Eric Weinstein

And it's always with like a pretend smile on the face.

So it's the worst.

And what I thought –

I would do is I can't critique a man if I haven't built a model of what he's actually saying in my own mind that he agrees with.

In other words, if I start coming after Terrence and saying, I think this stuff here is bullshit, and he's like, I didn't say that.

That's what you inferred from what I wrote.

Then I've just basically insulted a person incorrectly.

And if I praise something, I don't know whether I built that in my mind or he built it.

It's the first thing I thought we would do.

is I would try to recapitulate what I understand of Terrence's sort of grand arc and see whether or not I can steel man it.

And then Terrence can say, yes, and then I can evaluate it.

But until we do that, I don't know whether I'm actually reacting to the real man.

If you think about it, though, if you think about the number of people in podcasting who sort of have tried to lift each other up,

It's pretty good, right?

Like you, Lex, Sam Harris, all sorts of people have been good to each other.

And one of the reasons that is is that there's enough money in it.

What happened in academics is that it went into a contractive state in which you killed or you died, right?

And so basically the ethics of academics plummeted after the early 70s.

It was always very competitive.

But really what it is is it's the Hunger Games.