Eric Weinstein

And I've talked to some of the major players.

I said, how are you going to keep secrets from China?

They said, we can't.

Maybe.

Or maybe the issue is the bottleneck is the chips.

Or maybe somebody will figure out something about chip architecture where it's not as essential to use this scheme.

And maybe the energy needs are going to dwarf anything.

Or maybe the energy needs are suddenly going to collapse.

We're at the beginning.

We're at the infancy of something that is astounding.

And we already know how astounding it is.

And it can only be this astounding or more.

And we're acting as if it's not that big of a deal because it hasn't changed our lives that much yet.

That's according to you.

I'm asking you.

Well, the test ban treaty, I have this feeling that if we were talking in the 50s, you would have said that the test ban treaty was impossible because you can't stop people from playing with fire.

We agreed to stop testing nuclear weapons among the major players.

It has certainly slowed down.

It's antiquated the weapons a great deal.

It stopped the atmospheric testing that caused radioactive decay products to blow in the wind.