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2. Time doesn't exist to 10x researchers. They live outside of space-time, borrowing brain-hrs from the vacuum, powering the synthesis of unadulterated thought-powder. Few attend lab meetings. They are invisible by day, returning to the fabric of space only at night

3. 10x researchers type LaTeX so fast that the \, {, and } keys on their computers collapse into micro-singularities, threatening to consume Earth but for the focused thought-field of the 10x researcher guarding errant particles from falling past the LaTeX keys' event horizons.

4. 10x researchers know every line of mathematics that has ever been written. When a proof has a bug, they know precisely where it is before reading the proof itself and can fix it in nanoseconds.

5. Most 10x researchers know every single academic field. For them, papers are papers. They don't care whether it's Math, Music, Biology, Chinese Literature, or Islamic Studies. I have rarely seen them doing yoga.

6. 10x researchers can convert "intuitions" into "papers" in their minds. Given a new sub-field of research they can invent, solve, and destroy it in two sittings of 4 to 6 hours with a bottle of Adderall without distractions.

7. 10x researchers never read anything. They already know everything. No books, no pauce, just type.

8. 10x researchers are always evolving so quickly that they must invent new languages to facilitate communication that keeps up with their light-speed brains. They are not afraid of ascending and becoming energy beings. Several 10x researchers have been uploaded to the blockchain

9. 10x researchers take no students and do no service for the community. They always think "Ah, the divine creative power of the All in One! Ah, the joy, the joy of Being!". They are also poor at recruiting.