WHO are the top thinkers of 2016?
Greatest Thinkers of the Current Year
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Dawkins
Haidt
Houellebecq
Piketty
Plomin
Thiel
Duterte
Zizek is still up there.
This is a very probematic list
LMAO *tips fedora* xD
>Le Dewkins meme
Top KEK.
This is you right now LOL.
Go read THE BIBLE if you want to know where we came from. Protip: it's not evolution.
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Chomsky.
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Chomsky
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>Dawkins
Seriously, his selfish gene concept is one of the worst misconceptions to enter evolutionary biology. He had some other ideas that were alright, such as dinner vs plate and evolvability.
Memetics was another great blunder.
He and his pal Daniel Dennet are from the reductionist kind while complexity science will tell you the whole cannot be reduced to its parts.
Daniel Kahneman has most certainly contributed to our thinking.
John Gray, I like him for warning about the dangers of hubris. But I don't consider him the greatest thinker.
Who are the others?
>dinner vs plate
What's that one?
It's mostly embarrassing to hear him say anything about biology for a decade or so btw. Like he'll spout stuff that's like 70's evo psych shit.
Kahneman does good research but has shitty ethics. No rigor in my opinion.
I searched for it, and it is not the exact phrase. It is called the life-dinner principle.
It comes down to this: a predator can miss its dinner, but a prey ending up like dinner has no future. Really simple, actually. Nothing all too groundbreaking.
Donald Trump
I have only read about his cognitive bias research.
I heard he also did research on happiness, but I hold the belief that such a thing is pretty pointless, so never bothered reading about that.
>Krasznahorkai
His novels aren't very good. The prose style is very pretentious. I bet he isn't even a virgin.
Name a better living author.
Bumping for all the intellectuals who are browsing lit who have some view on this.
The most powerful man in the world
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennet.
>must be 18 to post on this forum
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Edward Witten
Nick Land
Peter Goldreich
Roger Frederick Dashen
Dani Rodrik
Sam Hyde
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Nick Land is unironically the most important philosopher of our time
if you want to understand the next decade you should read him
he's also gaining in popularity so get in on the ground floor
>no Judith Butler
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Scatman John
>current year
Oh boy he's one of those
Hyde
Spencer
Sailer
Land
Taylor
Moldbug
Houellebecq
Yiannopoulos
Trump
There can only be one
>tfw ahead of the curve
There can only be one
>Nick Land is unironically the most important philosopher of our time
lol
>if you want to understand the next decade you should read him
t. Nick Land, and no one else
>he's also gaining in popularity so get in on the ground floor
Pulling facts out of your arse, see pic
Nick Land is and always will be a meme
I've probably experienced more profundity from an anonymous poster on this board than '''''''''''''''''''''current year'''''''''''''''''''''' thinkers.
Bump as to hammer down the plebian threads.
the most powerful go underground before being recognized for the gods they are