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Eric Weinstein

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first: 2020-10-30
most recent: 2020-10-30
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“Can't have moderas. It's like, okay, how do we install our children and rape, pillage, and get these speaking fees when we're out of office and become cozy with the things we're supposed to be regulating them and then become their lobbyists immediately when we leave office, all of this stuff. We need an entirely different system. And I can't talk about that at the moment. When I talk, people say, Oh, wow. So you're going to sit this one out because you're a pussy, because you're a coward. Great to know, Eric. We thought better of you. Bye. Click. I don't know what to do.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every time we try to say something like, we need more moderate solutions, we need more pluralistic solutions, people will say, wow, you just want to hand us right back into the swamp, don't you? Those swamp people, because the moderates and the swamp people are the same people. So now we have these two crazy wings. We can't have crazy right wing people. I don't want any tiki torch BS. We can't have crazy left wing. Don't attack my courthouse. Really, don't attack my courthouse.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do I think this is dire? Yes. Could it be make or break? Absolutely. I'm not saying that. Do I know which way this goes? I can make an excellent argument that we need to elect Joe Biden right now. We've got a situation which can only be cured by voting for Joe Biden. I can make another argument that we could have a situation that can only be cured by defeating Joe Biden right now and all of the things that the modern Democratic Party represents I don't have. It's not the lady in the tiger. We're choosing between the tiger and the tiger. It's the Sumatran tiger versus the Siberian tiger. I'm trying to think, well, which tiger can I do I have a better chance against? The key problem for us politically is that we have to divorce the concept of the center and moderation from kleptocracy.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't have the answer yet. What I do know is that this election is chewing people up. And I mean two separate things. One, that parties don't have enough integrity, that if you comment either for or against, there's a short sequence where you make a comment that's nuanced, you get referenced to something. Take this thing about find people on both sides. That is non-resolved after n years. Whether the context should be reported or not. We are in some situation in which Democrats and Republicans are primed to fight each other the way introducing two ants from two different ant colonies always produces a battle. I don't want to be in that fray because those people are going to kill each other mindlessly like robots. And until the election is concluded,”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what you were talking about. Catherine Audrey Heparin is pretty amazing, but Catherine Heparin is next level, right What you're trying to say to me I'm trying to figure it out, Lex.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can take Bernie Sanders Who's a lone voice? You take all of these people who've really just risked. Why do we trust? Why is Catherine Hepburn the best that Hollywood ever produced? Because she told Hollywood to go fuck itself. Hard. They gave her four Academy Awards, and she said, Love you, sweeties. I'm going to use them as the doorstops for the bathrooms in my house.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That happens okay. So if you took If you took Dan Crenshire Tulsi Gabbard, and you took Jocko Willink, and maybe Jesse Ventura, right? You can take a”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to know that they're courageous. I want to know that they've got all of our well-being, and I'm willing to roll the dice. And if they screw us over, I'd rather go down like that.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We need people who can be trusted behind closed doors, and we need to close the doors so we can't see what those people are doing Here's the thing imagine that you had a bunch of people who'd all seen action in combat, had all volunteered to be part of the armed services, had all come from backgrounds where they didn't need to. So you were convinced that these people had put their lives on their line for their country, not for a payday. Imagine you had 10 of these people with technical backgrounds, men, women, black, white, Muslim, Jew, doesn't matter, right? Would trust those people Close the door Don't want to know what they talked about. I don't want transparency into all of their negotiations. I want to know that they're patriotic, that they see something in the world bigger than themselves and their family fortunes.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The hope is Do you believe in me? You do? Listen to me very carefully. My spider sense, my intuition that has allowed me to survive in this space, I've been mouthing off since the 80s. Tells me this is a super dangerous time for smart people to be spending the dry powder because the election doesn't make sense. Don't mean that I don't have a sense that one outcome would be better than the other, probably, but the variance on that, I'm not even positive that I'm right. These two options are so completely inappropriate to the world of 2020. What we need is so diametrically opposed to more boomers and more silent generation people trying to sort out a highly technical world being mediated through social media. Need more exclusion. We need more actual elites. The people we've called the elites are not the elite. They need to go.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't believe in the Biden Democratic Party. I don't believe in the Trump Republican Party. So, yes, it's an incredibly consequential election. But to me, it's like the Crips and the Bloods and the Latin kings fighting over the right to extort a business and the business trying to figure out who it wants to do the extorting.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, if you're at war and I don't want to discuss strategy on a podcast. What did Montgomery say about But wasn't his line that I read your book, You Beautiful Bastard? It's like, why are you using the tactics that you already explained? Okay, so one of the things I'm doing is I'm not having a strategic conversation with you in a hundred. Several hundred thousand of our closest friends Pulled back Because this is not the battle. I know what I'm doing. I do not feel passionately enough about defeating Donald Trump to elect Joe Biden, even if that's the way I'm going to. Ultimately, vote.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a reading assignment for you. Because you're Russian, you'll really enjoy this. Part of the great American tobacco settlement, the tobacco institute had to disgorge its archives of all of its strategies, all of its skull duggery, and put it on the web for all time so that we could all understand how the tobacco companies got together and destroyed people, right? You see tobacco destroys people. You can see Scientology destroys people. There are various vindictive Organizations that will not tolerate Reality in opposition to them.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My claim is I can remove you functionally from the chessboard in a tiny number of moves, no matter who you are, no matter how virtuous or how much of a bastard you've been your entire life, it doesn't take more than three or four moves to basically neuter you as a force.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believe somehow there's a very strange thing going on with Jack Dorsey. I cannot possibly reconcile the actions. The person I've that is a next level mind in that. I don't know it well enough to say that it's all next level. I'm not claiming he doesn't have any blind spots. Every smart person I know has blind spots. I don't know what he's up against. Blah, blah, There's no way that the Jack Dorsey that I've talked to and the Jack Dorsey that interacted over articles of unity can be the same person. He is constrained by that company in some way that doesn't make sense to me. Either that or he's the most implicitest person on earth and I'm not believing it. I just don't buy it. Something horrible is happening”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree that Twitter account my pocket. But what we've seen, for example, you saw what happened to Brett's Articles of Unity project? What happened?”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm telling you something. The way this works is through ruin. Ruin can come to anyone. There's no one who cannot be ruined. Every single person Signed up right now to be ruined by the system”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love this. Is some of the best fiction writing I've ever heard. Let me tell you, I have relatives who've known me my entire life. Where one article in the New York Times, they will believe that over me.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get that resentment anti marketing dollar. Yeah. It's like, no, that's not what I'm saying. I really hate marketers. Oh, that's good. It's the authenticity dollar. Can't escape this kind of negative marketing. Thought. And I guess Gets to the issue that I don't want to be destroyed in advance of this election. I don't think it's a good use of my relationship to my audience. Be broadcasting, how completely ridiculous Donald Trump and Joe Biden are as candidates for the President of the United States full stop. None of this makes any sense. These moderators of these pseudo debates were in the wrong format with the wrong people. No part of this makes a wit of sense.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I get it. He's trying to subtract votes off of Biden. Oh, I get it. He's trying to scuttle Trump. Oh, I get it. This is a play for his show because he's trying to plug in to discuss. There's a Bill Hicks routine on marketing. Have you ever seen this? Brilliant. I recommend it to everyone where he comes out on stage and he says, are there any people in marketing and sales in the audience? Okay, great. Can you do us all a favor and die? And everybody laughs. He's like, no, I'm not laughing. I'm being serious. He talks about how marketing is horrible. So you're like, where's this act going? Gets to the point, oh, I know how you marketing people think. Going after that resentment dollar. That's good dollar.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do you think for a moment that I want to explain that I actually got really uncomfortable being as well known as I was? And then what is it that I want? Because I want to be better known and less well known at the same time. There's nothing the audience can do. I don't want the audience to be the audience. That doesn't make sense to people. I want it to be a business, but I don't think people need to fear a business of the business is open about being a business. And then that's all to the side. What you're seeing now in front of the election. An incredibly meta violent period in our online existence I believe that anybody who attempts to say these two parties are completely screwed. At the moment the leadership of these parties is unsalvageable, unworkable. Everyone hears that from inside the two party system.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hire around the clock. I mean, I desperately want to get to a level of wealth where I don't have to think about money. I don't think it's, you know, some people want money because they need it for status. I think I can handle status if I want it doing this. I don't want the status necessarily, and I don't want. I'd want the status, but I don't want the fame that goes with it. Want the money. I don't want to be seen as this is about money because it's about a substance. All of those things, that's part of, I haven't solved these issues. I've been feeling bad because people say, where's the portal? We're desperate. These are difficult times. We have an election coming up. And it's just like,”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know what my promo code is for Athletic Green. Probably athleticgreens.com slash portal. But doesn't it? But Fitbit, who doesn't advertise, has also been instrumental as well as a guy named Stephen Cates, who is a fan from the show, found me on the street and just said, I'm a trainer. I want to help train you. Got me on a good path. So that's one paid advertiser and two people that I'm calling out just because two outfits, Stephen Cates and Fitbit, that have changed my life. I wanted people to say, you know, you don't have to be afraid of advertising. If I do it in this way, this is powering your show. But the whole issue of money is weird because people have these crazy feelings like, oh, wow, I knew he was a shill. He's a grifter, you know, okay. I didn't love that. I didn't love the issue. So I didn't set up a Patreon. The security issues for talking and being me are significant. And I don't have the kind of money.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I want to be here. I want to do the work very simply. I don't have an ability to fully explain myself. I don't want to claim that I don't love the fact that how much love do we get from these programs? Generically people are incredibly generous. People have begged me, set up a Patreon account and I haven't been able to do it. I should do it. I've said to everybody it's a business, it's a business, it's a business. Like, they're so used to being defrauded when somebody starts thinking about monetary incentives. My goal was to say, I'm going to keep talking to you about, you want to know why I started doing ads on my show was because I wanted people to think from the get-go, this is a business, this is what I sound like when I'm selling But you see, I've lost weight. A lot of that is due to athletic greens.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a stratochester. But it doesn't have a strap, and I don't know what to do with it, and I have a bad amp. So you should hook me up with the.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's ephemeral. It'll look. It'll turn on you in a heartbeat. Turn on you in a heartbeat. And the other problem is I don't like my audience being my audience. I want to get closer to them. I want to talk to them. I want to find out what is this doing in your life. My house fills up with art that people send me. The lightest thing is an effects ped Something like, I don't know, is it bow tie overdrive from a guy in Mexico? Yeah.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, you can see my live QAs on my Instagram page if you go to Eric R. Weinstein. I just pick somebody randomly. And I was really worried about it at first. And maybe I should be worried about it. But in general, people all over the world are just so positive and so”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there are lots of good reasons. So, the first one is kind of weird, which is everybody assumes And if you say, I don't want to be famous, it's like, oh, you're just saying that because you want to everyone to think you're famous. You're not that famous. I don't love being as well known as I've become. Lots of things that are fun about it. It's wonderful that you can go to any city in the world. There are portal listeners there. All I need to do is put out a tweet and 20 people show up for a drink.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jaco's pretty Jacob is pretty good. Can't really tell. Is he a Democrat? Is he a Republican? I don't know. He's an American, that's for damn sure.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean people who've pulled, like people who've pulled off something where everybody is convinced that that person just deeply I think I've told you the story before, but the one time I've seen the power of a figure like this, I mean, very few times I've been in a large crowd and I've seen people just moved where they would do almost anything good, bad, indifferent because they were primed. One was a Rolling Stones concert. The other one was Nelson Mandela coming to Boston. And man, you've never seen anything like this. Check out the photos from the banks of the Charles River when Nelson Mandela came. There are people that you need in your dark hours, and we can't agree on who they are. And as soon as they emerge, we tar them with shit. We get out the shit breach,”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lots of people treat Joe Rogan as if he's some sort of right-wing racist because they've never watched his program. They don't know his friends. I don't know.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very divisive, right? But I'm talking about overwhelmingly people would follow that person if that person gave a rousing, intelligent speech that said we must act now because we're in dire straits.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've studied it Because I've studied Let me ask you a question, Lex. I believe that every society is supposed to have a collection of what I call break glass in case of emergency people. These are people who are universally loved and trusted by your society. For example, David Attenborough. The great British naturalist and presenter recently came on Instagram. He's worried about the planet. And I said, you know, look, there are very few of these people left. Let's pay attention, find out what he has to say. Maybe he's going to be an ass. Maybe he's going to be an idiot. Maybe he's going to say wrong things. Don't know. Tell me about your top 10 universal American heroes.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You as Gandalf. I don't know that I make that much sense. Gandalf makes sense. I don't know if people know how to fit me into this ecosystem. I think there's something in my presentation that people find very confusing”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When has any generation in history needed a transitional 78 year old person to take office? It's bizarre. It's preposterous. That graph is the graph we can't talk about. That graph is the graph of our destruction. Because it has the you can make a one line argument, which is sounds like ageism. Which isn't a very good argument. What it does is it muddles the conversation. And you always have to ask yourself the question if this conversation becomes muddled, who wins as a result of the muddling?”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Having five people all born in the 1940s as the final. Entrance in the presidential context. That makes no sense. Think about how bizarre a thing that nobody's even really talking about. The last five people were all ancient By presidential standards, not one, not two, but five. Talking about a contest between somebody who is the oldest of the baby boomers. Very beginning of the baby boom, summer of 46th birthday. Fighting somebody who is in the silent generation. The silent generation guy in a town hall in Florida. This question from a Gen Z guy saying what's going on with my future? Joe Biden has the audacity to say, I'm a transitional president. You guys are the highly educated ones.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Title of the graph is Any Desirable Situation Involving Institutions. So that could be CEO. Could be tenured professor. Could be who's getting grants, it could be the age at which people win Nobel Prizes. University presidents, all these things go up. In other words, for a long period of time, the average age of the person in a desirable situation has been increasing something like nine months for every twelve. Those graphs have to go down at some point. The specter of”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the reasons that I try to come up with unifying explanations is that if you look at the number of wildfires in California, let's say that we've just seen, if you treat them all as spontaneous uncorrelated instances, it feels like, oh my God, it's just whack-a-mole. Every time I send a firetruck here, there's a fire over there. So you want to come up with something like a central... Theory, which is why do I suddenly have a problem when I hadn't had a problem before? So I look for these unifying explanations. And I found one the other day that really speaks to me. People are very frustrated because they've been trained to think about this incorrectly, in my opinion. But here's the graph that you need to look at. On the x-axis is time by year. On the y axis is something like average age.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hillary was fake for too long. I'm sure she had real ideas at the beginning that she still was campaigning on decades later.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't grasp this. What is the point of creating obscene wealth if we don't have anyone smart enough and caring enough to use it?”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Need to give them insulation, which we're terrified because we don't trust anybody, so everything has to be transparent. If you're going to the bathroom, I want those walls to be plexiglass so I can see what you're doing. It's like, that's too much transparency. We have too much and not enough at the same time. And then, you know, in essence, you need to ensure that people aren't worried about feeding their family every four seconds for being real. None of that is happening, and are billionaires. Billionaires are pathetic. What is the point of billionaires if you're not going to do billionaire type cool stuff like saying FU? And I'm going to throw $3 billion at the project of Restoring the national conversation.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As sub, you know, cocker spaniels. They just bark things at each other. I'm for safety. I'm for inclusion. I'm for growth. Oh, really? You guys use verbs, dependent clauses. Are there compound complex sentences? Where are we in this sea of nonsense? You have to be able to build a place where you have smart, talented people who represent a diverse group of correct opinions. You need to get rid of almost all of the people who have opinions that are antithetical to what we're trying to accomplish.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believe that in order to solve this, you need people who can integrate, who are not partisan at the level of the partisan warriors that we're seeing, people who believe in dividing the pies of the future rather than the present pie as our main task as Americans, because we are built around growth, I'm sorry to say it. You need an ability to have subtle conversations and you need the ability to exclude. And at the moment, everyone knows the inclusion is good, which it isn't. It's like saying, well, water is good. If I say water is good, everybody will agree with me. It's not. People drown. People need to get dehydrated. It can be life saving or life ending. It isn't good or bad. Inclusion is not good or bad. Inclusion is just inclusion. Exclusion is part of inclusion. Taught people that they can reason through the world.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Until we get some actually decent people in the right chairs who are not constantly thinking about their next paycheck, I don't see a solution. Let me just say what the prerequisites for a solution are and to let you know why I don't think it's coming. First of all, both of these political parties, the leadership of them is disgusting and has to go. They're tearing us apart. They lack the will to be Americans. They don't understand the subtlety of the project. They're simply the people who figured out how to inhabit the seats. And that is their great achievement.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Motivating both of us, like I also believe that we're going to win because if I don't, then I can't get out of bed. And it's pretty heavy at the moment.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is your thing Have this idea that there's a war between good and evil, and the good has already been decided. Designated the winner. And it's not true But your belief that”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did hit pieces on all of the best people in the world. So, whoever it was who cured cancer, you know. Discovered new particles or whatever it is, I did a hit piece against them to prove that I can do it to anybody around anything at any time.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More heroic you are The more beautiful you are. More you will be made to suffer. If they cannot get you on reputation, if Jesus himself came now, I don't know if I ever written, I probably have never read to you the hit piece I did on Jesus. Don't know about this”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll bet you I'll bet you a bottle of stoli that you can get. You get Joe Rogan to get highly politically active and call out the system for all the bullshit that it is in a very pointed and determined fashion. And he doesn't get destroyed. I'll give you the vodka.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because Joe doesn't need anything, man. I mean, this is the weird thing about it. It's like, I'm sure that he loves all his toys, whatever, blah, blah, blah. He's a rich guy. Yes, he's got FU money. He had FU money a long time ago. And you're not. The other thing about it's a bit weird being friends with a dude like that. It just is because you call him up or he'll call you up and he's like, what's going on in your life? I don't know. Kind of depressed trying to get some math done. What are you up? Oh, dude, I can cheer you up. I just came off of 29,000 person stadium. Like, oh, cool. How'd you do that? Oh, I don't know. I just announced it on Instagram a few days ago and it filled up.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source