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.
That’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?
Or is it just the room?