/sci/ - Science & Math

>2050
>be me
>too poor to undergo telomerase lengthening procedure
>have to buy cheap skin-collagen tightening cream from some mexican dude so people don't know I'm not immortal
>everyday I internally age as I wageslave at Mc KFChiptole
>I had a PhD in Physics but most 10 year old kids already finished their second graduate studies brain upload. So I am under qualified. Increasing my neuroplasticity so I can get another PhD via brain upload would be too expensive
>my nights are restless. I can only afford a cheap apartment near Trump Space Centre. The sound of rocket engines fills my room every night.
>neighbor is having a threesome with 3 Japanese made premium quality sex dolls again. Not sure if they the cybernetic version or genetically engineered version.
>can't sleep as always. try to start my omnidirectional VR set but nobody is online. I should've sold this old junk 10 years ago.
>turn on my old laptop. some kid from Russia hacked my empty bank account again. Every snot nosed kid seems to have a Apple Quantum Pro these days.
>go to /sci/ for the first time in years since they change their servers to the Moon Base.
>check catalog. it's filled with IQ threads. Some rich faggot bought the +300IQ brain enhancement pack. Types only in Chinese characters with heavy Martian dialect.
>scroll down. finds a poster that claims he found some cool math shit. Holy fuck I thought AI already discovered everything!
>clicks on post. It's Jon Tooker. He is now permanently inside /sci/ as a digital consciousness
>use the last round on my plasma gun to vaporize my brain
>good bye Earth

I was browsing some PhD programmes on google and I found this
https://phdscam.wordpress.com/
It's a page filled with unemployed PhDs. Some of the stories there are really sad and others are horrific. So are PhD programmes and postdocs just scams to abuse desperate people into doing research for severely low pay?

>>9997102
h-how do we save this cute azn grill from being bullied my her advisor and administration.. fuckkkk I'm lonely...

>be me
>math major, graduate from mid-tier private school
>normies think I'm a genius for pursuing math but I struggled throughout my entire education
>roommate chang, a 15 year old prodigy, got me through my freshman classes, but chang transferred to some top 50 uni in the following year
>was only able to call chang once a week from then on but I couldn't have graduated without him
>still don't know how to prove pythagorean theorem and online explanations don't make sense
>couldn't find a job to save my life after school
>tell parents that I'm a professional math tutor but I'm really just getting paid to do some highschooler's homework on yahoo answers
>half the time I just repost older answers from 9 years earlier, and other times I just post the question to facebook as a challenge until one of my relatives solves it
>"Wow anon, you're so cool for being into math! I barely remember this from highschool, glad you're here to keep us sharp!"
>can't understand the answers they give me, but it pays the bills
>spend my days browsing /sci/ in an effort to mend my pathetic education
>unironically ask questions like why 1.0 != 0.99... but always get labeled a brainlet retard
>can't score above 110 on any online iq tests no matter how many times I take them
>out in public people asking me to impress them with my math skills
>usually just recite the first two digits of pi and then makeup random consecutive digits until their eyes glaze over
>never know if I'm correct, but like to think that one day I'll guess the entire number if I keep trying
>unsubscribed from numberphile because it's too advanced, but buy all the popsci shirts I can find even though I can't explain what they mean
>have had to avoid my childhood friend claire ever since I accidentally inspired her to learn math as a hobby
>have done this to several people over the years
>chang still calls me sometimes, but I'm too ashamed to pick up the phone anymore
>know my life is a lie
>math is all that I have left

Is there truth to the statement that people with higher intelligence are more prone to mental illness and social isolation?

I really want to believe this is true because it would at least give me a reason why I'm always alone since childhood. I excelled during and my primary, secondary and even now at tertiary education, but I could never grasp the complexities of human interaction. As a kid I could not even make eye contact, let alone start a conversation. I just read story books all day and made zero childhood friends. These days, I require the bare minimum of social interactions but I still do feel lonely. The evolutionary drive to be with another human is really strong desu.

Thanks for reading my autismo post btw.