Who in the world has super taste, a feel for and way of picking subjects that, decades in the future, will seem prescient, as though they had a line on the future?
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At first you think - who has the most influence, biggest following, highest status, etc. But then you realize, that's not how you would do it on Earth. We all know popular critics who have bad taste. It's part of it, but there's something more subtle going on.
One interesting candidate question is: "Who are your heroes", applied recursively.
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I remember seeing Bill Gates say "Richard Feynman". And in his writing Feynman says heroesque things about Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Bethe. I don't know for Oppenheimer and Bethe, but Einstein certainly expressed Newton as a hero. Which is a pretty interesting endpoint.
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(Just as an example, starting from someone many might name as an example.)
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