top 5 smartest people who ever lived + top 5 overrated

[Big Daddy]

top 5:
1. von neumann
2. newton
3. gauss
4. leibniz
5. da vinci

honorable mention: euler

top 5 overrated:
1. tesla
2. einstein
3. weinberg
4. descartes
5. aristotle

honorable mention: wittgenstein

BONUS:

top 5 (positive) references that scream retard alert:
1. schopenhauer
2. nietzsche
3. orwell
4. freud
5. bukowski

 

[foidletslayer]

 

[Big Daddy]

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love this movie

 

[foidletslayer]

love this movie

Was amazing, top 15 oat

 

[ikramy]

nietzsche

Thank you

 

[Big Daddy]

Was amazing, top 15 oat

what did they put on the nazi's forehead? king kong, right?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Disagree with Tesla, Einstein and Descartes and Aristotle. Tesla's inventions are the foundation of modern electrical Einstein's 1905 papers single-handedly re wrote physics with relativity and quantum. Descartes pioneered analytic geometry and modern philosophical method and Aristotle essentially founded logic, biology, and empirical inquiry laying the foundation for scientific studies

 

[Arthos]

top 5:
1. von neumann
2. newton
3. gauss
4. leibniz
5. da vinci

wheres goatis?

 

[Arthos]

Thank you

never read neitzsche award

 

[Big Daddy]

Disagree with Tesla, Einstein and Descartes and Aristotle. Tesla's inventions are the foundation of modern electrical Einstein's 1905 papers single-handedly re wrote physics with relativity and quantum. Descartes pioneered analytic geometry and modern philosophical method and Aristotle essentially founded logic, biology, and empirical inquiry laying the foundation for scientific studies

put einstein and aristotle there as baits and potential debate generators. but i stay on tesla and descartes

 

[ikramy]

never read neitzsche award

I did

 

[Jason Voorhees]

put einstein and aristotle there as baits and potential debate generators. but i stay on tesla and descartes

Give reason why Tesla and Descartes are overrated

 

[Big Daddy]

Disagree with Tesla, Einstein and Descartes and Aristotle. Tesla's inventions are the foundation of modern electrical Einstein's 1905 papers single-handedly re wrote physics with relativity and quantum. Descartes pioneered analytic geometry and modern philosophical method and Aristotle essentially founded logic, biology, and empirical inquiry laying the foundation for scientific studies

aristotle - da vinci - von neumann is the big 3 if we are looking at the scope of their work

 

[unwanted_incel]

blud forgot me and goatis

 

[Arthos]

I did

didnt understand neitzsche award

 

[ikramy]

didnt understand neitzsche award

It’s basically impossible to not understand a writer in our day and age with all the explanations on the internet retard

You are just repeating what the herd usually say

 

[Big Daddy]

Give reason why Tesla and Descartes are overrated

tesla was just an engineer and had a bunch of bunk ideas. way too romanticised.

cogito ergo sum is borderline fb tier line meaning nothing, and all the philosophical concepts he was supposedly inventing were problems that were already discussed by others

 

[StuntmanMike]

Great list
Tesla is def the most overrated

 

[try2beme]

1. Try2beme

 

[Arthos]

It’s basically impossible to not understand a writer in our day and age with all the explanations on the internet retard

You are just repeating what the herd usually say

u didnt understand him despite the internet damn u are low iq

 

[Eskorbutin]

I'd put Plato over Aristotle, out of personal opinion that is, but if I had to do it I would have to also add other people and so on, I won't take on philosophers cause 99% of people here don't even own the books they try to lecture on.

Da Vinci is crazy polymath he is the polymath himself noone can really debate this tbh.

Von Neumann and Gauss also crazy I liked the Euler mention I really like Euler. Turing too I studied a lot in uni.

I'm not sure if this is missing anything really tbh.

 

[KT-34]

Disagree with Tesla, Einstein and Descartes and Aristotle. Tesla's inventions are the foundation of modern electrical Einstein's 1905 papers single-handedly re wrote physics with relativity and quantum. Descartes pioneered analytic geometry and modern philosophical method and Aristotle essentially founded logic, biology, and empirical inquiry laying the foundation for scientific studies

Tesla is an overrated engineer that denied every theory that makes his work useful

He literally tried and failed to disprove the existence of atoms, he also denied Maxwell's equations and half his ideas were purely idiotic because he litteraly didn't understand the core principles of his work


That's why he thought he could provide wireless electricity to the world

 

[KT-34]

I agree on the number one of each category

Von Neumann made world class scientists feel like they were kids

 

[moongazer]

top 5:
1. von neumann
2. newton
3. gauss
4. leibniz
5. da vinci

honorable mention: euler

top 5 overrated:
1. tesla
2. einstein
3. weinberg
4. descartes
5. aristotle

honorable mention: wittgenstein

BONUS:

top 5 (positive) references that scream retard alert:
1. schopenhauer
2. nietzsche
3. orwell
4. freud
5. bukowski

Where am i?

 

[Eskorbutin]

Haha I remember when people in TikTok started larping as Wittgenstein fans because he "solved philosophy" with the Tractatus. He's like the new Nietzsche.

 

[Eskorbutin]

u didnt understand him despite the internet damn u are low iq

If you really read like more than 30 pages of Nietzsche you wouldn't be really looking for it on the internet

 

[GoblinMaxxer]

Von Neumann is vastly overrated, and his scientific achievements pale in comparison to those of Newton, Euler and Gauss.

 

[Overlord-]

Werner Heisenberg deserves an honorable mention at least

 

[VvKEy21vV]

Neitzche was hitlerpilled

So therefor he is automatically smart…

Let’s be real, jigga…

Pure intelligence?? Da Vinci mogs…the world today is waking up and realizing that raw intelligence doesn’t mean dogshit in a world where people who already have established positions who print the money start limiting people with high IQ’s once they begin testing as youngins…

Oop, this person had leadership traits?? Is good in testing early??

“Here’s get the headphones on him and fill him with fluoride! Let’s start shaping his personality in a fairly manufactured way and triangulating around his family and social groups meticulously so we can engineer the version of him we want him to become without him ever knowing! Then if he ever wakes up we’ll make sure he gets cancer or is categorized as crazy!“

All that matters is effectiveness…and effectiveness is a moot point in today’s society. So don’t even give successful people who hoard wealth the satisfaction of calling them brilliant when they’re born into a rigged game that would piss them out instantly if all other things were equal/

 

[Quicksand]

Add Goethe

 

[Big Daddy]

Werner Heisenberg deserves an honorable mention at least

i put him 4th on overrated, but realized he's just irrelevant in this context

 

[Big Daddy]

Add Goethe

can't, for obvious reasons

 

[imontheloose]

Disagree with Tesla, Einstein and Descartes and Aristotle. Tesla's inventions are the foundation of modern electrical Einstein's 1905 papers single-handedly re wrote physics with relativity and quantum. Descartes pioneered analytic geometry and modern philosophical method and Aristotle essentially founded logic, biology, and empirical inquiry laying the foundation for scientific studies

OP hasn’t touched a single piece of Tesla’s work. If it wasn’t for Tesla, he wouldn’t be able to tell us his shitty opinion.

 

[Big Daddy]

Von Neumann is vastly overrated, and his scientific achievements pale in comparison to those of Newton, Euler and Gauss.

considering era-relativity, he accomplished the most. it's just not fancy enough, possible to break down to 2-3 innovations and way too abstract to gain popularity and mass recognition

 

[Big Daddy]

OP hasn’t touched a single piece of Tesla’s work. If it wasn’t for Tesla, he wouldn’t be able to tell us his shitty opinion.

we read it in school here because i come from the same country. that's why i m tired of the myth about him

 

[imontheloose]

we read it in school here because i come from the same country. that's why i m tired of the myth about him

You’re Serbian? He was Serbian, right?

 

[Big Daddy]

You’re Serbian? He was Serbian, right?

i m croatian. he was of serbian origin, but never had anything to do with serbia. spent his entire life before moving to the usa in croatia

 

[Saint]

top 5:
1. von neumann
2. newton
3. gauss
4. leibniz
5. da vinci

honorable mention: euler

top 5 overrated:
1. tesla
2. einstein
3. weinberg
4. descartes
5. aristotle

honorable mention: wittgenstein

BONUS:

top 5 (positive) references that scream retard alert:
1. schopenhauer
2. nietzsche
3. orwell
4. freud
5. bukowski

Where’s asdvek

 

[remusss]

u forgot me

 

[mohi_100]

Neitzche was hitlerpilled

So therefor he is automatically smart…

Let’s be real, jigga…

Pure intelligence?? Da Vinci mogs…the world today is waking up and realizing that raw intelligence doesn’t mean dogshit in a world where people who already have established positions who print the money start limiting people with high IQ’s once they begin testing as youngins…

Oop, this person had leadership traits?? Is good in testing early??

“Here’s get the headphones on him and fill him with fluoride! Let’s start shaping his personality in a fairly manufactured way and triangulating around his family and social groups meticulously so we can engineer the version of him we want him to become without him ever knowing! Then if he ever wakes up we’ll make sure he gets cancer or is categorized as crazy!“

All that matters is effectiveness…and effectiveness is a moot point in today’s society. So don’t even give successful people who hoard wealth the satisfaction of calling them brilliant when they’re born into a rigged game that would piss them out instantly if all other things were equal/

Some of nietzsche's writings were manipulated by elisabeth in order to seem more nazi friendly. Also stop shouting nigga

 

[VvKEy21vV]

Some of nietzsche's writings were manipulated by elisabeth in order to seem more nazi friendly. Also stop shouting nigga

that’s not the actual reason I don’t think he’s an idiot I’m just trolling but there are obvious grievances people have with him because of that very reason. Everything is manipulated to a degree at least in the US

 

[mohi_100]

that’s not the actual reason I don’t think he’s an idiot I’m just trolling but there are obvious grievances people have with him because of that very reason. Everything is manipulated to a degree at least in the US

I agree, "der Wille zur Macht" gets unreasonable hate sometimes. When me and nietzsche cointed the term, we predicted this would happen

 

[Laqi]

top 5:
1. von neumann
2. newton
3. gauss
4. leibniz
5. da vinci

honorable mention: euler

top 5 overrated:
1. tesla
2. einstein
3. weinberg
4. descartes
5. aristotle

honorable mention: wittgenstein

BONUS:

top 5 (positive) references that scream retard alert:
1. schopenhauer
2. nietzsche
3. orwell
4. freud
5. bukowski

Uneducated fools like you deserve no free will of speech, you must be stripped of such privilege and made slave.

 

[JohnnyRamone]

I agree on the number one of each category

Von Neumann made world class scientists feel like they were kids

I agree that Von Neumann's probably at the top.

 

[Big Daddy]

I agree on the number one of each category

Von Neumann made world class scientists feel like they were kids

High iq

And they all explicitly admitted it, even einstein

 

[KT-34]

I agree that Von Neumann's probably at the top.

High iq

And they all explicitly admitted it, even einstein

Honestly not even debatable


The scientists of the Manhattan project (best in the world at the time) all agreed that he was peerless and they could never keep up with him in any field

He's a chemistry major with a mathematics doctorate and he beat them all in their own respective fields, engineering, mechanics

He basically came up with computer science and pioneered AI and neural networks


My favorite anecdote was a world class mathematician that said he went to von Neumann for a solution to a linear programming problem he struggled to solve


John told him on the spot that he had already solved it