eli_sennesh comments on Einstein's Superpowers - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 May 2008 06:40AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 February 2014 12:12:11PM *  0 points [-]

You know well that raw intelligence doesn't predict success as much as good circumstances and a hell of a lot of work-ethic. Einstein's sum-total qualities may have been extremely rare, but I would never bet that he was just that neurologically different from the rest of us merely very smart people.