HACKER Q&A
📣 bhag2066

Do You Personally Know a Transcendental Genius?


Let's say the transcendental genius group is the kind of intellect that is one in 1,000,000 among the population, so there's 7,000 of them alive today.

If so: What is their field? What are they working on? What are their achievements? What is holding them back?

Alternatively (if you have more time): Can you share their story?


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
If you can really keep track of 150 relationships, those 7,000 are close to 1,000,000 other people. If you say that at least 1 in 1,000 of people have delusions of grandeur, you are looking at a population 7 times bigger so that first answer that got voted down is the canonical one.

👤 adyashakti
i have personally known four, and heard of others. probably HN people would not accept them out of atheistic/materialistic bias, so IMO it's not worth saying more.

👤 dekhn
no, just a few irrational ones. ba-dum-tis