to clarify a bit: my claim was that there are 10k individuals in history who have contributed at least at the same order of magnitude to our understanding of concepts — like, in terms of pushing human understanding further compared to the state of understanding before their work. we can be interested in understanding what this number is for this reason: it can help us understand whether it’s plausible that this line of inquiry is just about to find some sort of definitive theory of concepts.
(i expect you will still have a meaningfully lower number. i could be convinced it’s more like 1000 but i think it’s very unlikely to be like 100.) i think wentworth is obviously much higher eg if you rank people on publicly displayed alignment understanding, very likely in the top 10
to clarify a bit: my claim was that there are 10k individuals in history who have contributed at least at the same order of magnitude to our understanding of concepts — like, in terms of pushing human understanding further compared to the state of understanding before their work. we can be interested in understanding what this number is for this reason: it can help us understand whether it’s plausible that this line of inquiry is just about to find some sort of definitive theory of concepts. (i expect you will still have a meaningfully lower number. i could be convinced it’s more like 1000 but i think it’s very unlikely to be like 100.) i think wentworth is obviously much higher eg if you rank people on publicly displayed alignment understanding, very likely in the top 10