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You can roughly measure genius by looking at the (domain-relative) complexity of toolchain a person needs to have impact of a given scale
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I needed WordPress, tip of iceberg of blog infrastructure, to achieve peak (for purpose of argument) impact with Gervais Principle at age 35
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So by this notional math, and factoring in toolchain complexity, he would weigh in at at least million times more genius. I'd be 1 μR.
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Tools are good measure because they are output agnostic in sense of "talent hits what others can't hit/genius hits what others can't see"
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You could compare the genius levels of an archer versus a sniper without the tool complexity confounding the comparison
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