"the following is a conversation with Eric Weinstein the second time we've spoken on this podcast he's a mathematician with the bold and piercing intelligence unafraid to explore the biggest questions ..."

"session with Eric Weinstein action between World War two and the crisis we're living through right now sure the need for collective action reminding ourselves of the fact that all of these abstraction..."

"and in in terms of really profound disruption and so when you called the great nap meaning lack of deep global tragedy well lack of realized global tragedy so I think the development for example of th..."

"happen I think that when for example just historically speaking HIV went from being a death sentence to something that people could live with for a very long period of time it would be great if that h..."

"fewer that's why that's why as much as I can't imagine proposing to somebody at a sporting event when you have like 30,000 people waiting and you know like she says yes that's pretty exciting so I thi..."

"the tools to actually understand well here's how to interpret the data or here's the issue with the personal protective equipment is actually a jurisdictional battle or a question of who pays for it r..."

"losing their jobs and people dying from stress and all sorts of things but look anything powerful enough to put us all in doors in a I mean think about this as an incredible experiment imagine that yo..."

"and then you know your fellow countrymen may start to mean something to more people certainly mean something to people in the military but I wonder how many people who aren't in the military start to ..."

"delayed or something like that so the the basic mechanisms of our democracy get slowed or damaged in some way that then mixes with the fear that people have that turns to panic that turns to anger tha..."

"a community thing that pops up lucky like as opposed to an angry revolution it might have a positive effect oh well for example are you telling me that if the right person stood up and called for us t..."

"there is a deep hunger for that leadership why isn't that why hasn't one of yours we don't have the right Surgeon General we have as guys saying you know come on guys don't buy masks they don't really..."

"1941 all who have been the the oldest president and inauguration and nobody nobody says grandma grandpa you're embarrassing us except Joe Rogan let me put it on you you have a big platform you're some..."

"thing is take take a newspaper and they even imagine that it's completely fake okay and then there's very little in the way of circulation yet imagine that it's a hundred-year-old paper and that it's ..."

"my life lecture my life you're brilliant interviewer so thank you take care that was that you changed my life to that you gave me a chance so no no I'm so glad I did that one what I would say is is th..."

"through all those kinds of things that you're talking about that leader you know cannot leader emerge from the current institutions or alternatively can it also emerge from the outside I guess that's ..."

"kleptocracy which is ruled by thieves and the great temptation has been to treat the us like a trough and you just have to get yours because it's not like we're doing anything productive so everybody'..."

"the alternative do you remember the Russian Revolution of 1907 it's before my time but there wasn't a Russian Revolution of 1907 years think he were in 1907 that I'm saying where to work you too early..."

"coming well we'll find out but that you got a you have to be there he have to be there when they come I'm yet but we didn't get the visual for example a falling man from 9/11 right so the outside worl..."

"businesses mom-and-pop shops that close and like I think for myself I think off tonight that I'm being weak and and like I feel like I should be doing something I should be becoming a leader on a smal..."

"the partisanship sick of incompetence yeah but I call for revolt the other day on Joe Rogan people found it quixotic well because I think you're not I think revolt is different I think asks like okay ..."

"can get into how they changed retirement but this generation above us does not feel for even even the older generous I love jittery I had roger penrose on my program excellent coffee and I thank you r..."

"something bigger than yourself but the hunger is there well that was the point then right the whole idea is that Rick was you know it was like Han Solo of his time he's just like I stick my neck out f..."

"true but the thing is I might say something you can count on the fact that the you know Provost at Princeton isn't going to say anything what do you mean too afraid well if that person were to give an..."

"the earliest people on the crown of iris that's a really interesting question why was that and it seems to be that they had already paid such a social price that they weren't going to be beaten up by ..."

"our gadflies and the weirdos and no not necessary the strength but the the the value of freedom like a different way of saying it would be Wow even your gadflies and your grifters were able to beat yo..."

"is that like because this does seem to be a particularly clear example of mistakes made you're asking me this question yeah no you're not what do you think Lex well I actually probably disagree with y..."

"I'm saying is something has been forgotten and I forgot who it was who told it to me it was a fellow graduate student in the harvard math department and he said you know i learned one thing being out ..."

"happy here on Monday morning I've got my sleeves rolled up boy do we got a lot to do so please come back in two weeks and then ask me how I'm doing then and I hope to have something to show you that's..."

"people sound like I mean you know if for example Jocko willing suddenly threw his hat into the ring everyone would say okay right party's over it's time to get up at 4:30 and really work hard and we'v..."

"job I mean in other words my my point to you is if you if you're a general in a peacetime army and your major activity is playing war games what if the skills needed to win war games are very differen..."

"there's a huge percent of the populace even in the United States that's that's that oh maybe a little bit doormen but do you know Anna Hutchins from the Red Scare podcast did you interview her yeah ye..."

"have a role to be a leader you kids go ahead without me I'm just gonna I'm gonna do a little bit of weird podcasting see see now you're you're putting on your Joe Rogan hat he says I'm just a comedian..."

"giant inclusive communal 12-hour meeting it's like stop it that's not how shit happens you recently published the video of a lecture he gave at Oxford presenting some aspects of a theory theory of eve..."

"yourself to have delusions to avoid the standard practices which everyone has signed up for and you know it's weird because like you know that those people are gonna be angry he did what you know why ..."

"dogmatic will psychoanalyze those folks but I really want to maybe linger on it a little bit longer of how you feel because yeah so it's such a such a special moment in your life I really appreciate i..."

"because I think that gays have monopolized the concept of the closet many of us are in closets haven't having nothing to do with their sexual orientation yeah I didn't really feel comfortable talking ..."

"there's a giant department working on quote-unquote artificial intelligence but why is nobody actually working on intelligence like it you're all just building little toys right you're not actually tr..."

"and that wasn't where I was where I was in it's funny there was this book of called Friedan uhlan beck and it had this weird mysterious line in the beginning of it and I tried to get clarification of ..."

"feed somewhere that your beautiful face is speaking live and i clicked and you know it's kind of weird how the universe just brings things together in this kind of way and all sudden i realized that t..."

"it was April 1st yeah it was it's kind of fascinating him he's just the whole experience and and and so that I want to ask I mean thank you for letting me be part of that kind of journey of decision-m..."

"remember you I read several your brilliant answers that people should read for the edge one of them was related to the Internet and it was the first one was it the first one yeah that's a called go vi..."

"has to do with the fact that and I can see this in this you know as mirrors a disappointment within myself there are two separate issues one is the issue of making sure that the idea is actually heard..."

"real progress so that's interesting so if you look at the story of Andrew Wiles for example with from last Last Theorem he as far as I understand he pretty much isolated himself from the world of acad..."

"bit more serious than we knew I mean do you see parallels you share the concern that the year your experience might be something similar well in his case I think that if I recall correctly his origina..."

"burden of criticism that it will choke away all a lot of different kinds of criticism there's constructive criticism and there's destructive criticism and what I don't like is I don't like a community..."

"these things if there is a theory of everything to be had right it's going to be a relatively small group of people where this will be sorted out absolutely it's it's it's not tens of thousands it's p..."

"using Schrodinger and I think it was Schrodinger was standing in for him and he said that if your equations don't agree with experiment that's kind of a minor detail if they have true beauty in them y..."

"for idiots okay and I need you as a consultant so can we first of all I hope I have the trademark on geometric units you do good can you give a basic introduction of the goals of geometric unity the b..."

"general relativity gives pride of place to gravity and everything else is acting is a sort of a backup singer gravity is the star of the show gravity is the star of general relativity and in the stand..."

"in other words if I say let us take X to be a four dimensional manifold to a mathematician or physicist I've said very little I've simply said there's some place for calculus and linear algebra to to ..."

"sparks fly so can we try to say the same thing over and over in different ways about what what would he mean by that having to be a thing we have to contend with sure like why why do you think that un..."

"field theory just plopped on top yes it's a problem of the the double origin story one origin story is about space and time the other origin story is about what we would call internal quantum numbers ..."

"those two stories are the same story in one case we are the simulator and another case we are the simulated and if you buy those and you put them together we are the AGI and whether or not we have sim..."

"from somewhere else so what are the mathematical tools required to to construct consistent geometric theory you know make this concrete well somehow you need to get three copies for example of generat..."

"you've got a mistake that the problem is it was born lifeless when when Georgia and glasha first came out with the su5 theory it was very exciting because it could be tested in a South Dakota mind fil..."

"is is that you have a concept in computers called technical debt you're coding and you cut corners and you know you're gonna have to do it right before the thing is safe for the world but you're pilin..."

"is one of the big problems of working on something in private is every time you pull it out you sort of can't remember it you name something something new okay so you've got a fourteen dimensional wor..."

"in my case it's proto space it's before it's before Einstein can slap rulers and protractors on space time and what you mean by that sorry to interrupt is space time is the 4d manifold space-time is a..."

"squirrel I'll usually use the Joe Rogan program for that sometimes I have him doing the Philippine wine glass dance I had the hopf fibration the part of the problem is is that most people don't know t..."

"and they oh wow that was beautiful but it's like nobody heard anything they just looked at the score well that's how mathematicians and physicists trade papers and ideas is that they they write down t..."

"job on me to begin with sent a reporter to come to the third version of the talk that I gave and that person had never heard of the Dirac equation so you have a person who was completely professionall..."

"gauge theory is okay we have a video here right yeah okay I'm gonna use my phone if I want to measure my hand and its slope this is my attempt to measure it using standard calculus in other words the ..."

"oriole objects upstairs on this 14 dimensional world y 14 which is part of the observers when you pull that information back from y 14 down to X 4 it miraculously looks like the adorned spinners the f..."

"thought you needed 3 you only got 2 but then something else that you've never seen before broke apart on this journey and it broke into another copy of the thing that you already have two copies of on..."

"have a drink you're having fun no I'm trying to have fun with you you know I had there's a bunch of fun things to talk about here anyway that was how I got what I thought you wanted which is if you th..."

"that constitute our deepest knowledge and those three points refer to equations one to the Einstein field equation one to the Dirac equation and one to the yang-mills Maxwell equation now one thing I ..."

"do you take something that purports in one paragraph to say what the deepest understanding man has of the universe in which he lives it's memorialized on a wall which nobody knows about which is an in..."

"would say find yourself in the graph wall tome transmission sequence and join the graph wall tome project if that's of interest okay beautiful now just to linger on a little longer what kind of journe..."

"know gap I mean if you have ten extra dimensions to play with that are the rulers and protractors of the world themselves can you gain access to those dimensions do you have a hunch so I don't know I ..."

"straight face impossible so let me mention Elon Musk what are your thoughts about he's more you're more on the physics theory side of things he's more in the physics engineering side of things in term..."

"what's wrong with you people so you think the lesson we should draw from Elon Musk is there's a is a capable person within within a lot of us you on make sense to me in what way he's doing what any se..."

"no I mean he's not going please I want to go Elon is doing fine with his money I just want him to enjoy himself have the most you know die nice you know but you're saying Mars is playing it safe he do..."

"believe is a very dangerous statement but this I believe I believe that my theory points the way now Elon might or might not be able to access my theory I don't know I don't know what he knows but kee..."

"context of his cohort but this is like if you were to see a raph in the Arctic with no trees around you'd think why the long neck what a strange sight you know how do we get more lawns how do we chang..."

"you've articulated is that the people in those chairs are not the way they are because they're evil or somehow morally compromised is that it's just that that's the distributed nature is that there's ..."

"Aaron Schwartz that's on you guys so some of that is giving more power to the young like you said you know it's a brazing towel rub taking power from the feeble and the middle Brown yeah but how do yo..."

"custodians you are caretakers you were supposed to hand something what you did instead was to gorge yourself on cheap foreign labor but you then held up as being much more brilliant than your own chil..."

"mean one of the surprising things about Elon is that one person can inspire so much he's got academic freedom it just comes from money I don't agree with that do you think money okay so yes certainly ..."

"get out of my lab right get out of my lab it all begins from the middle finger get out of my lab the administrators need to find other work yeah listen I agree with you and I I hope to seek your advic..."

"that's one of the disappointing things I've encountered is to me tenure they don't nobody has tenure now why whether they do or not they certainly don't have character not the kind of character and fo..."

"like we could go on for days and days and days all of the nonsense that you've parroted inside of the institution any sane person like has no need for it they have no want or desire do you think you h..."

"succeed like I don't see how young people take over MIT I don't see how by inspiring us you know the great part about being at MIT like when you saw the the genius in these pranks the heart the irreve..."

"you under a reckless endangerment man that's beautifully put I hope those first of all they'll listen I hope young people and mighty will take over in this in this kind of way in the introduction to y..."

"why I was sent to a broken person as a kid and to be honest with you I also felt like in that story I say that I was able to say no you know and this was like the entire weight of authority and he was..."

"said that the world responded by saying well you have two appointments booked and you have to go for the second one so I got reinfected into this office on this person who was now convinced that I was..."

"all of the institutions you can count on any hospital to not charge you properly for what their services are you can count on no pharmaceutical company to produce the drug that will be maximally benef..."

"institutions aren't working so we've the privileged silent aristocracy the people who can be counted upon not to mention a fire when a raging fire is tearing through a building but nevertheless it's h..."

"retirement through a fringe rate what did you do but can you still I mean thing is about this view you have is it often turns out to be sadly correct well this is the thing and but that let me just in..."

"but you do so I love Harvard I'm just kidding i yeah i love harvard but rude and i have a very difficult relationship and part of what you know when you love a family that isn't working I don't want t..."

"you can start I mean in part it starts with coffee with a couple of Croatians in the math department at MIT and we used to talk about music and dance and math and physics and love and all this kind of..."

"submit to and so when you ask me questions like well why wouldn't you feel good about you know talking to your critics or why wouldn't you feel the answer is oh you don't know like if you stay in a ni..."

"people who don't work out so my problem was I wasn't interested in dying so you clearly highlight that there's aspects of the system that are broken but as an individual is your role to exit the syste..."

"do you think you need to be able to dance the dance a little bit I can't dance the dance floor to be on the view oh come on so you can yeah you do yeah I do that fine here's where it's the place that ..."

"speaking of which you host an amazing podcast we've mentioned several times but should mention over and over the portal where you somehow manage every single conversation is a surprise you go I mean n..."

"the problem and you know on the on the bread episode I was insufferable it was very difficult to listen to it was so overbearing but on the other hand I was right you know it's like funny yeah you kee..."

"the the call of freedom in the in the bigger world but I saw you break out of that a few times I've seen you to be successful that I forgot the guest but she was dressed with you worried at the end of..."

"informative for the world yes you just hated I just can't stand the idea that somebody says well we don't care who gets paid or who gets the credit as long as we get the goodies cuz that seems like in..."

"good that was hard that was you tried hard which is what matters that is so insulting I hope so but I do hope you continue I did felt like I don't know how long and when it might have been like a two-..."

"terrific stuff and then whether it works out or doesn't that I would like it to reflect what I actually was I'll settle for accurate what would you say what is the greatest element of Eric Weinstein a..."