[m3talsmith]

You are not getting it right: he specifically excludes himself from the category of genius. What he bemoans is the languishing of his ideas and posits that, despite the several interests in them and efforts to fulfill said interests, the timing may be wrong for them to be taken up.

[duxup]

You're right that he does seem to indicate he does exclude himself, but I feel like he puts more effort into that article to include himself with the comparisons made.

But maybe that's not the issue as much as:

I think the larger issue is that he really doesn't make the case (and maybe that's not the point) that these ideas are in fact as great as he makes them out to be. He mentions then and then goes on to mention some basic math, about the matrix... that's not convincing and raises all sorts of questions in my mind.

[detritus]

> timing may be wrong for them to be taken up.

Thus underpinning his actual conceit of genius.

[300bps]

At the top of the linked article is a link to a previous blog entry entitled "A Genius????" that lists a bunch of "smart" things he's done that presumably qualify him for being a genius but that he cringes at calling himself that.

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/a-genius.html

[neogodless]

Overall the comments here and several of his blog posts make me think of this: https://sive.rs/multiply

> To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

I also can think of times where "my" ideas were realized in the real world - but in no way can be credited to me, because other people also had those ideas, and someone implemented them. Was I a genius because I had these ideas, or did I just have some similar experiences and knowledge to others that had those ideas that (all but) inevitably will generate such an idea over a given timeline?

To really see how he views himself in comparison to others...

> I don't want my success or failure to be determined by the idiots who populate this planet.

I think really there's a fear here to put his ideas "out there" to go through the gauntlet of other smart people. If they never become popular, you can keep telling yourself how significant they are and it will not be disproved. But if you work to get your idea out there, and it still fails, maybe the idea had less value or significance than you assigned it. (Or you can still blame the "idiots on this planet.")