The Flynn Effect versus the greatest minds in history! http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/12/the_flynn_effec.html …
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Was von Neumann far smarter than Newton, Leibnitz, or Gauss???
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He seems to have been one smart cookie http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2012/03/only-he-was-fully-awake.html …
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Are you just pointing out a clear outlier, or are you arguing flynn effect is real? As noted, given relative population numbers, if the latter, you should probably be naming a dozen people smarter than Plato, not one. (But Feynman, Wiles, Perelman, and Knuth all come to mind.)
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Harder question: who are the greater minds since?
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not a case of standing on the shoulders of predecessors?
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It practically melts in your mouth!
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What about Aristotle? And remember that Von Neumann (along with Bertrand Russell!) advocated preemptive nuclear war. Smart or not, f-ing horrid morals
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In the branches of the multiverse where Petrov wasn't on duty on Sept 26, 1983 von Neumann = Cassandra. Anthropic bias is why it seems he had "f-ing horrid morals".
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No, he publically advocated a first strike when such a strategy was a real possibility, i.e. before Russia revealed it had the bomb. The estimable William Poundstone wrote at length about it in "The Prisoner's Dilemma"
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He wanted to prevent the Soviets from ever getting the bomb. If the U.S. had maintained a monopoly of nuclear weapons the world would likely be a much better place.
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Outta ur mind. It would be a dead place
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