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summertime_taco t1_j2zlw01 wrote

That chart is extremely incorrect. The average human is way closer to a chimp than they are to Einstein.

People underestimate how smart chimps are, overestimate how smart the average person is, and wildly underestimate just how brilliant the top end of human beings are.

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Practical-Mix-4332 t1_j2zmue7 wrote

> wildly underestimate

Uh no, they’re still just humans

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summertime_taco t1_j2zn3qq wrote

They're further away from a dumb human than a chimp is.

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Practical-Mix-4332 t1_j2zpaiu wrote

What even is a dumb human? Chimps can be dumb too, did you think of that? This comparison is dumb.

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summertime_taco t1_j2zxejx wrote

Someone several standard deviations below the average intelligence. Like a redditor.

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marvinthedog t1_j31440d wrote

I don´t think Einstein was that much smarter though. I saw a video with Sabine Hossenfelder where she said something like; Einstein just happened to be working on problems that noone else had been focusing on and those particular problems turned out to be very important.

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