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#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 165 minutes

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:27) – Aliens and physics
(11:12) – Breaking the frame of conversation
(12:56) – Time travel across multiple dimensions
(19:07) – Is the government in possession of alien spacecraft?
(25:31) – Freedom of speech
(36:49) – Elon Musk
(38:07) – Idealism of every era
(41:26) – Non-locality of free speech in the Internet age
(47:03) – Glenn Beck
(48:57) – Joe Rogan
(53:41) – Freedom and fear
(55:14) – Jeffrey Epstein
(58:53) – Aaron Swartz
(1:04:29) – Jeffrey Epstein and Geometric Unity
(1:24:04) – Cancel culture
(1:26:06) – Alex Jones
(1:35:01) – Curtis Yarvin
(1:39:40) – Michael Malice
(1:42:00) – Intellectual Dark Web
(1:48:52) – Innovation
(2:02:10) – Economics
(2:09:29) – Cryptocurrency
(2:15:37) – Geometric Unity paper
(2:32:42) – David Goggins challenge
(2:34:05) – Father and son

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Eric Weinstein, his fourth time on the podcast, both sadness

0:06.7

and hope run through his heart and his mind, and the result is a complicated, brilliant

0:12.7

human being who I am fortunate to call a friend.

0:17.0

Quick mention of our sponsors.

0:18.8

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0:25.3

Blinkist app that summarizes books, click the sponsor links to get a discount to support

0:30.7

this podcast.

0:32.1

As a side note, let me ask that whenever we touch difficult topics in this or other conversations

0:38.2

that you listen with an open mind, and forgive me or the guest for a misstep in an imperfectly

0:45.0

thought out statement.

0:46.3

To have any chance of truth, I think we have to take risks and make mistakes in conversation

0:52.7

and then learn from those mistakes.

0:55.0

Please try not to close your mind and heart to others because of a single sentence or

0:59.0

an expression of an idea.

1:01.0

Try to assume that the people in this conversation are just people in general, are good, but not

1:06.4

perfect and far from it, but always striving to add a bit more love into the world and

1:11.9

whatever way we know how.

1:13.7

If you enjoyed this thing, subscribe by YouTube, review it on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify,

1:20.1

support it on Patreon, or connect with me on Twitter and Lex Friedman.

1:24.5

As usual, I'll do a few minutes of ads now and no ads in the middle.

1:28.2

I try to make these interesting, but I give you time stamps, so if you skip, please still

1:32.5

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