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Biographical & Conceptual Index

Thinkers, Pioneers & Researchers

From the seminars of Vienna, Lwów, Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague to contemporary AI safety labs, economics, and philosophy—explore the authors whose works and concepts form this atlas.

335 Key thinkers in index
89 Central European pioneers

Showing 335 thinkers

Central European Lineage 1964–1987

Stanisław Lem

Kraków · Lwów

Concepts in corpus (15)

Documented works

  • Summa technologiae, Ch. VI “Fantomologia” (subsection “Podstawy fantomatyki” — Fundamentals of Phantomatics) (1964)
  • Summa technologiae (1964)
  • Summa technologiae, Ch. IV “Intelektronika” (Intellectronics) (1964)
Global Canon & Research 2001–2023

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Concepts in corpus (10)

Documented works

  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007)
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
Global Canon & Research 2015–2019

Shoshana Zuboff

Concepts in corpus (9)

Documented works

  • Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization (2015)
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019)
  • Surveillance Capitalism: An Interview with Shoshana Zuboff (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2024

Timnit Gebru

Concepts in corpus (9)

Documented works

  • Datasheets for Datasets (2018)
  • Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification (2018)
  • On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2021)
Central European Lineage 1937–1974

Friedrich August von Hayek

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (8)

Documented works

  • Economics and Knowledge (and its development in “The Use of Knowledge in Society”) (1937)
  • The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)
  • The Constitution of Liberty, Ch. “Equality, Value, and Merit” (1960)
Central European Lineage 1934–1963

Karl Popper

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (8)

Documented works

  • Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft (1934)
  • Logik der Forschung (1934)
  • Logik der Forschung (1935)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2021

Emily M. Bender

Concepts in corpus (8)

Documented works

  • Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020)
  • On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2021)
Global Canon & Research 1951–1967

Hannah Arendt

Concepts in corpus (8)

Documented works

  • The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
  • The Human Condition (1958)
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
Central European Lineage 1945–1993

Albert O. Hirschman

Berlin

Concepts in corpus (7)

Documented works

  • National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (1945)
  • National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (study of the trade subordination of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European economies) (1945)
  • Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970)
Central European Lineage 1957–2003

János Kornai

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • A gazdasági vezetés túlzott központosítása. Kritikai elemzés könnyűipari tapasztalatok alapján (1957)
  • A gazdasági vezetés túlzott központosítása (1957)
  • Resource-Constrained versus Demand-Constrained Systems (Econometrica, 1979) and Economics of Shortage / A hiány (1980) (1979)
Central European Lineage 1935

Ludwik Fleck

Lwów

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache (1935)
  • Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv (1935)
Central European Lineage 1914–1968

Michael Polanyi

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Medical studies at the University of Budapest (degree 1914) and doctorate in physical chemistry (research 1916–1917, degree 1919); later writings: “The Tacit Dimension” (1966, ch. “Emergence”) and “Life's Irreducible Structure” (Science 1968) (1914)
  • Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958)
  • Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Ch. 4 “Skills”); developed further in The Tacit Dimension (1966) (1958)
Global Canon & Research 2001–2008

Cass R. Sunstein

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Republic.com (2001)
  • Libertarian Paternalism (2003)
  • Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005)
Global Canon & Research 1955–2011

Daniel Kahneman

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (1974)
  • The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice (1981)
  • Choices, Values, and Frames (1984)
Global Canon & Research 2002–2014

Nick Bostrom

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards (2002)
  • Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development (2003)
  • Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2017–2020

Tom B. Brown

Concepts in corpus (6)

Documented works

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017)
  • Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
  • Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Central European Lineage 1923–1954

George Pólya

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Über die Statistik verketteter Vorgänge (1923)
  • How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (1945)
  • Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning (Vol. I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics; Vol. II: Patterns of Plausible Inference) (1954)
Central European Lineage 1924–1944

Karl Polanyi

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Intellectual formation in Budapest (Galileo Circle) and editorial work at “Der Österreichische Volkswirt” in Vienna (1924–1933) leading to “The Great Transformation” (1944) (1924)
  • The Great Transformation (1944)
  • The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944)
Central European Lineage 1932–1968

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Theoretische Biologie (Vol. I, 1932; Vol. II, 1942) (1932)
  • University of Vienna biological studies and habilitation; “General System Theory” in “Biologia Generalis” (1949) (1949)
  • An Outline of General System Theory (1950)
Global Canon & Research 1998–2016

Andy Clark

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • The Extended Mind (1998)
  • Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (2003)
  • Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (2008)
Global Canon & Research 1972–2008

Donella H. Meadows

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • The Limits to Growth (1972)
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008)
Global Canon & Research 1990–2010

Elinor Ostrom

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990)
  • Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010)
Global Canon & Research 1979–1985

Hans Jonas

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation (1979)
  • Technik, Medizin und Ethik. Zur Praxis des Prinzips Verantwortung (1985)
Global Canon & Research 1985–2010

James C. Scott

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)
  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990)
  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)
Global Canon & Research 2009–2024

Johan Rockström

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • A safe operating space for humanity (2009)
  • Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
  • A Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
Global Canon & Research 2009–2024

Melanie Mitchell

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Complexity: A Guided Tour (2009)
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (2019)
  • The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1948–1960

Norbert Wiener

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
  • Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
  • The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1950)
Global Canon & Research 2021

Shmargaret Shmitchell

Concepts in corpus (5)

Documented works

  • On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2021)
Central European Lineage 2005–2022

Evgeny Morozov

Blagoevgrad · Salihorsk

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Born in Salihorsk, Belarus; studies at the American University in Bulgaria; work at Transitions Online in Prague on new media in post-Soviet states (2005)
  • The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (2011)
  • To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (2013)
Central European Lineage 1928–1966

John von Neumann

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Studies in Budapest (Lutheran Gymnasium, doctorate in mathematics 1926) → “Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele” (1928) → “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” (1944) (1928)
  • Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis (1932)
  • Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
Central European Lineage 1936–1965

Oskar Lange

Warsaw · Kraków

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • On the Economic Theory of Socialism (Review of Economic Studies 1936–1937; book edition 1938) (1936)
  • On the Economic Theory of Socialism (1936)
  • Całość i rozwój w świetle cybernetyki (1962)
Central European Lineage 2010–2012

Tomáš Mikolov

Brno

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Doctorate “Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks” (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, defended October 2, 2012) and RNN language model (Interspeech 2010); word2vec at Google (2013) (2010)
  • Doctoral dissertation “Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks” (Brno University of Technology, 2012) and paper “Recurrent neural network based language model” (Interspeech 2010) (2010)
  • Recurrent neural network based language model (2010)
Global Canon & Research 2007–2023

Henry Farrell

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • DeLong, Scott and Hayek (Crooked Timber) (2007)
  • Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion (2019)
  • The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2023–2024

Ilia Shumailov

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (2023)
  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2021

Kate Crawford

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2011–2016

Nick Srnicek

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (2011)
  • #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013)
  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015)
Global Canon & Research 2016–2019

Paul Christiano

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016)
  • Current work in AI alignment (2019)
Global Canon & Research 1987–2005

Timur Kuran

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 (1991)
  • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995)
Global Canon & Research 2009–2023

Will Steffen

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • A safe operating space for humanity (2009)
  • Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
  • A Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
Global Canon & Research 2023–2024

Yiren Zhao

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (2023)
  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2023–2024

Zakhar Shumaylov

Concepts in corpus (4)

Documented works

  • The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (2023)
  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (2024)
Central European Lineage 1951–1953

Czesław Miłosz

Wilno

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Ketman (first published in “Kultura”; from 1953 Chapter III of “The Captive Mind”) (1951)
  • Ketman (Paris “Kultura” 1951, No. 7–8; Ch. III of “The Captive Mind,” 1953) (1951)
  • Ketman (in: “Zniewolony umysł” / “The Captive Mind”) (1951)
Central European Lineage 1884–1936

Edmund Husserl

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Turn to philosophy under the influence of Franz Brentano’s lectures in Vienna (1884–1886); analysis of intentionality as the structure of experience (1884)
  • Theory of the Intentional Object (Brentano’s lectures in Vienna 1884–1886; “Intentionale Gegenstände” from the 1890s; “Logische Untersuchungen” 1900–1901) (1901)
  • Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie (Vienna and Prague lectures 1935; Parts I–II published 1936) (1936)
Central European Lineage 1945–1964

Friedrich A. Hayek

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • The Use of Knowledge in Society; The Road to Serfdom; Studies in Philosophy, Economics, and Politics (1945)
  • The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)
  • The Theory of Complex Phenomena (1964)
Central European Lineage 1894–1919

Kazimierz Twardowski

Vienna · Lwów

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (1894)
  • Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen. Eine psychologische Untersuchung (1894)
  • O jasnym i niejasnym stylu filozoficznym (1919)
Central European Lineage 1938–2008

Leonid Hurwicz

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Law studies at the University of Warsaw (LL.M. 1938), followed by the LSE and the Graduate Institute in Geneva (1938)
  • Law studies at the University of Warsaw (LL.M. 1938), followed by the LSE under Hayek and Kaldor (1938)
  • Law studies at the University of Warsaw (degree 1938) and early training in economics (1938)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2023

Abraham L. Newman

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion (2019)
  • The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (2021)
  • Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Ashish Vaswani

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2025

Cory Doctorow

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Adversarial Interoperability (2019)
  • Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (2022)
  • Tiktok's enshittification (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2000–2009

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000)
  • The Climate of History: Four Theses (2009)
Global Canon & Research 2003–2015

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (2008)
  • Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015)
Global Canon & Research 1980

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Die Schweigespirale. Öffentliche Meinung – unsere soziale Haut (1980)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Émile P. Torres

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation (2024)
  • The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence (2024)
Global Canon & Research 1959–1974

Erving Goffman

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
  • Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1974)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2022

Ethan Perez

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (2020)
  • Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models (2022)
  • Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2018

Ewa Bińczyk

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Epoka człowieka. Retoryka i marazm antropocenu (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2006–2007

Gary Klein

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Making Sense of Sensemaking 1: Alternative Perspectives (2006)
  • Performing a Project Premortem (2007)
Global Canon & Research 2002–2018

Graham Harman

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002)
  • Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (2009)
  • The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2014–2016

Ian Goodfellow

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Deep Learning (2016)
  • Deep Learning with Differential Privacy (2016)
Global Canon & Research 1961–1971

Jay W. Forrester

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Industrial Dynamics (1961)
  • Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (1971)
Global Canon & Research 2012–2017

Kate Raworth

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can We Live Within the Doughnut? (2012)
  • Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2002–2020

Luciano Floridi

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • What Is the Philosophy of Information? (2002)
  • The Philosophy of Information (2011)
  • The Ethics of Information (2013)
Global Canon & Research 2009

Mark Fisher

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Nicolas Papernot

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2014–2019

Peter Pomerantsev

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (2014)
  • This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Rebecca Giblin

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1995–2000

Robert D. Putnam

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (1995)
  • Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)
Global Canon & Research 1936–1988

Robert K. Merton

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action (1936)
  • The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948)
  • The Matthew Effect in Science (1968)
Global Canon & Research 2010–2018

Tarleton Gillespie

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • The politics of ‘platforms’ (2010)
  • Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2020

Toby Ord

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (2018)
  • The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2015–2022

William MacAskill

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference (2015)
  • The Case for Strong Longtermism (2021)
  • What We Owe the Future (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2023–2024

Yarin Gal

Concepts in corpus (3)

Documented works

  • The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (2023)
  • Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy (2024)
Central European Lineage 1931–1943

Abraham Wald

Kolozsvár

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Mathematics studies at the University of Cluj (degree 1928) and doctorate at the University of Vienna under Karl Menger (1931); research work in Vienna until 1938 (1931)
  • Mathematics studies in Cluj (degree 1927) and Vienna: doctorate under Karl Menger (1931), Menger’s Mathematical Colloquium (from 1930), and Oskar Morgenstern’s Institute for Business Cycle Research (1933–1938) (1931)
  • A Method of Estimating Plane Vulnerability Based on Damage of Survivors (SRG memoranda 85–126 / AMP 76.1–76.8; reprinted by Center for Naval Analyses, CRC 432, 1980) (1943)
Central European Lineage 1991–2016

Albert-László Barabási

Bucharest

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Physics studies at the University of Bucharest (1986–1989) and M.Sc. at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1991) under Tamás Vicsek (1991)
  • Emergence of scaling in random networks (1999)
  • Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks (1999)
Central European Lineage 2003–2005

Alexei Yurchak

Leningrad

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (2003)
  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2005)
Central European Lineage 1960–1961

Alfréd Rényi

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • On the evolution of random graphs (1960)
  • On Measures of Entropy and Information (1961)
Central European Lineage 1932–1945

Alfred Schütz

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt. Eine Einleitung in die verstehende Soziologie (1932)
  • On Multiple Realities (1945)
Central European Lineage 1883–1892

Carl Menger

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der politischen Oekonomie insbesondere (1883)
  • On the Origin of Money (trans. Caroline A. Foley; originally “Geld,” 1892) (1892)
  • On the Origin of Money (1892)
Central European Lineage 2000

Ewa M. Thompson

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (2000)
Central European Lineage 1973

Ivan Illich

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Tools for Conviviality (1973)
Central European Lineage 1909–1934

Jakob von Uexküll

Dorpat

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere (1909)
  • Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen: Ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten (1934)
Central European Lineage 1984–2000

Kalevi Kull

Tartu

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • O semiosfere (On the Semiosphere, 1984) and On Semiosis, Umwelt, and Semiosphere (1998) (1984)
  • Copy versus translate, meme versus sign: development of biological textuality (2000)
Central European Lineage 1930–1934

Lev Vygotsky

Gomel · Moscow

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Instrumentalny metod v psikhologii (The Instrumental Method in Psychology — address at the Krupskaya Academy of Communist Education) (1930)
  • Myshleniye i rech (Мышление и речь / Thinking and Speech), Ch. 6: Development of Scientific Concepts in Childhood (1934)
  • Myšlenie i reč (Мышление и речь) (1934)
Central European Lineage 1872–1887

Ludwig Boltzmann

Vienna · Vienna and Graz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • H-theorem (1872) and the statistical definition of entropy (1877) (1872)
  • Über die Eigenschaften monozyklischer und anderer damit verwandter Systeme (and 1887 memoirs on statistical mechanics) (1884)
Central European Lineage 1949

Ludwig von Mises

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Part IV, Ch. XXIII, §6 “The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External Economies” (1949)
  • Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (1949)
  • Human Action, Ch. XXIII, §6 “The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External Economies” (1949)
Central European Lineage 2013

Łukasz Kaiser

Wrocław

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Computer science studies at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław; habilitation there (2013) (2013)
  • Wrocław: birth (1981), computer science studies and habilitation at the University of Wrocław (2013) prior to joining Google Brain (2013)
Central European Lineage 2020

Marcin Miłkowski

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Unification by Fiat: Arrested Development of Predictive Processing (2020)
Central European Lineage 1970

Marian Mazur

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Jakościowa teoria informacji (1970)
Central European Lineage 1971

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Bucharest

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971)
Central European Lineage 1913–1932

Otto Neurath

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Die Verirrten des Cartesius und das Auxiliarmotiv (Zur Psychologie des Entschlusses); developed further in “Protokollsätze” (1932) (1913)
  • Protokollsätze (1932)
Central European Lineage 2020

Piotr Litwin

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Unification by Fiat: Arrested Development of Predictive Processing (2020)
Central European Lineage 2015–2021

Sandra Wachter

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Law studies at the University of Vienna, work at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, and doctorate in Vienna (2015)
  • Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR (2018)
  • Bias Preservation in Machine Learning: The Legality of Fairness Metrics Under EU Non-Discrimination Law (2021)
Central European Lineage 1949

Stanisław Ulam

Lwów

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Monte Carlo method (Los Alamos 1946; published with Nicholas Metropolis in the “Journal of the American Statistical Association,” 1949) — preceded by a doctorate at Lwów Polytechnic (1933) under Kazimierz Kuratowski (1949)
  • The Monte Carlo Method (1949)
  • The Monte Carlo Method (and experiments with cellular automata and chess programs at Los Alamos) (1949)
Central European Lineage 1979

Stefan Nowak

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • System wartości społeczeństwa polskiego (1979)
  • System wartości społeczeństwa polskiego (The Value System of Polish Society, “Studia Socjologiczne” 1979, No. 4) (1979)
Central European Lineage 1984–1990

Yuri Lotman

Tartu

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • О семиосфере (O semiosfere) (1984)
  • O semiosfere (On the Semiosphere, 1984) and On Semiosis, Umwelt, and Semiosphere (1998) (1984)
  • Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (1990)
Central European Lineage 1989–2003

Zygmunt Bauman

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Modernity and the Holocaust (1989)
  • Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (2003)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2022

Adam Tooze

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (2021)
  • Chartbook #165: Polycrisis — thinking on the tightrope (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Alexander Koller

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2023

Alice Crary

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Against “Effective Altruism” (2021)
  • The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1955–1984

Amos Tversky

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (1974)
  • The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice (1981)
  • Choices, Values, and Frames (1984)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2019

Anders Sandberg

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (2018)
  • Information Hazards in Biotechnology (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Andreas Blattmann

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2023

Anu Bradford

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020)
  • Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1994

Avinash K. Dixit

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Investment under Uncertainty (1994)
Global Canon & Research 2014

Benjamin Noys

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014)
Global Canon & Research 2017–2021

Brent Mittelstadt

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR (2018)
  • Bias Preservation in Machine Learning: The Legality of Fairness Metrics Under EU Non-Discrimination Law (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Britt Paris

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes: The Manipulation of Audio and Visual Evidence (2019)
Global Canon & Research 1979–1991

Bruno Latour

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (1979)
  • Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d'anthropologie symétrique (1991)
Global Canon & Research 1973

C. S. Holling

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Carl T. Bergstrom

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Carol J. Adams

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2022

Catherine Olsson

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
  • In-context Learning and Induction Heads (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1986–2005

Charles T. Munger

Concepts in corpus (2)

  • Inversion Decisions & Economics · global formulation
  • Incentives Decisions & Economics · reading canon

Documented works

  • Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (2005)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Chris Miller

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Chris Olah

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2017–2021

Chris Russell

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR (2018)
  • Bias Preservation in Machine Learning: The Legality of Fairness Metrics Under EU Non-Discrimination Law (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Claire Wardle

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making (2017)
  • Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policymaking (2017)
Global Canon & Research 1948–1949

Claude E. Shannon

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
  • The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949)
Global Canon & Research 2015

Dan Gardner

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015)
Global Canon & Research 1996–2017

Dan Sperber

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach (1996)
  • The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2021

Daniel W. Drezner

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Dario Amodei

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016)
Global Canon & Research 1983–1998

David Brin

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The ‘Great Silence’: the Controversy Concerning Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (1983)
  • The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (1998)
Global Canon & Research 1998

David Chalmers

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Extended Mind (1998)
Global Canon & Research 2015–2018

David Graeber

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”: A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2015)
  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018)
Global Canon & Research 1963–1976

Derek J. de Solla Price

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Little Science, Big Science (1963)
  • A General Theory of Bibliometric and Other Cumulative Advantage Processes (1976)
Global Canon & Research 1984

Derek Parfit

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Reasons and Persons (1984)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Dominik Lorenz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1974–1993

Donald B. Rubin

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies (1974)
  • Discussion: Statistical Disclosure Limitation (1993)
Global Canon & Research 1985–1988

Donna Haraway

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s (1985)
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988)
Global Canon & Research 1978

Edward W. Said

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Orientalism (1978)
Global Canon & Research 1995

Edwin Hutchins

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Cognition in the Wild (1995)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2024

Eric Wallace

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models (2020)
  • The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (2024)
Global Canon & Research 1991–2007

Evan Thompson

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991)
  • Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (2007)
Global Canon & Research 1972–1996

Francisco J. Varela

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • De máquinas y seres vivos. Autopoiesis: la organización de lo vivo (1973)
  • El árbol del conocimiento: Las bases biológicas del entendimiento humano (1984)
  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991)
Global Canon & Research 1850

Frédéric Bastiat

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (1850)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2021

Gary Marcus

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020)
  • Has AI Found a New Foundation? (2021)
Global Canon & Research 1988

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Geoffrey West

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (2017)
Global Canon & Research 1970–2015

George A. Akerlof

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Market for “Lemons”: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism (1970)
  • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Gernot Wagner

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy (2016)
  • Tipping elements and climate–economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Glen Peters

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The trouble with negative emissions (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Hany Farid

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Fake Photos (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2023

Helen Toner

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation (2018)
  • Regulating the AI Frontier: Design Choices and Constraints (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1955–1971

Herbert A. Simon

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice (1955)
  • Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World (1971)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Hossein Derakhshan

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making (2017)
  • Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policymaking (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2017–2020

Hugo Mercier

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding (2017)
  • Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe (2020)
Global Canon & Research 1975–1999

Ian Hacking

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Emergence of Probability (1975)
  • The Social Construction of What? (1999)
Global Canon & Research 2014

Ian J. Goodfellow

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Generative Adversarial Networks (2014)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2019

Jack Clark

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation (2018)
  • Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Jacob Steinhardt

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2013

Jakob Hohwy

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Predictive Mind (2013)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Jakob Uszkoreit

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Global Canon & Research 1969–1980

James M. Buchanan

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory (1969)
  • Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society (1980)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Jared Kaplan

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Global Canon & Research 1981

Jean Baudrillard

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Simulacres et simulation (1981)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Jevin D. West

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Joan Donovan

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes: The Manipulation of Audio and Visual Evidence (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2005–2015

John P. A. Ioannidis

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
  • Meta-research: Evaluation and Improvement of Research Methods and Practices (2015)
Global Canon & Research 1971

John Rawls

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Theory of Justice (1971)
Global Canon & Research 1859–1861

John Stuart Mill

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • On Liberty (1859)
  • Utilitarianism (1861)
Global Canon & Research 2012–2017

John Vervaeke

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science (2012)
  • Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2013–2017

José Medina

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (2013)
  • The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2014–2019

José van Dijck

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (2014)
  • The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (2018)
  • Platformisation (2019)
Global Canon & Research 1976–2012

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information (1976)
  • Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics (2002)
  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (2012)
Global Canon & Research 1985

Joshua Meyrowitz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (1985)
Global Canon & Research 2010–2022

Karl Friston

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (2010)
  • Life as we know it (2013)
  • Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1963–1974

Kenneth J. Arrow

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (1963)
  • Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility (1974)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Kevin Anderson

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The trouble with negative emissions (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2009

Kevin Noone

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A safe operating space for humanity (2009)
  • Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
  • A Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
Global Canon & Research 1989–1995

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (1989)
  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color (1991)
  • Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1995)
Global Canon & Research 2011

Kristie Dotson

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing (2011)
Global Canon & Research 1980

Langdon Winner

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Do Artifacts Have Politics? (1980)
Global Canon & Research 2008

Liu Cixin

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • 黑暗森林 (Hēi'àn sēnlín) (2008)
  • 黑暗森林 (Hei’an senlin) (2008)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Long Ouyang

Concepts in corpus (2)

  • RLHF AI Architecture · reading canon
  • Alignment tax AI Architecture · reading canon

Documented works

  • Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Lori Gruen

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2010

Lukáš Burget

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Recurrent neural network based language model (2010)
Global Canon & Research 1965–1982

Mancur Olson

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (1965)
  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (1982)
Global Canon & Research 2007–2022

Marcus Hutter

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
  • Formal Algorithms for Transformers (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2021

Margaret Mitchell

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Model Cards for Model Reporting (2019)
  • Closing the AI Accountability Gap: Defining an End-to-End Framework for Internal Algorithmic Auditing (2020)
  • On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2010

Martin Karafiát

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Recurrent neural network based language model (2010)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Meg Tong

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1976

Michael C. Jensen

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure (1976)
Global Canon & Research 1982–2020

Michael J. Sandel

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982)
  • The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Michael Lawrence

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Michael Townsen Hicks

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • ChatGPT is bullshit (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2015–2018

Mikołaj Pawlak

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • From Sociological Vacuum to Horror Vacui: How Stefan Nowak's Thesis Is Used in Analyses of Polish Society (2015)
  • Zawstydzona tożsamość. Przypadek “próżni socjologicznej” Stefana Nowaka (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2009–2018

Milan M. Ćirković

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox (2018)
  • The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi’s Paradox (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2018–2019

Miles Brundage

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation (2018)
  • Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2007

Miranda Fricker

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007)
Global Canon & Research 2022–2023

Mrinank Sharma

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2022

Neel Nanda

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
  • In-context Learning and Induction Heads (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2023

Neil Malhotra

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States (2019)
  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2022

Nelson Elhage

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
  • In-context Learning and Induction Heads (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2023

Nicholas Carlini

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models (2020)
  • Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2010

Nicholas Carr

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Nick Couldry

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (2019)
  • Datafication (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2009–2011

Nick Land

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Hyperstition: An Introduction (wywiad) (2009)
  • Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007 (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Niki Parmar

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Nina Schick

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse (2020)
  • Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need to Know (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Noam Shazeer

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2020

Noreena Hertz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart (2020)
  • The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That’s Pulling Apart (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Patrick Esser

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1985–1990

Paul A. David

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Clio and the Economics of QWERTY (1985)
  • The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox (1990)
Global Canon & Research 2021–2022

Percy Liang

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Reflections on Foundation Models (2021)
  • An Explanation of In-context Learning as Implicit Bayesian Inference (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1990

Peter M. Senge

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
Global Canon & Research 1972–2015

Peter Singer

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972)
  • The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (2009)
  • The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)
Global Canon & Research 2014

Peter Wolfendale

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes (2014)
Global Canon & Research 2005–2015

Philip E. Tetlock

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (2005)
  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015)
Global Canon & Research 2006

Quentin Meillassoux

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Après la finitude. Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence (2006)
Global Canon & Research 2013–2014

Raphael Douady

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Mathematical Definition, Mapping, and Detection of (Anti)Fragility (2013)
  • The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms) (2014)
Global Canon & Research 1999

Réka Albert

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Emergence of scaling in random networks (1999)
  • Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks (1999)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Rhiannon Beaubien

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2003–2008

Richard H. Thaler

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Libertarian Paternalism (2003)
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008)
Global Canon & Research 2021

Rishi Bommasani

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (2021)
  • Reflections on Foundation Models (2021)
Global Canon & Research 1984

Robert Axelrod

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Evolution of Cooperation (1984)
Global Canon & Research 2015

Robert J. Shiller

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015)
Global Canon & Research 1994

Robert S. Pindyck

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Investment under Uncertainty (1994)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Robin Rombach

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2023–2024

Rylan Schaeffer

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (2023)
  • Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data (2024)
Global Canon & Research 1990–1994

S. J. Liebowitz

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Fable of the Keys (1990)
  • Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy (1994)
Global Canon & Research 2018

Safiya Umoja Noble

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2016

Samuel Bowles

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2014

Scott Alexander

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Meditations on Moloch (2014)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Scott Janzwood

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2022

Sewon Min

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering (2020)
  • Rethinking the Role of Demonstrations: What Makes In-Context Learning Work? (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Shane Parrish

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2011

Sherry Turkle

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2022–2024

Simon Willison

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3 (2022)
  • Delimiters won't save you from prompt injection (2023)
  • Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2006

Stanley Reiter

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Designing Economic Mechanisms (2006)
Global Canon & Research 2012–2021

Stephan Lewandowsky

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing (2012)
  • The Debunking Handbook 2020 (2020)
  • Countering misinformation and fake news through inoculation and prebunking (2021)
Global Canon & Research 1973–1992

Stephen A. Ross

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal's Problem (1973)
  • Survivorship Bias in Performance Studies (1992)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Stephen Casper

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (2023)
Global Canon & Research 1990–1994

Stephen E. Margolis

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Fable of the Keys (1990)
  • Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy (1994)
Global Canon & Research 1997–2019

Stephen Holmes

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2020–2021

Stephen M. Fleming

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Optimal Use of Reminders: Metacognition, Effort, and Cognitive Offloading (2020)
  • Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness (2021)
Global Canon & Research 2022–2023

Stephen M. Smith

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The meaning of net zero and how to get it right (2022)
  • The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal – 1st Edition (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2015

Stephen Webb

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (2015)
  • If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens… Where Is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (2015)
Global Canon & Research 2014–2019

Stuart Russell

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2015

Terje Aven

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Concept of Antifragility and its Implications for the Practice of Risk Analysis (2015)
Global Canon & Research 1960

Thomas C. Schelling

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Strategy of Conflict (1960)
Global Canon & Research 2006–2024

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (2006)
  • Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement (2024)
Global Canon & Research 1984–2020

Thomas Rid

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2006–2016

Tim Wu

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (2006)
  • The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2010–2016

Timothy Morton

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Ecological Thought (2010)
  • Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013)
  • Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (2016)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Tomasz Korbak

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2019

Ulises A. Mejias

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (2019)
  • Datafication (2019)
Global Canon & Research 1989–1994

W. Brian Arthur

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events (1989)
  • Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (1994)
Global Canon & Research 1948–1949

Warren Weaver

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Science and Complexity (1948)
  • The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949)
Global Canon & Research 2018

William F. Lamb

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • A Good Life for All within Planetary Boundaries (2018)
  • Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis (2018)
Global Canon & Research 1976

William H. Meckling

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure (1976)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Yanis Varoufakis

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2014–2025

Yoshua Bengio

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2014)
  • Deep Learning (2016)
  • International AI Safety Report 2025 (2025)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Yuntao Bai

Concepts in corpus (2)

  • RLHF AI Architecture · reading canon
  • Alignment tax AI Architecture · reading canon

Documented works

  • Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (2022)
Global Canon & Research 2016–2024

Zachary C. Lipton

Concepts in corpus (2)

Documented works

  • The Mythos of Model Interpretability (2016)
  • Red-Teaming for Generative AI: Silver Bullet or Security Theater? (2024)
Central European Lineage 1928–1962

Alexander Gerschenkron

Odessa

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Economics studies at the University of Vienna (1924–1928) and research work in Vienna until 1938 (1928)
  • Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays (1962)
Central European Lineage 2007

Alexandra Dumitrescu

Cluj

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Interconnections in Blakean and Metamodern Space (2007)
Central European Lineage 1931–1933

Alfred Korzybski

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics (paper presented at the AAAS meeting in New Orleans, December 28, 1931; reprinted as Supplement III of “Science and Sanity”) (1931)
  • Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (1933)
Central European Lineage 2000–2023

Anton Korinek

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Law (cand. iur. 1997) and economics (M.A. 2000) studies at the University of Vienna (2000)
  • Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety (2023)
Central European Lineage 2000–2017

Árpád Szakolczai

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Reflexive Historical Sociology (developed further in “Liminality and Experience,” International Political Anthropology 2(1), 2009, and “Permanent Liminality and Modernity”) (2000)
  • Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels (2017)
Central European Lineage 2014

Dzmitry Bahdanau

Minsk

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (with Kyunghyun Cho and Yoshua Bengio) (2014)
  • Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2014)
Central European Lineage 1934

Egon Brunswik

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Wahrnehmung und Gegenstandswelt. Grundlegung einer Psychologie vom Gegenstand her (1934)
Central European Lineage 1944

Erwin Schrödinger

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell (1944)
Central European Lineage 1889

Friedrich von Wieser

Prague

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Der natürliche Werth (1889)
Central European Lineage 1929

Frigyes Karinthy

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Láncszemek (Chains, in the volume “Minden másképpen van”) (1929)
Central European Lineage 1958

Fritz Heider

Graz

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958)
Central European Lineage 1936–1956

Hans Selye

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • Burnout Cognitive Science · regional lineage

Documented works

  • A Syndrome Produced by Diverse Nocuous Agents (general adaptation syndrome with the stage of exhaustion) (1936)
  • The Stress of Life (1956)
Central European Lineage 2013

Illia Polosukhin

Kharkiv

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Studies at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (2008–2013) (2013)
Central European Lineage 1947–1970

Imre Lakatos

Debrecen and Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Studies in Debrecen (1940–1944), PhD in Debrecen 1947 (doctoral studies in Budapest from 1946); work at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he first read Popper (1947)
  • Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (1970)
Central European Lineage 1975

Jan Patočka and Václav Havel

Prague

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin (Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, 1975) and Moc bezmocných (The Power of the Powerless, 1978) (1975)
Central European Lineage 1923

Jerzy Spława-Neyman

Kharkov · Bydgoszcz and Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Próba uzasadnienia zastosowań rachunku prawdopodobieństwa do doświadczeń polowych (1923)
  • Próba uzasadnienia zastosowań rachunku prawdopodobieństwa do doświadczeń polowych (§9) (1923)
Central European Lineage 2012–2017

Johannes Fürnkranz

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • RLHF AI Architecture · regional lineage

Documented works

  • Preference-based reinforcement learning: a formal framework and a policy iteration algorithm (with Eyke Hüllermeier, Weiwei Cheng, and Sang-Hyeun Park) (2012)
  • A Survey of Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning Methods (2017)
Central European Lineage 1953–1975

John C. Harsanyi

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-taking (1953); Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility (1955) (1953)
  • Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility (1955)
  • Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls's Theory (1975)
Central European Lineage 1911

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Law and economics studies in Vienna (doctorate 1906, Böhm-Bawerk’s seminar), professorships in Czernowitz (1909–1911) and Graz; “Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung” (1911) (1911)
Central European Lineage 1972

Ladislav Bittman

Prague

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Deception Game: Czechoslovak Intelligence in Soviet Political Warfare (1972)
Central European Lineage 1929

Leó Szilárd

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen (1929)
Central European Lineage 1978

Leszek Kołakowski

Paris

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Główne nurty marksizmu (Main Currents of Marxism), Vol. III: The Breakdown (chapter on Antonio Gramsci) (1978)
  • Główne nurty marksizmu, t. III: Rozkład (1978)
Central European Lineage 1935

Maria Ossowska

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Nauka o nauce (1935)
Central European Lineage 1997

Maria Todorova

Sofia

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Imagining the Balkans (1997)
Central European Lineage 1993–2001

Michael Obersteiner

Vienna and Laxenburg

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Postgraduate studies at the Universität für Bodenkultur and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna; forestry research at IIASA in Laxenburg from 1993 (1993)
  • Managing Climate Risk (2001)
Central European Lineage 1933

Michał Kalecki

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Research at the Institute for Business Cycle and Price Research in Warsaw (1929–1936) and “Próba teorii koniunktury” (An Essay on the Theory of the Business Cycle, 1933) (1933)
Central European Lineage 1988

Mihai Nadin

Brașov and Bucharest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Interface design: A semiotic paradigm (1988)
Central European Lineage 1925–1944

Oskar Morgenstern

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Doctorate at the University of Vienna (1925) and professorship of economics in Vienna until 1938 (1925)
  • Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
Central European Lineage 1960

Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • On the evolution of random graphs (1960)
Central European Lineage 1943

Paul Rosenstein-Rodan

Kraków

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (1943)
Central European Lineage 1979

Piotr Wierzbicki

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Traktat o gnidach (1979)
Central European Lineage 1928

Richard von Mises

Lemberg

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Wahrscheinlichkeit, Statistik und Wahrheit (1928)
Central European Lineage 1937

Robert Musil

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Über die Dummheit. Vortrag auf Einladung des Österreichischen Werkbunds (1937)
  • Über die Dummheit (1937)
Central European Lineage 1913

Rosa Luxemburg

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Die Akkumulation des Kapitals. Ein Beitrag zur ökonomischen Erklärung des Imperialismus (1913)
Central European Lineage 1910

Rudolf Hilferding

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Das Finanzkapital. Eine Studie über die jüngste Entwicklung des Kapitalismus (1910)
Central European Lineage 1927

Sigmund Freud

Vienna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Die Zukunft einer Illusion (1927)
Central European Lineage 1935

Stanisław Ossowski

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Nauka o nauce (1935)
Central European Lineage 1946

Tadeusz Borowski

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Pożegnanie z Marią (This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen) and Zofia Nałkowska’s “Medaliony” (Medallions) (1946)
Central European Lineage 1976

Tibor Scitovsky

Budapest

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Joyless Economy: An Inquiry into Human Satisfaction and Consumer Dissatisfaction (1976)
Central European Lineage 1978

Václav Havel and Czesław Miłosz

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Zniewolony umysł (The Captive Mind, 1953) and Moc bezmocných (The Power of the Powerless, 1978) (1978)
Central European Lineage 1988–2013

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Salzburg and Graz

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Law studies at the University of Salzburg (Mag. iur. 1988, Dr. iur. 1991) and habilitation in information law at the University of Graz (2001) (1988)
  • Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (2013)
Central European Lineage 1926

Vladimir Vernadsky

St Petersburg

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Биосфера (The Biosphere); later the concept of the noosphere (1938–1945) (1926)
Central European Lineage 2014

Yevgeny Gorzhaltsan

Moscow

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Технология уничтожения (Technology of Destruction — LiveJournal post) (2014)
Central European Lineage 1946

Zofia Nałkowska

Warsaw

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Pożegnanie z Marią (This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen) and Zofia Nałkowska’s “Medaliony” (Medallions) (1946)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Albert Gu

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2010

Byung-Chul Han

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • Burnout Cognitive Science · reading canon

Documented works

  • Müdigkeitsgesellschaft (2010)
Global Canon & Research 2020

C. Thi Nguyen

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Dani Rodrik

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The New Economics of Industrial Policy (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Daniel Schmachtenberger

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • Game B Horizon & Ecology · reading canon

Documented works

  • Solving the Generator Functions of Existential Risk (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2022–2025

Derek Thompson

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America's Problems (2022)
  • Abundance (2025)
Global Canon & Research 2011

Eli Pariser

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2025

Ezra Klein

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Abundance (2025)
Global Canon & Research 2011

Guy Standing

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011)
Global Canon & Research 2017

Jan Leike

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • RLHF AI Architecture · global formulation

Documented works

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2020

Jason Hickel

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • Degrowth Horizon & Ecology · reading canon

Documented works

  • Is Green Growth Possible? (2019)
  • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2020)
Global Canon & Research 2019–2023

Jim Rutt

Concepts in corpus (1)

  • Game B Horizon & Ecology · reading canon

Documented works

  • EP8 Jordan “Greenhall” Hall and Game B (The Jim Rutt Show, transcript) (2019)
  • Currents 079: Douglas Rushkoff on Tech Escapism and Critiques of GameB (The Jim Rutt Show, transcript) (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2000–2018

Judea Pearl

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000)
  • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (2018)
Global Canon & Research 2003–2007

Karen Barad

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter (2003)
  • Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007)
Global Canon & Research 2024

Lennart Heim

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Global Canon & Research 2013

Mariana Mazzucato

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013)
Global Canon & Research 2022

Mary Phuong

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Formal Algorithms for Transformers (2022)
Global Canon & Research 1984

Niklas Luhmann

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Soziale Systeme. Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorie (1984)
Global Canon & Research 2010–2017

Robin van den Akker

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Notes on metamodernism (2010)
  • Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2012–2019

Shanto Iyengar

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization (2012)
  • Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization (2015)
  • The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States (2019)
Global Canon & Research 2010–2017

Timotheus Vermeulen

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Notes on metamodernism (2010)
  • Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism (2017)
Global Canon & Research 2023

Tri Dao

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces (2023)
Global Canon & Research 2016–2020

Victoria Krakovna

Concepts in corpus (1)

Documented works

  • Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity (2020)