Episode #1203
Eric Weinstein
Books mentioned
The Social Leap
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:15:51 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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The Bible
Mentioned by Eric Weinstein · at 02:52:52 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, and managing director at Thiel Capital. He and Joe Rogan examine social bonding, ideology, media incentives, and institutional constraints before turning to combat sports, physics, animal behavior, psychedelics, and the challenges of communicating abstract scientific ideas.
What they talked about
- Era of disagreeability and first principles
- Evacuation from California wildfires
- Quirks: makeup, stilettos, sympathy
- Weight cutting in MMA
- Quantum mechanics and good questions
- Visualizing gauge theory and holonomy
- Theoretical physics priesthood and E8
- Stand-up comedy vs. theoretical physics
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