Eric Weinstein
speaker
5,469 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 21 May
Eric Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Vroom is energy.
And the story of energy is basically the story of prosperity and control.
If you look at wealth and the amount of fossil fuels burned, it's more or less like a one-to-one correlation as to which nations are rich and poor per capita.
And Zoom is everything else.
It's propulsion.
It's computation.
It's communication.
And those things, if you take them together, more or less define the economy and the world order.
Physics is the center of what makes us human.
modern humans and it became too dangerous in the 1950s.
Even the 40s, you know, atomic weapons are extremely bad but they're not hydrogen bombs.
Somehow in November of 52, everything changed and we became too dangerous.
The community of physicists is the most powerful group of people made into completely ineffectual humans.
And do you think this is by design?
Partially.
And what was the purpose of it?
By saying that physicists became too dangerous, the ideas became too dangerous, is the idea that the weapons would become so immense and powerful?
That they had to do something to stop and curb that?
Well, we didn't know how to control it, right?
So in other words, for example, in 1940, we set up something called the Reference Committee, which I'm sure your listeners have never heard of.
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