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Yeah. It is not obvious to me that, across the total number of human minds produced so far, an outlier like Newton has any reasonable probability of existing.
by addaon 4y ago
Yeah.
It is not obvious to me that, across the total number of human minds produced so far, an outlier like Newton has any reasonable probability of existing.
- satvikpendem 4y agoWell there are a lot of polymaths though, Newton really is not that special. von Neumann, Feynman, Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs etc come to mind.
- slivanes 4y agoJobs does not deserve any mention among those other people. Jobs was a leader (tyrant by many accounts) and didn’t advance or discover anything?
- satvikpendem 4y agoYeah perhaps not, he wasn't a polymath. I'd say Elon is closer as a polymath than Jobs since at least the former actually learned about rocket and electric vehicle physics and engineering.
- quickthrower2 4y agoErdős, Feynman?
- canadianfella 4y agoJobs? What the hell?