(part 1): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation (#106)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everything & the seemingly impossible challenge of building a positive future for humanity. Max thinks that, by improving the news we receive with the aid of machine learning, we can achieve a brighter future. Check out his new center at MIT: https://iaifi.org Find him on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/mtegmark Watch Max’s appearance on The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast in 2020 discussing Theories of Everything: https://youtu.be/3MX8EpvLwao Eric Weinstein, host of the Portal will share insights from Geometric Unity and thoughts on the meaning of it all! Find Eric at https://www.youtube.com/c/EricWeinsteinPhD/ Watch Eric’s previous debate with Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/OI0AZ4Y4Ip4 Watch my most popular videos: Sheldon Glashow Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek Jill Tarter Eric Weinstein Sir Roger Penrose Juan Maldacena’s First Podcast Interview Jim Simons Sara Seager Venus Life Noam Chomsky Sabine Hossenfelder Sarah Scoles Stephen Wolfram ‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize ️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	But welcome to Dr. Brian Keating's rock in New Year's Eve with two of my good
0:16.3	friends Max Teggmark, Eric Weinstein. Guys, I can't thank you enough for joining us
0:21.2	today. We're going to have a fun conversation to end.
0:23.8	It's really been like a fun year for everybody, right?
0:26.3	Nothing bad has happened this year.
0:28.8	Where are you guys?
0:29.6	Same old, same old.
0:30.2	Where are you guys weathering the storm that has been 20-20?
0:34.9	Max, where are you currently joining us from?
0:37.0	I am home and the great metropolis of Winchester, Massachusetts.
0:41.7	Ah, Winchester. And Eric, where are you joining us from today?
0:46.8	An undisclosed location somewhere in Los Angeles.
0:50.4	Those are the scariest ones of all.
0:51.7	When I was a kid in New Year's Eve. We'd watch pro wrestling, you know, which is maybe a moniker. I don't know how how professional you need to be but anyway, it would always be the scariest wrestlers were from Parts Unknown.
1:04.0	Like they don't know where it, like the guy didn't put it on his resume where he's from.
1:07.0	Well, the undertaker can't be from Middlebury Kinetic.
1:10.0	That's right.
1:12.0	He has a small candle shop and he does some scrimshaw in there. But boys, we are here. You guys were last gracing my presence this summer together at least although you were separated in time
1:24.0	when my channel partnered with PBS space time studios Matt O'Dowd and his team on a
1:29.5	discussion of theories of everything and we had two live streams over the summer
1:33.7	I'll put links to those in the in the notes box below but since then we you both have
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