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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by keiferski on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:04AM (#21543919)
Intelligence is a word, a messy abstract concept. If you treat it as an existent quality like height or weight, you end up with absurd questions that have no answers, like "Who was smarter, Picasso or Einstein?"
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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by Yessing on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:00AM (#21557930)
Einstein, without a doubt?

and it's not because Einstein was a brilliant physicits.

Intelligence refers to how well you can reason abstractly, not to how successful, how competent, how eloquent, or talented you are. for that we have those words.

and Einstein would have still been more intelligent even if he never discorverd anything.

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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by keiferski on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:55AM (#21558131)
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence

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