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I’m not sure he’s “underrated”, almost everything I’ve heard about him describes him as one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived. I have seen more

I’m not sure he’s “underrated”, almost everything I’ve heard about him describes him as one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived. I have seen more than one article proposing cloning his DNA as the best way to save humanity

foobiekr 5y ago
Is his dna even available? It would be interesting to analyze.
- folli 5y ago
  What kind of results are you expecting? I'm sure you will not find a "Genius"-Gene.
  - foobiekr 5y ago
    How do you know unless you look? I'm sure I will not find anything. But it would be interesting for people to analyze the outliers.
Koshkin 5y ago
They'd be all men.
- hervature 5y ago
  You are probably making a comment on diversity, but men's DNA encodes everything needed for a women simply by duplicating the X chromosome. Of course, more likelihood of genetic defects due to a single copy of an X as men are.
csbartus 5y ago
I mean, underrated in popular culture compared to Einstein, let's say. But, I've just learnt an anecdote about Neumann, Einstein and Godel. When Neumann signed for Princeton, he had two conditions: a 16k annual salary (others earned ~2k at that time) and to bring in that two people who are smarter than he. (Source, in Hungarian, someday we will have the subtitles from the AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk) UPDATE: The talk is about miracles and geniuses. According to the speaker, a genius is somebody who sees something which wasn’t in the air, up until that time. Neumann wasn’t a genius, rather a polymath who saw all what was in the air at that time
- dbuder 5y ago
  "How is it that Hungary produced so many geniuses in the early 20th century?" Wigner said. "I don't understand the question. There was only one genius: John von Neumann."

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I’m not sure he’s “underrated”, almost everything I’ve heard about him describes him as one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived. I have seen more

by jtsiskin 5y ago

foobiekr 5y ago
Is his dna even available? It would be interesting to analyze.
- folli 5y ago
  What kind of results are you expecting? I'm sure you will not find a "Genius"-Gene.
  - foobiekr 5y ago
    How do you know unless you look? I'm sure I will not find anything. But it would be interesting for people to analyze the outliers.
Koshkin 5y ago
They'd be all men.
- hervature 5y ago
  You are probably making a comment on diversity, but men's DNA encodes everything needed for a women simply by duplicating the X chromosome. Of course, more likelihood of genetic defects due to a single copy of an X as men are.
csbartus 5y ago
I mean, underrated in popular culture compared to Einstein, let's say. But, I've just learnt an anecdote about Neumann, Einstein and Godel. When Neumann signed for Princeton, he had two conditions: a 16k annual salary (others earned ~2k at that time) and to bring in that two people who are smarter than he. (Source, in Hungarian, someday we will have the subtitles from the AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk) UPDATE: The talk is about miracles and geniuses. According to the speaker, a genius is somebody who sees something which wasn’t in the air, up until that time. Neumann wasn’t a genius, rather a polymath who saw all what was in the air at that time
- dbuder 5y ago
  "How is it that Hungary produced so many geniuses in the early 20th century?" Wigner said. "I don't understand the question. There was only one genius: John von Neumann."