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It appears that what distinguished Grothendieck was not high g-factor. See Jordan Ellenberg's blog post titled The capacity to be alone.
My point is that Grothendieck exhibited very high instrumental rationality with respect to mathematics but low instrumental rationality with respect to his efforts to ensure the survival of the human race, and that something analogous could very well be the case of Eliezer.
What evidence is there that Eliezer is saner than Grothendieck? I don't have a strong opinion on this point, I'm just curious what you have in mind.
It should perhaps be mentioned that the few accounts of encountering Grothendieck during the last 20 years describe someone who seems actually clinically insane, with delusions and extreme paranoia, not just someone with less than stellar rationality.
Yes, I concur. But what about Grothendieck in the 1970s vs. Eliezer now? Or Gromov now vs. Eliezer now? It's not clear to me which way such comparisons go.