this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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No, everyone had been telling him he was the smartest guy in the room. He clearly wasn't.
He was an MIT grad in physics and minor in math, his girlfriend was a mathmatician too. Clearly he must be intelligent. Maybe he wasn't the genius everybody hailed him as. However if you are smart enough to understand topology and other math-related topics, I would assume that he would be smart enough to funnel money out to secret untraceable accounts, buy diamonds and stash them at strategic locations in numerous countries, have an exit strategy.
Why couldn't he just have bought a submarine and flee to russia? Or just make a run for it on a regular boat?
I have a lot of trouble believing that if you have all that money, and you have at least as much smarts as the average math student, that you cannot extracate yourself from the situation he was in.
You are making a mistake that a lot of people do. Just because you are intelligent in one particular field doesn't mean that knowledge applies elsewhere. Time and time again we've seen some insane theories from truly talented people. My go to example is Ben Carson is a world renowned doctor who pioneered and succeeded in a surgery no one ever could have thought possible. He also believes the pyramids were used to store grain.
Intelligence and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.
People with Ph.Ds will sit down at a keyboard and drool out of the corner of their mouth while contacting tech support.