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I think a slightly more... charitable explanation would be that most people who are geniuses at various topics aren't also geniuses at marketing, nor in many ca

by CM30 4y ago

I think a slightly more... charitable explanation would be that most people who are geniuses at various topics aren't also geniuses at marketing, nor in many cases particularly good at self promotion. And it's not what you know that matters for fame, it's how good you are at selling yourself. Well, either that, or you get very lucky and the media picks up your story. You can see a possible example of a genius getting media coverage in a niche area by looking at Kaze Emanuar and his Super Mario 64 mods. He's basically the best programmer for the system in the world right now, and has almost singlehandedly moved the community forward on every technical level possible. His works also get a ton of coverage.

fxtentacle 4y ago
> His works also get a ton of coverage. Yet I had never heard about him before. And while I could find a hackaday article, I didn't find anything more mainstream. So I would estimate that 99.9% of the population will never hear about him.
- CM30 4y ago
  That might be because of how much more diversified media coverage is now. For the most part, many great creators (and to be honest, celebrities and influencers too) are famous in a certain field, not across the entire world. The greatest philosophers of this era are likely only well known among other philosophers, and academics in related fields. Same with mathematicians, scientists, historians, etc. Meanwhile many great artists are only known among others in their field. Could the 'mainstream' media cover every genius or great creator? Probably not, there wouldn't be enough room. There are so many great people creating works and making discoveries that you likely won't ever know about more than 1% of them, at most.