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> Crawford is not a genius, he is a visionary. Why is it that judging someone as a genius or not comes so easy to everyone? I find making that assessment incr

• wizardofdos 6y ago
  Yes, i think there is many Einsteins and Mendels that weren't rediscovered after their time. Some because their ideas were wrong, but some also with innovative and correct ideas, many of which were reinvented and some probably even never reinvented and lost to obscurity.
• imtringued 6y ago
  It's very easy because there is nothing objective about being a genius. It's purely about social perception and for this man the only social perception he cares about is himself. That's why he can confidently declare himself as genius and other people don't. Why would I care about someone whose latest accomplishment was half a decade before I was born? The complexity of modern games is so incredibly high that his equations look like toys. I once had an idea of making a simulation game about constructing dyson sphere. Now that dsyon sphere program exists do I claim credit for that even though I never communicated with the developer of that game? That's the behavior Crawford is engaging in. He's shutting himself off and blames other people for his problems and he never wants to rely on anyone else for his successes. The superiority complex is exactly the thing that is holding him back.
• hobofan 6y ago
  Depending on how high you set the bar it's very easy to make that assessment because barely anyone even comes close. E.g. I have a very high bar, going so far that I couldn't even come up with any living person that I'd call a genius from the top of my head, so I'm _pretty_ sure in not calling the author a genius.