They didn’t talk about Bitcoin much but did talk around it a lot. Personally, I enjoy Eric quite a bit because he isn’t afraid of being a heretic and even has an appetite for exploring heresy. I don’t always agree with him but he’s at least worthy of disagreeing with because he’s default open and honest.
I really like Eric Weinstein and enjoyed this episode. He seems really principled, even publicly pushing back against his brother, who I used to love, but I think has gone a bit far off of the deep end recently (speaking of audience capture).
I can't help but wonder if he is delusional about his ideas in physics- how can he be the only person seemingly interested in the ideas he's exploring? Politicization of physics academia funding? I'm not nearly smart enough to be able to judge but it just seems strange that so many geniuses would not be chasing after the truth in a pure science field like physics.
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I can't help but wonder if he is delusional about his ideas in physics
Same! But it’s likewise because I have no insight here. There do seem to be few people exploring theories of everything publicly but I’m sure there are many who are just doing it in private. His theory might just be so esoteric he has trouble finding people to review it.
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