Posted on 03/04/2016 7:28:47 AM PST by C19fan
Lev Landau, a Nobelist and one of the fathers of a great school of Soviet physics, had a logarithmic scale for ranking theorists, from 1 to 5. A physicist in the first class had ten times the impact of someone in the second class, and so on. He modestly ranked himself as 2.5 until late in life, when he became a 2. In the first class were Heisenberg, Bohr, and Dirac among a few others. Einstein was a 0.5!
My friends in the humanities, or other areas of science like biology, are astonished and disturbed that physicists and mathematicians (substitute the polymathic von Neumann for Einstein) might think in this essentially hierarchical way. Apparently, differences in ability are not manifested so clearly in those fields. But I find Landau’s scheme appropriate: There are many physicists whose contributions I cannot imagine having made.
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I thought they were already here and they’re called Liberals.
Just ask one...
Intelligence, without character, is not.
Lol, yup.
Too bad they cannot genetically engineer wisdom.
Too bad they cannot genetically engineer wisdom.
Too bad they cannot genetically engineer wisdom.
“Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming”
Ha! I’m already hear!
My experience with so called intelligent people is that they lack common sense.
Yep. They’ll just be unbelievable at higher math and theoretical stuff. Feeding themselves no so much.
Dang - stole my line.
The icing on your cake was misspelling of ‘here’!!
:) :)
a lot of times I see people that think that they are super intelligent. the reality is that they have above average IQ and very little wisdom. they get educated in a one of the soft science fields like sociology or in one of the non scientifically rigorous field. because they have above average iQ they do a descent job in there narrow area of education but then they think that they can comment as if they know what they are talking about in areas they have not studied....I REFER TO THEASE PEAPLE AS EDUCATED IDIOTS.
A 3/8” box wrench is good for one thing, and one thing only. It makes a poor hammer, an ineffective crowbar, and it totally useless as a pair of tweezers, or a surgical scalpel. This is not to say a brilliant physicist is totally useless in other fields, but to illustrate that sometimes to achieve maximum utility in one area aspects of other attributes become less effective.
My friends in the humanities, or other areas of science like biology, are astonished and disturbed that physicists and mathematicians (substitute the polymathic von Neumann for Einstein)
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While those two were brilliant in their fields of expertise, they were substandard in others.
Da, yes, a brave new world. Finally.
That’s what I said ...
Super intelligent humans will be misfits and freaks among the “normals”. They will likely be arrogant, zero social skills and despised.
Our current intellectuals and academian’s tend to think in terms of perfection, where socialist ideas tend to rule, without factoring in socialism has never succeeded or figuring out why.
If the super intelligent are like our self appointed intellectuals they will be failures. And if they do see past socialism as being a failure, then our current intellectual jerks will have them locked up or euthanized.
Personally, messing with the genetics of humans or any other animal is less than morale, and food is questionable at best.
Are these super intelligent people going to be able to find jobs that utilize their intelligence? Have a few of those individuals in my family and they feel frustrated and demeaned in their present positions. Or, as often happens, their superiors use their ideas as their own. In most cases, that’s what happens.
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