Eric Weinstein
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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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You know, the Unabomber was a famous PhD mathematician.
He's a big story, though.
There's a lot of great stories.
Yeah, sure.
There was a guy named Cantor who broke into David Rittenhouse Laboratories in the University of Pennsylvania where I was an undergraduate and shot up a seminar.
There was, you know, this...
Situation in Iowa where a relative of mine got a seat in the physics department because somebody was killed by one of the graduate students.
I think it became a movie like Dark Matter.
So there's an incredible amount of murder.
The ball peen hammer killing of Carl DeLue by Struleski at Stanford.
So first of all, there's just a lot of death because mathematicians and physicists are somewhat close to unhinged.
And it's a really nasty.
There's a lot of nasty culture and sometimes it becomes violent.
Why do you think they're close to unhinged?
You spend that much time in your head?
I'm amazed that I'm as well grounded as I am.
No, seriously, you're just way out in the stratosphere.
I completely forget who I am, where I am, that I'm even a human being.
When you're using your body as an instrument, as you do in combat sports and training, you become a different thing.
You know?
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