[Gatsky]

I beg to differ. I think that in the current era, where there is a lot of live footage of people and uncurated writings like twitter, the stature of 'the genius' will inevitably be reduced. Consider someone like Newton where everything we know is very filtered, and compare to say Richard Dawkins' twitter feed where he says random stuff that is sometimes ill-considered and posts pictures of his broken windscreen. Elon Musk is probably another example.

This is probably a good thing overall, seeing this juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane.

[copperx]

The internet would have not reduced the stature of Ramanujan and Von Neumann in any way. See Terry Tao for an example.

[kaba0]

Musk and the word genius have absolutely nothing to do with each other. He got rich from daddy’s bloody emerald mine, sells himself as a self-made billionaire and pays for his image (buying the title CEO of tesla, etc), without putting anything behind, other than his true self, a whiny scammer.