Bill gates claims to be able to read 150 pages with 90% retention

Maybe I've got no doubt the fucker is smart.
I was a Lit major who switched to CS, and can confidently say that pound for pound the quality of CS students was considerably higher. More and more it feels like English is where you go when you failed at everything else. Maybe it's different at Oxford IDK, but we had a good syllabus with some Greek and Latin thrown in, and still at times i felt that the course was conducted on an elementary school level, for people who were not far above it themselves.

The CS students were of better stuff, and i can imagine them retraining 150 p without a sweat, it's just that they retain pure information, rather then anything of literary quality.

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So these are the books that will mislead you from the truth.

>what is lying
>what is public relations
He may or may not be a pedophile who is very much retired. Why would he read?

No man who devoted his life into entrepreneurship and the building of a vast wealth could possibly be smart enough.
Maybe smart enough in that field alone. Definitely not wise either.

Beat me to it.
I can talk for twenty minutes about something that took me five minutes to read. Your metric sucks.

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Why do Americans love The Great Gatsby so much? It's such a nothing book from my perspective

Because they have entire curriculums of literature based on some systematic method of analysis specifically for picking out "symbolism" in that book and other nonsense. It's a full, ready-made study package for teachers so that they can methodically teach this thing to students without thinking about anything.

He's a known impulsive liar. The guy was the richest man in the world and he made up a lie about selling political broaches for a mayor as a teenager. That nobody could corroborate. He also made up a lie about being put in charge of assigning classes in high school with his computer and assigning himself a class with all girls except him. Which his biographer found was bull shit because of the boy girl ratio it something like that. Still, he's saved a lot of lives. But he's a liar

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Sounds grim

He lied about knowing Epstein before that photo, he will lie about anything

has heavy themes of class conflict, so Marxists love it

>actually watching overt propaganda vetted by a devil

>it's called academia
Not exactly its most sterling endorsement, if the peak of academia is speed reading 150 pages and being from there capable of generating an illusion of familiarity with it. After all, talking and verbal communication are the least-precise and most fallible forms of discussion. That's part of what makes literature so uniquely beautiful—it circumvents in its pure abstraction all of the intricate, evolutionary responses prompted by listening and watching someone talk. With literature, we are much less vulnerable to charisma and personality. We are more able to detach from all that psychological anachronism and to engage with the content itself.

So, if that's some kind of victory for "academia," that you can speed read and talk, then I would propose academia isn't creating academics as much as it is salesmen and charismatics.

it's commie/socialist claptrap designed to expose the (true) emptiness of material wealth, and the sparsity of the american dream. it's a cynical, superficial, and dull cigarette butt of a book whose best purpose is to be overlooked entirely. the author himself was truly a wet sock as well. likely he is held in high esteem to primarily lead astray any minds suited for literary thought early on, infuse in their impressionable minds the triumph of mediocrity, that it is acceptable, even lauded, to be a morose failure, treading water in an art well larded with champions.
the book is a club to beat you into cognitive submission. to render you passive and asleep.

>muh ambiguity is dissolved in literature
brainlet.

It is really well written, though. In the purest literary tradition, we celebrate authors, not men. The latter is just a descent into celebrity. Tell me, are you a fan?

>muh vague and incomprehensible greentext
[insult]

it's not even well written. it's serviceably written.
a fan of what? literature? yes. of fitzgerald? no.

the concept of ambiguity is vague and incomprehensible to you? wew lad. i'm saying that meaning isn't better defined by symbols in print than those flung into the air by our glottal eruptions. the symbols achieve a sort of permanence that the spoken word lacks, but this does not favor interpretation. the word as written even becomes more unclear as the years go on, distancing us from the intent of the author. as to being influenced by charisma or personality, one can likewise find themselves influenced by style and structure, which are the voice and ego of the author. we do not escape the corruption of ambiguity by hiding in our symbols. i say you are a brainlet for not recognizing this because you obviously haven't thought deeply enough about the subject and i think it's quite a shame.

Okay, I see now. Not only did you completely miss the point of my post, you are additionally a really unpleasant person. If you want to discuss what I was actually talking about, feel free to go back and actually read the post you're responding to before calling anyone an idiot. It's a pretty bad look, my dude.

i don't discusd things with brainlets. i'll give you another lecture sometime if you ask politely.

Just so we're clear, you are calling me a brainlet based on your own lack of comprehension of what I'm actually saying.

I can forget what I have read while I am reading it. I'm getting tested for ADHD soon.

i'm sorry, but you're under a grave misapprehension. i read your post again to make sure, and no, i do not aim at your central point in its attack on academia, but rather your feebleheaded lean on the "pure abstraction" of literature, and the "detachment from psychological anachronism", both of which statements i fundamentally disagree with. if in my attack on these ludicrous suppositions i happen to dismantle the foundation of your coarse argument about academia, you have my apologies.

also you very strongly imply that literature is a less ambiguous form of communication than the spoken word, which i also vehemently disagree with. if anything, this entire discourse proves my point, with you claiming that the authorial intent is unheard, while simultaneously taking my character into account, hardly separating yourself from these 'evolutionary responses' of yours to my personality.

>It is really well written
not really, especially when you compare it to other novels by Fitzgerald's contemporaries

bill is a good man but this world is still fundamentally evil and his attempts to fix things only make them worse

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bill is a "liar" because he's a white hat hacker who infiltrated british royalty to help the common man, the problem is that he thinks currency debasement and communism help the middle class when all it does is make everyone equally homeless

I usually can't read 150 pages per hour, but I definitely can talk about it later. For way more than 20 minutes

>he's a good guy
>he's saved lives
these takes are profane

I always think I'm a terribly slow reader, but every time I pick up a book with a recommendation from Bill Gates quoted on the cover, I fly through it. The books he reads usually regurgitate the same ideas over and over and they're usually written in a very simple style, with absolutely nothing remotely challenging.

Never ever I mean NEVER believe these brainlet stories about wealthy people begin “le heckin super geniuses” it’s all fake there is another one about Elon Musk begin an engineering mastermind who was reading calculus stuff and understanding it as a kid the guy has never personally worked on any rocket or Telsa nearly every famous politician and actor has similar stories like to this too again fake and over exaggerated

Well Harold Blom claimed he could read between 500-600 pages an hour.

if bill had any sense he would destroy every computer on earth and have us use magic again

did you guys just call bill gates a marxist?

bill is a marxist you fucking retard

that's the problem, he is a nice person IRL but this manifests as his agencies and non-profits turning earth into wakandan harrison bergeron

define marxism and then explain how bill gates is a marxist.

marxism is rule by the jesuits

bill gates is a jesuit

any other questions?

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philanthropy is not what you think it is

Yes. Someone that didn't even make windows and got billions for it will think that you'll believe anything he says.

I sincerely doubt he knows how to code or at the very least I believe him to be a terribly shitty coder.

>I sincerely doubt he knows how to code

you would be surprised

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Yeah, this just about tosses a wrench right in the OP’s attempt at making a compelling argument with this thread.

Nothing to see here, folks.

this. spreading the influence of mammon in the guise of god and good is one of the more disappointing evils we've done
not a huge fan of magic, besides, people still do plenty of that. it would be nice to see the internet die in favor of an *alternative* though. i keep hoping for a quantum breakthrough that relates to telepathy, but those are big silly dreams.

He stole windows code, gave it to IBM, and they made it from there. Both his parents are super connected. He didn't do shit.

what a pseud

The litposter who knows the most about Marxism (nothing because his brain is putefraction and the deepest analysis he can make of a contemplative work is his idealistic bullshit that nobody cares about it).

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>t. fitzgerald fag

a dr. seuss enjoyer I see

Then he is greater still, he made billions of the backs of so called nerds and so called intellectuals. Same with steve jobs. Based chads.

Bill Gates wife left him because of shit he was doing at Epstien's parties, which she can't talk about due to a NDA