this is an short story from the smartest man in the world due to his supreme IQ. the book is called the art of knowing. this is one of his more simpler essays as i tried to read some of his other work and things get complicated very quickly . maybe one day well understand him. http://www.ctmu.org I do not own any of this work as it is property of christopher langan.I just wanted to share this story .
@anomaly19851: Your "litmus test for lifetime success measurement" rates deeply flawed & foolishly obviates eg, "dispositional genetics"; these: non-conformists | anarchists | hermits | unimpressed and/or those whom eschew avarice: fore-or-aft bourgeois predilections, urgencies, values, environment et cetera. Chris Langan appears a) intelligent, b) none-too-familiar with accrued scholarship legacies, c) conflicted as to his "marginalized worldly bid status": Fungibility Rejection
CarCriticAssessor 2 weeks ago
Nice trumpet music; hope it outlives us.
ShunyamNiketana 2 months ago
Christ Langan is a big flopp
ZeusDeusEx 2 months ago
I is verie smret 2....i an a jeanus
petol78 4 months ago
Ok... I will go read some more if his essays myself as this one is embarrassing in that it just restates the obvious. Is he smart? Sure! Am I smart? Not that smart. But I don't need to be talked down to as if I am a blithering idiot. By the way, I don't have any kids.
cosimoto1 4 months ago
Impressive essay.
ClamCrunchy 6 months ago
Text too hard to read since the text is conflicts with the background.
dimbulb23 6 months ago
@JRODTHEVID "I'm just stating that the whole form and goal of the CTMU ,being in a large sense metaphysical, may not be something our current scientific understanding may be able to recognize." JRod, if it works for you and you're happy, I'm happy too!
Haroldbeavis1969 9 months ago
@Haroldbeavis1969 O no believe me I by no means believe that Langan's work is "too hard to understand". I thought it was a joke when djdontlaugh said maybe one day we'll understand him. I recognize that everything Langan is explaining is through already sought and discovered scientific and philosophical study. I'm just stating that the whole form and goal of the CTMU ,being in a large sense metaphysical, may not be something our current scientific understanding may be able to recognize
JRODTHEVID 9 months ago
@JRODTHEVID Sure, I suppose there could be valid info within Langan's hypothesis. It's just that he's given us no reason for us to think as much. It fails as science which is why no peer-reviewed journal would want anything to do with it. Don't buy the "We're just not smart enough to comprehend it" line. The opposite is true.
Brilliant ideas are expressed in terms easy to understand. Einstein was famous for his clarity. All Langan is doing is hiding his nonsense in psychobabble.
Haroldbeavis1969 9 months ago