'You Can Get Arbitrarily Smart Without Reading Books' — But Does Anyone Have an Example?
alexisgallagher · x · 2026-11-09
After alzzyd claimed 'there is nothing special about books; you can become arbitrarily smart without ever reading one,' alexisgallagher pushes back: is there a single person who became extremely smart at book-learned domains without reading? Do we actually know how, or does it just feel possible now with AI?
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