[extropy-chat] Brilliance

[Adrian Tymes]

--- "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
wrote:
> You cannot be trained to be brilliant, as
> the very definition
>  generally asserts abilities that are far beyond
> what can be obtained by
> mere training.

Eh?  "Brilliance" seems to imply abilities that are
far beyond what most people have, but says nothing
about how they were obtained.

> And most of the really brilliant
> people I can think of
> in history had little or unextraordinary training in
> the fields their
> brilliance is noted in.

Aside, of course, from self-directed training.  Which
can be the most powerful form.  Also, most of the
really brilliant people I can think of in history were
not raised with all the disadvantages in the world.
(Else, there should have been quite a few African or
south Asian Einstein-equivalents over the past
century.  There might arguably have been a few, but
not as many as there should have been if brilliance is
independent of upbringing.)