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Kaczynski was really not on the same level. By several orders of magnitude.
by laurent_du 1y ago
Kaczynski was really not on the same level. By several orders of magnitude.
- BizarroLand 1y agoI mean, force feed her massive doses of LSD and use elite psyops to incessantly harass her as a ̶ ̶p̶r̶a̶n̶k̶ science experiment and maybe
- dekhn 1y agoIt's generally well documented that Kacynski was a highly talented mathematician.
- ykonstant 1y agoYes, but like the gp said, not even remotely close in skill.
- dekhn 1y agohow would you know for sure? I don't have the skill to evaluate somebody who has disproved one conjecture (maybe some recent techniques made it easier?) versus somebody who had an established pattern of doing excellent work.
- ykonstant 1y agoI am familiar with both of their work and can judge the relative quality.
- garbthetill 1y agojust to clarify, do you mean Kaczynski is not on the level of Grothendieck? In which I can agree
- dekhn 1y agono, he's saying Kacyznski is not on the level of Hannah Cairo. If he meant Grothendieck, that's another conversation. Reading the context of this subthread, it should be clear we're discussing Kacyznski vs. Cairo. I don't have the knowledge to evaluate this, but I still think Cairo has not esta blished enough work to say she's far ahead of Kacyznski.
- garbthetill 1y agothanks for the clarification, I also dont have the ability to evaluate who is better kacyznski v cairo. hence why i assumed the original commenter meant kaczynski vs grothendieck because for one kacyznski has a phd in maths, cairo does not have that metal yet
- rjsw 1y ago... and one who was younger than the other students when he was at university.