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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don't forget these Danielles!
@DStrachman@DanielleMorrillhttps://www.danielleworld.com/how-you-can-be-a-danielle … - Show replies
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Agreed. Him and
@GreatDismal inspired several gens of techies to bring some super influential concepts to life.
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@michael_nielsen :P Some people that jump to mind:@zzznah, Dario Amodei, Holden KarnofskyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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