You guys don't live in the Balkans and we can tell. Every taxi driver here would have been the president of the world IF ONLY the establishment didn't sabotage him out of jealousy
yeah, they all claim they only drive a cab for fun, as a side hustle, while their main activity is big bizness (but they struggle with the establishment, that's why didn't take off or is just in planning stage)
Not only that, but my alcoholic stepdad would be the next Alexander the great if not for his bitch ex wife! Truly, we are loosing our best and brightest to the most sinister forces of nature...
"I'm actually the greatest hockey player in the world. I've just never gotten into sports because I don't care about having a good and wealthy life, and the tryouts asked me to demonstrate basic skating skills first."
This guy is totally unconvincing, like he's so insecure about his ludicrous claims to world-record brilliance. His entire schtick is complaining about how life is unfair, but somehow he persists and overcomes with his insignificant claimed jobs and no accomplishments of note. Yet he's the highest IQ in the world. Laughable.
You forgot the part where you fell on your face playing hockey in high school, after which your teacher said that not everyone was a born hockey player.
You have to understand that Chris was swept up in the biggest social, political and generational upheaval on his way to the audio accessories store, otherwise known as the "Great Earplug Wars of 1985" that prevented him from obtaining this coveted aurem obturaculum artifact. It not until the mid 90's that he finally found his true calling...working at a sweaty biker bar on the lower east side 🤔
I will say that I did briefly work in a plant that strictly prohibited hearing protection on the basis that "they wanted you to be able to hear them if they yelled at you across the building". It apparently never occurred to anyone there to consider that this was wrong, and at the time I was far too afraid of not having a job so it wasn't like I was any better for just letting them enforce that rule. But there's a difference between not allowing hearing protection and not providing it, which I suspect is what he was talking about. If that is the case, then yeah, that's his fault.
Gotta give credit to whoever at the daily wire watched this interview and decided to not show it to anyone. At least one person made a good decision that day.
Everyone in that studio was probably trying their hardest not to laugh, even Michael. Just word salad after word salad, you don't need to be that smart to realize the guy is crazy
He flew too close to the sun with a few antisemitic dogwhistles about "globalist bankers", and I think maybe the transphobic slur he dropped even the Daily Wire won't screen (not because they find it objectionable themselves, of course). It's like he's too unrefined for culture wars in 2024 and needs to work on "hiding his power levels"
Well they didn’t released…. So they can say oh censure, they don’t want to see you, that are daily wire mantras, so they now die to watch it. Reverse mind blowing sheep theory. “The left want health care for everyone”, oh the left said it? I don’t want it, I prefer to die before please the communist.
@@DarkMatter2525 I see you commenting on a lot of content I watch... This makes me happy, as you're one of my favourite channels for critical thinking or dissinformation dispelling content.
I saw this guy on another podcast being interviewed, I am quite versed in science so I was surprised that I never heard of "the smartest man in the world" until then, and sure enough I could tell the moment he opened his mouth that he was full of fecal matter, overflowing even. I noticed also how he gets belligerent when you ask him questions, literally any question, he seems annoyed. I bet this works really well in real life around drunk people, telling them how smart you are and then intimidating them when they question it. I'm very glad Dave is reaming him several new ones here.
I suspect even the drunks are humoring him b/c they've figured out something he can't - you don't want to offend the guy who can throw you out or start watering down your beer.
I assure you, being one of those bouncer and actually somewhere above average in intelligence, if you feel like a genius while working in there, you got bigger problems than imagined feeling of grandeur. Also, I have to clarify that this is not me flexing. Being above average is nothing to write home about. It's just me mentioning that I'm coincidentally in similar position with the difference of me having my feet firmly on the ground.
This guy is literally the Steven Seagal of intellectuals. They both claim to be the absolute best in the world despite having no notable achievements or verified proof of any of their claims. Langan copes by saying he's too smart for the academic establishment, and Seagal copes by saying he's too deadly to compete professionally.
That's a great analogy. They're both so easy to see through, and kinda. At least I enjoyed a few Segal movies as a kid. What the hell did this guy ever do?
@@AlKhebir11 Absolutely. I wouldn't normally take the defense of Seagull, but here I just have to, as like the other commenter, I also enjoyed a few Segal movies as a kid, but that guy here, man.............
A preReq to successful employment is the ability for you, the employee, to make sure your boss can take credit for your ideas and your accomplishments. Employers do, in fact, routinely discriminate against highly intelligent applicants. And people with security clearances do, routinely, use insider information to impress people in social situations. That's why we have classification, and laws punishing the dissemination of classified information. So don't pat yourself on the back too hard with this one. Sure he's probably lying, but he is clearly smart enough to lie about something that really happens.
@@ZennExile lol you have no idea what you are talking about. The people who say they have 'security clearances' and share 'insider information' to impress people in social situations are the same people as Langan.. frauds.
@@ZennExileRefusing to meet with a CIA agent unless they pinky swear to be honest is not a thing that actually happens, and thus not a believable lie, and makes the most sense as an improvised way to walk back his previous lie. Dropping insider info to look cool may be a real thing that happens, but it has nothing to do with this situation; he never even talked to the CIA agent in his own story.
@@ZennExile why would employers not want smart applicants? also the people who review your application usually are not the same as your boss, or if it is is its usually a joint decision between multiple people. If you cant get a job it is definitely not because you are too smart unless you are applying to a minimum wage job with a masters or something and are overqualified
@@some-other-time Yeah bro with my IQ of 620 i couldnt even get into middle school because the questions of the teachers made no sense. in elementary school i was also thrown out of class, because I asked a question and wasnt black
We need to use the term "mental masturbation" more. Same for "emotional masturbation." Our culture runs rampant with glorification of masturbation. Let's get back to reality.
USA is the only country in the world to use the constitution (particularly 1A and 2A) as a common 'self-relief' aid. it's a bit clunky as it wasn't made for that purpose but americans somehow make it work. the rest of the world uses _'corn'_ videos for 'self-relief' as they're purpose-made and more effective. for them, the constitution is just another legal document (some countries don't even have one).
Hard disagree. Actual masturbation is fun, has a demonstrable relationship to a reduction in prostate cancer in males, and a demonstrable relationship to improved mental well-being in all genders, it literally can have an antidepressant effect.
@jonc4403 but actual masterbation becomes a big problem when you subject the public to it. Public masterbation is a problem. This is the problem with a lot of leftist culture today, much of it public emotional masterbation. If you want to indulge your emotional fantasies in your own private life then fine whatever you do you, but trying to force others to engage in the emotional indulgence is the equvelent of physically masterbating on the subway.
The fact that they claim to know Darwin‘s IQ even though he died before that was even a thing should already set off alarm bells in any person capable of complex thought
Also, Darwin's almost spooky intuitive understanding of evolution would not lend credence to the notion that he was a man of low intelligence (regardless of IQ).
Clearly, Darwin triggered this guy so much that he felt the need to fabricate an IQ for him and call him derogatory names. Goes to show this guy leads with emotion over rationality and honesty
They’ll claim to know everyone’s IQ as a means of demonstrating how innate and predictive it is, despite the fact that there are dozens of ‘IQ’ tests with different scoring methods that have existed for different lengths of time and basically no one is ever talking about a single test nor can you identify which test anyone is ever talking about when they bring it up. It’s a bunch of hokey dokey Power Level shit for faux intellectuals to jerk themselves off with based on a gesture at the idea of an impossibly perfect global intellect survey that God administers or something
"You're kinda putting me on the spot." Right after he was just saying how brilliant he is and how he's above Einstein and Darwin is in "the toilet." So humble.
I think it's rather the problem that unlike actual geniuses he didn't produce any work a genius would. So he either agrees he's not one or agrees he is one but has nothing to show for to prove it
Bertrand Russell was literally a mathematician. He wrote on mathematical theory and principles, and taught math. This guy obviously hasn't read Bertrand Russell, but he might have seen him do an interview about philosophy on TV when he was younger. FFS...
@nshk9737 his whole premise was that he was reading two completely different disciplines of physics and "linguistics" in Einstein and Russell, and his theory combined both. Russell's famous (and significant) work on language analysis is a 10-page essay still cited today, but it's core is still pure maths. If we're generous, maybe he did read that one famous article, and picked up some of the terminology. Russell wrote and lectured on maths and logic in philosophy - he was a respected mathematician and first became widely known for his book on pure math, "The Principles of Mathematics". Langan presents Russell and Einstein as contrasts in theories of how the world works - something his theory will unify. In other words, he makes up BS. It helps that they were two of the most recognisable public intellectuals from the 20th century, and the public knew Einstein for his physics work, but in the US Russell was more often invited on TV to talk about philosophy, language or politics. A nice and easy chalk and cheese comparison for anyone who just wants their biases confirmed and moved on.
he was also not a very good writer of philosophy and his biography of other philosophers is pretty bad and inaccurate. his analytical and other quotes and general views on things is pretty good tho
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 he wasn't a bad philosopher though. His "history of western philosophy" does have lots of inaccuracies. He apologizes at the very beginning of the book for said inaccuracies which he claims are inevitable when one writes of such a broad topic.
this is genuinely one of the most bizarre pieces of content i’ve ever watched. how does this even happen? its a professional, full-budget interview with some random middle aged dude that thinks hes the smartest guy in the world. apparently every crackhead in my city could get an interview at the daily wire, theyre also the smartest people in the world
@@Oh-fr2nv it's because it's an interview designed to bring people in to the Daily Wire's right-wing sphere of influence. It's very telling that even THEY distanced themselves from this interview and that he had to get the rights to post it himself. 😂😂😂
My brain instantly tunes out of any interview that has background music. They are never designed to inform, they are always designed to emotionally sway.
That's exactly what happens to me. Like, why are you trying to turn this into a movie. I also hate when charities do that with commercials on death, rape, war or starvation.
I took an IQ test recently and got a score of a staggering 553. I also figured out an equation that disproves every god ever imagined. Am I a genius? Well, it’s hard to say, but yeah I am.
"So I was working at the bar, and came up with a fully functioning quantum superposition apparatus that would have solved all the world's energy needs... then this chick walks in. Knockers like the gargoyles on Notre Dame, if you know what I'm sayin'. Anyway, I popped a chub and POOF. The fully functioning, perfect blueprint in my head had vanished. Lost to the aether forever." -Chris Langan, probably.
I feel like iq is just a way to measure how easy it is for a person to find patterns cuz thats what they had me doing at 12. The funny thing is that the entire time my clueless azz was like- bro what's the context here? What am i doing?! And they were like just pick an answer xD and at the end the doctor called me smart and i got candy
Yes, you shouldn't assign self-worth based on this. G-factor, the thing that IQ tests are trying to measure, might be "something" but nobody can figure out what that something is.
@@mysticgrandpa1845 Lmao. Ironically, asking someone whether they agree with your statement probably *would* be a decent way of testing their intelligence.
It’s more of a multiverse. One universe is ppl I like. The other is woke universe. It’s crime ridden & run by Democrats. In the first universe, there is no such thing as rape. In the other universe, rape exists. They call it “a crime.”
@@Whitepower889 LOL sure. How did he become known for his supposed high IQ? Why would anyone even randomly ask him about it? I have nothing against the guy. But I've listened to several interviews with him and couldn't get anything out of them. I do find his background story that one can read on Wikipedia believable, though, and understandable that he had no compatibility with academia. Good for him. He is successful and living a good life. But I still have no clue what "CTMU" is and don't get the impression there is anything substantial in it.
Right? You can tell exactly how these guys actually behaved in class because they’re an exact type. They walked into class thinking they’re smarter than the teacher (who’s probably an underpaid adjunct with no teaching background because they never got to upper level courses and only took 100 level classes) then asked stupid questions that made no sense, and then proceeded to be argumentative when they get a stupid answer. They like to believe that everything in the world is a debate where you get what you want by ‘stumping’ your ‘opponent’ with unintelligible garbage
@@ChewyTwee i agree with your sentiment but why are you saying adjunct professors have only taken intro level courses? They usually have PhD's just like any other professor. They just don't conduct research
@@brandonbennett4970 I think they’re implying that adjunct professors are more likely to be the ones teaching the intro level courses. And that the kind of students described tend to not get past the intro level courses, making them unlikely to encounter professors who do research.
yeah, he pretends to be way better than everyone else and then is held back by minor hurdles like those 30 bonus points in the test and the mean calculus teacher.
This. When I was a kid I'd get 99th percentile on IQ tests for Gifted...now I tell my psychology students that IQ tests are very faulty, and intelligence is quite varied and fluid, so take them with a grain of salt. In my youth I considered joining Mensa but realized they sounded really freaking smug.
I've met hundreds of truly successful people in my life. People who were recognized as subject matter experts in their career fields. Not one of them ever bragged about their IQ scores. IQ scores are what unsuccessful people brag about because they have no true accomplishments to point to.
@@Techtalk2030 I live in America right now....I know what experiencing doofuses daily feels like. This is more about character than intelligence overall, because yes I've met cocky smart assholes, and in my case I've never taken to being pompous. A smart person SHOULD recognize their own areas of ignorance and feel humility. I'm also an artist, musician, and writer, and creatives are forced to face their weaknesses to be able to overcome them. So that kind of just carries over to everything else for me. Also no one wants to listen to an asshole. There's always someone better, and you can always improve...so why be overtly proud of condescending?
When I listened to this Chris talk about his CTMU it also made me think about my own theory of the universe which I called call STFU. I think it's quite a remarkable theory which can be used to disprove any and all Science deniers.
My IQ is down there in the toilet with Darwin, so I guess it’s my lack of intelligence that is giving me this severe feeling of second hand embarrassment…
I don't know what mine is, but I'd say somewhere at 110 at max. Yet I still feel that feeling. If a genius thinks that all men are one then it's the same as God made us the same, which existed since there's monotheism
My exact thoughts 😂 dude is so narcissistic he thinks every actual successful person is just sitting around seething and plotting on how to prevent this rando from “succeeding”… I think he is legitimately mentally unwell
@@smears6039- He may not believe that but just throws that out as an excuse/way to connect with other Americans who think they would be rich if not for "the man" and ethnic minorities keeping them down (while typically denying undue discrimination against women and ethnic minorities).
I'm genuinely tired of all these narcissistic people who are given a platform just because they can articulate things. Thank you for existing on YT Dave, you are the real one.
I'm not a narcissist, I'm a problematically empathetic sociopath with a switch in my brain to turn off the storm of incoming stimuli. My MENSA membership says I'm outside of testable range. But 90% of my comments are deleted on this channel. Because Dave is making low IQ moves to control the conversation in his comment section. That's what should tire you.
He gets agitated when asked for clarification because he doesn’t care if you understand him or not, he just wants you to believe he’s super duper smart.
I'm so exhausted with our anti-intellectual culture. We're just an embarrassment. People just gobble this crap up, too. Hence, our current political predicament. We REALLY need educators and communicators like you. Thank you for all you do.
The internet has given voice and “research” cred to these clowns. This is how we get an HHS nominee who eats roadkill and gave himself Hg poisoning and people think he is a medical savant!
Well, there’s no doubt it is current. However, it’s not just a phenomenon of today. Forty years ago I was chatting with what I thought was a group of open minded people. Just as part of the general conversation I contributed something I knew to be a fact. A gray haired middle aged fellow turned to face me and snapped “Whata you know?! That’s just book learnin’!!” As if learning something from a book was just horrific. Gutenberg 1440. American 1980: book learnin’ no good.
langan sounds like a conservative bitter he's rejected by academia so he grew a victimhood complex. something tells me he ridicules edgy college students rebelling against traditional social structures who see themselves as victims of oppression. that would be ironic because he is the conservative version of them
It’s how it should be. Professors and “professional intellectuals “ are simply useless eaters in society providing no value. This video is a long cope and seethe by one guy who doesn’t contribute to society trying to tear down another guy who doesn’t contribute to society
To me he sounds like someone who was told they were gifted in elementary school and just ran with it. Then he took a heroic dose of shrooms at some point in his life and decided that he now understands the true nature of reality. Really though, he's just saying the same junk you could hear from a circle of hippies passing a bowl around.
There’s something incredibly funny about someone who’s achieved absolutely nothing in life, proudly talking about IQ - which is an indicator of absolutely nothing. What’s the difference between someone without piano-playing talent, and someone with piano-playing talent who never plays the piano? Nothing, Chris. Nothing.
The incessant "Okay?" he utters every few sentences isn't to verify whether the other person can follow his brilliant geniousness, but merely to check if the other person is still numbed by his word salad.
I was also going to comment on this. This recurring request for validation has been studied in criminals who are being interrogated and other types of sociopaths who are desperately trying to sell a falsehood. When the other person nods his assent or suggests his assent with body language, each component of the larger false narrative is being assembled and approved by the listener, piece by piece. When the completed word salad has been uttered, the listener has already approved the outcome on the installment plan and has no way to offer a rebuttal without looking foolish himself. This is used car salesman technique, not the work of a misunderstood genius.
So glad y’all also noticed this. I actually watched this very interview a few weeks ago thinking, “smartest man alive, this has to be good.” First thing I noticed is he tries to come across intimidating and in a “I’m smarter than you so don’t challenge me” kind of way and his “okay” after every convoluted statement just makes him come across as a prick 😒
This is a huge hoot. Poor Chris I almost feel sorry for him after thus dismantling :) Against my own expectation I'm rapidly becoming a Prof Dave fan ... Best wishes from London
@@williamsteveling8321 I mean not if he was born in America. I do like to imagine a conservative demon who is seriously anti demon immigrant and gets on this podcast. “I just don’t want my daughter to be dating a demon of wrath. Whats next, a cambion!?”
@@ahsisjdvdve2022 Depends how you define each, but I'd say it's because they both tend to be otherworldly. Aliens being life forms originating from another planet and demons usually come from hell, another plane of existence/realm. They're both seen foreign entities to us, although in some belief systems demons can originate from humans. So, it really depends on how you look at it.
@@ahsisjdvdve2022 they aren't from Earth, and if the lore on demons were accurate to the source material (i.e. not the "Supernatural" TV version), they were never originated from Earthly sources. Hence, by the raw definition: alien
True. Very lazy, but worse than lazy. However so is the idea around @29:00 where Prof Dave claims physics describes how things move. A description is not an account of causation. One of the things Bertie Russell got right was that science has absolutely no concept of proper metaphysical causation. All physics has in lightcone structure. Lightcone structure is not an account of metaphysical causation, it is a far simpler notion. That's a good thing too, otherwise physics would be a dog pile mess of crap.
He certainly has no idea about physics. It could be interesting to compare his "theory" with the empty metaphysical nonsense that some philiosophers from the past created a name with.
You've clearly never been to a library. They're filled to the brim with roaming gangs of snarky atheist professors who only let rich kids loan books. Duh.
The biggest indicator of intelligence from a casual perspective is the ability to learn and explore different interests. Chris Lagan has been saying the same exact thing for decades now. He never offers up anything new or interesting. He’s incredibly stagnant for such an intelligent person.
I think the best example of this is Roger Penrose. That dude is wicked smart and despite the fact he's ancient now he's still doing cutting edge research. In the last 10 years alone he has worked heavily on a new model of the universe called the Cyclic Conformal Universe Theory and has published papers on Consciousness and how it relates to Quantum Mechanics.
Thats a valid point. This "debunking" is pretty bad, though. Langan is super arrogant, but making a video just based on a few interviews even though most of his texts are online if you just google "Langan PDF" is very sloppy research for someone who claims to represent science and accuracy. Arrogance is always problematic, be it on the side of atheists/skeptics, idealists, believers or openminded agnostics. Arrogance is correlating with biases and also Prof. Dave needs to remember this when doing his research or looking out for targets.
Chris Langan sounds like the guy that would invent "the Megascapular-Ostheomastic Theorem of Zurponopsity" to calculate how much time did he just spend in the bathroom 💀
I first ran into Langan in the early 2000s. I used to haunt a popular message board promoting Intelligent Design creationism a la William Dembski and Michael Behe. One day Langan showed up on the message board, and all the Intelligent Design people were super happy. Yeh!! We have this super smart hero who's going to crush all the evolutionists with his super intelligent arguments.... But within just a few days, he had managed to wear out his welcome, said that everyone, including his Intelligent Design allies, were too stupid to have a conversation with him, then disappeared from the board. What a class act.
I believe it. I've interacted with him a handful of times and I have asked critical questions about his CTMU, yet his only responses are ever ad homs and he literally never answers the questions to address the logical fallacies in his model. Not a nice guy, not a smart guy, not even a creative guy because his ctmu was already thought of, it was called Socratic Idealism.
@@E.Hunter.Esquire "Not a nice guy, not a smart guy, not even a creative guy", three all too common threads characteristic of these self proclaimed geniuses(lunatics).
If we apply binary logic to God, then faith is out of the question. Yes, Chris, God either DOES or DOES NOT exist. That's binary. True or False, 1 or 0. Fucking brilliant mate.
@@PDMolicki You're confusing duality with binary. Yin and Yang symbolises balance and duality, for example. Binary is absolute. There is no 0- 0.9999999999-1. It is either 1 or 0, true or false. So reality is binary. Either a thing is or a thing is not. Either a thing is there or a thing is not there. Either a thing exists or it doesn't exist. When you get to quantum mechanics it becomes a little more complicated, but the binary still applies after the collapse of the wave function. The electron is now here and it is not now over there. If you apply Everettian QM then it comes down to which universe you're making the observation in. Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself here. Binary does not simply mean two juxtapositions on a spectrum. It refers to two absolutes; something is either on or off. It can't be a little on or a little off. It is either or.
I wouldn't speak, or participate in elementary school. I just froze up. I think it was some kind of trauma I went through, but anyways, my mom took me to Johns Hopkins to take an IQ test. They told my mom that I had an IQ of 135, and it ruined my life. She HATED me for not doing well is school, and I paid dearly for it all the way until I could drop out, get a job, and move the hell out. Super genius move, right? I couldn't understand ANYTHING in school, not academically, not socially, not anything. I DO NOT HAVE a "135" IQ, it's all a bunch of nonsense!!! I have met smart people before, and they're nothing like me. I work a menial tech job on the railroad, and I live a quiet, happy life, and I a proud to just be a normal dude. I hate those tests with a passion.
Even if your local free-book-place doesn't have the specific book you want to read, chances are you can still get it by asking them to have the book shipped in from another free-book-place.
To quote Criminal Minds: “genius isn't just one good idea or one successful experiment. Genius is work, thousands of hours of work.” And this guy doesn’t even have one good idea.
Those are my three favourite words and my favourite state of being. Nothing makes me tingle with joy more than getting to learn something new. While I'm here, have any obscure knowledge to share?
@@bipolarminddroppings: I don't know what kind of things float your proverbial boat, but I find tons of interesting things every time I'm perusing around spectroscopy literature. :)
I had nearly the same experience! But rather than looking for a debunk, I just remembered learning about him and thought "Oh right, that guy was probably a hack, huh?" LOL
I really got into it with a friend over this. He shared the video with me, and asked me what I thought. I told him it was a bunch of fooey, and he said I thought that because I am being racist against Terrance. I physically went to his house with a stone in my hand. I asked him right at his door "Preston, how many things are in my hand?" "One" I handed him the stone "How many times did I hand you this "one" thing?" "One" "How many things are you holding?" "One, but in the video...he showed that...did you watch the video??" I stormed off, and haven't spoke to him since.
@@Skibbityboo0580 You should not have illustrated the math to him. It would have been more productive if you used that stone in a more aggressive fashion.
this guy immediately lost all respect the moment he insulted darwin like that. Stephen hawking was right about such people making claims about their IQ's. They are all losers
IRS=Evil Job Defense contract supply line work=not evil? My man worked for Northrop Grummond and called the IRS evil. That's Christian morality for you.
"I noticed nobody around me was dying of covid" that's how u determine its fake? That's the biggest indicator that someone is stupid imo. Making conclusions out of a small sample
Yes, in fact that's how you determine if something is real or fake. Situational awareness works for some people. I'm sorry if Covid affected you poorly, that's unfortunate.
@@shallnotbeinfringed5525 It's like saying all diabetes patients are men cause u have only seen your diabetic dad and cousin suffer from it in your life. this doesn't constitute the actual reality even though based on your limited sample it is the truth. smart people imo don't reach big conclusions based on what they have seen in a small sample which in this case is chris saying covid isn't that serious because he hadn't seen anyone die
I think the reason why this guy appeals to many is that he has a humble life and struggles yet purports to be the smartest dude alive, it gives people an ego boost to think that they are uber geniuses for accomplishing nothing just like this guy
Who said he's accomplished nothing? I think not everybody chases the same things and if you have no interest in devoting your life to something people consider "academic" or accumulating wealth that's not an indication you aren't smart at all.
@@Mr.Goodkat Did you not watch the video? When I first heard about this guy (which was a while ago) I understood that he might not have been interested in academics but I was too lazy to really research him so I just assumed he was a really smart guy that didn't mind being simple. However, after watching the video and knowing what he was really about, it does seem like he actually was interested in academics and thus is just a lying conman. Also saying he accomplished nothing is just a form of figurative language, an exaggeration if you will, no one's accomplished nothing, what I meant is that he has accomplished nothing intellectually apart from maybe reading writing and basic maths. Suggestion: maybe watch the video and make sure you know what this guy.
@@Mr.Goodkat I agree. Saying he accomplished nothing is nonsense because in some kind of way, almost every single human being has accomplished something. If it's academic or personal doesn't matter in the basic context of "accomplishment". However, you confuse personal (beneficial to only yourself) with academic (beneficial to all of humanity) accomplishments. You could be the happiest guy in the world yet lack the basic understanding to earn the "right" of saying what he said in this interview and elsewhere. Or you could be the best academic in the world, having contributed massively to the advancement and/or understanding of humanity and their struggles/problems yet be unhappy with this situation. With every interview, Chris just proves that he is neither happy with himself nor did he provide academic teachings to humanity that gave us knowledge and/or benefitted us in some way. It's not about saying academics is corrupt... or it's hard to get in... or saying you're not being heard. It's about providing something of value in the academic field if you think you could have a coherent conversation/argument with an academic as someone who is not an academic like Chris. Which, by the way, never happened. Chris gives interviews to news network hosts, not even to non-academics who know much, much more than him. This was also never about wealth. Being wealthy or not is not a factor in being happy and/or an academic. Most scientists in the world who gave/give us real advancement were not interested in money at all. And then some people who are just happy have few reasons to change anything or try to find answers that are mainly meant to give other people answers and maybe not even yourself. The answer as to why you can't call Chris "smart" is in this video. Watch it without prejudice... if you can.
@@Mortgageman145 I have watched numerous interviews with the guy and am currently 28 minutes into this video, I stand by my original comment that it makes no sense to say someone isn't smart for that reason and I think whether or not he's made intellectual accomplishments depends on if what he says is true or not, if his CTMU is the truth as he claims well then I would call that an intellectual accomplishment, a monumental one in fact, if it's not true well I still don't think that means he's stupid.
Guy claims to be a genius but didn’t figure out that he could get books from the library, instead of buying whatever random crappy second-hand books they had at flea markets. Got it.
And the dropouts now all work in bars, talking to the drunks without realizing the jibberish from the drunks is really infectious, just as brain worms. Oh, wait.... Rgr
Dude I didn’t but Harris literally didn’t earn her spot. She was picked on her race and sex for vp (I’m black) , she slept her way into power and they literally escalated her to presidential candidate without a democratic process Trump on the other end of the - ran in 3 elections against a whole establishment and won 2. Literally against a whole establishment Both are nightmares and neither deserve defense beyond what is factual. I’ll never see how dems don’t have any self reflection about how they’re so similar to maga
@@senorpepper3405 Trump is not qualified for the position of president, by any metric. He was a businessman celebrity, has no experience in military or politics, and is there only by virtue of populism. That is the exact opposite of a meritocracy.
Let me clarify some things about IQ scores. Actual real intelligence measures, like what we use to formally diagnose learning disorders and intellectual disabilities, can only be administered by people who have completed doctoral level training in clinical psychology and psychometrics. The test materials themselves are even regulated such that they are only available to people with such credentials. And there are only a small number of such tests that are considered valid, reliable measures of intelligence and IQ, such as the Wechsler measures. I have given hundreds of IQ tests to children and adults of all ages and clinical status. Anyone claiming to have had their IQ tested needs to name the specific test and version that was used, name the doctoral degree clinician who administered the measures, say what all their scores were such as full scale IQ, verbal IQ, performance IQ, working memory index, perceptual reasoning index, etc. The ceiling valid reportable full scale IQ score on most official tests like the Wechslers is 160 if you get every single item correct within time limits. And anything above 130 falls within the highest possible range, which is given the statistical (Gaussian) category name Very Superior. Anyone making the claims this guy does without actually knowing even the basics about intelligence, psychometrics, and IQ is very likely to have at best a hopelessly average IQ that has prevented him from being rational about what is known about these topics. Cheers, Dave! 🧠☀️🎓
Yea 100%. I actually can claim to have my IQ measured. It was measured as part of a psychological evaluation for the purposes of determining what my IEP should entail in high school. I don't know all of the individual scores (I could find them by reading through the evaluation results, but I've never really bothered). It shocks me that people think that they can get an accurate measure of IQ from something like an online test. Like NO, YOU CANT
Sorry, but I'll trust the tests given by successful companies to get top talent over those admistered by a doctoral student any day of the week. One has a valid reason for testing (getting top candidates), the other has an agenda.
Chris Langan's origin story is he took a short IQ test in Omni magazine in 1983 or 93 (I forget the year) and the magazine published his score. From then on he proclaimed himself the greatest genius in the world.
I once got a comment from him, trying to expose him. All I got was condescending rhetorics without any real substance. Glad you did this! He's a obviously a grifter.
Here in Brazil we have a similar guy, Hindemburg Melão, who claims an IQ of 233. The story is very similar: says he is boycotted by academia and therefore was not able to major. A lot of BS to justify why his stellar IQ hasn't got him anywhere. Well... at least he is a youtuber, which must be compatible with his real capabilities.
funny how langan criticises academia for having rigid way of thinking & dismissing radical thinking, then minutes later insist we have to have the "right" way of thinking to advance ethics. so the objective natural science cannot be too rigid but the non-absolute moral framework must be stringent? HUH!?
The comments section of the original video is a comedy gold mine. Literally saw a comment of someone saying something to the effect of “I appreciate that he doesn’t use fancy words to try and sound smart”
I noticed something similar too - there wasn’t much discussion, mostly some bs slogans and praise. Definitely a yikes corner of the internet if you ask me
I think I've seen that, and I was appalled at the number of people falling for this. No one cared that there was no proof of his claims. If he had tested that high, surely he would have been able to test into some college.
@@RJ-1337 I'm not even sure the people commenting actually watched the entire video because the entirety of what he has to say is just a god damn nothingburger.
Apparently he once claimed that the Bush administration did 9/11, and not only that, that they did it to prevent people from finding out about his CTMU. Like, how do you even begin to explain the narcissism? Lmao
Humans naturally follow the right-hand path as it worships truth and nature. The left-hand path must be educated into you, it must erase your instincts because it is anti-nature, it is life-denying. Like reIigion it is a mind poison implanted to manipulate you into working against your own interests of self-preservation and instead serve the interest of the parasite class of b4nkrs.
Testing well on a collection of brain teasers doesn't identify wisdom, long term thinking, or potential, both psychological and cognitive, to actually use the intelligence. There are plenty of autodidacts who rise from being poor or working class to levels of accomplishment, but even marketable contribution is an arbitrary standard of measurement. I think that's why IQ has lost credibility to actual thinking people in the 21st century. Pseudo intellectuals are all about it, because it buttresses a subset of eugenics, the phantom hierarchy of the unqualified.
You could say this guy is also simply not a genius. Imo a genius has works, a repertoire, accomplishments that outdo their peers in respective field. It's not a claim to make without anything backing it up.
I dont think he even has a degree in that does he? lol....The university of mindless speculation must have had affirmative action programs too.....30 points short of the entry score...so close!
He didn't claim that. He claimed that it is one of the easy ways to be financially successful. Not understanding his arguments says alot about how low your IQ is
Exactly. Theres like 3 professions from college where you can get wealthy, not even rich. The rest are for middle class jobs with a huge debt. Most rich people either got there by business, luck, fame, sports or inherited wealth.
You guys don't live in the Balkans and we can tell.
Every taxi driver here would have been the president of the world IF ONLY the establishment didn't sabotage him out of jealousy
😂
yeah, they all claim they only drive a cab for fun, as a side hustle, while their main activity is big bizness (but they struggle with the establishment, that's why didn't take off or is just in planning stage)
Not only that, but my alcoholic stepdad would be the next Alexander the great if not for his bitch ex wife! Truly, we are loosing our best and brightest to the most sinister forces of nature...
can explain why you keep electing the worst ghouls all the time.
@@Beholderost Because we don't choose our politicians, Washington does it for us
"I'm actually the greatest hockey player in the world. I've just never gotten into sports because I don't care about having a good and wealthy life, and the tryouts asked me to demonstrate basic skating skills first."
You're a liar. The greatest hockey player in the world ins Wayne gretzky.
This guy is totally unconvincing, like he's so insecure about his ludicrous claims to world-record brilliance. His entire schtick is complaining about how life is unfair, but somehow he persists and overcomes with his insignificant claimed jobs and no accomplishments of note. Yet he's the highest IQ in the world. Laughable.
hey greatest hockey player in the world, does god exist?
You forgot the part where you fell on your face playing hockey in high school, after which your teacher said that not everyone was a born hockey player.
Good analogy.
If I was the smartest man in the world, I would wear hearing protection at a loud job.
Same. I would go the extra step of buying my own if the company doesn't provide any. This should be obvious for a genius like this guy.
You have to understand that Chris was swept up in the biggest social, political and generational upheaval on his way to the audio accessories store, otherwise known as the "Great Earplug Wars of 1985" that prevented him from obtaining this coveted aurem obturaculum artifact. It not until the mid 90's that he finally found his true calling...working at a sweaty biker bar on the lower east side 🤔
I will say that I did briefly work in a plant that strictly prohibited hearing protection on the basis that "they wanted you to be able to hear them if they yelled at you across the building". It apparently never occurred to anyone there to consider that this was wrong, and at the time I was far too afraid of not having a job so it wasn't like I was any better for just letting them enforce that rule. But there's a difference between not allowing hearing protection and not providing it, which I suspect is what he was talking about. If that is the case, then yeah, that's his fault.
I just had this idea and I make money as a dish washer 😆
@Kingfrozttheartist Good news! You qualify to be the world's smartest bouncer too.
This guy looks like he is an NFL coach in the 80's
He really does 😆
And he sounds like Dr. Phil (another grifter).
Mike Ditka.
he looks like axe cop
Fitting, because he's talking like he has CTE'd his brain to oblivion.
Gotta give credit to whoever at the daily wire watched this interview and decided to not show it to anyone. At least one person made a good decision that day.
Everyone in that studio was probably trying their hardest not to laugh, even Michael. Just word salad after word salad, you don't need to be that smart to realize the guy is crazy
Jordan Peterson pulled the strings
The original video still has 6 million views...
He flew too close to the sun with a few antisemitic dogwhistles about "globalist bankers", and I think maybe the transphobic slur he dropped even the Daily Wire won't screen (not because they find it objectionable themselves, of course). It's like he's too unrefined for culture wars in 2024 and needs to work on "hiding his power levels"
Well they didn’t released…. So they can say oh censure, they don’t want to see you, that are daily wire mantras, so they now die to watch it. Reverse mind blowing sheep theory. “The left want health care for everyone”, oh the left said it? I don’t want it, I prefer to die before please the communist.
Never underestimate the power of confidently saying shit.
Amen to that 🙏
Fancy seeing you here, DarkMatter.
@@DarkMatter2525 I see you commenting on a lot of content I watch... This makes me happy, as you're one of my favourite channels for critical thinking or dissinformation dispelling content.
All he's missing is a british boarding school accent.
Can't believe I'm seeing you comment somewhere when I'm not on your channel, good to see you here!
When you work in a bar with a bunch of drunks it's easy to feel like a genius.
Great work, Professor Dave.
What? Professor Dave is upset that Dave does not have 'genius' IQ like the guy in the video!
I saw this guy on another podcast being interviewed, I am quite versed in science so I was surprised that I never heard of "the smartest man in the world" until then, and sure enough I could tell the moment he opened his mouth that he was full of fecal matter, overflowing even. I noticed also how he gets belligerent when you ask him questions, literally any question, he seems annoyed. I bet this works really well in real life around drunk people, telling them how smart you are and then intimidating them when they question it. I'm very glad Dave is reaming him several new ones here.
I suspect even the drunks are humoring him b/c they've figured out something he can't - you don't want to offend the guy who can throw you out or start watering down your beer.
He also talks to some of the high IQ and professors through email distributions. He's actually smart
I assure you, being one of those bouncer and actually somewhere above average in intelligence, if you feel like a genius while working in there, you got bigger problems than imagined feeling of grandeur.
Also, I have to clarify that this is not me flexing. Being above average is nothing to write home about. It's just me mentioning that I'm coincidentally in similar position with the difference of me having my feet firmly on the ground.
This guy is literally the Steven Seagal of intellectuals. They both claim to be the absolute best in the world despite having no notable achievements or verified proof of any of their claims. Langan copes by saying he's too smart for the academic establishment, and Seagal copes by saying he's too deadly to compete professionally.
That's a great analogy. They're both so easy to see through, and kinda. At least I enjoyed a few Segal movies as a kid. What the hell did this guy ever do?
At least seagull has an official title from Japan. Yes, he's a bullshido artist, but yea. He knows aikido. This guy... Too cringe 😂😂😂
Except Seagal doesn't have a 190+ IQ
@@AlKhebir11 Absolutely. I wouldn't normally take the defense of Seagull, but here I just have to, as like the other commenter, I also enjoyed a few Segal movies as a kid, but that guy here, man.............
@@LibtardLunacynobody in that interview does either
"210 seems kinda high"
Yes; I think he is
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Only half-stoned.
Doesn't the scale max out before that?
They are*
"I was gatekept out of getting a normal job. Also, high ranking CIA officials told me secrets."
A preReq to successful employment is the ability for you, the employee, to make sure your boss can take credit for your ideas and your accomplishments. Employers do, in fact, routinely discriminate against highly intelligent applicants. And people with security clearances do, routinely, use insider information to impress people in social situations. That's why we have classification, and laws punishing the dissemination of classified information.
So don't pat yourself on the back too hard with this one. Sure he's probably lying, but he is clearly smart enough to lie about something that really happens.
@@ZennExile lol you have no idea what you are talking about. The people who say they have 'security clearances' and share 'insider information' to impress people in social situations are the same people as Langan.. frauds.
@@ZennExileRefusing to meet with a CIA agent unless they pinky swear to be honest is not a thing that actually happens, and thus not a believable lie, and makes the most sense as an improvised way to walk back his previous lie.
Dropping insider info to look cool may be a real thing that happens, but it has nothing to do with this situation; he never even talked to the CIA agent in his own story.
@@ZennExile Langan is clearly quite smart, but also clearly not 200 IQ.
@@ZennExile why would employers not want smart applicants? also the people who review your application usually are not the same as your boss, or if it is is its usually a joint decision between multiple people. If you cant get a job it is definitely not because you are too smart unless you are applying to a minimum wage job with a masters or something and are overqualified
i went to school with a kid who used to say his IQ was 300 so, you know, there is one person smarter than him...
I went to school with a guy who never believed me when I said my IQ was 300.
He shares an IQ with Dr. Eggman, make sure he stays away from forest animals
I never went to school, because with a 460 IQ, I'd rather shovel gravel.
His Uncle is Neil Armstrong! Show some respect!
@@some-other-time Yeah bro with my IQ of 620 i couldnt even get into middle school because the questions of the teachers made no sense. in elementary school i was also thrown out of class, because I asked a question and wasnt black
We need to use the term "mental masturbation" more. Same for "emotional masturbation." Our culture runs rampant with glorification of masturbation. Let's get back to reality.
I agree, real masturbation is best of all.
USA is the only country in the world to use the constitution (particularly 1A and 2A) as a common 'self-relief' aid. it's a bit clunky as it wasn't made for that purpose but americans somehow make it work.
the rest of the world uses _'corn'_ videos for 'self-relief' as they're purpose-made and more effective. for them, the constitution is just another legal document (some countries don't even have one).
Hard disagree. Actual masturbation is fun, has a demonstrable relationship to a reduction in prostate cancer in males, and a demonstrable relationship to improved mental well-being in all genders, it literally can have an antidepressant effect.
@jonc4403 but actual masterbation becomes a big problem when you subject the public to it. Public masterbation is a problem. This is the problem with a lot of leftist culture today, much of it public emotional masterbation. If you want to indulge your emotional fantasies in your own private life then fine whatever you do you, but trying to force others to engage in the emotional indulgence is the equvelent of physically masterbating on the subway.
@@jonc4403 My grandad died of prostate cancer, which is why I masturbate three to five times daily. Gotta beat those hereditary chances of cancer.
the faux humility is what always gets me with these types
"im not better than anyone else.... but ermm yeah im smarter than albert einstein."
Before the interview: "Don't forget to include my IQ in my introduction."
"I am closer to absolute truth than any man has been before me."
That's the exact opposite of humble, sounds more like any con man or charlatan to me.
"I'm so humble, it amazes me man. I don't think there ever was any human being more humble than me"
That's why he's a con(fidence) man.
The fact that they claim to know Darwin‘s IQ even though he died before that was even a thing should already set off alarm bells in any person capable of complex thought
Also, Darwin's almost spooky intuitive understanding of evolution would not lend credence to the notion that he was a man of low intelligence (regardless of IQ).
Clearly, Darwin triggered this guy so much that he felt the need to fabricate an IQ for him and call him derogatory names. Goes to show this guy leads with emotion over rationality and honesty
@@smaakjeks unless you deny evolution, then Darwin is the dumbest man
They’ll claim to know everyone’s IQ as a means of demonstrating how innate and predictive it is, despite the fact that there are dozens of ‘IQ’ tests with different scoring methods that have existed for different lengths of time and basically no one is ever talking about a single test nor can you identify which test anyone is ever talking about when they bring it up. It’s a bunch of hokey dokey Power Level shit for faux intellectuals to jerk themselves off with based on a gesture at the idea of an impossibly perfect global intellect survey that God administers or something
Yeah, and I bet I know what color the grass was in Europe in the year 15,000BC long before anyone drew up the concept of color.
"You're kinda putting me on the spot." Right after he was just saying how brilliant he is and how he's above Einstein and Darwin is in "the toilet." So humble.
WATER WE DUNE HAIR B??
I think it's rather the problem that unlike actual geniuses he didn't produce any work a genius would. So he either agrees he's not one or agrees he is one but has nothing to show for to prove it
@@tomlxyzhe produced the CTMU
@mugflub
Yeah that was _hilar-_
Actually, it was kinda funny but mostly annoying. 😅
@@SeanDuane-ts8so yeah, I produced a huge turd this morning. It does about as good a job of being a unified theory as CTMU
Bertrand Russell was literally a mathematician. He wrote on mathematical theory and principles, and taught math. This guy obviously hasn't read Bertrand Russell, but he might have seen him do an interview about philosophy on TV when he was younger. FFS...
Obviously hasn’t read Russell? Why not?
@nshk9737 his whole premise was that he was reading two completely different disciplines of physics and "linguistics" in Einstein and Russell, and his theory combined both. Russell's famous (and significant) work on language analysis is a 10-page essay still cited today, but it's core is still pure maths. If we're generous, maybe he did read that one famous article, and picked up some of the terminology.
Russell wrote and lectured on maths and logic in philosophy - he was a respected mathematician and first became widely known for his book on pure math, "The Principles of Mathematics".
Langan presents Russell and Einstein as contrasts in theories of how the world works - something his theory will unify. In other words, he makes up BS.
It helps that they were two of the most recognisable public intellectuals from the 20th century, and the public knew Einstein for his physics work, but in the US Russell was more often invited on TV to talk about philosophy, language or politics. A nice and easy chalk and cheese comparison for anyone who just wants their biases confirmed and moved on.
he was also not a very good writer of philosophy and his biography of other philosophers is pretty bad and inaccurate. his analytical and other quotes and general views on things is pretty good tho
And Russell was an atheist 😂
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 he wasn't a bad philosopher though.
His "history of western philosophy" does have lots of inaccuracies.
He apologizes at the very beginning of the book for said inaccuracies which he claims are inevitable when one writes of such a broad topic.
Is the whole interview just this guy claiming to be the smartest man ever while offering all sorts of excuses for being a loser…?
Literally yes
this is genuinely one of the most bizarre pieces of content i’ve ever watched. how does this even happen? its a professional, full-budget interview with some random middle aged dude that thinks hes the smartest guy in the world. apparently every crackhead in my city could get an interview at the daily wire, theyre also the smartest people in the world
@@ProfessorDaveExplainsalso hi dave, you are beautiful
@Oh-fr2nv He is the smartest man and a genius he said so himself and isn't that how it works?
@@Oh-fr2nv it's because it's an interview designed to bring people in to the Daily Wire's right-wing sphere of influence. It's very telling that even THEY distanced themselves from this interview and that he had to get the rights to post it himself. 😂😂😂
My brain instantly tunes out of any interview that has background music. They are never designed to inform, they are always designed to emotionally sway.
This is a good point. I've noticed this trend, and it's just simple manipulation
That's exactly what happens to me. Like, why are you trying to turn this into a movie. I also hate when charities do that with commercials on death, rape, war or starvation.
Fire point.
Same when I read Hegel.
I like Gary Peacock
I took an IQ test recently and got a score of a staggering 553. I also figured out an equation that disproves every god ever imagined. Am I a genius? Well, it’s hard to say, but yeah I am.
OmG you're so smart!!11!1!!! How can we give you money?!1!
@Gabriel-nw6fc you can't, he diesent know any billionaires so its literally impossible for him to earn or receive any money.
Omg yes teach me yours ways
You’re* ~ shhhh
All Hail Tom Merison
It's like when a fictional character is supposed to be a genius, but he cannot be smarter than the writer, so all the "genuis" part is a blurry mess.
"So I was working at the bar, and came up with a fully functioning quantum superposition apparatus that would have solved all the world's energy needs... then this chick walks in. Knockers like the gargoyles on Notre Dame, if you know what I'm sayin'. Anyway, I popped a chub and POOF. The fully functioning, perfect blueprint in my head had vanished. Lost to the aether forever." -Chris Langan, probably.
😂
Thats actually why I go out. Not to meet girls, but to get rid of all the Nobelprize winning ideas that keep pestering me daily.
man, I hate it when that happens
"Knockers like the gargoyles on Notre Dame” Amazing imagery.
fuckin gargoyles on notre dame hahahah
How did they manage to find Mike Lindell’s less-intelligent brother?
😂
They found him in a van, down by the river.
@@infosecrogue8883 And Mike Pillow is very, very unintelligent.
@@PseudoIntellectual2.0Mike Pillow!!! Heheheha, I love that! Can I use it too? I promise I will give all credit to the comedic genius of PI-Dos!!
No, that would be ridiculous. They found him in a covered wagon in a field .@@ComradeCatpurrnicus
This man cured my insecurity of having an average IQ.
I feel like iq is just a way to measure how easy it is for a person to find patterns cuz thats what they had me doing at 12. The funny thing is that the entire time my clueless azz was like- bro what's the context here? What am i doing?! And they were like just pick an answer xD and at the end the doctor called me smart and i got candy
@@cheese7119 what's your point? iq is a decent way to test someone's intelligence
real ones dont base their self worth off of useless science born out of eugenics. you dont need a number to define your worth
Yes, you shouldn't assign self-worth based on this. G-factor, the thing that IQ tests are trying to measure, might be "something" but nobody can figure out what that something is.
@@mysticgrandpa1845 Lmao. Ironically, asking someone whether they agree with your statement probably *would* be a decent way of testing their intelligence.
If you can't explain a subject is simple terms, then you don't know the subject
Not quite what he said, but you got the gist of it.
remove the quotation marks
i believe it's said by Feynman
His theory of everything is basically "Perhaps the real universe are the friends we made along the way".
I pissed myself laughing reading this.
Unironically as good as explanation as any other.
@@peterpumpkin-s9duh huh. Precisely just as likely an explanation. Sure thing
It’s more of a multiverse. One universe is ppl I like. The other is woke universe. It’s crime ridden & run by Democrats. In the first universe, there is no such thing as rape. In the other universe, rape exists. They call it “a crime.”
Smartest guy in the world doesn’t know that libraries exist.
Argues with Professors when he could just smash the test...apparently!
The problem with libraries is that they require their users to be able to read
He's definitely the most intelligent
Don't be silly. Truth comes from the gut, not from some stupid book. My gut told me that.
He said he would go to libraries to buy used books. But didn't figure out that they also loaned new books.
I have an IQ of 5,000, but unfortunately am still somewhat prone to exageration.
It's very subtle.
I would never exaggerate. Not in a MILLION years! 🎉
Aoi Todo!
Underrated comment.
I have 2 little flaws. The first is I lie sometimes.
He's like Alex Jones from a slightly more civilized dimension 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As soon as someone brings up IQ, you know you're about to hear some dumb shit.
People with high IQ don't have to tell people.
Chris has never brought up his IQ with the exception of being asked about it.
@@Whitepower889 Thanks Whitepower889, appreciate it.
@@Whitepower889 found one of his racist supporters.
@@Whitepower889 LOL sure. How did he become known for his supposed high IQ? Why would anyone even randomly ask him about it?
I have nothing against the guy. But I've listened to several interviews with him and couldn't get anything out of them. I do find his background story that one can read on Wikipedia believable, though, and understandable that he had no compatibility with academia. Good for him. He is successful and living a good life. But I still have no clue what "CTMU" is and don't get the impression there is anything substantial in it.
*No college/uni professor ever:* Wow, you're grasping this really quickly! Get out of here, I never want to see you again!
Right? You can tell exactly how these guys actually behaved in class because they’re an exact type. They walked into class thinking they’re smarter than the teacher (who’s probably an underpaid adjunct with no teaching background because they never got to upper level courses and only took 100 level classes) then asked stupid questions that made no sense, and then proceeded to be argumentative when they get a stupid answer. They like to believe that everything in the world is a debate where you get what you want by ‘stumping’ your ‘opponent’ with unintelligible garbage
Reality is probably: My job will be slightly easier this year!
@@superskrub4209 You know, you just helped me understand some things a little bit better. Thanks for that
@@ChewyTwee i agree with your sentiment but why are you saying adjunct professors have only taken intro level courses? They usually have PhD's just like any other professor. They just don't conduct research
@@brandonbennett4970 I think they’re implying that adjunct professors are more likely to be the ones teaching the intro level courses. And that the kind of students described tend to not get past the intro level courses, making them unlikely to encounter professors who do research.
Wait, I spaced out, did the 200 IQ guy say he couldn’t become a cop because of affirmative action?!?
Yes, yes he did 😂 also if you smash Bertrand Russell and Einstein together, God exists 😂 this is insane
@
Geometry + language = theory of everything!
yeah, he pretends to be way better than everyone else and then is held back by minor hurdles like those 30 bonus points in the test and the mean calculus teacher.
::smh::
Umm, well, yeah.. pretty much. That's about what it amounts to, yeah. 🤷♂
Chris Langan is the average Joe Rogan podcast guest.
Calling this bozo an "pseudo-intellectual" is an offense to the pseudo-intellectuals of the world.
😩💨
Bill Maher is fuming somewhere 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Pseudo-intellectualls UNITE!!! No, not you Mr. Langan, go away! Rgr
He is a pseudo intellectual without the intellectual part.
@@MatsubaAgeha Thank you!
Smart people don't give a crap about their IQ score.
Usually they dont but many times they do.
This. When I was a kid I'd get 99th percentile on IQ tests for Gifted...now I tell my psychology students that IQ tests are very faulty, and intelligence is quite varied and fluid, so take them with a grain of salt.
In my youth I considered joining Mensa but realized they sounded really freaking smug.
@@ghintz2156If you were surrounded by doofus’s youd be smug as well
I've met hundreds of truly successful people in my life. People who were recognized as subject matter experts in their career fields. Not one of them ever bragged about their IQ scores. IQ scores are what unsuccessful people brag about because they have no true accomplishments to point to.
@@Techtalk2030 I live in America right now....I know what experiencing doofuses daily feels like. This is more about character than intelligence overall, because yes I've met cocky smart assholes, and in my case I've never taken to being pompous. A smart person SHOULD recognize their own areas of ignorance and feel humility. I'm also an artist, musician, and writer, and creatives are forced to face their weaknesses to be able to overcome them. So that kind of just carries over to everything else for me. Also no one wants to listen to an asshole.
There's always someone better, and you can always improve...so why be overtly proud of condescending?
When I listened to this Chris talk about his CTMU it also made me think about my own theory of the universe which I called call STFU. I think it's quite a remarkable theory which can be used to disprove any and all Science deniers.
Nice
LMAO
Ha! Snort 😂
Im familiar with your theory.
@@moshunit96 ngl, I think it's a plagerism stealing from IDC and LMAO.
I mean this as literally as possible: Langan is just Deepak Chopra for racists.
At least Deepak Chopra's insane ramblings get a chuckle out of me. There's no redeeming qualities when it comes to hearing this guy talk
I can't do it Dave. I apologize. I can't listen to this guy.
Dave: open the pod bay door and listen
HAL (martin): I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that.
hes actually so stupid he convinced himself hes the smartest guy in the world
I lasted 25 minutes… It hurt
I'm losing brain cells just watching this moron
This proves you´re normal. Rgr
My IQ is down there in the toilet with Darwin, so I guess it’s my lack of intelligence that is giving me this severe feeling of second hand embarrassment…
Charles Darwin didn't have IQ "down there in the toilet".
Doesn't that make Darwin even more awesome for doing all his work on such "low" IQ?
I don't know what mine is, but I'd say somewhere at 110 at max. Yet I still feel that feeling. If a genius thinks that all men are one then it's the same as God made us the same, which existed since there's monotheism
Y'all please stop acting like IQ is this immutable, all-important number like an intelligence stat in an RPG.
@@GraemeGunn OP is satirizing what Chris Lagan said about Darwin, mate.
"Billionaires hate my guts."
Every billionaire: "Who is he?"
My exact thoughts 😂 dude is so narcissistic he thinks every actual successful person is just sitting around seething and plotting on how to prevent this rando from “succeeding”… I think he is legitimately mentally unwell
@@smears6039 It goes even further than that. This guy has previously written on Facebook that 9/11 was planned as a distraction from his pet "theory"
@@smears6039- He may not believe that but just throws that out as an excuse/way to connect with other Americans who think they would be rich if not for "the man" and ethnic minorities keeping them down (while typically denying undue discrimination against women and ethnic minorities).
@@loki2240 Perhaps he thinks that, but none of the people who is talking to buy his bullshit. This guy is even more delusional than Trump.
Actual billionaires have someone who hates for them.
Michael Knowles did feature in a student film in college as a gay man. Something tells me that wasn't just a role he was playing.
For nightmare fuel. Imagine him being interviewed by jordan peterson.
Stop it!
I think they would intertwine like those Uzumaki spiral creatures.
oh no.....
I literally shuddered
Btw, buy my book 12 rules for lobsters.
I'm genuinely tired of all these narcissistic people who are given a platform just because they can articulate things. Thank you for existing on YT Dave, you are the real one.
Thank Kurt Jaimungal for Chris Langan retaining any semblance of relevance.
articulate?
@@VonJay He is articulating... articulating nonsense! 🤣
But he can't articulate things...
I'm not a narcissist, I'm a problematically empathetic sociopath with a switch in my brain to turn off the storm of incoming stimuli. My MENSA membership says I'm outside of testable range. But 90% of my comments are deleted on this channel. Because Dave is making low IQ moves to control the conversation in his comment section. That's what should tire you.
This is what’s called a confidence trick. He’s a temu version of L Ron Hubbard who would do the same thing when asked about the universe
😂 a temu version 😂
Nice tô learn how to be a cult leader
Perfect application of the origin of the term conman as well, a man running a confidence scheme
Exactly! Lol I would mainly describe him as a master manipulator
Keith Raniere was another self proclaimed genius. He started a sex cult and is now in jail
He gets agitated when asked for clarification because he doesn’t care if you understand him or not, he just wants you to believe he’s super duper smart.
I'm so exhausted with our anti-intellectual culture. We're just an embarrassment. People just gobble this crap up, too. Hence, our current political predicament.
We REALLY need educators and communicators like you. Thank you for all you do.
The internet has given voice and “research” cred to these clowns.
This is how we get an HHS nominee who eats roadkill and gave himself Hg poisoning and people think he is a medical savant!
Well, there’s no doubt it is current. However, it’s not just a phenomenon of today. Forty years ago I was chatting with what I thought was a group of open minded people. Just as part of the general conversation I contributed something I knew to be a fact. A gray haired middle aged fellow turned to face me and snapped “Whata you know?! That’s just book learnin’!!” As if learning something from a book was just horrific. Gutenberg 1440. American 1980: book learnin’ no good.
For every Dave there’s 10 Chris Langans, unfortunately.
langan sounds like a conservative bitter he's rejected by academia so he grew a victimhood complex.
something tells me he ridicules edgy college students rebelling against traditional social structures who see themselves as victims of oppression. that would be ironic because he is the conservative version of them
It’s how it should be. Professors and “professional intellectuals “ are simply useless eaters in society providing no value. This video is a long cope and seethe by one guy who doesn’t contribute to society trying to tear down another guy who doesn’t contribute to society
The man is a walking-talking Dunning-Kruger effect.
I couldn't agree more - even though I think you give him too much credit. He is simply stupid AF.
He must be a descendant of Hegel.
But he scored highest score on WAIS III in US according to a Psychologist which doesn't make it that he is delusional about his competence .
To me he sounds like someone who was told they were gifted in elementary school and just ran with it. Then he took a heroic dose of shrooms at some point in his life and decided that he now understands the true nature of reality. Really though, he's just saying the same junk you could hear from a circle of hippies passing a bowl around.
@@stevo7220 I dont think he ever did the WAIS IV, he only did some bogus test that didnt have any significance
Professor Dave, please never stop cooking these bangers.
Amen 😍
I second that. Debunking complete BSing Grifters is your forte.
There’s something incredibly funny about someone who’s achieved absolutely nothing in life, proudly talking about IQ - which is an indicator of absolutely nothing. What’s the difference between someone without piano-playing talent, and someone with piano-playing talent who never plays the piano?
Nothing, Chris. Nothing.
The incessant "Okay?" he utters every few sentences isn't to verify whether the other person can follow his brilliant geniousness, but merely to check if the other person is still numbed by his word salad.
I was also going to comment on this. This recurring request for validation has been studied in criminals who are being interrogated and other types of sociopaths who are desperately trying to sell a falsehood. When the other person nods his assent or suggests his assent with body language, each component of the larger false narrative is being assembled and approved by the listener, piece by piece. When the completed word salad has been uttered, the listener has already approved the outcome on the installment plan and has no way to offer a rebuttal without looking foolish himself. This is used car salesman technique, not the work of a misunderstood genius.
@@TbirdMancame to say something similar.+1
So glad y’all also noticed this. I actually watched this very interview a few weeks ago thinking, “smartest man alive, this has to be good.” First thing I noticed is he tries to come across intimidating and in a “I’m smarter than you so don’t challenge me” kind of way and his “okay” after every convoluted statement just makes him come across as a prick 😒
@sisu4134 Thanks. I knew that there was a term of art for this category of braggart - 'prick' - just couldn't think of it.
This is a huge hoot. Poor Chris I almost feel sorry for him after thus dismantling :)
Against my own expectation I'm rapidly becoming a Prof Dave fan ...
Best wishes from London
“I’m not sure if aliens exist but I’m sure of demons” is a WILD fucking statement. And with such confidence
Which is amusing, as a demon would by definition be alien
@@williamsteveling8321 How?
@@williamsteveling8321 I mean not if he was born in America. I do like to imagine a conservative demon who is seriously anti demon immigrant and gets on this podcast. “I just don’t want my daughter to be dating a demon of wrath. Whats next, a cambion!?”
@@ahsisjdvdve2022 Depends how you define each, but I'd say it's because they both tend to be otherworldly. Aliens being life forms originating from another planet and demons usually come from hell, another plane of existence/realm. They're both seen foreign entities to us, although in some belief systems demons can originate from humans. So, it really depends on how you look at it.
@@ahsisjdvdve2022 they aren't from Earth, and if the lore on demons were accurate to the source material (i.e. not the "Supernatural" TV version), they were never originated from Earthly sources. Hence, by the raw definition: alien
GLAD SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT! As a physics major who has come by a lot of proofs and new ideas every day, his ideas are lazy at best.
True. Very lazy, but worse than lazy. However so is the idea around @29:00 where Prof Dave claims physics describes how things move. A description is not an account of causation. One of the things Bertie Russell got right was that science has absolutely no concept of proper metaphysical causation. All physics has in lightcone structure. Lightcone structure is not an account of metaphysical causation, it is a far simpler notion. That's a good thing too, otherwise physics would be a dog pile mess of crap.
He’s so smart, but couldn’t figure out how to earn money.
He certainly has no idea about physics. It could be interesting to compare his "theory" with the empty metaphysical nonsense that some philiosophers from the past created a name with.
I don't believe his ideas are actually ideas. They're more like the proto-musings that come before an idea.
You haven't read any of his work and even smarter than you. Dumb physicist😂
He also said that he doesn't want to deal with people below 150 IQ..a legend in his own shit!
He's going to libraries to buy used books because he can't afford new books, but never figured out that libraries LOAN BOOKS? wow.
Yeah thats fine if you have some contacts in the library.
@@geraldwaters8647😂 right
Yet another obvious shill for "big shelving".
You've clearly never been to a library. They're filled to the brim with roaming gangs of snarky atheist professors who only let rich kids loan books. Duh.
They ran me out of the library when I kept asking for books they've never heard of.
The biggest indicator of intelligence from a casual perspective is the ability to learn and explore different interests. Chris Lagan has been saying the same exact thing for decades now. He never offers up anything new or interesting. He’s incredibly stagnant for such an intelligent person.
I think the best example of this is Roger Penrose. That dude is wicked smart and despite the fact he's ancient now he's still doing cutting edge research. In the last 10 years alone he has worked heavily on a new model of the universe called the Cyclic Conformal Universe Theory and has published papers on Consciousness and how it relates to Quantum Mechanics.
Thats a valid point. This "debunking" is pretty bad, though. Langan is super arrogant, but making a video just based on a few interviews even though most of his texts are online if you just google "Langan PDF" is very sloppy research for someone who claims to represent science and accuracy. Arrogance is always problematic, be it on the side of atheists/skeptics, idealists, believers or openminded agnostics. Arrogance is correlating with biases and also Prof. Dave needs to remember this when doing his research or looking out for targets.
I can picture the exact way the bartenders roll their eyes every time they’re asked what it’s like to work with the smartest man alive
Or every time he opens his mouth and starts declaiming to the bar patrons.
Id like to know what his grade school to high-school peers and teachers have to say about him.
@ ha! I’m sure he had loads of friends
Chris Langan sounds like the guy that would invent "the Megascapular-Ostheomastic Theorem of Zurponopsity" to calculate how much time did he just spend in the bathroom 💀
Wait…. I thought Elon was the dumbest smartest man in the world
Nah, he's the dumbest dumbest man...
Here before the triggered snowflakes come to defend their daddy
Elon is the dumbest people's smart man
Elon is the dumbest people's smart man
Elon's incapable of being the "best" at being Elon Musk, too.
"Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?"
"...Yes?"
"Morons."
59:23
Hopefully not
🤣
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect
Tell me more oh wise one!!!
I first ran into Langan in the early 2000s. I used to haunt a popular message board promoting Intelligent Design creationism a la William Dembski and Michael Behe. One day Langan showed up on the message board, and all the Intelligent Design people were super happy. Yeh!! We have this super smart hero who's going to crush all the evolutionists with his super intelligent arguments.... But within just a few days, he had managed to wear out his welcome, said that everyone, including his Intelligent Design allies, were too stupid to have a conversation with him, then disappeared from the board. What a class act.
Classic early 2000s Internet forum shenanigans. I miss those days.
Hey, Chris Langan here… dont take it personally kid
I believe it. I've interacted with him a handful of times and I have asked critical questions about his CTMU, yet his only responses are ever ad homs and he literally never answers the questions to address the logical fallacies in his model. Not a nice guy, not a smart guy, not even a creative guy because his ctmu was already thought of, it was called Socratic Idealism.
@@E.Hunter.Esquire "Not a nice guy, not a smart guy, not even a creative guy", three all too common threads characteristic of these self proclaimed geniuses(lunatics).
So... Appeared. Dropped insults and disappeared. Refused to elaborate.
His moustache must be disappointed in him
If we apply binary logic to God, then faith is out of the question.
Yes, Chris, God either DOES or DOES NOT exist. That's binary. True or False, 1 or 0. Fucking brilliant mate.
interestingly kabbala, taoism, and other religions are binary based.. force form, yin yang.. just sayin
@@PDMolicki My breakfast is also binary based - it either IS eggs or IS NOT eggs. So profound.
"Are angels real?"
"Yes. That's a logical consequence of Russell."
@@PDMolicki You're confusing duality with binary.
Yin and Yang symbolises balance and duality, for example. Binary is absolute. There is no 0- 0.9999999999-1. It is either 1 or 0, true or false.
So reality is binary. Either a thing is or a thing is not. Either a thing is there or a thing is not there. Either a thing exists or it doesn't exist.
When you get to quantum mechanics it becomes a little more complicated, but the binary still applies after the collapse of the wave function. The electron is now here and it is not now over there. If you apply Everettian QM then it comes down to which universe you're making the observation in. Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself here.
Binary does not simply mean two juxtapositions on a spectrum. It refers to two absolutes; something is either on or off. It can't be a little on or a little off. It is either or.
@@PDMolickiSounds like woo
Geniuses that don't actually understand how IQ tests/scores work is amazing...
I wouldn't speak, or participate in elementary school. I just froze up. I think it was some kind of trauma I went through, but anyways, my mom took me to Johns Hopkins to take an IQ test. They told my mom that I had an IQ of 135, and it ruined my life. She HATED me for not doing well is school, and I paid dearly for it all the way until I could drop out, get a job, and move the hell out. Super genius move, right? I couldn't understand ANYTHING in school, not academically, not socially, not anything.
I DO NOT HAVE a "135" IQ, it's all a bunch of nonsense!!! I have met smart people before, and they're nothing like me. I work a menial tech job on the railroad, and I live a quiet, happy life, and I a proud to just be a normal dude. I hate those tests with a passion.
Usually they are smart enough to know that it‘s enough to fool people even dumber than them
@@Skibbityboo0580 I'm so glad you found happiness. ✌🏽
I have a high iq therefore I know every thing intuitively 🤦🏽
@@Skibbityboo0580nobody on the internet has an IQ under 135. In fact, most are above 145 (according to them)
There are places that lend out books for free.
It's called a Library.
@@Wh40kFinatic Dóndé está la biblioteca?
Even if your local free-book-place doesn't have the specific book you want to read, chances are you can still get it by asking them to have the book shipped in from another free-book-place.
I would assume a guy with 200 IQ would have known that.
My gut tells me he's not allowed within 300 feet of a library.
The more comfortable he got in that chair and with that cigar, the less he bothered to maintain his quasi-intellectual guise.
To quote Criminal Minds: “genius isn't just one good idea or one successful experiment. Genius is work, thousands of hours of work.”
And this guy doesn’t even have one good idea.
The Rock Lee school of genius.
Criminal Minds, the TV show that Mandy (You killed my father, prepare to die) Patinkin thought was too silly for him to finish the first season.
@@rembrandt972ify a good point is a good point and quoting a good point means I should cite it properly no matter the source material.
@@The_dandy_zombie Christian Friedrich Schönbein probably had a different opinion.
@@rembrandt972ify okay? I don’t care. Go quote that person in your own comment then.
The more I listen to Chris Langan, the more I realize he's just Terrence Howard with a white paint job. What an incredible waste of everyone's time.
it's kinda like matter and anti matter: if you put the two guys in the same room you have a perfect lost of energy.
Do I want to know who Terrence Howard is?
@@YDV669 Nope!
nah not white paint job 😭
@@YDV669
Just save yourself a lot of time and headaches by learning the name "Terrence Howard" and then ignoring any content about him.
How can he be the smartest man when my IQ is 420? My source? This comment.
I can confirm your IQ. I was the psych who did the test.
My proof I am a psych, only psychologists can do IQ tests.
That seems sus to me, but what do I know? My IQ is only 69, dude. *air guitar*
Best I can do is 3.50
I have confirmed my IQ to be 500. I have created a few theories to be seen here in yt. I'm just learning Gibberish to get some respect.
Check and mate
I once had an iq test of over 170. But I’m a drug addict who’s barely not homeless. Iq is a test at taking tests.
No, you didn't. No standard tests even go over 150. You're a drug addict and a liar.
IQ is a logic test, life is a test on discipline and non destructive decisions. Definitely not the same.
Those are mutually exclusive things. You can be a drug addict and intelligent. Addiction doesn’t have picks.
I love how he got from "Guys, we should all get along 🥺" to "THOSE IMMIGRANTS AND DEVIANTS..."
Wow it took 5 seconds to tell from this guy's meaningless technobabble that he's a grifter.
Who's been too dumb to even make a living from it.
the tragedy is that people will never be able to tell
hes not even a grifter he genuinely believes what he says, hes just delusional and extremely narcisistic
I saw the interview. Mr. Langan never said "I don't know" to anything. I instantly knew he was a phony.
Those are my three favourite words and my favourite state of being. Nothing makes me tingle with joy more than getting to learn something new. While I'm here, have any obscure knowledge to share?
I immediately started chuckling and muttered to myslef 'he's a christian' when he tried to discredit darwin.
@@bipolarminddroppings: I don't know what kind of things float your proverbial boat, but I find tons of interesting things every time I'm perusing around spectroscopy literature. :)
@bipolarminddroppings
Bees can fall asleep in flowers and sometimes they hold their bee friends's feet :)
@@bipolarminddroppings Your comment resonated with me. I love you person. :)
Every bar in America has a regular like this guy. Cliff Clavin at your service.
"I still work at a bar" ladies and gentlemen we got him.
He works at Doxxy's.
Like A.O.C. once did and no longer does
h bar, he's a quantum physicist
can i work at Femboy Hooters
?
He should compete with Terrence Howard for pretend genius of the year😂😂😂😂
😄😄😄
No way man, Billy carson is smarter than both of them
Terence Howard is off the reservation. To physicists actually correspond with Langan
@@steventhompson399Billy is dumber than Langan
@@heartmalyrics Yeah? Which 2 physicists? What are their specialties?
I didn't realize I had any IQ points left to lose, but I most definitely lost some listening to Chris try to form words into sentences
That proves how stupid you are
Did just....nobody ask this guy to actually PROVE he is smart?
He did prove it. The problem is you plebs don't understand anything about his theory of everything.
I know the reply is probably trolling but his entire "cognitive theoretic" model is just a fancy way to say I figured out how my own brain works.
his supergenius theory of everything is almost word for word something i said when i was high on acid at 15 years old
Acid-tripping teenage you was a super-genius!
He's a super genius of the Wile E. Coyote type
lmfao same.
I bet that acid melted your lower IQ point further down to the brain of a goat. No wonder you think that you developed original ideas😂🤣
😂
lsd is great though…
2 weeks ago I looked for a video of someone debunking Chris. Of course Dave comes through! Thank you for posting this.
U weren't smart enough to know
I had nearly the same experience! But rather than looking for a debunk, I just remembered learning about him and thought "Oh right, that guy was probably a hack, huh?" LOL
@@fmcdomer Langan's followers would agree with you 😂
Dave is the GOAT 🐐
@@fmcdomer
anyone with a basic education knows. dave just went above and beyond.
this guy reminds me of the the guy that proved everything is wrong because 1 x 1 = 2
Because multiplication must mean it’s more than the variable.
That guy is another idiot.
I really got into it with a friend over this. He shared the video with me, and asked me what I thought. I told him it was a bunch of fooey, and he said I thought that because I am being racist against Terrance. I physically went to his house with a stone in my hand. I asked him right at his door
"Preston, how many things are in my hand?"
"One"
I handed him the stone
"How many times did I hand you this "one" thing?"
"One"
"How many things are you holding?"
"One, but in the video...he showed that...did you watch the video??"
I stormed off, and haven't spoke to him since.
Because ‘an action times an action must equal a reaction’ duh
@@Skibbityboo0580I guess Neil and every black scientists/ physicists around the world are also racist lmao
@@Skibbityboo0580 You should not have illustrated the math to him. It would have been more productive if you used that stone in a more aggressive fashion.
This guy is like watching Mike Ditka do an impression of Ken Wheeler
Da Bullshit
HAHAHAHA that's fucking perfect
lolol, Nice.
OMG you win the internet! 🤣
I don't know who Ken Wheeler is, but I'm a lifelong Bears fan and still laughed at this haha. Imma have to look him up.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains It's not *that* funny.
If Darwin’s iq was in the toilet, this guy’s is half way past the septic tank.
😅💯
this guy immediately lost all respect the moment he insulted darwin like that. Stephen hawking was right about such people making claims about their IQ's. They are all losers
the upper decker of human IQ
Worse than that, he's Chris langan
😂😂😂
IRS=Evil Job
Defense contract supply line work=not evil?
My man worked for Northrop Grummond and called the IRS evil. That's Christian morality for you.
"I noticed nobody around me was dying of covid" that's how u determine its fake? That's the biggest indicator that someone is stupid imo. Making conclusions out of a small sample
Yes, in fact that's how you determine if something is real or fake. Situational awareness works for some people. I'm sorry if Covid affected you poorly, that's unfortunate.
@@shallnotbeinfringed5525
It's like saying all diabetes patients are men cause u have only seen your diabetic dad and cousin suffer from it in your life. this doesn't constitute the actual reality even though based on your limited sample it is the truth. smart people imo don't reach big conclusions based on what they have seen in a small sample which in this case is chris saying covid isn't that serious because he hadn't seen anyone die
I think the reason why this guy appeals to many is that he has a humble life and struggles yet purports to be the smartest dude alive, it gives people an ego boost to think that they are uber geniuses for accomplishing nothing just like this guy
Who said he's accomplished nothing? I think not everybody chases the same things and if you have no interest in devoting your life to something people consider "academic" or accumulating wealth that's not an indication you aren't smart at all.
Also they just believe he is smart because it is being said about him and therefore don’t question anything he says
@@Mr.Goodkat Did you not watch the video? When I first heard about this guy (which was a while ago) I understood that he might not have been interested in academics but I was too lazy to really research him so I just assumed he was a really smart guy that didn't mind being simple. However, after watching the video and knowing what he was really about, it does seem like he actually was interested in academics and thus is just a lying conman. Also saying he accomplished nothing is just a form of figurative language, an exaggeration if you will, no one's accomplished nothing, what I meant is that he has accomplished nothing intellectually apart from maybe reading writing and basic maths. Suggestion: maybe watch the video and make sure you know what this guy.
@@Mr.Goodkat I agree. Saying he accomplished nothing is nonsense because in some kind of way, almost every single human being has accomplished something. If it's academic or personal doesn't matter in the basic context of "accomplishment".
However, you confuse personal (beneficial to only yourself) with academic (beneficial to all of humanity) accomplishments. You could be the happiest guy in the world yet lack the basic understanding to earn the "right" of saying what he said in this interview and elsewhere. Or you could be the best academic in the world, having contributed massively to the advancement and/or understanding of humanity and their struggles/problems yet be unhappy with this situation.
With every interview, Chris just proves that he is neither happy with himself nor did he provide academic teachings to humanity that gave us knowledge and/or benefitted us in some way. It's not about saying academics is corrupt... or it's hard to get in... or saying you're not being heard. It's about providing something of value in the academic field if you think you could have a coherent conversation/argument with an academic as someone who is not an academic like Chris. Which, by the way, never happened. Chris gives interviews to news network hosts, not even to non-academics who know much, much more than him.
This was also never about wealth. Being wealthy or not is not a factor in being happy and/or an academic. Most scientists in the world who gave/give us real advancement were not interested in money at all. And then some people who are just happy have few reasons to change anything or try to find answers that are mainly meant to give other people answers and maybe not even yourself.
The answer as to why you can't call Chris "smart" is in this video. Watch it without prejudice... if you can.
@@Mortgageman145 I have watched numerous interviews with the guy and am currently 28 minutes into this video, I stand by my original comment that it makes no sense to say someone isn't smart for that reason and I think whether or not he's made intellectual accomplishments depends on if what he says is true or not, if his CTMU is the truth as he claims well then I would call that an intellectual accomplishment, a monumental one in fact, if it's not true well I still don't think that means he's stupid.
Guy claims to be a genius but didn’t figure out that he could get books from the library, instead of buying whatever random crappy second-hand books they had at flea markets. Got it.
lol thought that same thing. I lived in a town of 500 people in fifth grade and the bookmobile would bring me a stack of books every X days.
Yeah, and it sounded like bro was living in NYC at the time, which has over two-hundred public libraries, so a few more options than the bookmobile! 😂
I mean, they didnt have libraries in rural missouri 40-50 years ago.
Wait... 😒
Go to any Jordan Peterson video's comments section and you will have a slew of college drop-outs claiming to have IQs of 140 or higher.
Of course theyre are so Genius that simp a zombie magician tò save the re Ghost from himself
Delusion
And the dropouts now all work in bars, talking to the drunks without realizing the jibberish from the drunks is really infectious, just as brain worms. Oh, wait.... Rgr
They took an 'IQ test' on Facebook and actually believed it.
I'm yet to hear a left winger claim they are superiorly educated.... Oh wait.....
Complaining how 'we're not a meritocracy' while voting for trump is peak, truest thing lil bro said
Dude I didn’t but Harris literally didn’t earn her spot. She was picked on her race and sex for vp (I’m black) , she slept her way into power and they literally escalated her to presidential candidate without a democratic process
Trump on the other end of the - ran in 3 elections against a whole establishment and won 2. Literally against a whole establishment
Both are nightmares and neither deserve defense beyond what is factual. I’ll never see how dems don’t have any self reflection about how they’re so similar to maga
@@dixztube I just ask you too look into project 2025.
Trump doesn't like meritocracies?
@@senorpepper3405 Trump is not qualified for the position of president, by any metric. He was a businessman celebrity, has no experience in military or politics, and is there only by virtue of populism. That is the exact opposite of a meritocracy.
@@senorpepper3405 He likes people who are more servient too the elected instead of the country, I don't know.
Let me clarify some things about IQ scores. Actual real intelligence measures, like what we use to formally diagnose learning disorders and intellectual disabilities, can only be administered by people who have completed doctoral level training in clinical psychology and psychometrics. The test materials themselves are even regulated such that they are only available to people with such credentials. And there are only a small number of such tests that are considered valid, reliable measures of intelligence and IQ, such as the Wechsler measures. I have given hundreds of IQ tests to children and adults of all ages and clinical status. Anyone claiming to have had their IQ tested needs to name the specific test and version that was used, name the doctoral degree clinician who administered the measures, say what all their scores were such as full scale IQ, verbal IQ, performance IQ, working memory index, perceptual reasoning index, etc. The ceiling valid reportable full scale IQ score on most official tests like the Wechslers is 160 if you get every single item correct within time limits. And anything above 130 falls within the highest possible range, which is given the statistical (Gaussian) category name Very Superior. Anyone making the claims this guy does without actually knowing even the basics about intelligence, psychometrics, and IQ is very likely to have at best a hopelessly average IQ that has prevented him from being rational about what is known about these topics. Cheers, Dave! 🧠☀️🎓
Source: he did an online test one time
Yea 100%. I actually can claim to have my IQ measured. It was measured as part of a psychological evaluation for the purposes of determining what my IEP should entail in high school. I don't know all of the individual scores (I could find them by reading through the evaluation results, but I've never really bothered).
It shocks me that people think that they can get an accurate measure of IQ from something like an online test. Like NO, YOU CANT
I wish you were in ALL the comments on videos that throw around 160+ IQs
Sorry, but I'll trust the tests given by successful companies to get top talent over those admistered by a doctoral student any day of the week. One has a valid reason for testing (getting top candidates), the other has an agenda.
Chris Langan's origin story is he took a short IQ test in Omni magazine in 1983 or 93 (I forget the year) and the magazine published his score. From then on he proclaimed himself the greatest genius in the world.
Michael Knowles refuses to drive a Trans Am because he thinks it’s woke.
His power point presentations were always boring because he refused to use transitions.
What about being transparent?Those poor folks with trans kids?
@@jakerz0 he helped stop the trans Canadian pipeline though .... For the wrong reasons but still
Wait until ol’ Mikey finds out what gear head slang calls a gear box in a car.
@@owldrinkmore9626 Transmission sounds bad enough (trans mission) but trannie even worse.
I once got a comment from him, trying to expose him. All I got was condescending rhetorics without any real substance. Glad you did this! He's a obviously a grifter.
Here in Brazil we have a similar guy, Hindemburg Melão, who claims an IQ of 233. The story is very similar: says he is boycotted by academia and therefore was not able to major. A lot of BS to justify why his stellar IQ hasn't got him anywhere. Well... at least he is a youtuber, which must be compatible with his real capabilities.
LOL, so there's one of those down here as well, good to know.
Helping Professor Dave roast this guy while roasting him simultaneously 😂😂😂
Não conhecia esse!
funny how langan criticises academia for having rigid way of thinking & dismissing radical thinking, then minutes later insist we have to have the "right" way of thinking to advance ethics.
so the objective natural science cannot be too rigid but the non-absolute moral framework must be stringent? HUH!?
pensei que era um insulto mas afinal o gajo chama-se mesmo Melão ahahah fds Brasil
Step 1 go on a right wing podcast
Step 2 say “cancel culture”
Step 3 success
Extra points to mention DEI
that's right, cancel culture is a conspiracy
Come on, it's not that easy! You gotta throw in some anti LGBTQ rhetoric!
It's the biggest civil rights violation of our time
And Marxism.
You also need to say “woke” at least once every 5 minutes. It's really a lot of work to grift right wingers.
"anything that deviates from human survival is the most evil thing in the entire world"
*Chomps on cigar*
Chomps on food too
Saying that the great scientist Charles Darwin - unlike Langan, an genius - "way down the toilet" is pretty arrogant and a bit cringe ....
Every schizophrenic in the mental hospital also has a "grand theory of everything". I would know😐
Let's not be mean to schizos though, yeah? It isn't their fault, and I don't see any of them being interviewed by chuds.
The comments section of the original video is a comedy gold mine. Literally saw a comment of someone saying something to the effect of “I appreciate that he doesn’t use fancy words to try and sound smart”
I noticed something similar too - there wasn’t much discussion, mostly some bs slogans and praise. Definitely a yikes corner of the internet if you ask me
I think I've seen that, and I was appalled at the number of people falling for this. No one cared that there was no proof of his claims. If he had tested that high, surely he would have been able to test into some college.
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I'm not even sure the people commenting actually watched the entire video because the entirety of what he has to say is just a god damn nothingburger.
the comment section is extremely weird. He has comments with over 4 thousand likes but with 0 replies.
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I assume he has an approval system in place because he’s such an open-minded and smart guy. Lol
Wow crazy how the “smartest person in the world” just so happens to believe literally every single right wing talking point to a T
Only explanation: They're all geniuses!
@ you make jokes but 1000% that’s what conservatives think is the explanation lol 😂
Apparently he once claimed that the Bush administration did 9/11, and not only that, that they did it to prevent people from finding out about his CTMU. Like, how do you even begin to explain the narcissism? Lmao
More like Ultraconservative Christofascistic White Nationalists. Conservatives are few.
Humans naturally follow the right-hand path as it worships truth and nature. The left-hand path must be educated into you, it must erase your instincts because it is anti-nature, it is life-denying. Like reIigion it is a mind poison implanted to manipulate you into working against your own interests of self-preservation and instead serve the interest of the parasite class of b4nkrs.
I lost 195 IQ points watching this. I'm now in IQ debt.
A "genius" without some kind of training is usually wasted. It doens't have to be formal training, but a degree in "mindless speculation" is not much.
Testing well on a collection of brain teasers doesn't identify wisdom, long term thinking, or potential, both psychological and cognitive, to actually use the intelligence. There are plenty of autodidacts who rise from being poor or working class to levels of accomplishment, but even marketable contribution is an arbitrary standard of measurement. I think that's why IQ has lost credibility to actual thinking people in the 21st century. Pseudo intellectuals are all about it, because it buttresses a subset of eugenics, the phantom hierarchy of the unqualified.
You could say this guy is also simply not a genius. Imo a genius has works, a repertoire, accomplishments that outdo their peers in respective field. It's not a claim to make without anything backing it up.
I dont think he even has a degree in that does he? lol....The university of mindless speculation must have had affirmative action programs too.....30 points short of the entry score...so close!
He read similar academic books which are used by tutors in school during training. So he is trained
@@heartmalyrics in what?
anyone who thinks college is the only way to succeed financially cannot be described as the smartest man alive
I mean, realistically, it is in the modern world as many hiring requirements for modern businesses require at least an associates
@@gurun8071 If you want financial success you are better of going in trade school rather than going in a university
He didn't claim that. He claimed that it is one of the easy ways to be financially successful. Not understanding his arguments says alot about how low your IQ is
Exactly. Theres like 3 professions from college where you can get wealthy, not even rich. The rest are for middle class jobs with a huge debt. Most rich people either got there by business, luck, fame, sports or inherited wealth.
@@gurun8071 if you are actually the allround smartest person of the world...i think you can still do without
create your own business and such