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There are lots of people who can become very good and do "genius" work at one specialized thing that they work hard at. A "general" genius like Von Neumann or Edward Witten is much more rare. In short, yes there are incredibly smart people floating around but making new discoveries gets harder and harder, and it also gets harder to separate the genius discoveries from the bullshit people publish so they don't perish.

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