Eric Weinstein
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In other words, if you have a map of the wind that is going along the surface of a sphere, there has to be some point which is perfectly still.
If you have a map of a sphere to a sphere, there has to be some point that doesn't move.
In other words, what you're saying about things can't be still is not only incorrect, it is impossible to avoid stillness.
And this is in part what John Nash got his Nobel Award in economics for because he took work of von Neumann and Morgenstern on two-person games, turned them into multi-person games with a higher dimensional fixed point theorem and said a multi-person game is more interesting because that's a market.
Therefore, markets have equilibria.
So you're saying real stuff in a way that fundamentally just doesn't
We don't know how to talk your talk.
I want a scientific calculator.
There we go.
Okay.
Eric.
You're trying to say something.
What you're saying is wrong.
What I'm seeing.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're saying what you're saying is fine.
I agree that you have a transformation that I called T. You can put those two steps together, which is cube and divide by two.
That thing is going to be dead still till the end of time.
That's your point.
And then you pass judgment on it.