But 80% of the people live on less than $10 a day, so they have no chance under our pay to play system. Satyendra Bose, who they mentioned and after whom they named the boson, translated Einstein's papers into Hindi and distributed them.ĭo these people think that only a small cadre of people have the intelligence to do what they do? Maybe, but super smart people get born every day all around the world. What about all the super smart young people out there who might contribute if only they had access to these papers. But when I went to the link you either had to sign in as a paid subscriber or pay a download fee. I tried to look up the Anderson article and it popped up first on a google search. I think a lot of that happens because science has become big business and secret. The second scientist brought up various papers and also talked about how scientists in different specialties in quantum theory can't talk to each other, much less to the public. And he did a much poorer job with the hat explanation than the older skeptical guy. And then the young last guy really believed. The second older scientist basically expressed skepticism not just about the Higgs Boson, but about the standard model as a whole. The first one at a relatively young middle age displayed considerable skepticism. I found very interesting the different levels of skepticism among the 3 speakers. To be stopped by one's life and surroundings from realizing one's potential is a commentary on and assessment of that potential. Guess, what-I didn't! Life is an intelligence test, and the genuine geniuses I've ever known have been incredibly resourceful, robust, and creative people. Does the previous commenter (who sounds so resentful of people of high intelligence who don't trail some hard luck story behind them) believe that I needed him to thrive despite the rotten hand I was dealt at birth? The idea that genius is that fragile strikes me as romantic.and condescending. Quite the opposite: 100 years of data show exactly which populations generate which clusters of personality and intelligence traits. The idea that genius or high intelligence is common in all populations has absolutely no data behind it. I look back over my life now and see that no hardship ever stopped my intelligence from expressing itself, and I spent my first 22 years in a place that makes Ferguson, MO, look like a garden spot. In fact my IQ test that yielded the 145 I took with full-blown pneumonia and a fever of 101. in statistics and having a good career supporting the proliferation of intelligence. I had most of them, and several enough to cause me lifelong physical problems that still did not impede me from getting a Ph.D. Nothing stopped me, and I was too smart to "beg on the streets" and so genetically robust that no "preventable childhood disease" stopped me either. I speak as a woman born to a very poor family whose IQ tested (multiple times) between 145 and 165. That "genius searching the trash dump" is arithmetically so improbable for a given population of failed humans that it isn't worth wasting the money finding it. The vast majority of humans distribute well to the left of the intelligence and potential curves. Go to the site Population Pyramids dot net and see how much of human creativity and intelligence has been drained into the sands of r-strategy reproduction and idiocracy. On the topic of intelligence: I'd much rather give money to build a new Webb space telescope or LHC every week than give it to "80% of people living on $10 a day." In my nation we tried pouring tens of trillions in the dimmest and most feckless, and all we have to show for it globally is massive proliferation of the dim and feckless. I recommend that readers also consult the blog of Matt Strassler, formerly a particle physicist at Rutgers and Harvard, now a freelance science communicator. These outtakes were a nice addition to what I know about this topic. Much fun, watching this and listening to these humble, brilliant men explain the frontiers of thinking in their and closely related fields, as well as the process by which complex scientific finds and work get done.
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