There will always be someone better than you

>there will always be someone better than you

Sure it's true for most people. Hell, it's true for everyone except one. That one person is me, Von Noyman!

There will never be anyone better than me for a very narrow range of tasks. I know this for certain because practically nothing exists in the vein I want.

Therefore if I create it, there is no one better than me.

nuh uh

Yep. Rare neurological abnormality, history full of health problems, and a chronic pain deal that's ~1 per 200,000. Taken all together with how I've lived, I'm a fairly major outlier.

If I manage to finish it, I could kill myself or fizzle out and it'd be okay. It is very important.

wouldnt hurt to try and challenge them, as long as you're going about the right way

Go to bed John, you're drunk

Guten tag

> never won Nobel prize

checkmate, Von Neumannists

>tfw too smart for Nobel.

Can someone explain the quote "there's always someone better than you"? It sounds extremely defeatist
If there's always someone better than you at something that implies that it's talking about people and how good they are at something and since there are only a finite amount of people there is absolutely someone out there who is the best

There is someone who is the best at something in everything
There's probably not anyone who's the best at more than 5 or so significant things but there's certainly someone who is the best at something

Accepting the belief that someone is better than you is just telling yourself it's not worth trying to get better because someone is always going to be better
but that's not fucking true, you don't know what special abilities you have until you try
The people at the top got to the top because they made a commitment to work hard and become the best, they didn't think ohohoho fuck this shit someone else is better than me I'm just gonna go jack off the porn. I fucking ri about this quote everyday I should write it above my door and get angry about it everyday I see it fucking fuck fi

Very smart people are generally humble and have low egos.

Being very proud of yourself is one of the sure signs of a brainlet.

What is your gorilla index?

Ie how many gorilla-human IQs are you away from von neumann?

For me it's 5 :(

Mochizuki already solved this problem. Just work in solitary for 10 years straight, not letting anyone help, and then you will be vastly superior to everyone else in the world on the topic of the work you did.

>just winning the prize wasnt enough
>created a nobel prize field instead

>Von Neuman smarter than Da Vinci

>Being great in one field is better than being a trailblazer and excellent in multiple fields

It's the exact opposite of defeatism to me, sounds like you should stop worrying so much about your "duty" to serve humanity, and understand there will always be people smarter than you, that society will always progress.

What area are you working in? I'm genuinely curious.

I don't think I'm a 1/10000000000000 genius or anything, but I'm considering doing my graduate research in a pretty fringe area of my field that has only~4 'important' papers. It's very possible that so little has been done that I may reasonably contribute something new in a short period of time.

Feeling bad about this is a zero-sum way of looking at the situation when it's actually nonzero.

You are passionate about something and dedicate your career to it. Win. someone else is the same and is much more effective than you. Also win, because you both benefit the thing you're passionate about.

What should be felt is The Buddhist concept of mudita, "sympathetic joy" or "happiness in another's good fortune.

von Neumannlet will never make a woman feel the way I do with muh BBC

Daily reminder that great research forms new connections, and that isolated results are worthless.

>there will always be someone better than you
>likewise you will out better them with more practice and discipline
Would it not work both ways?

>le harambe maymay posting

Thanks. The area of research I may be doing work in is one which was of broad interest in the times of the Romans but which has slowly died in the digital age. I'm hoping to form new connections to the underpinnings of the theoretical study of computation to this area with the hope I can contribute something that makes it useful again.

That's awesome user, I wish you luck. Just remember that fields of study seek to develop central philosophies. Always keep that highest goal in mind when you add to that body of knowledge. Well wishes!

Because it's the truth. Even if you are a fairly major outlier in skill in any field, chances are there is someone better. There are over 7 billion people on this planet, the probability that you are the best at something in minuscule.

A lot of young people, especially gifted ones, feel the need to be the smartest guy in the room. That's a shitty way to be, and eventually they will go to uni or grad school and realise that's not true and it feels fucking bad. It's something I have to work on.

If there was one thing about myself I could change, I would get rid of this competitiveness that makes me feel like shit and distracts me from enjoying my work. Any anons know these feels?

ahhh yes the famous

"there could be some african kid living in some shit village that will never be known but could possibly be smarter than the great scientists" argument

It's supposed to prevent spergs who think they're hot shit for being the smartest kid in their high school from developing a superiority complex

Lossless information transformation and compression.

What I'm referencing is a game I'm working on though, which may sound inane and inconsequential, but is personally meaningful to me. In a lot of ways, it is me, a heavily abstracted representation of all things involved in life (blurring of the micro and the macro).

Someone could find it useful, and affording a lot whenever they're able to see it.