[HN Gopher] The Night I Met Einstein (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ The Night I Met Einstein (2021) Author : superasn Score : 45 points Date : 2022-07-18 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.rd.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.rd.com) | la64710 wrote: | With great intelligence comes great empathy. | | Sadly many do not understand that and cannot close the perceived | gap between the two. | ThrowawayR2 wrote: | > " _With great intelligence comes great empathy._ " | | I have met more than my fair share of talented engineers, some | with stacks of patents, who would happily stab colleagues in | the back for their next promotion. | | Even within the hallowed halls of academe, it is well known | that competition is vicious for grants and tenure and abuse of | graduate students is commonplace. | oumua_don17 wrote: | >> happily stab you in the back for their next promotion | | That means you met intelligent people who did not imbibe good | virtues & values in life, hence their attitude was not free | from cunningness. Hence they did not possess any great | intelligence! | Koshkin wrote: | Well, it is not a secret that intelligence has evolved in | the animal world as a weapon of survival. | BurningFrog wrote: | Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions. | | Despite common usage, it doesn't preclude using that ability | to crush those people if useful... | smugma wrote: | It seems as if compassion and empathy are orthogonal to | brilliance. I hear enough stories that fall on both ends of | the spectrum (tech founders appear to lean asshole, but | amongst Nobel prize winners, I feel it's more balanced) that | I don't think there's any correlation between the two. | gumby wrote: | > I hear enough stories that fall on both ends of the | spectrum (... amongst Nobel prize winners, I feel it's more | balanced) | | I think that if you have a gong like that you _can_ relax | some of your insecurities. The only nobelists ( & | equivalent) I have known* have all been supportive in | person, though some of them did not have a reputation for | it. | | The reason I put "can" in italics is that there's no | guarantee: some people are simply jerks and for some people | a great honor will simply increase their impostor syndrome. | | * don't get the wrong idea: I'm not talking about a huge | number. | a11r wrote: | I am in the middle of listening to _Einstein: His Life and | Universe_ by Walter Isaacson and would highly recommend this | biography to anyone interested in more. | gnicholas wrote: | People talk about the singular focus that some famous people have | on their interlocutors. When someone this famous is so intently | focused on you, that must come across as incredibly thoughtful | and even magnanimous (given all the other people they could be | talking to). | | I have wondered if these people were always this way, or if they | developed the habit after becoming famous. I've also wondered | whether the singular attention would be received in the same way | if it were coming from someone who was not as famous. | | It's obviously better than talking to someone who is constantly | glancing around the room, but could it ever bee seen as creepy or | weird? I can't imagine this fellow would have followed just | anyone up into an upstairs room with a phonograph player! | AnimalMuppet wrote: | _W O W_. | | I had no idea that Einstein was so compassionate, so aware of how | other people were reacting to things, and found so much _joy_ in | opening things for other people. Amazing. | gumby wrote: | He was apparently quite kind to poor old Godel while they were | at the IAS. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-18 23:00 UTC)