(part 2): 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

⏱️ 70 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	Welcome to Dr. Brian Keating's rock in New Year's Eve with two of my good friends, Max Tegmark,
0:17.6	Eric Weinstein.
0:19.1	One question I was very curious to get both of your opinions about, and that's this issue of funding in physics and I'm an experimentalist you guys are theorists
0:27.6	Mostly Eric says he's not a physicist please Eric you're an honorary physicist now. We will, Max.
0:32.9	That's up to you guys.
0:33.7	It's not a primary physicist.
0:35.6	You're a real thing.
0:36.7	He's a real thing. He's doing physics things.
0:38.7	I'm very honored.
0:39.8	I'd love to be, thank you guys.
0:41.6	It's not for me to take it.
0:42.4	Okay, fine. Anyway, you come down here, you're in my lab. love to be thank you guys it's not for me okay
0:42.8	anyway you come down here you're in my lab your
0:45.1	your his anyway we've talked about this eric but I want to get Max's take on it I feel
0:48.9	theory is in a sense less costly in other words it's easier to make theories just like it's easier it's not easier
0:56.1	intellectually but it's there are more programs in the world than there are different types of
1:00.4	computers there's more programming languages than phone models for example.
1:06.2	So I make the analogy that theory is kind of like software and experiments like I do are kind
1:11.1	of like hardware and therefore it's very precious but I get a lot
1:14.4	of emails I'm sure both of you guys do you know I've got this theory of the early universe I need
1:19.8	to you know or of grand unification can you help me prove it and I'll share you know my
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