>Tens of thousands of people comprehend Einstein's work. It used to be hundreds. We're smart as shit these days. In some ways, I feel like this is the real sin

>Tens of thousands of people comprehend Einstein's work. It used to be hundreds. We're smart as shit these days. In some ways, I feel like this is the real singularity. This trend towards feeding and offering education to everyone. Like, it used to be that to be an intellectual, you'd need to be born rich to get the free time and education. I mean, being born rich still helps, sure, but a lot more people are getting a shot. On the other hand, it's a process that levels off at some point, like everything else. The population is leveling off; as we bring education and leisure time to more and more of the world, eventually most of the people who have the capability to do this sort of thing will have done it. I mean, I see that with computers, too... like with the leveling out of Moore's law; exponential processes, in nature, tend to not remain exponential.