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XO POLL: Moast Intelligent Human Being Known In Human Hi$tory?
| Crawly library generalized bond | 07/04/25 |
| hateful doobsian sanctuary boistinker | 07/04/25 |
| pontificating principal's office | 07/04/25 |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 5:58 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond 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...id.#49072499) |
Date: July 4th, 2025 5:59 PM Author: hateful doobsian sanctuary boistinker 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...id.#49072502) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: pontificating principal's office Link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49072548) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:01 PM Author: Demanding Vibrant International Law Enforcement Agency Goal In Life Kamala (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49072507) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:02 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49072510) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:09 PM Author: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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: hateful doobsian sanctuary boistinker 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: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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: hateful doobsian sanctuary boistinker See edit
Both Tao and Witten are American mathematicians |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:24 PM Author: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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: hateful doobsian sanctuary boistinker 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...id.#49075405) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:41 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond Newton (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075379) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM Author: Lascivious painfully honest jewess headpube Good contender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075387) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:48 AM Author: Crawly library generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075501) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:43 PM Author: Lascivious painfully honest jewess headpube Leonardo Da Vinci
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:44 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond Expalin why over Newton™ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075389) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: Lascivious painfully honest jewess headpube 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: Curious space indirect expression 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...id.#49075744) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:47 PM Author: Disrespectful parlor 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...id.#49075396) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 8:10 AM Author: twisted olive plaza elastic band Yes especially Glaucon, what of the COCK? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075780) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:21 PM Author: Disrespectful parlor 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...id.#49076761) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:33 PM Author: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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: Disrespectful parlor 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...id.#49076859) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:19 PM Author: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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: Racy light genital piercing hospital Mike Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075398) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: Hyperventilating bronze preventive strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076814) |
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Date: July 5th, 2025 11:51 PM Author: cordovan box office famous landscape painting CSLG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075417) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 12:10 AM Author: Mentally impaired plum resort 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: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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...id.#49077206) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:25 PM Author: awkward digit ratio prole you have to give einstein the burst iq championship though for 1905 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49077222) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse 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...id.#49077256) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM Author: supple candlestick maker orchestra pit boom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075745) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond This is the only cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076604) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:25 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076770) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49077005) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:26 AM Author: Curious space indirect expression Short list:
Tesla, Newton, Da Vinci, Plato |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076602) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 7:50 AM Author: twisted olive plaza elastic band von Neumann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49075761) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: Crawly library generalized bond 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...id.#49076601) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:23 PM Author: awkward digit ratio prole probably some lazy faggot that no one knows that never applied himself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076766) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:51 PM Author: Hyperventilating bronze preventive strike 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: Buck-toothed Cream Whorehouse No love for Bose? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076825) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:58 PM Author: Vermilion stag film puppy John Moses Browning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076817) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:04 PM Author: Duck-like Aquamarine Personal Credit Line Diogenes and it's not even close (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076834) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM Author: slimy house-broken mad-dog skullcap Have none of you heard of CHRISTOPHER LANGAN? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076855) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM Author: Duck-like Aquamarine Personal Credit Line hes not racist enough to truly be high iq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746210&forum_id=2...id.#49076944) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: alcoholic dilemma 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...id.#49076860) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:37 PM Author: Disrespectful parlor 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...id.#49077078) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 6:36 PM Author: Concupiscible snowy point newt my gut says leibniz contemporary and sometimes-colleague of newton iirc |