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Comparing Kahnemann's work with Newton's is absurd.

• Rexxar 9y ago
  Indeed, stopping to rank everything on absurd scales would be a great intellectual achievement for humanity.
  • sddfd 9y ago
    That's what I thought browsing the comments. As a scientist, it is important to attribute ideas to the people that put them forward. But the essence of science is about the preservation, dissemination, and most importantly researching knowledge. Whenever the topic of attribution comes up, it seems to quickly escalate from giving due credit to sciences politics.
• gaius 9y ago
  There are several items in the list that seem glaringly out of place
  • ricraz 9y ago
    Which ones? Note that an item being on the list doesn't mean it's a comparable achievement to all others on the list, just that it's above an implicit and slightly vague threshold.
• ricraz 9y ago
  On Kahnemann in particular, I was quite influenced by this series of tributes to him: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-on-kahneman https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-on-kahnema...