Intellectual Tier List

S: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Plato, William Shakespeare, author of Genesis, Franz Kafka

A+: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Henri Poincare, Joseph Fourier, William Blake, Hafez, Archimedes

A: James Clark Maxwell, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, Dante Alighieri, Georg Cantor, Gottfried Leibniz, Siddhartha Gautama, author of proto-Isaiah, Rumi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mileva Marić

A-: Erwin Schrödinger, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hendrik Lorentz, Johann Sebastian Bach, John von Neumann, Edward Witten, John Coltrane, Michelangelo, Leonhard Euler, Aristarchus of Samos

B+: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Milton, Charles Darwin, Guy Debord, author of Kohelet/Ecclesiastes, author of John, author of Matthew, Galileo Galilei, Pythagoras, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Harry Partch, Philolaus of Croton, Orlando Gibbons

B: Ernst Mach, Kurt Gödel, Claude Shannon, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont

B-: Max Planck, Homer, Lao Tzu, Blaise Pascal, Michel de Montaigne, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, William S. Burroughs, Leonard Cohen, Charles Sanders Pierce, Al-Khwarizmi, Douglas Hofstadter, Louis de Broglie, David Bohm, Max Born, Ludwig Boltzmann, Alfred Russel Wallace, Simone de Beauvoir, Rene Descartes

C+: Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Aristotle, Max Stirner, Werner Heisenberg, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Confucius, Gyorgy Lukacs, Leo Tolstoy

C: Hugh Everett, Friedrich Engels, Theodor Adorno, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil, Bertrand Russell, Miguel Cervantes, Pyotr Kropotkin

C-: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard Feynman, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, Lazare Carnot, W.V.O. Quine, Georges Bataille, Amos, Copernicus, Murray Bookchin

D+: Alexander Graham Bell, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Mary Shelley, Adam Smith, Slavoj Zizek, David Hume, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Hans-Georg Gadamer

D: Francis Bacon, Karl Popper, Mikhail Bakunin, Antonie Pannekoek, J.W. von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Don Knuth, Sun Tzu

D-: J.S. Mill, John Rawls, John Dewey, Percy Shelley

E+: Antonio Gramsci, Jeremy Bentham, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. K. Chesterton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Andre Breton, W. A. Mozart, Hypatia, Daniel C. Dennett

E: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Jaspers, Paul, Herbert Rosendorfer, Gertrude Stein

E-: Susan Sontag, Peter Sloterdijk, Felix Guattari, Edwin Hubble, Voltaire, Jean-François Lyotard, Eliezer Yudkowsky

F+: Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Mohandas Gandhi, Derek Parfit, Ayn Rand, Lenin, Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises, Camille Paglia

F: Niels Bohr, Curtis Yarvin, Steven Pinker, Murray Rothbard, Benjamin Franklin

F-: Michael Parenti, I.F. Stone

G: Saul Kripke, Sam Harris

Weirdo Tier: Immanuel Kant 

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