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Who are currently the most influential thinkers/intellectuals on the Left? - Marginal REVOLUTION

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I was discussing this question with some others, and I don’t find it so easy to answer. Claude 3 had a reasonable list, but with no clear winner: Matt and Ezra should be on the list too. Lina Khan? Chomsky has a long-running form of influence. Judith Butler? Note that AOC seems to have evolved into “another Democratic Party politician.” EA is no longer in ascendancy, and isn’t strictly “on the Left” either. Who else? Those who have pushed for drug legalization and decriminalization? What do you think? And the question is about now, not ten years ago. Is this blog just all LLM outputs and twitter links now? LLMs are labor saving devices for blogs. In the near future, you will be able to have a bot decide what to query the LLMs about, and completely automate the whole process from the conception of what to write about to the contents of the posts themselves. All we need is a Tyler Cowen emulator AI. It's rumored Mark Twain used an LLM for his writing, much as Vermeer used a cam

I was discussing this question with some others, and I don’t find it so easy to answer. Claude 3 had a reasonable list, but with no clear winner: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, AOC has quickly become a prominent face of the progressive movement within the Democratic Party. Known for her active social media presence and bold policy proposals like the Green New Deal, she has garnered significant attention and influence, particularly among younger left-leaning Americans. Kimberlé Crenshaw: A law professor at UCLA and Columbia University, Crens

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