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Comment author: Ritalin 09 December 2012 12:24:06AM 2 points [-]

Also, ISTM that plenty of laymen outside America have never heard of Feynman.

I had never heard of Feynman until I read Methods of Rationality. Even Carl Sagan only vaguely rang a bell. And I only knew about Hawking before of a computer-game version of A Brief History Of Time.

So, yeah. On the other hand, you guys probably never heard of Herbert Marcuse, or Ortega y Gasset.