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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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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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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A good way to measure impact in tool/output agnostic ways is to measure number of people who organized lives differently because of you...
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...i.e. Measure net +ve social disruption of historical timeline. Generativity delta. This has a lot of tricky details to work out though
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