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Smart people can be deceived too. Without devolving the conversation into semantics, Garry Kasparov is also someone we would consider to be “smart” by many defi

Smart people can be deceived too. Without devolving the conversation into semantics, Garry Kasparov is also someone we would consider to be “smart” by many definitions.

oersted 1y ago
I'm missing something, what's wrong with Kasparov? I've done some searching but didn't find much I'd consider significant... EDIT: My bad, I didn't realize he was part of the article, didn't take the time to deal with the paywall.
- vulcan01 1y ago
  > The lawyers accused authorities of selectively prosecuting two Black men, even though support also came from Granieri and Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and prominent Russian dissident. The US hasn’t accused either of them of wrongdoing. From TFA (emphasis mine)
- dismalaf 1y ago
  Read the article, he's involved in this...
- feralsandwich 1y ago
  If you feel you're missing something in a discussion centered around a news article, skimming the news article often helps.
  - K0balt 1y ago
    No, that’s what headlines are for!
- darepublic 1y ago
  IIRC He believes in this quack theory of history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
  - weinzierl 1y ago
    Smart people can have delusions too.
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  - oersted 1y ago
    Wow, gotta admire the epic ambition of this conspiracy theory, they just went for it :) > The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later. > The theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators, including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".
sam_lowry_ 1y ago
Smart in chess. But he said and did lots of embarassing things. I guess that's part of the definition of genius.

Smart people can be deceived too. Without devolving the conversation into semantics, Garry Kasparov is also someone we would consider to be “smart” by many definitions.

oersted 1y ago

I'm missing something, what's wrong with Kasparov? I've done some searching but didn't find much I'd consider significant... EDIT: My bad, I didn't realize he was part of the article, didn't take the time to deal with the paywall.

vulcan01 1y ago
> The lawyers accused authorities of selectively prosecuting two Black men, even though support also came from Granieri and Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and prominent Russian dissident. The US hasn’t accused either of them of wrongdoing. From TFA (emphasis mine)
dismalaf 1y ago
Read the article, he's involved in this...
feralsandwich 1y ago
If you feel you're missing something in a discussion centered around a news article, skimming the news article often helps.
- K0balt 1y ago
  No, that’s what headlines are for!
darepublic 1y ago
IIRC He believes in this quack theory of history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
- weinzierl 1y ago
  Smart people can have delusions too.
  - deleted 1y ago
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- oersted 1y ago
  Wow, gotta admire the epic ambition of this conspiracy theory, they just went for it :) > The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later. > The theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators, including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".

sam_lowry_ 1y ago

Smart in chess. But he said and did lots of embarassing things. I guess that's part of the definition of genius.