brainstorming thread: which people in history had the largest positive (counterfactual) impact on the world, by their own values (CEV, if they could see the consequences in hindsight)?
Herzl dedicated his life to establishing a “national home” for the jews. He pretty much single handedly founded modern-zionism and turned it from a fringe (almost-sci-fi) idea to a mass movement. I think there is a strong argument that Israel wouldn’t exist without Herzl.
brainstorming thread: which people in history had the largest positive (counterfactual) impact on the world, by their own values (CEV, if they could see the consequences in hindsight)?
Stanislav Petrov
Vasily Arkhipov
George Washington
Jesus Christ
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
Louis Pasteur
Norman Borlaug
Alexander Flemingje
Jonas Salk
Thomas Edison
Alan Turing
Abraham Lincoln
Johannes Gutenberg
Edward Jenner
Fritz Haber
Claude Shannon
Theodor Herzl
Herzl dedicated his life to establishing a “national home” for the jews. He pretty much single handedly founded modern-zionism and turned it from a fringe (almost-sci-fi) idea to a mass movement. I think there is a strong argument that Israel wouldn’t exist without Herzl.