May come as a suprise, but they don't memorize random case law, can they quote case law for cases they are working on, yes, because they actually research cases that are related. Can my lawyer quote landmark descissions and supreme court descissions? Yes, but this is not at all the case here.

A cop can stop anyone for any reason (something this guys seemed to be wrong about). They cannot however detain someone, or search someone without reason. The cop didn't search him, asked some pretty basic questions for his police report, and despite the guy not cooperating, the cop after determining the guy wasn't a threat (just a douche) allowed him to go on his way. If you ask me the guy was trolling for a police stop so that he could record it and spout a ton of legal shit that frankly isn't going to keep the cop from ensuring that there isn't a problem. You don't memorize that many court descissions without purpose, not even my lawyer, who I've been friends with quite a while, can quote legal cases of the top of his head, he has no reason to memorize them.

The Rings books are some of the most amazing fiction ever. That's to say, they are rich analogies for real day-to-day life. The story of a truly alien universe can be found at the end of a microscope where no creatures have anything we can identify as pride or rage or homes or property. Good fantasy, OTOH, mirrors real life in moving ways.

Memorizing all that crap and thinking it's worth something, however, I don't get.

Are you kidding me?
Real life doesn't even have Elves, Dwarves, Wizards & Magical Beasties.
(or spaceships, or new worlds, aliens, or dragons and so on)
Real life history is about as dry as hay.

For me - I have little energy to spend in memorizing the ongoing mistakes of human history.

You're thinking, "But knowing our history lets us learn from our mistakes - It's so important"
Me: I will never have any influence, nor do I want to have, on the direction humanity will take. Some people make policy, laws, go to war, sign treaties, make deals etc. Those are the people that should benefit from human historical facts. I'm just a guy who doesn't want any part of it. So loosing myself in fiction works just fine for me - It's a lot more interesting to explore in one's mind the creative possibilities of something than to just regurgitate the facts that actually happened.

It's unfortunate that his learning will be limited by the extents of knowledge determined by his lower potential predecessors.
What will he do when he runs out of books?
His ultimate 'knowledge' will come down to his own creativity, and less his ability to absorb previous discoveries.

Someone once made a comparison of us to hypothetical aliens.
How the alien children might do our most complex physics problems in their kindergarten equivalent.
How those aliens could encounter us, and think "oh, look how cute, the human can derive a series approximation".

People like Tanishq are a step/stage between us regular people, and those theoretical aliens. He can do more as a child - but he has the potential to do more as a maximum. A personal maximum that likely humanity can't supply him with today.

People in general are a mix of creatives, memorizers, knuckleheads, middle-grounders, etc.
So the question that comes to my mind is, which kind of person is Tanishq?

We know that he absorbs information better than a regular person.
But there's a difference between memorization, understanding, and intuition.

We've all met people that memorize like crazy. They get amazing grades, but you can tell that their understanding is weak when they ask painfully stupid questions. The kind that would never be asked had they even the slightest understanding of the 'mechanics' of the subject at hand. (This always made my jaw drop. Seeing a person with perfect grades just 'not get it' to badly)

We've all met people that have a strong sense of understanding. They see one example, and they can run with it, adapting it to all kinds of changes. They 'get it'.
(Not always the best grades though. Why study when you can figure it out as you go? Because you won't figure everything out on the spot come test time...)

Then there are those with real intuition. The kind of person that looks at a problem, and thinks "the solution is something like this, I can't say why, but I can feel it. Let me work on it and figure it out." Then some time later they return with a real solution and a proof of why... and it was right along the lines that they had suspected to begin with.
No one had to give them an example, and no one had to pump them full of set-up material. They could feel it, and knew enough to recognize what it was they were on to.
These are the people that make the big leaps for human understanding.

The saddest case for Tanishq would be that he turns out to be a very enthusiastic expert memorizer.

But I hope he, and humanity, can be lucky enough for him to be both a prodigy, and a true intuitive.

-scheherazade


P.S.
Something amazing about those parent's genes. Definitely should save a [consentual] copy... Too good to lose.
IMO there should be focus on creating a gene therapy program to improve learning/intellect.
That will in itself lead to greater progress in other fields, as there would be many more super-intelligent people available to work on those problems, and many more opportunities for big breakthroughs.
It's something that could raise the potential [and actual] achievement cap of all humanity. 'It's kind of a big deal'.
It's like figuring out 'how to become those hypothetical aliens'.

Crappy starcraft example : Don't rush... macro instead. You'll be farther along later than you would be otherwise.

nowadays it's really hard to have a memorable beaver experience with all that shaving and waxing going on down there....

Thanks @shagen454... Y'know, watching this again, it seems a lot less like "creeper Nicholson" chasing a piece-a-tail, and a lot more like Jack was genuinely "helping" a young, visibly overwhelmed young (sic) woman, by injecting a bit of levity and realness into the situation. Jack's been at this a long time. He knows his face -- his very visage -- is enough to elicit powerful reactions in people... By turning on the charm in this moment, not only did he make himself memorable to Jennifer (and now to many of her fans), but maybe even did some good will.

Not that any of this was conscious, by any means... He's still a creeper, but at least he seems to know it.

The 5th element is love....did you even watch the film?
LEELU DALLIS, MULTIPASS!!

FllllOSTON, PARAADIIIIssseee.

Im the negotiator....anyone else wanna negotiate?? Hmm? No? Didnt think so.

Azziz...LIGHT!!

So many memorable quotes, and Im not one to quote movies.

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A truly great and memorable character performance. Sometimes I try and buzz people away. It doesn't work for me.

American cars: no surprises here.

They're just like the market: they crash horribly, and in memorable fashion.

*promote this memorable actor!

Thanks to TIFF I've seen a bunch of famous actors/directors, mostly during Q&As, occasionally out and about. The most memorable time was when I was running late for a movie (it's generally a good idea to arrive at TIFF screenings at least half an hour early, if you want to get a decent seat), and there was a man and a woman standing side by side on the escalator, blocking me from running past. I was thinking "what a couple of douchebags," and I quickly turned around to get a look at them as I was finally able to run by. I did a double take when it turned out to be Joseph Gordon Levitt and Lynn Collins, the two stars of the movie I was about to see.

I was tempted to say something like "I'm about to see your movie!" but I'm way too big of a chicken for that.

To me the text comments at the very start indicated that it was likely going on for a while.

The pulse of this, which is something that every good comedian knows implicitly, was the rest of the audience. If they appreciated her getting served so hard and for so long by the comedian, it's likely that it wasn't just some pre-rehearsed skit just waiting for a random undeserving audience member that he could bend into being the target of a bunch of memorized jokes. I think he deserves more credit than that, and I'd suggest there could have been lots of stuff we didn't see that indicates she did too.

At first I was going to freak out if they did disrespect the flag......but whew. But the sad thing is so many people take our freedoms for granted and mindlessly follow our politicians without question, and so intently follow sports games, memorize stats to show off at work and never for one minute think about the initiatives and referendums on the ballot....or even the ballot itself. Sigh

1. Lower taxation, these things cost money (initial outlay and ongoing costs) to keep an eye on a populace that, by and large, aren't doing anything wrong. Most of us don't want em, don't need em and don't want to pay for them.

2. Changing rules aka slippery slope. The people who agree to big brother on the first day might become victims of it later down the track. Once you establish a state where the citizens are constantly under surveillance and have accepted that onus, you can implement worse measures. Look at post 911 USA... Land of the free? As long as you don't mind the government setting up camp in your rectum 24/7.

3. There is no such thing as "safe". CCTV doesn't deter crime, it just catches the idiots too stupid to take it in to account (ie. people who cut down poles sans facial coverings for example...). Much like any other precaution, criminals find ways around CCTV. That is not an argument for more surveillance, it's an argument about the futility of it in the first place.

4. Sometimes the rules should be broken. How many things were illegal 100 years ago that are perfectly legal now? Worse, think of the things that were legal 100 years ago that are outlawed now (*hint: most of them are self harm crimes such as drug use etc) How often have nanny states tried to decree what you can and can't do only to find that people do not want to live under that rule? The camera is the start, if they can see what you are doing constantly, they can stop you. Why do you think organisations like Anonymous exist? To quote a memorable cutscene from Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri, "We must dissent...".

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