Eric Weinstein
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 21 May
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To get back to the physics, and I'm giving a talk tomorrow at the UTexas Austin on supporting science, math, and physics and renewing our commitment to it.
I don't want to give the impression that it isn't dangerous or that the gatekeeping is stupid.
It's really important to do great gatekeeping around mathematics and physics.
It's cryptography.
It's weaponry.
It's propulsion.
It's a sudden change in the world economy.
If you figured out how to do fusion, it would have immediate geopolitical results.
So these specific scientists that are missing, whatever the number is, five, six that you think are legitimate, what specifically are they working on that's so dangerous?
Well, the fusion guy, obviously, is at MIT, is anybody who might.
I don't know.
Fusion isn't my thing.
Plasma isn't my thing.
But that is unquestionably dangerous if you imagine how much depends on oil.
And is it a good assumption that if you have one incredibly brilliant person that's at the head of this thing and they make a breakthrough, if you kill that guy, the whole thing is in disarray because the people that are under him, whatever people he has working with him aren't as fully immersed in it as he is, that you can kind of like handicap a problem?
It's like, let's say if there's... The top five people.
It's an energy thing.
Let's say if it's an energy thing.
Let's say if someone has some new technology that's going to completely disrupt the fossil fuels industry.
Right.
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