that if they were pushed even harder since early childhood (after all, many of them don't even realize how much of a genius they are until middle school) many of them could be as good as Tao.
>>10967834>Whats unfortunate, though, is how great Tao couldve been if he actually chose to be creative and inventive instead of playing video games through grad school. in that sense he failed, and even small business owners deserve more repsectUnfortunate for the science world, but dude, the guy was doing really hard shit his whole life. Many of these prodigies realize when they get older that they have practically lived their whole life as prize-winning machines. It must be amazing to have the knowledge they have, but I suppose no one has the right to tell them they could "have done better", they are humans after all.
