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You might think this update is a little overdue—but that’s only if you’re not accounting for the sheer recalibration required to fit a 200 IQ into the Gurometer. Frankly, it just wasn’t designed for that kind of mental horsepower. And to make matters worse, the only two Gurometricians in existence have a combined IQ roughly equivalent to that of a moderately well-trained chimpanzee. Don’t take our word for it—just ask Chris Langan! So come along, won’t you, for a nostalgic journey as we revisit the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe, listen to squeaky chair sounds, and attempt to expand our tiny minds.

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Lillie

😂 the whole paragraph

Ymirsdreams

Trump's economic advisor finally gets the validation he demands!

Kaybee

absolutely gorgeous rebuttal from langan

Tanya

Anyone know an alternative term for the "cranks" that send their theories to academics? Ive heard this referred to in a few places. Feels like it could be a different profile to a general conspiracy theorist? Curious to read about

Paul Ditta

Pallette: Cleansed. 👍🏼

Kevin Nyberg

I love that Matt called it “peccadillio”. So meta!

Frances goulart

Damn..a barrage of insults from the rednecks’ thesaurus… nah nah nah…

Kit Zullasson

This is short but very dense. It was worth enjoying it before it was properly aged. The old couple-style bickering, Langan's brutal takedown of those obscure academics, and then it turns out that Langan's working class background even holds him back in the gurometer score - which just shows how justified the grievances are! I condemn the classism but now I want to see Eric the oil painting hang out with Chris the crayon sketch.

Jake

Anyone have any ideas on how to entice Langan into a right to reply?

Awakening Wonk

Is sex-pestery a category or necessity even? Maybe that just for Trumpski’s cabinet.

john statham

Utter chuckleheads. I just watched one of his videos. Utterly joyless the whole way through

john statham

Classic Mattrix. ‘I think he is charismatic to complete idiots.’

jubshit

You two are like dogs chasing vehicles of genius. You bark and bark but when one of them turns around to tear off a piece of your ass and fry it up you're nowhere to be found. See you at the next diploma printing ceremony, chuckleheads. To put it mathematically: you couldn't traverse infinitesimal intervals if you had a passport. Nothing personal. Just business. Now get out.

jubshit

Good episode, by the way. Thanks.

Matt Francis

I hope we get some more frequent langan updates in future supplementary materials episodes. He entertains me in a way that not even the weinsteins are capable of. Thanks for putting this one out

Linda Sears

I was looking forward to the possibility of Chris saying Langan was close to the tippy top. I was not disappointed.

kurdelis

I know he said in the (decoded) interview that he's never been interested in money, but it still seems that he didn't score higher on profiteering because he's just too stupid to do it, not because he wouldn't want it.

Emma

Loved this one thanks! Agree the only people I've known IRL who've talk about having a high IQ or even worse being gifted have been completely weirdoes and often underachievers. Who come to think of it do also often have a tale of woe about why they were in some way sabotaged in getting the success they obviously deserved.

Jacqueline

I love how he called Chris and Matt "No-name academics" as if most academics are household names. 🤣

Rob

This guy's comic relief after dark figures like Dr K and Yarvin

Matt Dear

I think Langan may be the apotheosis of a stupid person's idea of a smart person. He's on some kind of motivated reasoning speedrun.

CHUSSTERR

Can anyone with a sam harris sub link his newest podcast episode link pls?

Sammy Martin

I do like the Oxford flex. Not the kind of thing that you bring up often but against somebody as despicable as langan well deserved

Ryan Goss

I didn't think in a million years he'd actually take you guys up on his "right to reply", but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to troll him a bit for some laughs. Boy did he deliver.

Philip Grant

His backstory, resentment of academia, and obsession with a personally constructed metaphysical system - it's kind of a right-wing version of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".