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theorist

[thee-er-ist, theer-] / ˈθi ər ɪst, ˈθɪər- /
NOUN
philosopher
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Further outside the industry is Eliezer Yudkowsky, a self-taught theorist who has spent two decades arguing that a sufficiently powerful AI would wipe out humanity.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

I suggested he sounded like a conspiracy theorist, implying the whole world was out to get him.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It didn’t find a full solution, but it made a related finding that one Stanford number theorist called “the most impressive result that AI has produced in math so far.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Their approaches to physics were divergent: Lawrence was an experimentalist nonpareil, Teller a profoundly intuitive theorist.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

And his idea is this: Have tech companies use A.I. to spur interactions among conspiracy theorists, pro-science activists, and the middle-ground groups, such as the parenting communities.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Still not sure what that means,” Sumner wrote on social media, “but some analytic number theorists seem excited.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The result gives nuclear theorists a new experimental benchmark and provides a strategy for investigating the phenomenon in additional nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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