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  "content_md": "![[24qgfzz0dj0cwpbhw3wa7j6dtv | Venkatesh Rao's Blyg: Another genius of my acquaintance, Dav…]]\n> The word “genius” is basically a thought stopper. It rarely points coherently at anything other than non-neurotypical savant tendencies like in music or chess. Anytime it’s used for more culturally constructed perceptions of value (think: RLHF social proof genius vs RLVR verifiable geniuses) it dissolves into nonsense.\n\nThat’s prolly why I appreciate Schopenhauer’s definition of Genius as “hitting unseen targets”. Makes space to take things unpersonally and ask questions like: What rules are really being followed? Is genius chiefly stored in the person’s brain? Rather, is it in the room with us?\n\nOr is it just the room?",
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