Curious: from whom do you first hear about ideas that years or decades later turn out to be really important?
For me, a few: @AdamMarblestone @stewartbrand @gwern @timhwang
For clarity: they don't need to be people you know, just people with reliable radar for the edge!
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A lot of the people who come to mind for me are people not on Twitter. People with great edge radar: Jane Jacobs, Susan Sontag, Murray Gell-Mann, John Wheeler.
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All these people are known for their mainstream work, but each was also superb at identifying interesting questions very early. Loved reading Jane Jacobs on fractals, or the way Gell-Mann enabled ideas like the renormalization group & string theory, long before popularity
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More, this time from SF writers: Vernor Vinge, Ted Chiang, Carolyn Cherryh. (In Cherryh's case I suspect her thinking is so far ahead it's almost hard for me to see..)
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More: Herb Simon, Cosma Shalizi,
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