[loose-cannon]

You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.

[gwern]

My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.

[singingfish]

and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.