> You can respect their achievements while separating the other half
Agree to disagree. If people would tell them to go to hell from the beginning, their achievements would go to someone else and we would all be better for it.
Agree to disagree. If people would tell them to go to hell from the beginning, their achievements would go to someone else and we would all be better for it.
Billions of people over hundreds of years produces lots of opportunities.
There is no doubt in my mind that we would've made the same progress with any other company, albeit perhaps cosmetic differences.
I think this is translatable to most other advancements. It's nearly always iterational, and either someone's first, different people discover something independently or it's a mashup of separate discoveries.
History makes geniuses, smart people exist everywhere.
It doesn't work like that unfortunately.