[posnet]

The greatest minds of our generation spend their time thinking about how to:

- make people click on ads

- make trading algos faster

- replace human artists

- build more efficient killing machines

- destroy any remaining concept of privacy

[geodel]

Greatest mind of previous generation made nuclear bombs and other deadly things.

[astrange]

Aren't the greatest mind(s) of our generation writing Terry Tao's blog posts?

[vladms]

This directly implies that all the people that did useful stuff (improving cancer survivability, new vaccines, renewable energy, and others) are all "below" the "greatest minds of our generation".

Not to mention it also suggests there is a way to "compare" minds. I would not choose myself to do somethings, but that does not mean I despise automatically people choosing to.

[geodel]

I think they meant greatest minds have to be greatest money earners also. Else they are not greatest minds.

[4gotunameagain]

Hey, at least we had one of them working on TempleOS.