Eric Weinstein
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 21 May
Eric Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And to be entirely honest, I don't love going after other named people.
In general, my shtick is that I go hard after institutions.
I'm a huge institutional supporter and their worst nightmare in the current world.
Individuals I don't like beefing with.
I watch all of the energy, the beauty of life lost to beefing with people.
Michio Kaku is doing a tremendous amount of damage to theoretical physics.
How so?
Theoretical physics is, in my estimation, the most beautiful, most powerful, most economically potent thing you can do with your life.
And we are the best.
The United States is, in my opinion, the greatest nation in the history of the earth for theoretical physics because we are cowboys, we are irreverent,
We are the people who invented the atomic and hydrogen bombs, the semiconductor.
This is what we do, and we've lost the ability to do it at a level that I cannot believe happened during my watch, my lifetime.
So from 1984 to the present, those 42 years,
have been the greatest intellectual implosion, I think, that I know of, where people just got dumber.
And what do you think is the cause of that?
I'm gonna distract this humidifier.
Quantum gravity.
In 1984, there was a result, and it's called the Green-Schwartz anomaly cancellation.
And the guy that I've talked to you about before in UFO context, the guy who is Lewis Witten's son, Lewis Witten, happy birthday, turned 105, was the anti-gravity guy from the 50s.
His son, Edward Witten, decided that the 1984 Green-Schwartz anomaly cancellation meant that
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