a lesswrong: 47-minute read extolling the ambition and insights of Christopher Langan’s “CTMU”
a science blogger back in the day: not so impressed
[I]t’s sort of like saying “I’m going to fix the sink in my bathroom by replacing the leaky washer with the color blue”, or “I’m going to fly to the moon by correctly spelling my left leg.”
Langan, incidentally, is a 9/11 truther, a believer in the “white genocide” conspiracy theory and much more besides.
The discussion in the comments has continued in a low-key way. Now they’re making excuses for why the nutbar is incomprehensible:
Langan has been “working” on the CTMU since the 1990s. People have been born since then and have had time to learn how to talk like academics.