This really gets my almonds tingling. Epstein is no longer listed at https://www.edge.org/people but can still be seen listed at https://web.archive.org/web/20190626161253/https://www.edge.org/people. This foundation has been mentioned before, but I don’t see a dig. It’s ==NOTABLE== if only to get more eyes on.

Scott Aaronson David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Author, Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Marina Abramovic Artist; author, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

Daron Acemoglu Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT

Jerry Adler Senior Editor, Newsweek

Anthony Aguirre Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Author, Cosmological Koans

Izumi Aizu Executive Director, Institute for HyperNetwork Society; Senior Research Fellow & Professor, Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University, Japan

Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial; Author, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz of Physics

Paul Allen Co-Founder, Microsoft; Founder & CEO, Vulcan, Inc.; Owner, Seattle Seahawks; Co-Founder, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Anna Dreber Almenberg Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics

Stewart Alsop Partner, Alsop Louie Partners, Contributing editor to InfoWorld

Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, NYU; Author, Irresistible

Ivan Amato Freelance print and radio Writer; Editor of the Pathways of Discovery essay series for Science Magazine

Dorsa Amir Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College

Christopher J. Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks

Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice

Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University

Chris Anderson CEO, 3D Robotics; Founder, DIY Drones

Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist

Natalie Angier Pulitzer prize winning science writer for The New York Times

Carlo Antonelli Journalist; Editor, Wired Magazine (Italy)

Coren Apicella Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital; Author, Overcomplicated

Dan Ariely James B. Duke ProfessorProfessor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Founding Member, Center for Advanced Hindsight; Author, Predictably Irrational

Noga Arikha Historian of ideas; Author, Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC; Inaugural Recipient, Lagrange Prize; Author, The Nature of Technology

Charles Arthur Freelance Technology Journalist

Peter Atkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford; Author, What is Chemistry?

Scott Atran Anthropologist, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Co-Founder, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, University of Oxford; Author, Talking to the Enemy

Robert Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control

Robert Axelrod Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan; Author, The Evolution of Cooperation

Joscha Bach Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics

Christopher Badcock Emeritus Reader in Sociology, University of London

John Baez Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside

Per Bak One of the founders of complex systems

John Baldessari American Conceptual Artist

Mahzarin Banaji Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Co-author (with Anthony Greenwald), Blind Spot

Albert-lászló Barabási Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research; Author, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Julian Barbour Theoretical physicist; Author, The Janus Point (forthcoming) and The End of Time

John A. Bargh Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University; Director, ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab

John Perry Barlow Co-founder and Co-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Cliff Barney Former Journalist

Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge; Author, Zero Degrees of Empathy

Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author, Making Sense of People

Lisa Feldman Barrett University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; Research Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, How Emotions Are Made

Andrew Barron Neuroethologist, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

John D. Barrow Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge; Author, The Book of Universes

Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US

Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life

Patrick Bateson* Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author, Design for a Life (*Deceased)

Nicolas Baumard Research Scientist at the CNRS, Paris and Associate Professor at ENS, Paris, France

Roy Baumeister Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University; Author, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Yves Béhar Founder, Principal Designer of Fuseproject; CCO, Jawbone

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo Primatologist; Associate Professor, Social Complexity Research Centre (CICS) Gobierno UDD, Santiago de Chile; Visiting Researcher, Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group (SENRG) University of Oxford

Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist, The Berlin Project

Yochai Benkler Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Author, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

Nicolas Berggruen Chairman, Berggruen Institute

Jesse Bering Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand; Author, Perv

Tim Berners-Lee British Web Scientist and MIT professor; Inventor, the World Wide Web; Director, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Jeremy Bernstein Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former Staff Writer, The New Yorker

David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them

Laura Betzig Anthropologist; Historian

Jeff Bezos Founder & CEO, Amazon, Owner, Washington Post, Founder, Blue Origin

Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union

Nick Bilton Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair; Author, American Kingpin

Roger Bingham Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience Researcher, Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD; Coauthor, The Origin of Minds; Creator PBS Science Programs

Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction

Andrew Blake Research Director, The Alan Turing Institute

Colin Blakemore Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Co-author, The Learning Brain

Sandra Blakeslee Science Writer, Co-author, Phantoms in the Brain

Alan S. Blinder Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author, Advice and Dissent

Ned Block Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neural Science, NYU

Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University; Author, Against Empathy

Adam Bly Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify

Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy

David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake

Stefano Boeri Architect; Professor, Politecnico of Milan; Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD; Editor-in-Chief, Abitare magazine

Ian Bogost Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

Zachary Bogue Co-managing Partner, Data Collective

Kirsten Bomblies Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Joshua Bongard Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think

Lera Boroditsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Raphael Bousso Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley

Robert Boyd Origins Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University