Author: Bo Persson
Date: 13:47:10 01/09/02
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On January 09, 2002 at 14:11:04, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 09, 2002 at 11:29:07, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>(A)Marion Vos Savant is 230 and has a weird last name. > >Just to be anal: Marylin > >> >>(B) Bill Gates is 70 IQ points below Vos Savant, at 160, yet has made $60 >>billion with selling crap I'm using at the moment. >> >>(C)I'm a 150 -that's both my IQ and my possessings in Euro. >> >>Now who is the smartest cookie? > >Oreos. If they start including Ginko Biloba extract then they will really be the >smartest cookies around. :-) > >Jim's comment on Mensa is on the money, but I find it appalling all the same. I >found José's comment on her attempt to refute Wiles's proof interesting. Sounded >a bit like Capablanca and Alekhine. It must have been quite a book since last I >read, his proof extended to over 100 pages. That's no doubt the biggest danger >of having everything come so easily: one comes to believe that genuine work or >effort are unnecessary or should be. Surely this is true up to the limits of >what such a gift brings, but the point of my disgust is that it makes pushing >the very highest limits, only accessible to the brightest stars, possible, and >it would seem that that is being spurned for hobbyism at best. Agreed that super >IQs do not necessarily entail super ambition, and it would seem that it even >engenders just the opposite: a proportional laziness and lack of work ethic. >However, that signifies a fatal flaw in the person endowed with such >intelligence, most likely emotional in nature. So you think the worlds smartest person is wrong in marrying a successful doctor and writing a newspaper column just for fun? I think she has figured it out. This could mean that she has the total understanding of Life, the Universe and Everything! > My recounting of Marylin's >comment on voting is true, and it shows a real lack of depth, which came as >surprising (close to shocking really) to me. Or, maybe not... :-) > Albert Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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