About Author
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high-IQ society and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere. The record was discontinued in 1990, as high IQs are considered too unreliable to document as world records. Langan was later a subject of Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book, Outliers: The Story of Success, in which the journalist sought to understand why Langan's high IQ had not led to greater success in life – Langan has no degree, having twice dropped out of college. The book compared him with J. Robert Oppenheimer and focused on the influence of their respective environments on success.
Langan has spent many years working on a hypothesis that reality is a self-simulation. He calls the theory the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe. The thesis is self-published. He has been interviewed and has self-published his views on various matters, including his belief in eugenics to prevent genetic degradation in a technological world, opposition to interracial relationships, the 9/11 Truth movement, and other conspiracy theories that have gained him a following amongst the alt-right.
