komponisto comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: komponisto 14 October 2010 04:54:20PM 2 points [-]

The number 110 was just a guess, of course, but the point clearly stands even if the average IQ of people taking business calculus is 120.

The 17th-century counterparts of these folks would have been illiterate peasants or possibly, in a few cases, local merchants; they would not have been Newton and Leibniz.