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		aebtebeten on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses > Where are the kolmogorovs, the von neumanns, ... Communicating via conference and paper, not via popular media. (As DEK says, their task is to get to the bottom of things, not keep on top of them.) IOW, where they've always been. The Glass Bead Game (1943) calls the twentieth century the Age of the Feuilleton as snark on that genre (the dead tree equivalent of blogging) as expression of idiocracy.

cblconfederate on Oct 17, 2020 [–]

yeah conferences still exist (eventhough they are more of a leisure activity in recent decades) , but the einsteins are not there

aebtebeten on Oct 17, 2020 | [–]

They may not count as Einsteins for you, but most of the Turing Award winners I know I met at conferences.

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