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Comment by thcsa

9 years ago

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

Indeed, stopping to rank everything on absurd scales would be a great intellectual achievement for humanity.

  • 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.

There are several items in the list that seem glaringly out of place

  • 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.