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I think the statement "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing
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It is incorrect. No one is so good at math that they can design and build a full useful system on their own. That means they have to work with other people as part of a team. That means that their lack of social skills will doom or limit them.
It is also a mistake to equate psychopaths with having no social skills. They don't have empathy, but they often have excellent social skills.
Yeah, it's also survivorship bias. All the successful psychopaths would make you think that a) you need to be a psychopath to succeed, and b) all psychopaths will succeed. It's wrong on both counts, but we can conclude that c) being a psychopath does not preclude success. It might even be easier to succeed, since capitalism abhors a principle, but I don't have the statistics to support that.