Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Many People are Einstein but in the Patent Clerk Days - François Chollet | AI Podcast Clips" video.

  1. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Chollet, Thank you Mr Fridman for your great show. You enlighten all of the world, and I hope Russia will come to its senses, or the government, and allow you to come back and do some shows in Moscow for example. Why am I writing. Well, I’m sure I will get a lot of flack from this, but isn’t it odd that Albert Einstein had so many great ideas working as a patent clerk in Berne, Switzerland? Does anyone see where I am going with this? Imagine being a patent clerk. What do you see all day long? Inventions, ideas, concepts. I’m not accusing anyone of everything, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Einstein lifted a few ideas and put them together in a different way to come up with his theory of relativity. We know that the first thing Isaac Newton did when he became president of the Science Academy was to have 17 portraits of himself made, obviously he knew he was going to go down in history. But probably the most intriguing thing he did was to burn the recently deceased notes of his ardent critic who was also a physicist and philosopher. His name escapes me something like Roberts I believe. But get this, he always claimed Newton had stolen some of his ideas that Newton claimed were his own! I'm not a psychologist, but when glory is to be had, it's often the case that someone will claim things they didn't do, but that’s a good reason for your viewers to do their own research and read about it for themselves. I mean, why would Newton burn a fellow colleague’s notes that could have had valuable information for future generations of scientists and the general public? These anecdotal facts have caused me to re-evaluate my estimation of both Newton… and Einstein.
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