Which living thinker, scientist or artist do you respect the most and why?
Alexei Kitaev, Terry Tao, Craig Venter, Vi Hart, Bret Victor, Alan Kay, Grant Sanderson, Stewart Brand, Vernor Vinge, Judea Pearl. Passed away in relatively recent past: Elinor Ostrom, Jane Jacobs. Plus many more whose names currently escape me 
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I was making my own secret mental list and also asking why after each, and realised that despite all his brilliance my 'why' for e.g. Richard Dawkins it that he could have but didn't destroy Deepak Chopra in Enemies of Reason, and I find that v cool and uncharacteristically mild.
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Add: Elon Musk, David Deutsch, and Murray Gell-Mann.
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And Satoshi!
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my number one choice is also Alexei Kitaev
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Wasn't meant to be ordered, TBH.
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Freeman Dyson.
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