pmarca's pantheon™

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	Name	Birth	Death	Age	Peerage?	Nobel?	TED?	Econtalk?	Known for

2		Median: 1932	47% are dead	Median: 75
3	@BasedBeffJezos								"Kardashev gradient climber" lol
4	@bayeslord								Accelerationist anon
5	@PessimistsArc								Accelerationist non(?)-anon
6	Ada Lovelace	1815	1852	37	Y				SHE WAS THE FIRST PROGRAMMER U GUISE!!!1
7	Adam Smith	1723	1790	67					Patron saint of economics. Wrote two books that apparently nobody has actually read.
8	Andy Warhol	1928	1987	59					The soup can guy. (Why?)
9	Bertrand Russell	1872	1970	98	Y				Big name in philosophy. Wrote Principia Mathematica with Whitehead. Pwned by Gödel.
10	Brad DeLong	1960		65					Economist, blogger, wrote Slouching Towards Utopia.
11	Buckminster Fuller	1895	1983	88					The geodesic dome guy.
12	Calestous Juma	1953	2017	64					Kenyan scientist. Promoter of GMOs.
13	Clayton Christensen	1952	2020	68					The "disruptive innovation" guy. Wrote The Innovator's Dilemma.
14	Dambisa Moyo	1969		56	Y		Y		Ex Goldman banker, TEDster, wrote some books about Africa. Baroness!
15	David Deutsch	1953		72			Y		Physicist; recently on record with takes like "Brexit is good, actually".
16	David Friedman	1945		80					Libertarian economist. Son of Milton Friedman. Father of Patri "Seasteading" Friedman.
17	David Ricardo	1772	1823	51					The next canonical proto-economist after Smith; not as good a writer as Smith.
18	Deirdre McCloskey	1942		83				Y	Libertarian economist
19	Doug Engelbart	1925	2013	88					Augmenting Human Intellect, HLAM/T, NLS, and the mouse. Would probably be aghast to be on this list.
20	Elting Morison	1909	1995	86					Historian of technology, progenitor of Science and Technology Studies (STS); probably also would be aghast to be on this list.
21	Filippo Tommaso Marinetti	1876	1944	68					One of the original fascists. Big Mussolini fan. Wrote the Futurist Manifesto, which is a work of utter batshit.
22	Frederic Bastiat	1801	1850	49					Economist, proto-Austrian
23	Frederick Jackson Turner	1861	1932	71					American historian
24	Friedrich Hayek	1899	1992	93	Y				The other quintessential Austrian economist. Wrote The Road to Serfdom. Big influence on Margaret Thatcher.
25	Friedrich Nietzsche	1844	1900	56					The one philosopher anybody reads if they read any at all; lauded by broody teenagers everywhere.
26	George Gilder	1939		86					American investor/economist.
27	Isabel Paterson	1886	1961	75					Libertarian author
28	Israel Kirzner	1930		95					Economist; Mises disciple.
29	James Burnham	1905	1987	82					Ex-Trotskyist turned National Review commentator. (See also: Christopher Hitchens)
30	James Carse	1932	2020	88					Author of Finite and Infiite Games.
31	Joel Mokyr	1946		79				Y	Economic historian.
32	Johan Norberg	1973		52					Neoliberal pundit
33	John Galt								Fictional character in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
34	John von Neumann	1903	1957	54					Probably one of the biggest names in computing after Turing himself.
35	Joseph Schumpeter	1883	1950	67					Literal Austrian economist. "Creative destruction" guy.
36	Julian Simon	1932	1998	66					Cato Institute guy
37	Kevin Kelly	1952		73			Y	Y	WIRED, Whole Earth Catalog
38	Louis Rossetto	1949		76					WIRED
39	Ludwig von Mises	1881	1973	92	Y				The quintessential Austrian economist.
40	Marian Tupy								Cato Institute guy, wrote Superabundance
41	Martin Gurri	1949		76					Ex-CIA, now GMU Mercatus
42	Matt Ridley	1958		67	Y		Y	Y	Libertarian viscount 🤔🤔🤔
43	Milton Friedman	1912	2006	94		Y			The original supply-side economist. One of the Chicago Boys. Did an Adrian Malone-style video essay in 1980 called Free To Choose that still soaks the knickers of libertarians.
44	Neven Sesardic	1949		76					"Race science" guy?
45	Nick Land	1962		63					"The father of accelerationism" lol
46	Paul Collier	1949		76	Y		Y	Y	Another economist, also knighted
47	Paul Johnson								Not sure if he means another economist or Warhol's guy (if so, why?)
48	Paul Romer	1955		70		Y	Y	Y	Economist; known mainly for Charter Cities but has done other things too.
49	Ray Kurzweil	1948		77			Y		Got rich making synths, now just eats 100 vitamins a day or whatever.
50	Richard Feynman	1918	1988	70					Surely You're Joking, Mr. Andreessen!
51	Rose Wilder Lane	1886	1968	82					Another libertarian writer, alongside Paterson
52	Stephen Wolfram	1959		66			Y		Math's Own George Costanza, according to some.
53	Stewart Brand	1938		87			Y		Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL, etc; this guy shows up everywhere.
54	Thomas Sowell	1930		95				Y	Avuncular Black conservative white conservatives love to cite.
55	Vilfredo Pareto	1848	1923	75					Economist, known for, well, Pareto.
56	Virginia Postrel	1960		65					Libertarian pundit. Wrote a book called The Power of Glamour which was good aside weirdly and randomly promoting Ayn Rand.
57	William Lewis								Not clear who. Nobel economist or?
58	William Nordhaus	1941		84		Y			Got an Econ Nobel ("Nobel") for "Climate Change is Good, Actually". Also wrote one of my favourite papers: Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy.
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