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But did Gödel have an Annus Mirabilis? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers ) In one year,
by fizx 18y ago
But did Gödel have an Annus Mirabilis? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers )
In one year, Einstein wrote four papers that individually could have won Nobel Prizes. Perhaps Gödel's revelation was more profound. But was Gödel smarter? I doubt it, at least using impressiveness of accomplishments as a proxy for intelligence.
- whacked_new 18y agoImpressiveness of accomplishments measures the impressiveness of accomplishments. Not intelligence. With that logic you might infer that Brin and Page are at the apex of programming ability.
- fizx 18y agoOr that Alexander the Great was a good general. Brin and Page aren't in the same league. One who thinks so measures impressiveness poorly.
- whacked_new 18y agoThis is quite confusing: you're talking about using "impressiveness" as a "proxy" to measure intelligence, then you're talking about measuring such impressiveness. I don't even know what it is to measure impressiveness poorly -- I don't know how to measure it. Nobel-worthy publications are surely impressive, but it still does not measure intelligence. It measures how Nobel-worthy your work is.