| https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf p139, under slight substitution (keeping in mind that Mises wrote in 1940) > The accomplishment gratifies [the grad student]
neither mediately nor immediately. It does not gratify him mediately because his fellow men at best are unconcerned about it, more often even
greet it with taunts, sneers, and persecution. Many a [grad student] could have
used his gifts to render his life agreeable and joyful*; he did not even consider such a possibility and chose the thorny path without hesitation. The
[grad student] wants to accomplish what he considers his mission, even if he knows that he moves toward his own disaster. see also footnote 23? (would Rao call Mises' geniuses Clueless or Losers?) * it furthers the great man to enjoy the life of the sage? |
(Thanks for reminding me of the cases of Niedermeyer and Takesaki, more appropriate to remember as them grad students rather than geniuses?)
Albeit the more apt metaproblem would be the one of enabling these “grad students” to hunt “genius projects” in teams. not sure if YC itself was meant to be this kind of genius project— i cant tell if that project proved its salt by seducing the {OGs} with a barrage of noble, monastic yet fecund suffering… perhaps not, since they kinda moved on to comfortable spiessig lives (as have their successors, mostly)
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vM (good or bad faith?) sidestepped the “Rao Normalization” issue by citing only nonSTEM “geniuses”, YC embraced 2 rounds of “Rao Normalization”: “finding our ikigai by hiring G/GS to find what pple want”