If it were true that raw intelligence was sufficient for a human to want to dominate others and succeed at it, then Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Leonard Euler, Niels Abel, Kurt Gödel and other scientists would have been both rich and powerful, and they were neither.
1. Intelligence is not a scalar quantity. You can be amazing in one domain and pretty bad in another (that's what geeks are).
2. To dominate, you have to have a drive to dominate. In human societies, domination is rather frowned upon as a way to obtain status. Prestige is preferred.
Here's the final version of the global population density graphic I made, because another one that is circulating was less well defined, and someone cropped NZ off it
We've got the power! 💪 We have been named the second most influential school in the world for ‘teaching power’ in a new ranking by the Financial Times. We are over the moon! https://t.co/rtBH1lbZfC
We are excited to announce that Dr. Daniel Junglas joins the Xpress Optimization Development team.
Dr. Junglas is an expert in Mixed Integer Programming and has more than ten years experience in implementing commercial Optimization software.
Welcome, Daniel!
Saddened to hear that David Graeber of LSE has died. We lost a sharp, original mind.
His chief legacy may be a sliver of insight that he examined thoroughly: "Bullshit jobs".
Celebrate his life and ideas with this interview from @TheEconomist.
https://t.co/6WepegZ6GH
The web is full of words. It is also full of equations. But while you can search for words there is no comparable search engine for equations. @RenaudLambiotte has an idea.
Our latest @OxUniMaths#WhatsOnYourMind film - 60 seconds inside the mind of a mathematician.
1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.