Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #163
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Channel: Lex Fridman
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Length: 158min 40sec (9520 seconds)
Published: Mon Feb 22 2021
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He said that he is probably releasing his paper on Geometric Unity on April 1st.
"Respectability is the unique prison where all of the gates are open, and the inmates beg to stay inside."
My guy is just on a whole different level of abstraction and intellectual plane than any one other intellectual out there. He is gonna dominate Clubhouse format so hard lol
Also excited for his Geometric Unity paper, he seems pretty confident about this paper now both in this podcast and his podcast with Brian Keating and Garett Lisi. Good to see the he is feeling good about it!
Seems like a bright guy. He should get his own podcast or something. π
I love these two together.
Jeez, Eric continually says what I can't articulate about academia and I love him for that.
Especially his comment on JSTOR, Elsevier, etc.
Does anyone have access to the discord, I would love to become part of the discussion
Gonna listen in a bit, hope it's better than Round 3 where Lex's dogged optimism (verging on naΓ―vete) consistently derailed the conversation and led to frankly not many interesting places.
Also, with all due respect, I wish Lex would cut out the humility act with constantly talking about how ignorant and stupid he is. He's an MIT PhD give me a break.
Edit: this one was great!
Thanks!
Does anyone understand what Eric meant when he was speaking about cryptocurrency needing to integrate gauge theory? Seems like he was saying Bitcoin got it half-right by introducing a kind of conservation law since the BTC supply is capped, but that the ultimate currency would be BTC minus the blockchain plus something with gauge theory. I donβt know gauge theory, but I do have CS knowledge. Trying to understand how gauge theory could fill the role of the blockchain and why itβd be better (according to Eric).