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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Lex Fridman interviews mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein about science, mathematics, and society. The conversation ranges across physics, academia, AI and job displacement.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN refers to it for Weinstein's views on advanced math and physics and academia's problems, though some find him a bit kooky.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lex Fridman
- Topic
- science and society
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2019
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From the original HN conversations
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You'd probably be interested in watching Ray Dalios recent interview: [LINK] Here's a good one from Eric Weinstein. The whole interview is good (about AI), but at the end he discusses this kind of issue (time is bookmarked): [VIDEO] This is part of a good …
cronix on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Nearly half of young millennials get thousands in support from parentsIn this Lex Freidman interview, Eric Weinstein (a bit kooky) explains his view on the trenches of advanced mathematics/physics: [VIDEO] He goes into depths about the problems right now in academia
abledon on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
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