Eric Weinstein - All Hell Is About to Break Loose

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Eric Weinstein is an American physicist and podcaster. He attained his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard and went on to be the joint managing director for Thiel Capital from 2013 until 2022. He is a public thinker, commentating regularly on the interaction between math, markets, music, science, technology, rationality, mysticism, creativity, learning and culture. He hosts the podcast ‘The Portal’ @ https://ericweinstein.org/

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:41 Eric Weinstein’s Background
04:13 What is Wrong with Physics?
05:21 Has Science Stagnated?
06:47 Society's Lack of Innovation
08:31 Our Vision of the Future & Ourselves
12:06 Are We Developing Too Much?
14:01 The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
16:52 How Quickly Will AI Take Over?
20:48 What are the Consequences of AI?
22:31 Is AI-Art Still Art?
25:41 The Work Shortage
28:10 Does AI Create Opportunity?
29:30 Sponsor Message: Babbel
31:37 Does Art Reflect Our Time?
35:49 The Loss of Meaning in our Society
41:21 How to Find Your Own Voice
48:14 The Manipulation of Science to Control Narratives
50:13 Why are our Institutions so Good & Bad Simultaneously?
51:45 Embedded Growth Obligations
56:27 The 1619 Project
1:01:11 What Was Wrong with MLK’s Fiction?
1:04:58 Has our Society Given up on The Future?
1:10:01 Infinite Growth & Finite Resources
1:11:43 Short-Termism & The New Economic Model
1:17:33 How Else Can we Unshackle Creativity?
1:22:31 The Meaning Crisis in Art & Life
1:31:55 The Weaponisation of Taste
1:33:57 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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0:20.4	We don't realize that we incrementally gave up. On the idea that our lives could be filled with an
0:26.5	exciting parade of major innovations. I see AI and I find it terrifying. I find it terrifying. The
0:35.6	effect is going to have on people's jobs. The fact that it is going to obliterate a lot of jobs.
0:41.0	What effect is that going to have on society? Am I right? You just lost your capitalist model.
0:48.0	You have a fabric that is overlying the entire world that directs people whether to get up in
0:53.6	the morning and what to do once they do rise. And it tells them how to do things without having
0:59.2	a dictator. So it's not just the invisible hand, it's the invisible mesh. And this invisible
1:06.1	mesh, if it breaks, means people are not going to know what to do in the morning.
1:11.6	All hell is about to break loose. And my question is, are you trying to figure out which way the
1:17.2	wave is going to break and get your surfboard in the water? We should be sitting around talking
1:22.9	about what is the new economics. Instead of what we're talking about is how do we keep
1:27.4	communism at bay while capitalism is struggling?
1:40.2	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissinger.
1:45.1	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
1:50.2	A brilliant guest today is a physicist. He's one of the smartest people in the world and a friend
1:54.2	of the show Eric Weinstein. Welcome to Trigonometry. It's great to be here. Thanks guys.
1:58.0	It's really good to have you on the show Eric. It's been a long time coming. So exciting to have
2:02.4	you here. But listen, you know, for a lot of people who watch our show, you will be one of the IDW
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