Eric Weinstein

Jim then quits, forms a hedge fund long before it's cool with the father of another guest of yours on this program, Brian Keating.

And the two of them both have medals.

So they call it medallion because they've won prizes.

So it was his name, James Axe, not Keating.

And the two of them start this thing and it takes off at some level that nobody's ever seen numbers before.

And then they institute this policy, which is we're not going to hire financial experts.

We're only going to hire math, physics people.

So we're going to hire geometers.

We're going to hire particle theorists, general relativists, and machine learning people.

Who came up with this story?

Do you buy this story?

This is so strange because it sort of also mirrors the second story.

that was not associated with Brookhaven, which is the national lab near SUNY Stony Brook, but associated with Los Alamos, which is a story called The Prediction Company.

Except in that case, the name of the person isn't Jim Simons, it's Doyne Farmer.

And The Prediction Company is the analog of Renaissance.

So what you see is that once people have a pattern, it seems like these patterns repeat.

So my point is if you ask the question, do we have a Manhattan Project in the current era?

We don't know.

You don't know.

I don't know.