Both 'evil' and 'geniuses' are definitely myths if understood in an 'ordinary useage' sense, and definitely real if understood in an 'ostenible definition' Gary Drescher sense. In that sense, either Fritz Haber or Genghis Khan probably counts.https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1200246985564938241 …
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Also, the meme of the “evil genius” is heavily colored by anti-intellectualism. Actual Machiavelli was not that evil, just unflattering.
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Also there’s a tendency for child prodigies to also be ethically precocious (more empathetic & bothered by injustice) & you’d predict this if you thought ethics came from true insights.
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