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XO POLL: Moast Intelligent Human Being Known In Human Hi$tory?
| fishy marvelous becky | 07/04/25 |
| Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry | 07/04/25 |
| Turquoise Abode National Security Agency | 07/04/25 |
| high-end resort electric furnace | 07/04/25 |
| fishy marvelous becky | 07/04/25 |
| Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting | 07/04/25 |
| Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry | 07/04/25 |
| Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting | 07/04/25 |
| Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry | 07/04/25 |
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| fishy marvelous becky | 07/05/25 |
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| lascivious narrow-minded shrine | 07/05/25 |
| effete jew theater | 07/06/25 |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 5:58 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky 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=2Elisa#49072499) |
Date: July 4th, 2025 5:59 PM Author: Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry Gotta be colt, right? That two machine guns thread settles it for me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49072502) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Turquoise Abode National Security Agency Link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49072548) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:01 PM Author: high-end resort electric furnace Kamala (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49072507) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:02 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49072510) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:09 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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. |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry 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 |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:12 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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. |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry See edit
Both Tao and Witten are American mathematicians |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:24 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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.) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:49 PM Author: Territorial ivory orchestra pit faggotry 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=2Elisa#49075405) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:41 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky Newton (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075379) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM Author: Razzmatazz point Good contender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075387) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:48 AM Author: fishy marvelous becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075501) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM Author: Razzmatazz point Leonardo Da Vinci
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:44 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky Expalin why over Newton™ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075389) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: Razzmatazz point Range of accomplishments in many fields, forward thinker centuries ahead of his time, extraordinarily creative.
But newton was probably smarter. |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:25 AM Author: Hairless tanning salon 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=2Elisa#49075744) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:47 PM Author: Floppy walnut deer antler newt 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=2Elisa#49075396) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 8:10 AM Author: domesticated piazza Yes especially Glaucon, what of the COCK? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075780) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:21 PM Author: Floppy walnut deer antler newt 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=2Elisa#49076761) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:33 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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.' |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Floppy walnut deer antler newt 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=2Elisa#49076859) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:19 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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. |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:47 PM Author: lascivious narrow-minded shrine Mike Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075398) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: effete jew theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076814) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:51 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone area toaster CSLG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075417) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:10 AM Author: Orange Roommate Site 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. |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:21 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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=2Elisa#49077206) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:25 PM Author: chest-beating private investor wagecucks you have to give einstein the burst iq championship though for 1905 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49077222) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting 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=2Elisa#49077256) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM Author: arousing stage prole boom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075745) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky This is the only cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076604) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:25 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076770) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49077005) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM Author: Hairless tanning salon Short list:
Tesla, Newton, Da Vinci, Plato |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076602) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:50 AM Author: domesticated piazza von Neumann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49075761) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: fishy marvelous becky Is that the guy who invented the concept of intergalactic von Newman probes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076601) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:23 PM Author: chest-beating private investor wagecucks probably some lazy faggot that no one knows that never applied himself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076766) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:51 PM Author: effete jew theater Jansci von Nuemann
As much as I hate to nominate a turd, Ramanujan is easily a top contender |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:02 PM Author: Jet-lagged saffron kitchen famous landscape painting No love for Bose? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076825) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:58 PM Author: Angry sanctuary John Moses Browning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076817) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:04 PM Author: ruddy greedy forum stain Diogenes and it's not even close (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076834) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM Author: Deranged Contagious Ticket Booth Have none of you heard of CHRISTOPHER LANGAN? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076855) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM Author: ruddy greedy forum stain hes not racist enough to truly be high iq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2Elisa#49076944) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: Dashing bawdyhouse 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=2Elisa#49076860) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:37 PM Author: Floppy walnut deer antler newt 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=2Elisa#49077078) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:36 PM Author: Heady chapel my gut says leibniz contemporary and sometimes-colleague of newton iirc |