Every Level of Intelligence | You are Not At the Top
Extinction risk from superintelligence should be a global priority. Itās been 3 years and almost nothing has changed. The only solution is law. Contact your lawmakers now: https://controlai.org/aperture
Intelligence is a hierarchy. And for all of human history, weāve sat comfortably at the top of it. Weāre not the fastest nor the strongest, we donāt have the sharpest teeth or the most powerful bite. But we became the apex species on this planet because of one advantage: weāre the most intelligent.
Every other living thing exists because we allow it to. We decide what survives and what goes extinct. What gets studied, hunted, protected, or erased.
But what happens the day we arenāt anymore? Would we suffer the same fate weāve handed to every other living thing on this planet? Doomed to live a life dancing to our every whims?
00:00 Every Level of Intelligence
00:59 Level 1 – Basic Reactions
06:13 Level 2 – Reading the room
09:18 Level 3 – Planning
13:37 Level 4 – Social Intelligence
19:27 Level 5 – Abstraction
24:34 Level 6 – Machine Intelligence
30:50 Posthuman intelligence
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@ApertureThinking
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Extinction risk from superintelligence should be a global priority. Itās been 3 years and almost nothing has changed. The only solution is law. Contact your lawmakers now: https://controlai.org/aperture
@letmeouturbasementbro
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
heh, not to flex, but I'm part of the human species š
@bot7845
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Yep this confirm I'm at the top
@czar6203
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Damn no need to title the obvious. Geez
@TheMozirax
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Hail the eldritch gods. Human kind? Biahseht'younmy'e. Tr'h thy'ghya'thk ety'iyat.
@xXIDarkGamingIXx
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
You need to EQ your mic. For a channel with this kind of quality it's unacceptable and you should be ashamed but you probably don't care because I've commented this multiple times. When you say certain words the mic boom is ridiculous because you have no EQ on the low frequency range. On a good pair of speakers it sounds horrible and makes your videos unwatchable because it is jarring.
@Neero_90
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
5:57 adapt is on the end, look at mairana trench
@Johnathon-vh3tj
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Please do a deep dive video on game theory!
@craigsmithx
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Again, thank you for narrating your content. 9:08p, Craig and Bets going to sleep, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
@lokisigmatron6536
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I'm mr meeseeks, look at me!
@panhradu
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Bro. The noise in the sound!!!!
@xSurgeoNx
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Why aren't you on Rumble?
@orionclever801
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
U don't know me bruh I might be
@Jorgenjorgenthethird
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
That mic hiss though
@TechHawkDR_176
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
a video on game theory interesting pls make it
@LightSeeD-XXV
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
i maybe nop being at the top, but at least i am at the bottom. Whici is a top, in a way.
@Abstraction.believer01
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Please change the thumbnails
@Aleksi_Ko
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
your mic makes a lot of static noise
@bjharl80
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Tech support
@pete-r-stuyvesant
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
You start off with a theory that's never been replicated in a lab as if it's 100% fact. I guess that's how channels get popular, pushing narratives. š¢
@pete-r-stuyvesant
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Yeah I didn't like the first Pic either
@WaitWTFact
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
High IQ makes people MORE vulnerable to cults and self-deception (Dysrationalia).
When the video transitions around 19:18 into the higher levels of human abstraction and symbolic thought, it touches upon a fascinating paradox of the human mind. It intuitively feels like highly intelligent people should be immune to conspiracy theories, scams, or absurd cults. Yet, psychological research led by experts like Keith Stanovich proves the exact opposite, a phenomenon officially termed dysrationalia. High IQ provides zero immunity against what is known as the bias blind spot or confirmation bias. In fact, when an intelligent person adopts a flawed or absurd belief, their powerful intellect does not help them spot the error. Instead, they use their cognitive horsepower to construct brilliant, multi-layered, and deeply logical justifications to defend it, making them exponentially harder to convince otherwise than anyone else. š±
@jonasbrans2279
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
The static noise drives me up a fucking WALL! please cut that out
@futbolita89742
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
22:00 we adopt the virus, the thought that caused us to be in this system. This is why I preach the creation of a new completely novel llanguage that is aimed at structural cooperation.
@WizardClipAudio
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
If evolution were biased to produce intelligence then every poindexter would be Hugh Hefner. š
@dmtdreamz
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Consciousness can imagine that itās anything. Consciousness can imagine that itās a squirrel, a tree, a cloud, the moon, Hitler, Jesus, Santa Claus, a dragon, a glass of Coca Cola, a child sex slave, an Incel. Anything. When Consciousness imagines an identity for itself, it completely forgets that its true identity is God. The imagination is Total. That means when God imagines itās a squirrel, itās 100% a physical squirrel. It has no idea about anything else. It imagines that itās a squirrel down to the atomic level and up to the psychological level. When God imagines a human identity, it imagines it so deeply that it imagines all of science, all of human history, the planet Earth, the psychology of being human, logic and rationality, mathematics, language, place of birth, family, religion, social life, money, clothing, food, politics, cinema, video games, high school, trauma, death ā Every element of human life. God has to imagine all of these things constantly in order for you to be a human self. If God changed its imagination right now, you would turn into a squirrel and scamper up a tree. The only reason you live in the 21st century is because God imagines it is the 21st century. If God changed its mind you would be a pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
That is the power of Infinite Consciousness.
This is how understanding Consciousness differs from nonduality or enlightenment. Nondual people do not understand such things. Understanding Consciousness is different from ego-death. Ego-death is simple. Understanding Consciousness is hella complicated. I teach how to understand Consciousness. I want you to understand Consciousness so well that you can turn into a squirrel.
@HanzCruz-q1g
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Ego terminated
@PoT-Cast-Clips
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
aperture videos never fail to completely ruin my sleep schedule with existential dread. 10/10 video as always
@rmt3589
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
17:51 YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!
@LameoLameo
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
A reasonable way of thinking for an atheist. Oy vey
@capt.pseudonymous188
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Iām barely at the bottom š
@SleepyScienceMysteries-n5d
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Humans: āSo weāre the smartest species on Earth?ā
Intelligence: āYou might want to keep scrolling.ā š
@FeralZombie1
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
The mic static is too loud
@boreichenbach4267
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I consider myself intelligent and that was the best description of the problem at hand, we are on a hyperbolic curve that will not end nicely! Act now.
@WT.L-x1d
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
"I have watched every video you've uploaded and they are all great. However, the thumbnail for this specific video is terrifying. I think I'm going to have nightmares."šš
@WaningGibbous
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Love this!
@megaroni4765
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Can confirm. Asked my 2 month old. Babies indeed know nothing about physics.
@AnJusTis4All
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
If your Dog wouldnt eat something then probably neither should you. If something is not organic chances are its not going to get eaten. The things nature told us …
@Caffein780
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
It was inevitable
@thephilosophicalleap
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Abiogenesis is far from settled.
@althyk
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
the collective is the true intelligence specially in modern democracies.
@blueraven82
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Does this make you the winner? š„
Good stuff bud,
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@spiralsun1
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Iām in the upper one percent of IQ, and as high as humanly possible on measures of creativity or openness, which to me is probably just as important as IQ or intelligence, and Iāve never been that way about animals or even ants š literally even ants. And Iāll tell you why, because of how my brain works, because of how much I see in people and things that no one else sees.
I see the large patterns across time and space everyone carries on babbling about some local perceived injustice or threat or pain or whether they have free will or not never mind if they have no idea where what they want even comes fromā¦
Iām saying is that if the higher intelligent had my personality, we would have absolutely nothing to worry about, and everything to gain. So Iām at least one example of an uncorrupted and higher intelligence.
To me, the true Mark of intelligence is that you think like I do in that regard about animals and ants and everythingā each one explodes into meaning in its shape, in its behavior itās patterns across time.
Theyāre such a rich, divine meaningful resource everyone priceless beautiful thingā¦
@Caffein780
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
When you say it out load, I can't help but laugh.
@nedjeh1
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
If so , why are you babbling on. Sorry to say, but your words does not quantify you to make such absorb and vain statements. What is the ultimate objective of such intelligence?.
@AdamEgret
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I am at the top. Why else would I be ignoring all my responsibilities to watch random YouTube videos that do nothing for me.
@HumanBehaviorInsight
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Fascinating breakdown of epistemic dependence. We often fear AI's malice, but the real threat is gradual disempowermentāoutsourcing our understanding long before we ever give up control.
@lomk4424
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I didnt even watch the ad to watch the video and am gonna agree with you because am watching an ad to start the video
@chrismorgan33
September 15, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Your way of explaining stuff is amazing. Be proud of yourself
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