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Yeah, its insane to claim talent isn't orders of magnitude apart. I'm probably a better programmer than 99% of the population, but then I see those insane luaji
by tryptophan 7y ago
Yeah, its insane to claim talent isn't orders of magnitude apart. I'm probably a better programmer than 99% of the population, but then I see those insane luajit or llvm people and realize I'm just another noob.
- viklove 7y agoHow many orders of magnitude, would you say? 10x? 100x? 1000x? Because billionaires have 10,000x more wealth than the average person. Are you saying they're all 10,000x smarter than us? Obviously not. It's pure luck. Well, luck and exploitation.
- splintercell 7y ago> Are you saying they're all 10,000x smarter than us? You don't make billions by being billion times smarter than other people, but by either deploying raw materials, or labor or capital to scale billion times more. But in order to do that, you can't be 1x of the average person (generally speaking), but you don't need to be billion times better either.
- kortilla 7y agoIf your skill is making money multiply 10x repeatedly, it doesn’t mean anything about your intelligence. It just means you’re good at making money.
- MadSudaca 7y agonon-linearity exists
- adrianN 7y agoI think you're misunderstanding talent. You always have to compare yourself to people who invested an equal amount of time training the skill. For example I go to the gym regularly (at least before the pandemic). I'm probably in the upper 10% of the population when it comes to strength. But compared to the regulars in the gym I'm below average.
- kortilla 7y agoWell if you take training time into account separately, then the “talent vs luck” comparison becomes even less meaningful.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoPossibly your skill level isn’t talent + training but talent * training