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ITT: the 5 greatest geniuses who ever lived
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:31 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead i think this is a fair and balanced list. feel free to critique.
1. gauss
2. von neumann
3. ramanujan
4. galois
5. tao |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:32 AM Author: Swashbuckling Garrison LOL!!!!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229593) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 9:45 PM Author: mind-boggling pale church 1. Rush Limbaugh 2. Rand Paul 3. George Wallace 4. Steve Sailer 5. Ted Cruz |
Date: October 14th, 2013 1:32 AM Author: silver deer antler euler? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229594) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:35 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead the list was compiled with some diversity in mind. euler is clearly in line with gauss, but overshadowed by him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229614) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:33 AM Author: amethyst deranged voyeur 1. jesus
2. shakespeare
3. newton
4. beethoven
5. lincoln |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:34 AM Author: silver deer antler subtle anti-Leibniz trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229608) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:35 AM Author: amethyst deranged voyeur aristotle should be in the top 5 somewhere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229615) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:36 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead i didn't even take into consideration the ancient bros because it's just so hard to really evaluate their work, but i always read that archimedes > all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229620) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:10 PM Author: Frozen Fragrant Faggot Firefighter lol bro, parmenides and empedocles STYLED all over archimedes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233514) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:58 AM Author: excitant range You must mean the people that made up the stories and attributed them to some dude named Hay-sus. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230428) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:00 PM Author: milky fighting stag film lettuce (guy who imagines that 30 years after J's death giant conspiracy arose among strangers in different cultures to attribute fake stories to J and then all get killed rather than give up on conspiracy) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233448) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 7:59 PM Author: carmine diverse codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980236) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:00 PM Author: Histrionic orchestra pit volcanic crater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980239) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:16 PM Author: excitant range "Mark" wrote the first gospel and the other 3 ripped him off and added their own bits. None of the 13 apostles actually wrote those gospels. You sound uninformed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980314) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:11 PM Author: Frozen Fragrant Faggot Firefighter bizarre lincoln trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233523) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:35 AM Author: galvanic sepia old irish cottage Leibniz, Poincare, Frege, Newton, Zizek (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229617) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:38 AM Author: silver deer antler isn't Zizek a socialist? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229626) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:39 AM Author: Obsidian unholy resort ？ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230156) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:57 PM Author: Titillating corner Explain Frege. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24231933) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:36 AM Author: claret tanning salon sound barrier 1. Howard Stern 2. Francis Bacon 3. Teddy Roosevelt 4. Bill Gates 5. Scalia
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:44 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229644) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:36 AM Author: lime irradiated public bath turdskin newton Einstein von Neumann Aristotle Gauss
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:39 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead einstein had significant accomplishments but he wasn't nearly as smart as, say, von neumann who was his contemporary. and although newton did groundbreaking work in his time, he was a noted aspie and toiled endlessly in a time period when few others were inclined or in a position to do such work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229628) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:46 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse If you don't think newton was a GOAT genius, you are fucking retarded. Dude invented fucking calculus, discovered gravity. Jesus Christ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229648) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:52 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead you are so fucking stupid, please leave this thread forever. he invented calculus at the same time as leibniz did, so that hardly puts him head and shoulders over people in his own time, let alone all time. and "discovered gravity"? stick to fiction books and leave the adult conversations alone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229668) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Indecent Soggy Rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229730) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:15 AM Author: Dark cruise ship He didn't completely invent calculus by any stretch as many of the concepts were floating around already (hence why leibniz stumbles on it at the same time), but he did provide by far the best overview and more importantly applied it to physics to derive the basis for the fucking field. newton singlehandedly compiled more or less our existing knowledge of physics and math, vastly improved it, and used it to prove the basis for all physics and engineering to follow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230073) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:44 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Complete morons ITT. Anyone who lists fucking Tao in all seriousness as a top 5 GOAT genius deserves to be shot.
Archimedes Aristotle Aquinas Newton Pick a mathematician/physicist from the last century (Einstein, Von Neumann, etc.)
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:45 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus mfe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229645) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:47 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Anyone who leaves off Archimedes immediately outs themselves as an idiot prole. 99.99% of Americans couldn't design and build the shit he did, even with a modern how-to guide (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229650) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:48 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead anyone whose list skews towards ancient times more than it does towards the 20th century is a fucking idiot of the highest order and probably a humanities major. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229655) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:52 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Lol you're done here, faggot. I bet you don't have the faintest clue what Aquinas' contribution to humanity even was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229672) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:56 AM Author: Dark cruise ship edit: posted in wrong place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230051) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:02 PM Author: carmine diverse codepig lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980247) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:21 PM Author: excitant range Water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980343) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:55 AM Author: Provocative up-to-no-good corn cake spot cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229681) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:47 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead yeah because those guys from the pre-industrial revolution were just so CLEARLY smarter than someone who is near universally regarded as the greatest genius of the last generation in a time when the earth's population is over 6 BILLION.
yes, i definitely deserve to be shot for picking terence tao over fucking thomas aquinas. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:49 AM Author: silver deer antler A WILD CLITDICK APPEARS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229656) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:51 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229667) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:51 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse If you genuinely believe that Terence Tao deserves the title of genius over Aquinas, you are fucking useless and should killself. Aquinas' work was the cornerstone of a millennium of analytic philosophy and stands head and shoulders above the thinking of anyone else even close to his era in time. Your bias toward the modern is absurd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229666) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:55 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead OMG THE CORNERSTONE OF PHILOSPHY. lol, little breh, if we are going to descend into trivialities, i would sooner side with TBF and put bach on the list.
and no, plato is the ancient precursor of "analytic" philosophy. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: big-titted address milk What about Leonardo da Vinci or some shit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229689) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: big-titted address milk I like what you're doing here so don't take this the wrong way, but did you ever get raped by a priest when you were a kid? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229687) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:37 AM Author: Crystalline slap-happy stain property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229871) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:57 AM Author: Harsh stimulating abode a MILLENNIUM of analytic philosophy! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229937) |
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Date: November 25th, 2013 7:06 PM Author: fantasy-prone wagecucks trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24510647) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:54 AM Author: big-titted address milk The only place I've heard of Terrence Tao is this message bort. Suffice it to say either:
1. He is not the smartest guy ever.
2. He has not lived up to his potential. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: Provocative up-to-no-good corn cake spot are you kidding. tao is ridiculously famous in math circles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229688) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:57 AM Author: big-titted address milk What new field of mathematics did he create or utterly reshape? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229692) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:59 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead it is exceedingly hard to simply create a new field of mathematics these days, but it suffices to say that he did win the fields medal and he has a reputation that is staggering among people in his field. in due course i expect that his wiki page will be similar in kind to von neumann's.
"Such is Tao's reputation that mathematicians now compete to interest him in their problems, and he is becoming a kind of Mr Fix-it for frustrated researchers. "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao," says Charles Fefferman " |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 8:11 AM Author: charismatic jet tank sweet tailpipe "it is exceedingly hard to simply create a new field of mathematics these days" --said by every mathematician ever, aside from the revolutionary geniuses who see things differently and just go fucking do it |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:30 AM Author: fear-inspiring gas station cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230546) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:34 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead or, you know, there could actually be something unique about the past 50 years that sets it apart from the rest of human history. name me one recent mathematician who has invented a new field. you can't do it. why? because that time is over. even as recently as the nineteenth century, gauss was inventing stuff in number theory that an intelligent high schooler could understand. if terence tao is simply the best of his generation, that's enough to earn him a spot on the list via modern population and educational access considerations alone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233266) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:36 PM Author: big-titted address milk but GOAT genius? i dunno brother. he needs to blow minds in a crazy way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233278) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:42 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead being the preeminent genius in a population of 6 billion with unprecedented access to higher education should blow minds. if it doesn't, you're biased against the present and cling onto the stories you've been told about intellectual giants of the past. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233306) |
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Date: November 6th, 2013 9:06 AM Author: excitant range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24381628) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:57 AM Author: silver deer antler yeah but the only reason people praise him here is because they're MAF clitdick azn megaposters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229693) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:30 AM Author: fear-inspiring gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230549) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:06 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus 3. you are not the smartest guy ever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229731) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:52 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford Einstein, Von Neumann and Tao are all smarter than Aquinas, come on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229670) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:53 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Yet another internet MFE who has literally never even cracked open anything Aquinas wrote and likely can't even say what century he lived in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229675) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:54 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford let's be serious for a second, do you actually find any value in anything you've ever read by aquinas? that's the funniest thing i've ever heard. you're fucked in the head, son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229678) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 7:58 AM Author: infuriating salmon community account You are doing good work here, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230180) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: Blathering partner einstein
maimonides
spinoza
freud
bohr
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus lololol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229742) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:22 AM Author: Blathering partner (antisemite) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229803) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:45 AM Author: supple duck-like site toaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230158) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:33 PM Author: Soul-stirring Mewling National Security Agency Parlor Bohr wasn't a jew
Einstein stole his work from others
freuds "theories" were groundless, unfalsifiable and now widely rejected speculations |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:37 AM Author: comical rigpig you are my favorite poaster.
how about this:
1. Solomon 2. Sandy Koufax 3. Columbus 4. Einstein 5. Felix Frankfurter |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 12:24 PM Author: Balding passionate piazza no King Solomon? flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24231226) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:45 PM Author: Blathering partner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233325) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: Blathering partner itt: no muslim names. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229690) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:57 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Last poast I'm making ITT but to those ridiculously trolling for the modern: you clearly don't understand the significance of making lasting intellectual contributions in times when "science" as a practiced discipline didn't even exist. Being born into an era when everyone in academia is on the same page wrt scientific inquiry makes genius-level advancement of others' work far easier than if you're literally flying solo in a crowd of clueless monkeys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229694) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:59 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford go back to sucking aquinas's cock, papist loon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229701) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:59 AM Author: big-titted address milk Counter-argument it was a lot easier to come up with mind blowing shit back in the day. Like Copernicus looking out his window to be like huh, I bet this earth centric universe shit is wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229704) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:02 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse ........this is the opposite of true. It could not be more false. The leap required to "look out your window" and think anything of the sort would be equivalent to you currently looking out your window and thinking "huh. I bet extradimensional aliens live inside a universe made of dark matter and controlled the assassination of JFK" and then proving that this is, in fact, the case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229720) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford you're sure in a hurry to get yourself on the list of xo's 5 greatest dummies, ain't ya (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229728) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:21 AM Author: big-titted address milk egregious anti-cgm, muscular ginger, rasquach, and maf huffington post blogger trolling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230152) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead please stop. you're just embarrassing yourself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229729) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: big-titted address milk Look man you raise some interesting points but let's be real for a minute, do you think Notre Dame will make it to a bowl game? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229741) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:04 AM Author: silver deer antler heh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229723) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:03 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead you just HAVE to be a TTT humanities major to claim that a medieval theologian/philosopher is one of the five greatest geniuses of all time. i mean sure i haven't read his works, but then again i bet you haven't ANY idea of the significance of what gauss did, for example, or the relative genius of ramanujan in comparison to all his contemporaries. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229721) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:07 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse Ramanujan is a much better example because he is more closely equivalent to someone making leaps with little to no foundation to build upon.
The Summa Theologica is hands down one of the top 3 most historically important and impressive works in any discipline of all time, and anyone who disputes this is a clueless prole. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead making quantum leaps in philosophy is wholly different than doing the same in math. you are clueless. your entire reasoning is based on whether someone's work is original in their field and exceeds the boundaries of their era, without taking into account a huge number of other factors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229739) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford the summa theologica is wrong front to back. surely that dings him a few points, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229743) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:14 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse This is like saying Newton gets dinged because special relativity disproves his "wrong" conception of gravity.
The point is what the work means in context of what common thought was before and after. Aquinas subjected to cogent, rigorous analytical reason the ideology that dominated all of human history for a thousand years. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:15 AM Author: Buff Regret Halford no, it's really not the same at all. newton pretty much nailed it, as far as he went. there just turned out to be a lot further to go.
aquinas is bullshit |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:19 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse "By nature, all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments."
He was pwning shitlibs 700 years in advance. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:21 AM Author: ocher double fault suddenly you're done here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229800) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:25 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead is this a joke? with regards to intellect i really couldn't take a pure philospher very seriously. sure if they were a hybrid math-philosopher then they could still be in the running. and sure it is possible that someone like aquinas actually WAS the smartest man who ever lived, and we simply don't know about it. but anyone whose entire body of work lies exclusively in philosophy simply has not produced the right kind of work to even be able to stack him up against the unadulterated genius of a gauss or a von neumann, and that's just an unfortunate fact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229824) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:28 AM Author: Geriatric meetinghouse The downfall of Western civilization is due in part to this mindset, leaving us with 180 technological advances without any philosophical geniuses to interpret what the fuck it is we're doing to human meaning, which allows brainless self-hating shitlibs to poison culture. The next great genius deserving of a spot on this list will be a philosopher. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229843) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:30 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead you're missing the point. i don't deny that philosophers can play an important role in society, just that their line of work is hardly indicative of raw transcendent genius in the same way as mathematics and physics (or even literature) are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229851) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:39 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus you'd put lit above philosophy? flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229882) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:51 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead math/physics is indicative of one kind of genius, literature another. these two kinds of genius are broadly incomparable so their respective fields cannot for our purposes be subsumed by one or the other. philosophy, however, is not the same. i would say that any genius level talent in math could be an excellent analytic philosopher, and any genius level talent in literature could be a first rate continental philosopher. so there is nothing to be said for philosophy on its own. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229929) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:59 AM Author: Twinkling Yarmulke Sanctuary LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230053) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:35 AM Author: fear-inspiring gas station (math nut) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230573) |
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Date: November 4th, 2013 3:48 PM Author: Very tactful boyish business firm ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24368953) |
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Date: November 4th, 2013 3:58 PM Author: Talking sooty house dingle berry Wrong about math to philosophy. People underestimate the extent to which asking the right questions in the first place is integral to philosophy, a skill which does not necessarily follows from mathematical genius. The proof is in the fact that very good mathematicians often end up doing boring and uninspired philosophical work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24369046) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:12 AM Author: Dark cruise ship it's because the questions you can philosophically analyze (aside from fields like logic, which are more for providing a foundation for math) hit a roadblock after a certain point. there are myriad outcomes to the advance of technology and a consequence of this is our eventual realization that no one branch of thought can provide an answer, the best we can do is consider the possible outcomes to the extent we are feebly capable of guessing the fairly chaotic adaptation of society to new technology. with the extent of human literacy it's virtually impossible to have a novel insight on a philosophical question these days.
also LOL at bringing it back to an xoesque hatred of "shitlibbery". blame the shitlibs for not enough STEM, blame them for too many public policy majors wasting space, blame them for AIDS and modern economics as a whole, blame them for your voting booth, blame them for wondering what could happen if some stuff melts |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:26 AM Author: big-titted address milk a poaster is dun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229832) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:58 AM Author: ocher double fault what about obama (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229698) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:01 AM Author: Heady domesticated set generalized bond 5 xo pumos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229711) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:01 AM Author: Thriller step-uncle's house famous landscape painting 1. glenn beck
2. bill o'reilly
3. rush limbaugh
4. terrence tao
5. archimedes |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:02 AM Author: silver deer antler 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229718) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:10 AM Author: big-titted address milk Rush should be higher than beck and also where is Ann coulter? Otherwise credited list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229744) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:45 AM Author: Indecent Soggy Rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230360) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:27 AM Author: Titillating corner 1. Jesus - Obvious. 2. Plato - Essentially the grandfather of Western thought. Alfred North Whitehead said, "All of philosophy is a footnote to Plato." 3. Kant - Destroyed pure rationalism. 4. Francis Bacon - One of the most important Empiricists, defined the way we think about the world, now. 5. Charles Darwin - Wrote the first widely-accepted and still mostly-correct theory of biological evolution. Significant because it severed a final link between the physical world and non-empirical thought. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:33 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead bro i think we have differing views on the definition of genius. you have a lot of people on your list who certainly are not the sharpest tools in the shed, although they did do groundbreaking work. what i mean by genius is similar to IQ, but with the caveat that it must be proven and demonstrated in a rigorous field so as to weed out those outlier/misfired duds like William Sidis and Christopher Lanagan who have 200 IQ but sit at home and do nothing all day (assuming those people aren't simply hoaxes). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229860) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:38 AM Author: big-titted address milk Should have another thread or subthread on most influential people in history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229879) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:39 AM Author: Crystalline slap-happy stain property Christopher Lanagan has a theory of everything though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229883) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 8:15 AM Author: charismatic jet tank sweet tailpipe "not the sharpest tools in the shed" ... xo Zimm sits up in bed with a JOLT ... "dananana hey now, you're an all star..." |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:43 AM Author: Aqua concupiscible national "not the sharpest tools in the shed"
LOL. Everyone on that list has IQs above the people on your list, with the exception of Jesus and Darwin |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:55 AM Author: Titillating corner You've just narrowed the definition of "genius" to mean "guys with a high IQ except for the guys with high IQs that I don't like."
Genius is not just raw mental power, but I think includes a spark of creativity and I guess independent thought. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:41 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead The criterion of proving oneself in a rigorous field of intellectual endeavor is FAfR from an arbitrary selection of "guys with high IQs that I happen to like." There is a world of a difference between someone like Terence Tao who tested in the upper reaches of IQ and then DEMONSTRATED his ability at the highest echelons of pure mathematics, and christopher lanagan who as far as we can tell has done nothing of verifiable import. I agree that genius is not just raw mental power, and that it involves some creativity and independent thought. That's accounted for in the criterion of proving oneself in a rigorous field, which you cannot do unless you have considerable levels of creativity and independent thought. What YOU meant by those terms, however, and what I took issue with in your list, is someone who happened to have been at the right place at the right time, or someone who had a stroke of luck. Nobody honestly thinks that Darwin's insights were unique to him in the sense that only he could have come up with them given the experiences that he had. But we can be fairly certain that there is NOTHING fungible about Gauss's mind relative to the accomplishments that he made coupled with the experiences that he had. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233298) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:26 PM Author: excitant range How is Jesus even considered at all? There is no evidence he was intelligence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980378) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:43 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead again i didn't seriously consider any ancient dudes because their work is so obscure from a modern context, and maybe that's inherently unfair, but to all those who feel inclined to stack the list with greek luminaries and the like, consider that the current world population is probably orders of magnitude greater than the cumulative population of the entire history of greece, so anyone who stands out as a preeminent genius of today is almost certainly superior to the famous greeks of the past by statistical likelihood alone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229901) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:58 AM Author: glittery jap Exactly. Evan O'Dorney >>>>>>>>>>>>> Aristotle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229942) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:01 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead i wouldn't go that far since o'dorney hasn't proven himself at the top of his generation yet, but i would be confident enough to say that terence tao > aristotle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229951) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:51 AM Author: bateful stage Whokebe Thom York Adolphus Busch Aristotle GTO |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:08 AM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead btw, note the diversity of my list of only 5 figures:
an alpha german misanthrope, a jolly hungarian jew, a mystical turdskin villager, a young french firebrand, and a prodigious and studious (but not so superstudy) asian |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:14 AM Author: Turquoise Roommate von neuman, wittgenstein, rach, saddam, feynman, hitler, leibniz, pastuer, diogenes, jobs, thales, euclid, dolphins, solomon, tesla, kanye, edison, billy mays, joey ramone, sartre, cupid, nebraska, knives, nyquist, printing press, bob kahn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24229982) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 7:53 AM Author: violent menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230177) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:50 AM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230976) |
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Date: November 25th, 2013 7:12 PM Author: fantasy-prone wagecucks trailer park skrillex (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24510686) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 3:58 AM Author: Dark cruise ship as far as philosophers and non STEM bros go Augustine is probably the most underrated. a lot of his underlying work is of a quality not seen for literally more than 1000 years afterward in the west (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230052) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:38 AM Author: fear-inspiring gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230584) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:24 AM Author: Titillating corner Explain. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230826) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:02 AM Author: Twinkling Yarmulke Sanctuary Who the fuck is Tao? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230057) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:04 AM Author: Twinkling Yarmulke Sanctuary Ridiculous anti-goethe trolling ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230059) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:06 AM Author: talented bearded school OP is an autistic chink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230060) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:24 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle shaky party of the first part headpube top 10 for STEM are: Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, Bohr, Heisenberg, Galileo, Feynman, Dirac, Schrödinger, Rutherford.
OP is way off the mark here and likely a chink and/or trolling considering he listed Tao. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:41 AM Author: Dark cruise ship I love Feynman but I don't really think genius-wise he's extremely far ahead of his contemporaries. he's certainly the most *important* of that group historically speaking for his broader contributions, but that's a bit of a different topic
I think Tao is more an argument that the age of "geniuses" is done. Considering how much he stands out in a world with vastly increased literacy/life expectance/population/rigid academic structure, it's entirely possible someone like him would've stood out on a historical level even 70 years ago. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 8:04 AM Author: godawful library "the age of "geniuses" is done."
This seems vaguely accurate. I've often had the idea that Europe from 1650 to around 1950 was a period of explosive intellectual growth a-la classical Greece, while the subsequent Pax Americana period was more preoccupied with technical and engineering issues a-la imperial rome. Of course recent technological progress has definitely required many 'genius' contributions, but the 'geniuses' responsible for it don't seem to steal the show for their intellectual work, like they did in the old days. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 9:36 PM Author: excitant range (Walter White) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980746) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 4:54 AM Author: flatulent doctorate stock car the lack of grigori perelman ITT is disturbing
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Date: October 14th, 2013 7:59 AM Author: outnumbered beady-eyed institution he is known for one contribution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230181) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 8:13 AM Author: Wonderful bonkers incel plaza 1. TBF 2. Whokebe 3. Twist 4. Askav 5. YKMS |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:18 PM Author: Dead Love Of Her Life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265940) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:39 AM Author: Exhilarant aggressive nowag What about chess bros like Fischer or Kasparov? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230333) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:40 AM Author: Canary big senate Any list without Zuckerburg, Jobs and Brin on it is just SPS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230338) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:42 AM Author: Indecent Soggy Rigor KOR PP MM FF LL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230344) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:45 AM Author: Walnut Hairless Area International Law Enforcement Agency bach (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230359) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:49 AM Author: Twinkling Yarmulke Sanctuary (tbf) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230967) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:56 AM Author: primrose dopamine legend OP must be MAF virgin Chink.
The Tao trolling ITT is ridiculous.
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Date: October 14th, 2013 10:33 AM Author: Aqua concupiscible national CR. I agree Tao is definitely at the top of his field right now. But no way he would even crack a T100 list of the greatest geniuses of all time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230563) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:29 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead just to make an analogy with sports because i don't think the point is sinking in: we surely had many great athletic talents in the early 20th century and prior, but the fact remains that high school kids today regularly run faster than what would have been the WORLD RECORD merely 60 or 70 years ago. this is the kind of sea change that we have seen in every area of human endeavor, and mathematics is no different. we have fewer geniuses of the holistic, completely dominating variety, but that should stand as no mark against the quality of their intellects. rather, it should stand as testament to how deep the fields today really are, and how efficient we have become at harnessing talent and directing it to far-sighted, productive uses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24234870) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:38 PM Author: Provocative up-to-no-good corn cake spot i make this point all the time. the greatest geniuses of any field are likely alive today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24235715) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:35 PM Author: Insanely creepy trump supporter hunting ground To be fair,
Counterpoint: There are no composers alive today who can even begin to compete with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. There are no painters alive today who can even begin to compete with the Old Masters. There are no sculptors alive today who can even begin to compete with those active during the Italian Renaissance. Etc. Is that because of lack of interest in these fields, or lack of relative talent? |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:39 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead i'm not a musician or an artist. how do i know what you say is true? link me to some outside sources that say there is no one alive today who can produce work on the level of Bach. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265663) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:43 PM Author: Insanely creepy trump supporter hunting ground To be fair,
(Actual idiot)
And I never said that no one alive "can" produce work on a level of Bach (although I strongly suspect that's the case)--I said that no one is. Which is a fact, although you are obviously too unlearned to even begin to follow a technical explanation of why that is. The question is whether that lack of production is due to lack of interest, or lack of talent, and I left it unanswered because I don't think it's provable either way. But the point is that no masterworks on par with Bach's are being produced today in the field of music, which at the very least undermines your conclusory statement that the greatest geniuses alive in all fields are probably alive today. |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:46 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead you literally said no one alive "can" produce... 3 times
unless you link me to authoritative sources that say this is objectively true, i will take your statement to be of the same (erroneous) kind as the various statements in this thread that obviously terrence tao (and therefore all other mathematicians on the planet today) is not on the same level as gauss or the other math geniuses of the past.
Date: October 19th, 2013 8:35 PM Author: To be fair (Semi-Retired)
To be fair,
Counterpoint: There are no composers alive today who can even begin to compete with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. There are no painters alive today who can even begin to compete with the Old Masters. There are no sculptors alive today who can even begin to compete with those active during the Italian Renaissance. Etc. Is that because of lack of interest in these fields, or lack of relative talent?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265643) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:53 PM Author: Insanely creepy trump supporter hunting ground To be fair,
"Can" you read? "Can" in that context = no composer alive today (i.e., a working composer who is currently living on this earth) can compose like Bach. What's my proof? The fact that none of them even come close, and I find it beyond the realm of belief that that can be explained by a mere lack of trying; we're tlaking about proud working professionals who would be feted the world over and made very rich if they could produce music on that level. No one with any real knowledge of this field would dispute the statement that no composer alive today comes close to matching Bach in terms of sheer technical skill, and accordingly I'm not going to waste time trying to explain why to you because if you have to ask for proof of that statement, you probably couldn't understand it even if given to you--that's how obvious it is to people with any real knowledge of the field.
The larger question is whether any *human being* alive today, if properly trained as a composer, could compete with Bach. I don't think there's any way of answering that question, and that's the interesting question tha really gets to the point that you were trying to make.
But please, I beg you--don't assume my statements are erroneous. I am really interested in convincing you of this, just wait around for a little bit and I'll come back with a thoroughly sourced explanation where I show all my work. I promise. Just keep checking this thread every hour or so for the rest of the evening. |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:58 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead so you have zero evidence for your claim.
if it's so obviously true, i expect a professional composer or someone who studies the area to at least write an article in the nytimes directed towards laypersons pondering the question of why the quality of artistic output has decreased since the 1700s across the board.
but, huh, you have not a single piece of evidence. okay then, your opinions are quite worthless to me. |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:13 PM Author: Insanely creepy trump supporter hunting ground To be fair,
lol you seem like a real faggot brother, and I say that as a real faggot. |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:17 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead you're done here. never post about human intelligence again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265934) |
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Date: October 20th, 2013 3:10 AM Author: Insanely creepy trump supporter hunting ground To be fair,
Brother your accomplishments ITT amount to coming up with a retarded list and coming off as a legitimate autist. Congratulations. |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 8:48 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead okay, link me to sources that say the TOP artistic output today is objectively inferior to the top artistic output of the past (bach, etc.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265733) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:05 PM Author: carmine diverse codepig LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980257) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:01 PM Author: Nudist nighttime crotch whorehouse Exactly. Saying tao is one of the greatest geniuses would be like saying anyone else who currently happens to be at the top of their field is one of the greatest geniuses. it would be exactly equivalent to putting Thomas Nagel in the top 5 greatest geniuses of all time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265832) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:05 PM Author: Coiffed motley candlestick maker stage dude, are you seriously comparing philosophy to math? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265854) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:08 PM Author: Nudist nighttime crotch whorehouse why not? personally I would say Nagel is a greater genius than tao. so what if that gook robot aspie tao put together a bunch of useless equations that most people will never understand or look at. doesn't make him shit in the grand scope of great geniuses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265874) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:09 PM Author: Coiffed motley candlestick maker stage pure mathematics is the best indicator of someone's raw intelligence. lol@philosophy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265880) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:09 PM Author: Nudist nighttime crotch whorehouse (autistic gook) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24265885) |
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Date: October 19th, 2013 9:08 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead in the most objective category of human endeavor, athletics, the greatest performers today are indeed the greatest performers of all time by every metric.
they are so far and away better that it's not even close. we can say almost FOR SURE that the marathon record holder today is better at that distance than anyone alive in the previous 2000 years, and we can say FOR SURE that usain bolt is the best 100m runner in all of human history.
i don't see why the same principle can't be extended to non-objective fields like math and science if you butthurt romantic faggots would just stop clinging to the past so much. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 7:57 PM Author: Swollen odious shrine police squad A lot of that is due to better drugs, training, nutrition, etc. Those don't exist for the brain. Lol adderral.
Also don't forget that humanity has been in a dysgenic phase for a century.
Lastly, the level of focus is not the same. Too many distractions in modern life. Ok this relates to productivity rather than raw intelligence. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:01 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead what do you think better nutrition does for the brain? what do you think talent search programs and early nurturing of talent and curiosity among children does for their interests?
yeah sure modern life has too many distractions but the primitive conditions of centuries ago without even air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter, were ideal for sustained concentration in abstract thought. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:23 PM Author: Swollen odious shrine police squad Idk, setting aside obvious malnutrition, cognitive function has proven to be very resistant to enhancement. I highly doubt postnatal improvement in nutrition results in higher IQ and does any academic truly put himself on a strict diet the way athletes do (ceatine, glutamine, etc.)
Prenatal is more important. However there hasn't been much improvement among the middle and upper classes which is where geniuses virtually always come from. OTOH there's been vast improvement among the lower classes which is where athletes come from.
Anyway, drugs are likely a much bigger factor than nutrition.
I suspect the talent search is a big factor. Now u have 1mm js mill's. Not sure how much an advantage precociousness is-don't forget that boy's name. Its probably at least as important and more widespread in athletics.
Overall ur probably right about the greatest geniuses being g around now due to sheer gene pool but it's quite different from the increase in athletic performance. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:27 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead just as people have gotten taller with better nutrition, people have gotten smarter with better nutrition AND a more stimulating environment starting from birth.
if anything, i would expect the intellectual abilities of an advanced society to increase more than the physical abilities.
you talk as if all the gains in athletic abilities are due to illegal drugs. absolutely ridiculous. |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:29 PM Author: Swollen odious shrine police squad We don't know that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980396) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:05 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead also, "dysgenic"? no, due to global spread of talent and emphasis on education, geniuses are congregating in universities and tech hubs and getting married to each other at increasing rates. that would not be possible in the past. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980258) |
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Date: February 8th, 2014 8:28 PM Author: Swollen odious shrine police squad Increase in assortive mating is a recent trend and could lead to super geniuses but the number of kids per high IQ woman (say 130+) has been plummeting for a century. So who knows. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24980388) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:27 AM Author: Mildly autistic skinny woman 1. einstein (photo-electric effect/brownian motion/special relativity/e=mc^2 all in same year)
2. da vinci
3. von neumann |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:47 AM Author: dashing crusty temple newton tesla da vinci feynman einstein |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 11:51 AM Author: contagious weed whacker you forgot Johnsmeyer, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24230979) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:50 PM Author: big-titted address milk Manu = Bachman loves cain's bbc.
LJL |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:55 PM Author: slate box office Newton Einstein Goethe Von Neumann Da Vinci
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:09 PM Author: Saffron Vivacious Laser Beams Theatre Females are under-represented in this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24232024) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 9:33 PM Author: Floppy Bat Shit Crazy Becky Locus you mean accurately represented (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24234892) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:22 PM Author: exciting medicated hell elastic band Thomas Friedman
Steve Jobs
Malcom Gladwell
Stephen Hawking
Barak Obama |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:24 PM Author: insane orchid giraffe wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24232100) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 2:27 PM Author: talented bearded school It would be tough to argue that #s 3,4 and 5 in the OP would even make T50 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24232127) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 5:58 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead are you fucking insane? i admit that any list of the top 5 is going to be arguable, but you don't see why the following even belong to the top 50???
-ramanujan the quintessential genius with almost no formal training who derived hundreds of mind-shattering combinatorial identities that even today are still being researched and verified. he was imported direct from a backwoods area of turdland after the highest rank mathematician in all of england intsnatly recognized his genius from a letter that he wrote and promptly became OBSESSED over ramanujan's singular and ineffable brilliance.
'Paul Erdos has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, J.E. Littlewood 30, David Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100.'"
for your reference, Hilbert was the leading mathematician in the world at the time.
-galois a brash youth who had little formal instruction and enjoyed pretty much no collaboration. this was owing to the fact that he was kicked out of school because he just couldn't give a fuck to be polite to the inferior minds instructing him, and spent most of his short time on earth as an outcast to the wider mathematical community. he spent most of his time political agitating in the french revolution and died at the age of 20 in a duel over some girl. before he died he outlined some of his work in a letter which was seminal to say the least and later revolutionized the field of algebra.
Hermann Weyl, a mathematician, said of this testament, "This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind."
-tao, i've defended him above. |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:05 PM Author: big-titted address milk very nice scholarship! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233488) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:10 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead i think galois often gets overlooked because of his young age but consider that in his time, his ideas were so novel that people often had no idea what the FUCk he was saying, and considered him a charlatan. he, meanwhile, couldn't give a FUCK about them to sit down and explain or even just exposit his work in an easily understandable form. and he died at TWENTY YEARS OLD. today, there is a whole sub-branch of algebra named after him which ALL mathematics graduate students have to learn. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233516) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:12 PM Author: big-titted address milk brother, how did he die? that is depressing as fuck to think that a GOAT level genius died so young. one of my ancestors who was accepted to cambridge as a teen died of yellow fever soon thereafter so it hits home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233533) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:15 PM Author: Slippery Liquid Oxygen Stead he was an impetuous little dude who spent as much time in the streets doing edgy political stuff as he did at home doing math. he was challenged to a duel over a girl and accepted the challenge because it would have affronted his honor to do otherwise. a day before the duel, he even SENSED that he was going to die the next day, and as a result he prepared a rough manuscript of his works to date. imagine a GOAT genius preparing his magnum opus at the age of 20 as he literally prepares for death. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233549) |
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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:56 PM Author: big-titted address milk fuck brother, that's like hamilton squared. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2386863&forum_id=2#24233789) |
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