Eric Weinstein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You people, Teller, Ulam, Feynman, Oppenheimer, Von Neumann, you are Dev Group.
You're SEAL Team 6 of the human mind.
And most of the time, you're going to teach classes.
You know, it's like Indiana Jones, you know, an archaeologist with a bow tie, and then he's running around with a whip and, you know, killing people.
That's what physicists and mathematicians are.
That's why we're funded.
That's why the Department of Energy funds physics.
It's not the Department of Energy.
It's the Department of Nuclear Weapons.
It's the Department of Physics.
So they let the physics people work out all these problems, and then they take whatever their findings are and apply them to weapons.
And that changed the economy.
It changes the ability to compute data.
This is who I really am.
This is what I really do.
And I will not mouth this narrative that all of my colleagues will mouth.