#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing
intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the
universe and shine a light on the darkest corners of our society.
He is the host of The Portal podcast, a part of which, he recently
released his 2013 Oxford lecture on his theory of Geometric Unity
that is at the center of his lifelong efforts in arriving at a
theory of everything that unifies the fundamental laws of physics.
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Graph, Wall, Tome wiki:
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part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like
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support it on Patreon. Here's the outline of the episode. On some
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to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 02:08 - World War II
and the Coronavirus Pandemic 14:03 - New leaders 31:18 - Hope for
our time 34:23 - WHO 44:19 - Geometric unity 1:38:55 - We need to
get off this planet 1:40:47 - Elon Musk 1:46:58 - Take Back MIT
2:15:31 - The time at Harvard 2:37:01 - The Portal 2:42:58 - Legacy