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XO POLL: Moast Intelligent Human Being Known In Human Hi$tory?

Sure there was some "Homo Erectus" faggot that inv...
vigorous deer antler
  07/04/25
Gotta be colt, right? That two machine guns thread settles i...
Provocative Senate Telephone
  07/04/25
Link?
Onyx Main People Toilet Seat
  07/04/25
Kamala
wonderful church building
  07/04/25
wow
vigorous deer antler
  07/04/25
Past, I'm sticking with Feynman. Present, my vote goes to...
marvelous temple
  07/04/25
Tao and Witten have strong cases over Penrose, but he's a gr...
Provocative Senate Telephone
  07/04/25
I think most peoples' answers will be biased by their own fi...
marvelous temple
  07/04/25
See edit Both Tao and Witten are American mathematicians
Provocative Senate Telephone
  07/04/25
Can we really speak to ancient peoples? So little of their w...
marvelous temple
  07/04/25
I think all of the above have enough written work to compare...
Provocative Senate Telephone
  07/05/25
Newton
vigorous deer antler
  07/05/25
Good contender
Sienna nursing home
  07/05/25
...
vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sienna nursing home
  07/05/25
Expalin why over Newton™
vigorous deer antler
  07/05/25
Range of accomplishments in many fields, forward thinker cen...
Sienna nursing home
  07/06/25
Newton was probably smarter overall but Da Vinci was a geniu...
Aggressive mood lodge
  07/06/25
I think Plato made the most profound intellectual impact, it...
massive kitty
  07/05/25
Yes especially Glaucon, what of the COCK?
Light elastic band liquid oxygen
  07/06/25
imagine being so influential that 2300 years later random we...
massive kitty
  07/06/25
A lot of writings (and the history of people) have been lost...
marvelous temple
  07/06/25
all of that is true but at some point reality intervenes and...
massive kitty
  07/06/25
Who's to say that the four contributors to QED won't go down...
marvelous temple
  07/06/25
Mike Church
Azure theater
  07/05/25
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Contagious Violent Cruise Ship Boltzmann
  07/06/25
CSLG
Bistre Sound Barrier
  07/05/25
I think it has to be Newton, for coming up with calculus + f...
heady ceo potus
  07/06/25
Counterpoint: The majority of Einstein's career was a pretty...
marvelous temple
  07/06/25
you have to give einstein the burst iq championship though f...
big dilemma really tough guy
  07/06/25
Yeah, I can't argue that. The EFEs are beautifully elegant. ...
marvelous temple
  07/06/25
boom
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  07/06/25
This is the only cr
vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
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vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
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vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
Short list: Tesla, Newton, Da Vinci, Plato
Aggressive mood lodge
  07/06/25
...
vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
von Neumann
Light elastic band liquid oxygen
  07/06/25
Is that the guy who invented the concept of intergalactic vo...
vigorous deer antler
  07/06/25
probably some lazy faggot that no one knows that never appli...
big dilemma really tough guy
  07/06/25
Jansci von Nuemann As much as I hate to nominate a turd, ...
Contagious Violent Cruise Ship Boltzmann
  07/06/25
No love for Bose?
marvelous temple
  07/06/25
John Moses Browning
out-of-control stage
  07/06/25
Diogenes and it's not even close
hideous unhinged business firm genital piercing
  07/06/25
Have none of you heard of CHRISTOPHER LANGAN?
Tan judgmental abode
  07/06/25
hes not racist enough to truly be high iq
hideous unhinged business firm genital piercing
  07/06/25
Trump, bcs how in the living fuck did he get himself elected...
Chest-beating boyish point
  07/06/25
he is certainly an all time world historical figure that des...
massive kitty
  07/06/25
my gut says leibniz contemporary and sometimes-colleague of...
nudist crackhouse factory reset button
  07/06/25


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Date: July 4th, 2025 5:58 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

Sure there was some "Homo Erectus" faggot that invented manmade fire but we dont know him/her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072499)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: Provocative Senate Telephone

Gotta be colt, right? That two machine guns thread settles it for me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072502)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:13 PM
Author: Onyx Main People Toilet Seat

Link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072548)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: wonderful church building

Kamala

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072507)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072510)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: marvelous temple

Past, I'm sticking with Feynman.

Present, my vote goes to Penrose.

We don't have sufficient information to speak to the majority of mankind, so it's really not a meaningful question.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072538)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Provocative Senate Telephone

Tao and Witten have strong cases over Penrose, but he's a great pick

Newton, Gauss amd Leibniz all strong contenders over Feynman, I think

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072543)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:12 PM
Author: marvelous temple

I think most peoples' answers will be biased by their own fields & areas of interest.

I really don't know anything Eastern, so my response to this question eliminates the majority of people right off the bat due to my own ignorance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072546)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Provocative Senate Telephone

See edit

Both Tao and Witten are American mathematicians

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072552)



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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: marvelous temple

Can we really speak to ancient peoples? So little of their work and others' views of them is extant. Their popularity and contributions may be more a function of momentum than objective truths... just look at any old religious book.

I'd argue even the likes of Newton or Leibniz are too old to speak of in the same way as modern people.

I actually don't know much about Witten. I bet most scientists don't have Feynman's charisma & ability to communicate, though. (Just flip through anything Penrose has written.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49072579)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:49 PM
Author: Provocative Senate Telephone

I think all of the above have enough written work to compare more than adequately

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075405)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:41 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

Newton

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075379)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM
Author: Sienna nursing home

Good contender

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075387)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:48 AM
Author: vigorous deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075501)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM
Author: Sienna nursing home

Leonardo Da Vinci



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075386)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:44 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

Expalin why over Newton™

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075389)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:05 AM
Author: Sienna nursing home

Range of accomplishments in many fields, forward thinker centuries ahead of his time, extraordinarily creative.

But newton was probably smarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075449)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:25 AM
Author: Aggressive mood lodge

Newton was probably smarter overall but Da Vinci was a genius in both the arts and the sciences and a true polymath. He was also self-taught

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075744)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:47 PM
Author: massive kitty

I think Plato made the most profound intellectual impact, it is tough to say anyone is more impressive than that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075396)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 8:10 AM
Author: Light elastic band liquid oxygen

Yes especially Glaucon, what of the COCK?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075780)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: massive kitty

imagine being so influential that 2300 years later random weirdos are parodying you on the internet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076761)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: marvelous temple

A lot of writings (and the history of people) have been lost over the past 2.5k years.

There were also great contributions from India & the far East in classical & medieval times that most of us aren't aware of. (How many of us could name the author of Al-Jabr, let alone read it?)

We can speak of those the knowledge of whom is extant, or has been translated into our native language, but not so much to the 'most intelligent person ever.'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076775)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: massive kitty

all of that is true but at some point reality intervenes and somebody won, it was Plato, the entire tradition of western thought relies on him to this day, doing something that foundational is more impressive than theorizing some bullshit in physics that will likely turn out to have been wrong, he's a more influential figure in christianity that fucking christ for christsakes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076859)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: marvelous temple

Who's to say that the four contributors to QED won't go down as the most intelligent, influential people of the history of the world 2.5k years from now?

I would argue that the most influential individuals aren't necessarily the most intelligent. The further back in time we go, the more influential an individual becomes. Some kid in 2021 with a wacky GUT hasn't had 2.5k years to gain the infamy of a Plato.

Besides, could Plato even handle UG physics at CalTech today? (Conversely, could a CalTech grad today do what Plato did c. 500 BCE?)

Obviously, OP's question has no absolute answer, but it's still fun to argue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077202)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:47 PM
Author: Azure theater

Mike Church

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075398)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Contagious Violent Cruise Ship Boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076814)



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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: Bistre Sound Barrier

CSLG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075417)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: heady ceo potus

I think it has to be Newton, for coming up with calculus + figuring out all the aspects of practical physics.

The only other contender is Einstein, who on 2 occasions figured out things in physics that don't make intuitive sense at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075462)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: marvelous temple

Counterpoint: The majority of Einstein's career was a pretty big failure. He's highly overrated (as far as the top minds go).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077206)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:25 PM
Author: big dilemma really tough guy

you have to give einstein the burst iq championship though for 1905

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077222)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:37 PM
Author: marvelous temple

Yeah, I can't argue that. The EFEs are beautifully elegant. Even their constituents like the Weyl tensor have broad implications to thermo & the directional arrow of time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077256)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM
Author: Up-to-no-good peach casino athletic conference

boom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075745)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

This is the only cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076604)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:25 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076770)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077005)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM
Author: Aggressive mood lodge

Short list:

Tesla, Newton, Da Vinci, Plato

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075746)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076602)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:50 AM
Author: Light elastic band liquid oxygen

von Neumann

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49075761)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: vigorous deer antler

Is that the guy who invented the concept of intergalactic von Newman probes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076601)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: big dilemma really tough guy

probably some lazy faggot that no one knows that never applied himself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076766)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:51 PM
Author: Contagious Violent Cruise Ship Boltzmann

Jansci von Nuemann

As much as I hate to nominate a turd, Ramanujan is easily a top contender

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076800)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:02 PM
Author: marvelous temple

No love for Bose?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076825)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: out-of-control stage

John Moses Browning

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076817)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: hideous unhinged business firm genital piercing

Diogenes and it's not even close

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076834)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Tan judgmental abode

Have none of you heard of CHRISTOPHER LANGAN?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076855)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM
Author: hideous unhinged business firm genital piercing

hes not racist enough to truly be high iq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076944)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: Chest-beating boyish point

Trump, bcs how in the living fuck did he get himself elected 2x despite being a human piece of shit that doesnt care about people while owning his felon-ness?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49076860)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: massive kitty

he is certainly an all time world historical figure that deserves comparisons to caesar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077078)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:36 PM
Author: nudist crackhouse factory reset button

my gut says leibniz

contemporary and sometimes-colleague of newton iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2],#49077075)