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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @vgr
Ramanujan is good comp for me. He needed notebooks, a textbook and paper mail --1/100th complexity say -- to achieve (say) 10,000x by age 32
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @vgr
I dunno, I'd say the British empire is at least as complex as the Internet. The Internet is perhaps a net simplification.
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Replying to @kylemathews
Oddly enough comparison is direct. When applying to grad school ~1996 we were cusp gen who emailed faculty instead of p-mailing
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We could email many more faculty members to land a scholarship. I'd like to know how many Ramanujan mailed before Hardy bit 
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