(this list is incomplete and is being updated in real time)
METHOD
To make this list I looked at all the living people who had ever been Time’s person of the year, person of the decade, person of the century, or included on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people of the year, the century, or all time. Points were allotted as follows:
One of the 100 most influential of the year = 0.01 points
Person of the year: 1 point
Person of the year 1st runner up: 0.5 points
Person of the year 2nd runner up: 0.33 points, etc…
One of the 100 most influential of the century = 1 point
Person of the decade = 10 points
Person of the half-century = 50 points
Person of the century = 100 points
One of the hundred most influential people of all time = 50 points (since recorded history is 5000 years and there are 100 people)
If they shared any of these honors with someone else, the points got divided by the number of people. So for example James Watson got 1 point for being one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century and got 50 points for being one of the 100 most influential people of all time, but since both honors were shared with Francis Crick, his total was 25.5 points making him the most influential living person ever (according to the collective wisdom of the World’s most prestigious magazine).
NUMBER 1: JAMES WATSON 25.5 POINTS
Launching the genetic revolution is the most influential event since the discovery of agriculture; actually more so because it will mark the end of our species. Woke Time magazine would be horrified that they accidentally told the truth in ranking an HBDer so high (by my scoring method, at least).
NUMBER 2: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 13 points
Caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, dramatically changing the trajectory of World history.
NUMBER 3 & 4: THE LIVING BEATLES (12.75 points each)
Created the most loved art of all time, and inspired history’s most influential generation to change the World.
Number 5: Donald Trump 3.37 points
Woke Time magazine would be horrified to learn they’ve ranked Donald Trump above the media’s golden boy Barack Obama, especially since Obama was named person of the year twice and Trump only earned that title once. However the partial credits Trump earns from being runner-up so frequently allowed him to overtake his predecessor in cumulative influence. Whether for better or for worse, his impact on the World has been enormous.
Number 6: Barack Obama 2.11 points
Arguably the first black (or near-black) in recorded history to be the most powerful person on Earth. Helped bring dignity, pride, inspiration and status to an entire human race. Helped save America from war with Iran and helped make Israel a partisan issue.
Number 7: George W. Bush 2.04 points
Was convinced by the neocons to invade the Middle East, which arguably was the beginning of the end for America’s status as the World’s sole superpower.
Number 8: Lech Walesa 2 points
He led a pro-democratic movement which in ended Communist rule in Poland helping to end the Cold War.
Number 9: Bill Clinton 1.535 points
Number 10: Vladimir Putin 1.39
Helped Russia regain its status as a major World power and counter to U.S. dominance.
Number 11: Bill Gates 1.36
As an entrepreneur he helped launch the computer revolution & as a philanthropist, he changed the face of global health care.
Number 12: Oprah 1.1 points
Invented a more intimate touchy-feely form of media communication. Popularized a genre of talk shows that discussed taboo topics like addiction, infidelity and gays. By creating a culture of confession, helped lead millions of abuse survivors to recovery. Credited with bringing literature to the masses and helping put a black family in the White House.
Number 13: Angela Merkel 1.08 points
Transformed the face of Germany by welcoming a record number of refugees.
Number 14: Pope Francis 1.06 points
Shook up the church with huge symbolic change. Started a commission to look into the church’s sexual abuse problem.
Number 15: Jeff Bezos 1.05 points
Transformed the way we buy things, making shopping a store obsolete.
Number 16: Mark Zuckerberg 1.04 points
Helped lead the revolution from traditional media to social media.
Number 17: Elon Musk 1.04 points
Transformed the World by founding SpaceX in 2002, helping create alternative energy company SolarCity and Tesla, the world’s most valuable car company.
Number 18: Ben Bernanke 1.01 points
Changed U.S. monetary policy and led an effort to rescue the global economy in 2009.
Number 19: Steven Spielberg 1.01 points
Life magazine called him “our Homer and our Hans Christian Anderson,”; films like “E.T.,” “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s List.” have shaped the hearts and minds of millions.
Number 20: Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) 1.01 points
Created music that inspired the World’s most powerful generation to seek social change.
Number 21: Greta Thunberg 1.01 points
Inspired millions of humans to stand up for the environment.
Number 22: Jimmy Carter 1 point
Had an unusually peaceful presidency that impacted the World.
Number 23: Queen Elizabeth 1 point
Symbolized tradition for several generations in a changing World.
Number 24: David Ho 1 point
His scientific research helped millions survive AIDS
Number 25: Newt Gingrich 1 point
Led a conservative revolution, turning both houses of congress Republican in the 1990s for the first time in several decades.
Pumpkin Person 
where’s lech walesa?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa
He will be there
“bernia” is a mistake but might also be a portmanteau of “bernie” and “beria” for the sean hannity fans.
the youngins have to be reminded that GM used to be cool…the coolest.
pp, what do you think of my IQ rank system?
https://illuminaticatblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/iq/
It’s not a system, it’s just a ranking but it’s interesting.
engels pre-beard looks autistic.
is it just me?
and then bradley manning.
brain crushingly sad.
and yet glenn greenwald refers to him as a woman…
the dude was a midget.
too much vroom libido and totally repellent to women…
that fucks you up.
in general a horrible fact is that un-sexy men are much more tortured than ugly women.
in part because there is an ideology that “looks don’t matter to women”.
so a scrawny midget like bradley manning is convinced to cut it off…
SICK!
i blame female DISHONESTY!
actually he looks a lot like anders breivik.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-you-a-super-recognizer-take-a-test/
I know thousands of people but that is cultural intelligence not face intelligence. I need more than a face to remember you. You need a story, a background. Identity.
I forget names easily.
1.26 million people in usa have the same cultural intelligence I have.
but tests don’t measure real intelligence levels.
of course, there is a difference between recognizing culture and creating it.
perception is creativity but only if it is manipulated from the inside.
it really depends on the type of introversion and extraversion you have. there are different kinds.
the Japanese are extremely extroverted and that is why their visual art drawing is so detailed.
I should be one of the most influential people in the world
141 thousand people in usa share your iq level
And not one shares my genome; your point?
if you are basing influence potential on iq you’re not that rare.
unless of course, you think your genome gives you some special influence?
I mean that my I.Q. isn’t necessarily a perfect predictor of how influential I am, or should be
what can you do to become influential yourself?
do you need to try hard, maybe but what is it you need to accomplish to get where you want to be?
think of a goal, what is worthy of you.
CAT!!!!
on your proposed guest post you write rank before each number of each character. I assume you mean IQ, not rank?
You can replace “rank” with IQ.
thanks, pumpkin.
and that fluid dynamics relative confirmed it.
how do i put it to peepee?
despite the rhetoric/ideology that the cream rises to the top…
this was and is (mostly) false.
my mother’s father was an invigilated genius in many ways…
but he was “poorly educated”.
his idea of fun was playing poker, reading comic books, listening to baseball, eating candy…
he made my mom cry because he couldn’t understand how she couldn’t do it (mental arithmetic) in her head.
he was a freak. a 6’3″ freak.
he amazed my mom’s cousin of fluid dynamics fame by his intuitive grasp of physics.
dude was the opposite in (superficial) “class” from my dad’s dad…
but the same in terms of what steve shoe terms “cognitive abirity”.
The criteria for iq is arbitrary. decisions or what you do with information is extremely important not just how much you have. that is why the brain builds models of things and performed operations on them to get results. iq tests only show superficial results. different people have different operation sets. what we learn influences them.
adapt and turn to your advantage is not iq test measurable. there are so many things to adapt to the tests are limited in scope.
AND…it’s true…
people whose life is lived in fear of the wolf at the door…
they obviously can’t acquire the academic intelligence which is most of what all IQ tests are.
having a high IQ is a luxury.
people whose life is lived in fear of the wolf at the door…
they obviously can’t acquire the academic intelligence which is most of what all IQ tests are.
LIE! Brain size tripled during the hunter-gatherer years when we were fearing the wolf! It was only when fear of the wolf stopped, and we created agriculture, civilization, literacy and numeracy did brain size stop evolving! The exact opposite of what we’d expect if IQ was just academics!
having a high IQ is a luxury.
For you it is! For the rest of us it evolved as a necessity, to survive the freezing winter on a cold hunter-gatherer night!
intelligence evolved
Intelligence Quotient was invented by academics
TRIPLED? Which period are you talking about??
4 millon years ago to 40 kya
“So for example James Watson got 1 point for being one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century and got 50 points for being one of the 100 most influential people of all time”
Do you mean 50 points for being person of half-century?
50 points is equivalent to person of half century, or person of the year 50 times, or one of the 100 most influential people of the year 5000 times or one of the 100 most influential of all time once.
My bad, reading comprehension fail.
So intelligence is performing operations on a model of something. This is precisely how goals are planned and achieved. But it also means one preference of goals decides if one is high or low based on execution. A hard goal can only be done by a high intelligence person. The number or range of goals achievable, easy and hard is IQ.
so when hitler lived no one knew what the means of inheritance was, what the material of mendel’s genes was…
question in the history of science: did the elucidation of the structure of dna result in its identification as that material? or was it known to be that material already and watson and crick’s discovery was just x-ray crystallography, so to say?
i do know that it is little appreciated by chemists and physicists that so-called “molecular biology” is a thing in its own right and its molecules’ structure is largely irrelevant.
and btw, unlike a host of retards, mugabe ranges scientists with technologists.
because contra the arrogant stupidity of people like eric weinstein…
science always follows technology, not the reverse…when it’s even possible to tell them apart.
The difference between a raven and a mouse is that even though they have the same brain size, a raven is much smarter. The reason is that a raven brain is folded inward. In other words, they have a recurrent model of things.
Control theory states that layers of feedback gives more control. A raven has more layers than a mouse brain thus can do more intelligent things.
Layers of control.
This is the key to intelligence.
i would put Xi as the second most influential “non-technologist”…and he may become much more influential.
he has more power than any chinese premier since mao and he is apparently still a committed communist.
sorry. or as the canadians say soar-y. apparently “premier” is an office in the government of chinastan which has never actually been held by chinastan’s supreme leader.
xi is like stalin “general secretary of the communist party”. the “premier” is somebody else you’ve never heard of.
but mugabe’s theory is that putin is not ideological, xi is, and this will be a source of conflict in the future as if the world ever became 100% capitalist there’d cease to be wars between great powers.
Couldn’t find a better pic for James Watson? He looks constipated.
Put in a different one
the OBVIOUS reason for dogs is…
they make you warm.
in a cold climate…people will sleep with wolves to keep warm.
one thing’s fo’ sho…
america will get a “long count”.
sadly it appears there was not a long count.
sadly wilder had to learn the hard way that…
sadly it is impossible to knock a guy out if…
sadly he doesn’t have a brain.
it’s also true that if something like a civil war/the troubles happens in americatsan and trump is the leader then you’d have to put trump at #1.
but i think trump is/was just another puppet. but in his case it’s not corruption. it’s because he’s stupid. or…the same thing which made him un-corruptible, being born rich, has made him “stupid”. i mean trump is clearly not stupid in a general way.