Eric Weinstein
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Podcast Appearances
Well, Terrence comes from an earlier way of thinking.
When things were much more wide open, you don't find many polymaths anywhere in a respectable position anymore.
Terrence is coming from a polymathic perspective.
He's all over the map in terms of the quality of his thinking.
As far as I understand, some of his stuff is really, really good.
Some of his stuff is offensive.
And it's everything in between.
Now, I'm not gunning for you.
By the way, I would be honored to have anything that you make of this type in my home.
This I don't disbelieve.
I haven't gone through the math, but I don't disbelieve this.
Now we're going to get into some stuff that's not going to be so much fun, but it is going to be... You are going to get what you want.
This is... I'll put it over there.
What's going on, Terrence, for me?
It keeps using that term.
Again, my point is that you can run into all kinds of terms of art in a field that you don't know well.
Right.
And Terrence is...
Like, I come on your show and I do this thing, which I've never really discussed why I do it.
I have this feeling that somehow Sean Carroll, 15 years ago, started talking about a suite of ideas like entanglement, the multiverse, these Boltzmann brains, whatever.