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We joke about former-"gifted kids"-turned-burnouts, usually in a melancholic way, as if some potential was lost. But perhaps it is for the best. If we did not run into the brick wall of the reality of adulthood and our own fallibility, and instead had people blowing smoke up our asses about how smart and special we are for our *entire* lives, we might get something more like… this…

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html