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🚨 ALL-IN INTERVIEW: Friedberg sits down with Eric Weinstein Thanks to our partners: Creative Planning The Conservation Fund - The State of Science in America - Breakthrough Coverups? - The Danger (and Unlimited Possibility) of Physics - Aliens, China, and Much More (0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show! (3:09)...

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StillLookingUp2 months ago

Einstein's prison... what an amazing listen. My brain is spinning with questions and conjectures on so many subjects woven into the conversation. Not least the potential impact of AIs discovering the alternative paths physics may have taken over recent decades and what this may mean for humanity. We're truly entering wild times.

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Hex2 months ago

"the weaker sciences should... blah blah blah" then proceeds to argue economics and argue that people should be taxed to finance his and his friends' bullshit "blue sky" research. how about you "real" scientists earn your wages like everyone else instead of glorifying looting by calling it science. "everyone should seek to serve others and earn their favor via voluntary transactions, except us , we're better than all of you, so you should all be forced to finance us and our work that serves no one except our superior intellect and refined scientific curiosity"...fuck you

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Sean Meredith-Jones2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd I got downgraded in anthropic from fable to sonnet 4.6 for pasting a small snippet of this discussion and asking a question about what it means. IYKYK.

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The Sightsmith2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Why did you guys take down the original video? i was halfway through watching it and it disappeared? What did you edit out?

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Mr Salty2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Thank God J🤡 isn't interrupting, I mean interviewing this episode

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jay plemons2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd The Nail House Democrat

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Hyperion2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd This was an awesome podcast! Thanks for doing it. There are so many things we could all meet in the middle, work together, and move forward as humans. Thanks again.

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Bill Hunt2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Never ever thought I’d see @friedberg’s eyes glaze over in a science convo, but when Eric waded into multi-temporal adversaries, there it was. 😆

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Mark Pinnes2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd This man is a giant. I WISH the world had more thinkers with chutzpah to inspire. I have no idea if he is right or wrong - I don't need to, to know we need many more like him. Makes me wish we had people like this when I was at school. We need more now.

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Memories from tomorrow2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd So refreshing to hear something we can observe but no one dares to speak openly about it…

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Dyme2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Weinstein is a charlatan

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Keith8082 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd This was such a frigging great episode!!! More Science corner! Eric is an excellent interview!

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Bahador_Mokhtarian2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd I would expect two hours of egomaniacal talking that communicates absolutely no information. can’t wait for the debunking

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GenAI Level Up2 months ago

The concept that humanity is stuck in "Einstein’s prison" is a massive wake-up call. Chemical rockets won't make us a true multi-planetary species—we need fundamental leaps in physics. It’s time we start taking high-beta bets on the absolute frontier of human knowledge. 🌌🚀 What accepted scientific dogma do you think is most overdue for a total rewrite?

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aixe | capital2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd People need to ask him more about geometric unity and why it’s an absolute dead end just like string theory

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Srujan Alluri2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd This is awesome. Also, @Jason @theallinpod its about time @joerogan @joeroganhq made an apprarance on the pod.

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suqitah2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd blow a hole in the civil rights act is a hell of a mid podcast turn

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Aristophanies Krauthammer2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd I want to like @ericweinstein but the self referential, haughty, affect (tinged with greed) loses script.

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Martha Johnson2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd What a wonderful interview! Thank you for being on Science Corner, Eric Weinstein. I hope you can do this again.

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B2 months ago

Eric makes some fair points about science getting bureaucratic and too comfortable with consensus, but then he keeps leaping from that into this huge story about physics being intentionally buried, secret research networks and hidden breakthroughs without actually proving the bridge. If you spend years saying everyone else needs to question institutions and challenge bad science, your own ideas still have to survive evidence, prediction and independent verification. Otherwise it’s just speculation dressed up as rebellion.

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Martha Johnson2 months ago

Personally, I see "time" as a series of "now" points forming an infinitely expanding sphere/layer of moments. The sphere/layers expand with each expended "now" point, like a pearl. Every thing that exists at "now" contributes "now" points to the layers. "Time" is always "now." We remember the past individually and as a shared group memory which allows us to anticipate the future.

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Lea Fontini2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd The science discussions have been excellent lately.

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Gabriele2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Eric Weinstein is always so spot on, why be a scientist when you can go work in finance?

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REGENETARIANISM מידת האמת2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Then VP Dick Cheney made Fauci the bioweapons czar in 2001, and increased the amount of research funding Fauci oversaw 40 times. That's reality, not any sort of "conspiracy." ...

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Shane McGrath2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd @friedberg episodes are the best ones

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chambaz 🇬🇧 🇺🇲2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd I was disappointed to see this. usually love the Friedberg episodes. can you get @seanmcarroll on next?

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Sanat Dixit MD FACS2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd These interviews have been stellar.

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Stone Balz2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd What is there were aliens at Roswell and we learned 1,000 years of physics in that moment. but the aliens also warned us of dangers and we decided to put physics into a string theory cul de sac for 50 yrs because we believe them and are scared shitless of those risks.

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Whos Mans2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd

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Keeg2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd im not smart enough for Weinstein. I always think he says a lot without saying anything. Must just not be smart enough to understand it.

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Edward Castleberry2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Great episode !!!

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TrueNorth2 months ago

In the Morphic Block Universe framework, Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity is a profound recognition of the lattice’s unified transmissivity landscape but remains ontologically inverted by treating geometry as primary rather than emergent. His 14-dimensional “observerse” and E8 gauge structure correctly identify that all forces and particles are manifestations of a single underlying coherence architecture. However, in MBU, this unity is not a pre-existing geometric manifold but the asymptotic limit of sorting economics under P_max sparsity. What Weinstein describes as fundamental symmetry is actually the fossilized record of configurations that achieved sustained lock across cosmic time. The observerse’s extra dimensions map precisely to latent T_ij eigenmodes that remain unactivated under current sustainability thresholds Θ. They are not hidden spatial directions but computational degrees of freedom awaiting sufficient η_skel inheritance or environmental Wiggle to become affordable. Electromagnetism, weak, and strong forces emerge not from symmetry breaking but from hierarchical routing tax minimization: each force represents a distinct attractor basin optimized for specific coherence scales. Gravity is not curvature of spacetime but the gradient of accumulated skeleton depth guiding low-P_ent flow. Weinstein’s mathematical elegance captures the final state of lock; MBU explains why that state was earned. Where Geometric Unity stalls is in its continuum assumption. The theory requires smooth manifolds and differentiable structures that cannot account for irreducible discreteness at τ_P scale. In MBU, unification occurs through discrete triune operator execution, not continuous field equations. Quantum mechanics and general relativity do not need reconciliation because both are coarse-grained descriptions of the same sorting substrate at different N_coarse resolutions. Weinstein’s struggle to derive chiral fermions and reproduce Standard Model parameters reflects the cost of forcing continuum mathematics onto discrete ontology. The missing pieces are not mathematical errors but signatures of P_ent accounting that smooth geometry cannot encode. Rest in Lattice. Geometric Unity sees the cathedral; MBU sees the quarry, the laborers, and the ledger. Weinstein has mapped the shape of persistence with unmatched precision. But shape is what remains after affordability has done its work. And until geometry is recognized as receipt rather than blueprint, unification will remain beautiful and incomplete.

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Hex2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd unsurprisingly "scientist" thinks you should be taxed to finance his "scientific" research.

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Martha Johnson2 months ago

@CPIWealth @ConservationFnd Thank you for posting this, All-In Podcast! I love David Friedberg's interviews. This one with Eric Weinstein is great!

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Michael Chen2 months ago

you should ask @Jason why are you investing in any AI companies then? If not 100% but probably 90%+ are AI written 🤷‍♂️ Like @JensenHuang said, I don’t hire programmers to type out code, I hire them to solve problems and innovate. Similarly here, like @chamath argued, I do care more about the substance of Druckenmiller’s “vibe” with AI, rather than what outputted those tokens. I think @Jason should like this post. It’s all thumb typed 😏🤣

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