[ExI] Asimov's 90th [91st] today

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Jan 3 19:11:40 UTC 2011


On 1/3/2011 12:39 PM, John Clark wrote:
>
>> one of the two people he would admit was smarter than he. (The other
>> was Minsky.)
>
> Actually no, in his autobiography he said that both he and Pohl had IQ
> tests, I don't remember the exact numbers but both were in the upper
> 150's, however Asimov beat Pohl by one point.

That's what Dave Lubkin said: one of the two people Pohl admitted was 
smarter than he.

> The only two people that
> Asimov had ever met that he thought were smarter than him were Martin
> Minsky and Carl Sagan.

And Heinz Pagels.

Damien Broderick



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