I Tested Every Major AI Model For Deep Thinking. Two Surprised Me.

🤝 Join the Inner Circle:   / discord   🔥 Companion Substack Article to this video: https://augmentedmind.substack.com/p/... What if the most dangerous thing about AI is not that it might replace your thinking, but that it agrees with it? In this video I break down a fundamentally different way to use AI: not as an answer engine, but as a cognitive environment engineered to disagree with you. Most commercial AI is trained to be helpful, agreeable, and validating. If you feed it your private thinking, it will reflect it back, fortifying your existing beliefs and widening the bubble you already live in. That is the opposite of what you need. I cover: The Creative DNA: a structured process for mapping your values, beliefs, and blind spots using AI-driven progressive questioning The Living Archive: how to collect, transcribe, and organise years of your own intellectual data so the AI can reason within your system Engineering Disagreement: why you need an AI that challenges your premises, attacks your ideas, and surfaces the questions you avoid My Blind Model Comparison: I tested GLM 5.2, Qwen 3.6 27B, GPT 5.5, Minimax and others with the same knowledge base and prompts. The results were not what I expected. Hardware Requirements for Local AI: 32 GB sweet spot, tokens per second, Apple Silicon vs GPU vs unified AI boxes, and why speed matters more than you think The Sovereignty Argument: why you cannot do this work on cloud models that train on your data, and why local AI is the only architecture that makes cognitive augmentation possible If you are a founder, strategist, philosopher, or creator who has been collecting your thinking for years and has no one to challenge it at the level you need, this is for you. ⸻⸻⸻⸻ 🚀 Build Your AI Creative Collaborator, an Augmentor, with ResonantOS Open (Free) Architect an AI that remembers, aligns with your values, and tunes to your creative DNA. http://resonantos.com/ ⸻⸻⸻⸻ 📬 Stay Connected 📝 Newsletter: http://augmentedmind.co/ 🌐 Website: https://manoloremiddi.com/ 💼 LinkedIn:   / manoloremiddi   🤖 Augmentatism Philosophy: https://augmentatism.com/ 🤝 Join the Inner Circle:   / discord   🪐 Cosmodestiny Philosophy: https://cosmodestiny.com/ ⸻⸻⸻⸻ 📕 My Free eBook The Last Human Teacher: A Survival Guide to the Age of AI and the TikTok Brain. https://manoloremiddi.com/thelasthuma... ⸻⸻⸻⸻ 🛠 Tools: 🎁 MiniMax Coding Plan 10% OFF for friends: https://platform.minimax.io/subscribe... 🧠 AI Voice: https://try.elevenlabs.io/gkb7rak7o4zi 🔍 AI Research: https://perplexity.ai/pro?referral_co... 💪 Ultrahuman Ring: https://www.ultrahuman.com/ring/buy/i... 🌐 VPN: https://refer-nordvpn.com/SOaIHsnlppb ✂️AI Video Editing: https://gling.ai/?via=manolo 📡 One free month of Starlink service! https://www.starlink.com/residential?...