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Genius and Madness Travel Together | Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman

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Watch the full episode here.

Lex Fridman #134 | Eric On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

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OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:16 - Eddie Van Halen 9:56 - Leonard Cohen 17:52 - Battle between ego and humility 23:08 - Darkness and beauty 29:50 - Jimi Hendrix 32:38 - Good Will Hunting 36:46 - Revolutionary minds 48:19 - Next Elon Musk should…

The Portal Podcast #028: Eric Lewis – The Singular Genius of Elew

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Eric Lewis is an open portal, a wonderful friend and one of the most important pianists in the world by our measure. As such, we will not bother with further notes for this episode. If you love the quest of the show as well as authentic…

Eric on Big Think: Why Can’t We Find the Theory of Everything? Einstein, Rogue Genius, String Theory

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Einstein’s theory of relativity revolutionized our view of the universe, positing a space-time continuum undergirding all reality. Equally impactful has been quantum mechanics, which describe the behavior of subatomic particles in ways that…

Eric on Big Think: Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something—It’s about Doing Things Differently

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We want our surgeons to be excellent. We wants our classical music performers to be excellent. But do we really want excellence everywhere? This is the provocative line of thought economist and mathematician Eric Weinstein is currently chasing.…

Eric at TEDx Youth @ Hillsborough, A radical take on education

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This talk explores a radical new approach to childhood education based on Umweldt hacking. We explore the possibility of building a portal from the world of a child to the frontier of research using carefully curated objects and tools which…