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Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:01:49 2017 No.8813326 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the smartest people alive today? The most promising geniuses?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:05:15 2017 No.8813332 In no particular order: Sam Harris, Steve Pinker, Dan Dennett, Ed Witten, Bryan Caplan, Tyler Cowen, Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

>>	nice meme list Sat Apr 8 20:09:31 2017 No.8813343 File: 38 KB, 549x673, shinich.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8813332 forgot someone

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:17:04 2017 No.8813356 >>8813332 >Sam Harris

Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:18:30 2017 No.8813361

>>8813326
>the smartest people alive today? The most promising geniuses?

By "promising geniuses" do you mean people who are likely to make significant contributions? Or those who already have?

Because there are still some old guys like Serre who are still alive.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:18:57 2017 No.8813362 File: 87 KB, 487x650, motl_16.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8813343 i think you posted the wrong picture

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:20:57 2017 No.8813367 >>8813332 Hmm After reading Super-Intelligence, I'm not sure if I'd consider Nick Bostom a genius, the book was far too speculative in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:22:47 2017 No.8813370 File: 10 KB, 329x281, 1387852725866.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8813332 >Sam Harris >Dan Dennett

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:25:23 2017 No.8813378 >>8813343 Is that markeplier?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:29:25 2017 No.8813386 File: 214 KB, 576x512, saad witen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8813361 both

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 20:29:31 2017 No.8813387 >>8813370 You're an intellectual philistine. Read the recent New Yorker profile on Dennett, and prepare to be humbled. He is a fucking g e n i u s.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 8 23:09:28 2017 No.8813628 File: 600 KB, 937x480, Barnett.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 16:43:13 2017 No.8815159 >>8813332 oy vey

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 17:06:16 2017 No.8815212 >>8813386 Does his head get smaller when he's sad?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 17:33:18 2017 No.8815260 File: 172 KB, 400x382, 1491078357562.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8815212 yes it is usually this big

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 17:34:45 2017 No.8815262 >>8815212 >Does his head get smaller when he's sad? His head is a parallel universe and follows an inflation/deflation cycle.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 18:15:35 2017 No.8815359 Me

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 18:47:08 2017 No.8815412 >>8815359 Also Me

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 19:06:06 2017 No.8815448 >>8813332 Yudkowsky Nice meme. Anyone who writes garbage harry potter fanfiction isn't smart Mostly internet memes in this thread

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