All hairless monkeys ARE idiots, no? Given the infinity of what we don't know and how much we think we know that we don't and the staggering amount of misunderstanding that currently passes as legitimate? I KNOW I'm an idiot. That's about ALL I know.
FWIW I agree with the actual geniuses that discussing the nature of genius in public has very little upside and dramatic downsides. Come to think of it, Wittgenstein, Turing, Feynman were just regular guys who happened to have good mentoring and worked very hard. :)
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Most *genius* is not recognized in it's time anyway. This is where sincerity comes in. It is for love of truth, beauty, clarity that that which is called genius emerges. Think of Van Gogh, Everett, Chopin, Basquait, math guys we've never heard of, writers, Captain Beefheart! :-)
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Ah, perhaps I begin to see your point now... You see, I don't think that being a genius is virtuous. It is simply a rare condition of someone's brain, caused by a particular conflagration of events in the physical universe. That is entirely unrelated to what it's good for.
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