… so new Von Neumann’s won’t be as impressive.
Why wouldn’t they be?
Sure the median ‘impressiveness’ of various discoveries might change over time but whether someone’s discoveries was 5 standard deviations above average in 1953 or 5 standard deviations above average in 2023 doesn’t seem to matter?
So we can’t have less geniuses. More people means more people above 5 standard deviations (by definition?).
Why wouldn’t they be?
Sure the median ‘impressiveness’ of various discoveries might change over time but whether someone’s discoveries was 5 standard deviations above average in 1953 or 5 standard deviations above average in 2023 doesn’t seem to matter?
So we can’t have less geniuses. More people means more people above 5 standard deviations (by definition?).