Certainly not the Nathan Myhrvold who is a professional jack-of-all-trades. After leaving Microsoft in 1999, he's been a world barbecue champion, a wildlife photographer, a chef, a contributor to SETI, and a volcano explorer. (http://www.ted.com/speakers/nathan_myhrvold)
You can't possibly be talking about the Nathan Myhrvold who proposed that we pump sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere from helium balloons to solve global warming, despite experts saying that it would reverse all the work we've done in the last 30 years to get sulfur dioxide out of the atmosphere. (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html)
Although Google would make an industry outsider think differently, it's pretty much common knowledge within the tech industry that the guy is a complete piece of shit.
EDIT: Oh wait I forgot, HN isn't crawled.
One of the best measures we have against Mr. Myhrvold -- given that he seems interested in portraying himself as a public genius of some sort -- is to drag his name through the mud over this. He's not the guy who studied with Stephen Hawking. He's not the guy who wrote the molecular gastronomy tome. He's the very, very rich guy who wants to drag down the entire tech industry to get even richer.