The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice
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The name of the book is not the more imaginative title but the content of the book is very interesting. He separates the romantic era of chess to the professional one and speaks about many different chess players with different skills. The concepts from the book can be also applied to science in general: there was a romantic science era where one person alone could learn and produce a lot of stuff. Now we are in a professional era where we need teams to discover something, just look at the number of people involved in writing new papers in science.
Personally, I have not lost the romantic view but in a specialized world it is difficult to produce a lot of impact alone.
A word like "greatness" should be reserved for more ambitious and helpful pursuits, such as creating inventions or new social structures that improve the human condition.
Do you mean playing music? Or composing? Because it's hard to argue that Mozart was not great.
Computers have not surpassed humans in terms of musical ability. Only someone tone-deaf, unable to let music into their heart, would say so.
(I have read articles saying that computers can now produce compositions indistinguishable from Mozart's, but the context of comparison is always on the level of silly, childlike little themes from very early Mozart pieces, more like extracts from nursery rhymes. And in terms of performance, there is nothing to rival our leading humans.)