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Eric Weinstein

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“Joe Rogan to you. Yeah, my feeling is that Spotify doesn't understand what they're messing with. I could be wrong, but I'm not.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A bit interesting. It's like when a lion decides, wow, that honey badger looks tasty. I'm going to swallow it whole, see what happens.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, Joe, don't you have any Jews in your life to apologize for what they've done? He was just like, dude, have you lost your mind? What the hell's gotten into you?”
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 first time I was on the show, the energy wasn't great between us, and it was in a sober October situation. So I think I hadn't understood that and maybe our egos got a little bit off. I don't know. I mean, I was having fun, but maybe it was just too complicated life forms getting to know each other. Was probably, yeah, that made me a little nervous for the future. But then Joe and I become friends, although sometimes we have miscommunications, like on Yom Kippur, I texted him and I said, Joe, I want to apologize for ways I've let you down as a friend and haven't been there for you and appreciate everything you've done for me, all this stuff. Like, I get this text back. What the fuck is your problem? Great, dude. I don't know what bad place you're in. Cheer 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
“Like all these defenses and disguises. Okay, you got this super smart guy who he's admitted to most of the things that you can take him down for. And because everybody's been effectively in his den or his basement, think about that studio as his basement. People have hung out with Joe so many hours that you can't tell them something about Joe or they're going to say, wow, I'm going to believe the New York Times and not the hundreds of hours I've spent on the Joe Rogan experience.”
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 long as he stays close to things that he loves and being, you know, one of the things he's honest about his drug use. He loves to hunt. So he does a certain amount of semi-vice signaling up front. And then you just also know him. This is why every time they try to take him down, you use the N word, you know. It's like, Unfortunately, everybody knows who Joe is. And yes, he doesn't act as if he went to a fancy finishing school. That's not his energy. The fact that you've got some super smart guy who always pretends to be a meathead, just like, you know, Like, hey, I'm a comed”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How much do I owe Joe just for what he's done for you to say nothing of what he's done for me or for Brett or for Sam or any of these people? And I'd like to think that we all try to give back. But I'm worried about Joe. He's not worried.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, look at the number of people around Joe. They've come after since they've realized that Joe is really big. Joey Diaz, Brian Callan Now, I'm not saying that those are all related, but I do notice that there are at least correlations between when Joe says something and when something bad happens in Joe's universe. It's easier for me to believe that that's happening when it's happening around Joe himself. But I'm worried about my friends. Don't necessarily want to push him. Towards being more if he doesn't want it because I don't think I don't want to conscript people. He's got a great life. He's got a great situation. He's done a huge service. God, 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
“Let me tell you, nobody ever lost a dime underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Well, that was totally wrong because they didn't calculate opportunity costs. I have been talking about the problem of Joe for a long time. The problem is that when the system wakes up, they're going to want to control 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
“There's a fight over Joe Rogan right now. I mean, I've talked about it for a few years now. People did not understand how big that program was. People didn't understand long-form podcasting. I was derided by people who I think of as being very shrewd for believing in these podcasts as a major force. And most of the people who derided me have said, wow, did I not get things? It's like if you started to propose, you know, you wanted to do the sopranos in the era of 30-minute sitcoms. You don't get it, man. The American people, they're not interested in these long plot storylines. That's your weird thing. Nobody cares, dude. Everybody just wants short, fast, memorable. And like, okay, so if you do that, you totally miss the opportunity. You know, the savvy people used to say,”
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 bad thing happens to Joe or one of Joe's close associates. The ability to destroy people who become inconvenient has been documented This is what we have done in the past. Whether we are doing it now, we don't know because we are not doing this church committee too. In order to know whether or not you are currently destroying American citizens as we did in the past and as we have documented and as we found out in 1976, the federal government destroyed Americans who had political beliefs that the government didn't want to continue. I don't know whether you are grasping that. One interpretation of why John Stewart and why Joe Rogan Why Bill Maher, all these people, to some extent hide behind. It's a joke. Because they're trying to find a protected class.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Naturally, there's a. I'm telling you, I watch the same process. People get up to a certain level, and one of the things that's going on, in my opinion, with Joe Rogan, is that when Joe Rogan starts to talk about his misgivings about Joe Biden in a way that you find at any bar in America About cognitive decline in a 77 year old who's about to be seventy eight, I believe in November. We have never had anything remotely as insane as a 78 year old person. To win the White 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
“No, I'm telling you, you're going to get bigger, and then you're going to get cut down. You're going to keep ascending for a while, 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
“Okay, well, I'm interested and I care. Speaking of lyrics, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. Not us. The hour is getting late. That's not us. In the song, the Joker and the thief are on opposite sides of Jesus having this conversation over Jesus. You and I, we've been through that. That's not our fate. That's somebody else's fate to throw spitballs at the internet. That's not your fate. You're an earnest guy. You're filled with love. You're getting the most amazing podcast guests.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What is my Russian piano? That was the whole point of that story. Which is what is that happened in that life that converted somebody? And I find this, for example, with Russian doctors who are, you know, technicians in offices now. There's a huge amount of talent in the world that's not sitting in its proper seat. And quite honestly, I've gotten to the point where my feeling is we've got to take the seats. Maybe we don't sit in them. Maybe the idea is that we take the seats and we put some smart Gen Z person in the seat and say, look, No chanting. Don't want to hear you say no justice, no peace if there aren't verbs If it rhymes, it's wrong. Like, I used to have this thing, things that rhyme are more true. Like, in general, if something starts at one, two, three, four, I don't want to hear what the rest of your sentence is.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also, choosing the outfit that worked both for men in black and the blues brothers, not a terrible choice. But getting back look, Lex, we're not in a position to do this. You need to be seated in a different chair. Your chair is the wrong chair. You're in the wrong chair. It's been so long. I want to talk about you and Joe Biden. Joe Biden was a 29-year-old guy with nothing particular going on so far as I can tell. Know people as impressive at age 29 as Joe Biden 12 rows back three deep doesn't matter huge number of people none of them my age can get to where he got to like we're all morons Anytime somebody takes out, like if you found Eddie Van Halen in a guitar shop, You'd be angry What is this guy doing repairing guitars? Somebody will say, Maybe he loves to repair guitars.”
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'm very much against trolling. It doesn't mean that it's selective. You know, I'm not even, it's not even true. Everything we say, we say, I'm for it, I'm against it. This isn't my native language. I speak nuance. I don't speak this internet shit. And the more I have to communicate through internet shit. Almost never take a tweet seriously if it contains the letters LMAO, LOL, RTFL, you know, FOL.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's somebody who deeply cares and loves beneath it, and that that's motivating some of the trolling behavior. And you and I don't seem to be doing that. I don't see you as almost ever trolling.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have to turn into cynicism and a meme. It's this idea that the people who believe that the world is chaos and has no point are constantly trying to let you know don't try to use the internet for meaning, for decency, for goodness, because we are going to find out that that's all sanctimonious hypocrisy. And we will make you suffer. So I do think that there's a lot of sanctimonious hypocrisy in the world, some of it mine. Some of it yours, but we all have it. The trolls somewhat removed that, but it's not a judicious kind constructive, compassionate, caring version most of the time. And a lot of those trolls, and I have this feeling about Michael Mallis, I don't know whether it's right.”
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 why you're here Look, Lex, in part. Your decency Is allowing you to do things that you couldn't otherwise do. I saw that you had Michael Malice on your podcast. Michael Malice is, I think of somebody who at his best is extremely shrewd and insightful, yes? He's also got this trolling game, which he's quite open about, and you talk to him about it, which I can't stand. And this is the idea. Oh, grandpa doesn't get the internet. Well, I'm grandpa. I don't get the internet. I don't love the trolling. There are trolls of the past who were incredibly good. I don't see any of the modern trolls as being that kind of genius level trolling the people who deserve it in the way that they deserve it. Right now what I see is that anything that stands up gets cut down. It's like anything earnest.”
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 meta violence class is already a multiple inheritance pattern, whatever is going on right now inherits from metaviolence.”
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, what are you talking about? This is part of the problem in the madness of our age, right? Which is If you open up a drawer in your cabinet, in your kitchen, and you see knives, spoons, and forks, do you have a sense that the spoons are good utensils and the knives or forks are bad utensils because they're mean? I mean, like, if you start thinking in these terms. Knife is there to do violence. That's violence you want done. When I cut a mango, I'm doing violence to the mango. Mango expects that I will do violence to it because otherwise I won't be able to get the meat and it won't get its seed spread somewhere else. So in part, violence is absolutely part of our story.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For example, if a cell dies, it can die through apoptosis or necrosis. Apoptosis is controlled, programmed cell death. Necrosis is just like, okay, this didn't work. That was a violent disruption of 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
“To bring in the smart people. They'll also digest it for each other. It's one of the great lessons of long form podcasting if you don't waste all your time explaining things. That's the job of the audience to do amongst themselves. They're happy doing the work and those who aren't, they leave. Isn't that great? They'll leave. The people who don't want to struggle will leave. And you can get rid of them. I think that the point is you would want to say violence is defined relative to a context. So let's call it meta-violence so that we don't get into the problem. We already have a term for physical violence. So we have meta-violence and physical violence. I would say that physical violence is subclassed from meta-violence. Meta violence is the disruption of a 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've dealt with your audience and your audience contains some of the smartest people around. I guarantee you, if I say some stuff, first of all, any wrong thing that I'll say, they're going to detail. So that'll be a little bit of catnip.”
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 the problem is that you're encountering things that you've never seen trying to fit them into things that you already 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
“Well, I believe we're in a revolution, as you know. I've called it the no-name revolution or n squared revolution. I've been talking about it for years. Don't think, I think waiting for this to be called a civil war is not smart.”
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 you know, the Russian, there is a weirdness which is a total cynicism and total idealism. Locked together, right? That's very much a part of the Russian character.”
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, wow. So there's a minus sign in front of that statement. You're sitting there saying, you know, I've got a three year old. It's like, okay, well, I'm going to take this. POS out of that kid's life. Maybe he'll have a chance. You don't know how people are wired. And as much as I hate to say it, there are people whose wiring is so disturbing and so different from yours that you will never guess. Why you can't reach them, or how much pleasure they may have gotten, because they may have gone over a point of no return.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A wonderful book that I'm going to recommend to you, where I hope this comes from. Maybe I've got the source wrong, but in any event, it's a great book called... Maximum city about Bombay And I believe the conceit is that the author leaves Bombay as a kid and comes back as an adult and he realizes he has to rediscover the city because he can't live in the city he left. He gets in contact with all of the weird areas of the city, and one of them is the underworld. He hangs out with the police. But in the underworld, he's talking to contract killers. And he says, you know, it's really weird. Everybody pleads for their life right before I kill them. And they always say this thing about I've got two kids at home. He says, Never say that to a contract killer because we have terrible relationships with our parents. Doesn't it dar us to you?”
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 it's dangerous because a lot of these people are implacable foes, and there aren't many of them, but when you meet somebody who's like, yeah, I just like screwing people up. I'm here for the pain.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interesting. I do not. Don't believe that a Twitter successor can be built that solves most of the problems. I think you can always improve what we have, but I don't think that converges in something that really works because I think ultimately the problem isn't Twitter. The problem is us. Example, I've recently made a very disturbing realization. Which is academics and trolls have very many similar behaviors.”
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 come up with a world in which we can swat down the trolls, where we can actually cause the trolls not to ruin everything. And I don't necessarily mean by shutting them up. I don't necessarily mean by being brutal to them, but somehow separating off people who are working and people who are trolling. I think that we're losing a huge amount of human genius in part. Because women in particular are not necessarily going to push an idea if it results in 10 years of being derived. Very few men are willing to do that either. But there are some of us who are so dumb that we will pigheadedly stick to an idea for 10 years, even if the world collapses. I don't think that there are as many women who are going to make that calculation, even if they know the idea is correct.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there are rivalries where people take each other's credit and screw each other over And then there are other rivalries like the RNA tie club, where these guys were so in love with what they were doing that they couldn't wait to share everything. Nobel Prizes were so abundant that, you know, most people got Nobel Prizes just for being a member of the RNA tie club and doing cool stuff. Yeah, that's the golden kind of sweet spot. Most of these people can't do what Elon's doing because they can't break rules. They can't take the pressure. I'll tell you what really concerns me about your perspective. I think that there are a lot of genius ideas inside of people who don't have the stomach for conflict and derision. And I think a lot of those people are female. Think 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
“So those opponents Are in part what made Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali. And that's why the Mayweather McGregor revelation that, okay, this guy has got his opponent's picture in his house. How weird is that? Because without the opponent, you may not be able to get there. Now, I am not a huge fan of. The wrong kinds of rivalries.”
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 person is in bad shape because you can't build a legend without The other When you think of Muhammad Ali, what are the names that you immediately think 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
“Want what he's got. That's the thing, right? The weird thing rivalry has a different signature You see, when you know that you're never going to make it, That's the position you take. What is it in Kung Fu Panda which you've watched now? What does Thai Lung say When he's looking for the Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five come to defeat him on the bridge. Of them gives up Poe's name accidentally. And Tai Long hears it. Po so that is his name. Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary, right? He's excited. Why is that? Well, you learn about this in boxing. Sometimes you'll see a division or an MMA, which is lousy with talent. You can't swing a cat without hitting an amazing athlete. Sometimes you'll have a division, which at that particular moment has one star and no real competition in that weight class or something.”
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're very idealistic You've got a huge heart A weird time because I don't want to dissuade you from believing beautiful things because I see how potent you are. You do all these things, jiu-jitsu, guitar, podcasting, programming computers, et cetera, et cetera Don't think you're right. I think we're in a really deeply screwed up place where even the tiny number of, let me give you an alternate version of this dystopia. I do think that there are people who are capable, and there's still places to play and cause things to happen that progress the story forward. But if you look at the fire that some of the people are in who fit that profile, how much crap has Elon Musk taken? Quite considerable.”
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, no, no. He was just a Harvard student who came up with his own genius screen, acted, and made it happen. No. We're somewhere else”
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've seen what happened to Matt Damon himself. Matt Damon has tried to say various things at various times that seem to be relatively innocuous. He can't speak.”
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 remember my old mind. I liked it better. All of this relentless focus on critical race theory and critical theory, postmodernism, fairness, social justice, it's making many of us into worse people.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Podcast is this. It's yours Okay, tell the people who are currently editing your brain, because I saw that move right now. Yeah. They should go find another podcast. Let's get rid of some of your audience right now.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now I see where you're going. Okay. There have been a series of places for people to play and be free. And we've lost them successively.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pie that will be. Imagine that you spent all your time trying to divvy up the 13th century pie and you destroyed your ability to get to the 20th century. You'd be an idiot.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How they're going to feed themselves. They want to get lost in their minds. So you can either give them productive places to play, dangerous places to play. They're either going to break into computers or find vaccines for you or build bombs or build companies. And we're not providing for the people who have to disrupt and have to innovate and trying to channel that effort. We're so focused on this other thing, which is like fairness and safety. And fairness and safety, by the way, are really important. I don't want to denigrate them. But the singular focus on fairness and safety without in the same breath being focused on growth and discovery and creation is going to do us because what we're talking about is we're always talking about divvying up the pie that is as opposed to”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And by the way, I think the fact that you think you're allowed to go find shows how privileged you are as an aunt, get out of the colony. Kill him, kill him. Well, that's probably not a great model for finding new orchards. And I think that what we find is that where there's a system that allows somebody to ascend without a lot of gatekeeping, Can have that, but you know, I saw this happen in hedge funds. Hedge funds for a while. Hoovered up a lot of talent because they were places that had funding and had freedom. And in general, really smart people want to be free and they don't want to think a lot about.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let's imagine that we went some ant goes and finds a new source of food. And then it comes back to the colony and it says, hey, I think I found a new source of food. And the initial reaction is you're not authorized to find new food. What? Why would you try to go find new food?”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In other orchards. One of those turned out to be the digital orchard. The digital orchard has not been as stagnant. As lots of these other, like the chemical orchard, you 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
“Is that the right concept? Right concept is I try to use the same words over and over again in case people see multiple because then the perseveration actually gets somewhere. So I use this analogy of the orchard because everyone talks about low-hanging fruit. They know the concept of low-hanging fruit, but they don't think in terms of orchards. So they say things like, you think we've picked all the low-hanging fruit, but I believe in the infinite inventiveness of the human mind. Like, okay, that doesn't even work as an analogy. What if the idea is we only We're not planting new orchards. We're not looking for forests. We're just sitting here arguing about low hanging fruit. So my claim is there's probably a lot more low hanging fruit and it's not here.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rear view mirror. You could save a lot of money on a car by not putting in all of the stuff to keep things from going wrong. And I think that's what we had. We had a machine. As long as growth was insanely good, we plowed it back, the riches and spoils and treasure back into the system and made more genius stuff, and we carried along a good chunk of humanity, hundreds of millions of people. We did not have a plan for what happens when the growth goes below the stall speed of our society.”
2020-10-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source