Greatest Thinkers of the Current Year

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Dawkins
Haidt
Houellebecq
Piketty
Plomin
Thiel
Duterte

Zizek is still up there.

>>8660064
This is a very probematic list

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>>8660074
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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>>8660120

>>8660064
Chomsky.

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All years

Chomsky
Krasznahorkai

>>8660074
>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.

>>8660064
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?

>>8660267
>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.

>>8660273
Kahneman does good research but has shitty ethics. No rigor in my opinion.

>>8660277
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.

>>8660064
Donald Trump

>>8660284
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.

>>8660204
>Krasznahorkai

His novels aren't very good. The prose style is very pretentious. I bet he isn't even a virgin.

>>8660327
Name a better living author.

Bumping for all the intellectuals who are browsing lit who have some view on this.

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>>8660064
The most powerful man in the world

>>8660064
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennet.

>>8660739
>must be 18 to post on this forum

>>8660064

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

>>8660064
>no Judith Butler
DROPPED

>>8663478

This desu

>>8660064

Anonymous

>>8660064
Scatman John

>current year
Oh boy he's one of those

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Hyde
Spencer
Sailer
Land
Taylor
Moldbug
Houellebecq
Yiannopoulos
Trump

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>>8663478
>>8664786
>tfw ahead of the curve

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>>8660064
There can only be one

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>>8663478
>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.

>>8661794
well, his prose is breddy gud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdp4-CFEDs

>moral and oral decay

Bump as to hammer down the plebian threads.

>>8665965
the most powerful go underground before being recognized for the gods they are