Edward Frenkel on why Eric Weinstein is truly special | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
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Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.
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Guest bio: Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.
Let's be honest. You're watching this, aren't you.. Eric?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Indeed, I am
Yes I am
Eric's definitely special.
Just ask him, he'll tell ya.
Special sized ego
It’s well deserved but he doesn’t wear it on his shoulder IMO
Nothing even close to Neil or Sam 😂😂😂
Don rickles
@@skeletor7708 "EGO: embedded growth obligation" - Eric
God bless this man. It's refreshing to see such a mathematical luminary who puts the heart on equal footing with the mind.
Well put
Yeah
hes truly special because he actually says nothing, invents nothing, publishes nothing yet truly believes and gets treated as if hes the incarnation of einstein
thats truly special 😂
Eric comes across as a peculiar guy but that's part of why I enjoy listening to him. Maybe he's wrong about the physics, I have no idea, but he seems to have an earnest and thoughtful perspective on many things. I miss the Portal.
Yeah same, even if I didn't understand him all the time I miss his perspective in the podcast format.
He isnt wrong
I really like Edward Frenkel
Also, thank you Lex, this man is awesome and I will be seeking out more of him now.
Nice way to say that Ray Kurzweil is operating entirely on the trauma of losing his father. That's precisely why we shouldn't be taking cues from Kurzweil on anything. His pain shouldn't be allowed to influence our destiny.
I don't think he has ever said what we should do, only what he thinks we will do*, and it's not meanspirited or anything.
*Of course even saying that can affect our behaviour.
I dont think this is correct at all.Ray has integrity and vision, and he sees his father through this lens. His vision is extraordinary.
Did he say "Adyashanti"? Is that who he mentioned at ~15:00 as the source of his story about the boy who argues, fights, finally hates his playmate and leaves for forever, only then after feeling alone for an hour asks him if he again wants to play? An interesting guide to reference for understanding oneself.
The episode “Knowledge or Certainty” from Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man” (available on TH-cam) is brilliantly done, particularly because he had no script and spoke extemporaneously. It is deeply insightful and so moving.
Thanks for the new word
Jacob Bronowski, during WW2, worked on the best way to kill the most people from aerial bombing. So, it's ironic him standing at Auschwitz talking of the mathematics of the place.
Thank you for the tip
Eric Weinstein caught my attention back when he started talking about having come up with something as big as a grand unified theory. But he was super candid about what it is, and his eventual paper seemed to be a bunch of words that don't necessarily mean anything in the end. I don't know what to make of him, but I don't get the feeling that he has something meaningful to contribute to science
Perhaps the best thing he contributes is questioning why scientific enquiry has stagnated since string theory took over the minds of the best scientists for the better part of the last 40 years without any real movement. And how scientists have been so enamoured be general relativity that they have not tried to find where the larger truth that Einstein's relativity is but an incomplete portion of. Einstein was not held prisoner by Newtonian limitations, and thus he was able to discover properties of reality which filled in many of the gaps Newton had not resolved. It will take as adventurous a mind to break out of Einstein's general relativity prison.
I agree. Eric was on Rogan talking like he had the best new theory, it was regarding spinors and symmetry and the way he was hyping it without it being tested was sketchy. Bunch of B.S.
Scientific enquiry has accelerated in the last 40 years in every field you care to look at, and technology, which trails science, is an obvious indicator of this. Talk to any - any - working scientist and they will confirm this. Are scientific institutions sometimes overly political or bureaucratic? Yes, but they always have been, since the days of Newton and Leibniz sniping at each other through gossip and proxies. The Copenhagen orthodoxy prevented anyone (like Bohm or Everett or Bell) from approaching foundational physics for 60 years. There are Dobzhanskys and there are Lysenkos, despite the scientific process being in practice the best way toward progress. Weinstein’s refusal to discuss his “theory” of GU with Tim Nguyen demonstrates clearly that he doesn’t actually care about advancing scientific enquiry but instead on stifling it. Nguyen gives a great in-depth analysis of GU on the Eigenbros TH-cam channel, if you’re interested in seeing how one advances scientific enquiry.
Lex, thank you for this interview and introduction of Edward Frenkel. You continue to stimulate these old brain cells.
Edward is a special human. I love you Lex, you have introuduced me to so many special humans
You can just say “people.” The overuse of “humans” is starting to get to me.
This ^
I love Eric and miss The Portal.
Best interview I have ever heard Abou self. Love it! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
learnt from these two today. there is no debate.
So refreshing to see a brilliant scholar talk about self awareness in this way... most are so inflated, their ivory tower so HIGH, they can barely relate to other humans... Thanks for this dialog Lex!
Having empathy and compassion is key, I agree with this, and sincerely expressed evil is
still evil. It’s a both/and rather than an or.
Am I the only person who thinks Mr Weinstein is often incoherent? Watch his recent Rogan appearance… It’s a real life variant of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Universe skit
I listened to it, I didn't watch though so I'm not sure but I got the impression he got a bit drunk part the way through it.
His Geometric Unity stuff was entirely bunk, Timothy Nguyen went through it piece by piece and showed that it had some massive unreconcilable errors in its formulation. Eric is smart for sure but he's not the oppressed genius that he wants everyone to think he is
@@theDemong0d show me where he got proved wrong
@@fernandoperez9612 Eigenbros episode 120 - Timothy Nguyen
@@theDemong0d you won’t be able to argue with his fanboys. eric got shamed terribly letting his theory go without being anything substantial. i’m not sure how someone who think he is that smart didn’t figured out it wasn’t geometric unity and that it was shit lol
So glad to hear positive Eric commentary. He is so misunderstood. It truly bothers me. Compassion and integrity. That's what I thought. Nice to hear this from a friend and mathematician.
he is not misunderstood, he just has a REALLY hard time explaining his ideas in a way that's understandable.
To be fair his ideas are very complex I think most people have would have a hard time understanding and he probably does a better job at making this stuff accessible then most other people would.
Because of the authenticity and intelligence flowing from this man, the fact that he said those things about Eric speaks volumes to me on how misunderstood he is and how the criticism and apparent disdain from many commenting are so unwarranted.
Poor griftology brothers....what would they without somebody stealing their Nobel prizes .. 🙄😆
@@RaydensherajI love that you go from video to video just to try and trash them, and not only is nobody effected by what you say, but the focus of your attacks have no idea about it and are too busy to care hahaha. You are nothing, and your time spent will lead to nothing. 🤣
I use to like Eric. I still do, but I use to too.
Mitch hedberg huh
@@modmediaproductions9407 way to give it away dude
Frenkel is really one of my all time favorite people. I think though that here, like most people he fails to make a distinction between people and their beliefs. He sees Kurzweil as genuinely human, and therefore that his beliefs have validity. On the contrary, I believe that we can love someone and even admire them greatly, and believe that they are sincere, while at the same time thinking that in some areas, their beliefs are not only wrong but very harmful, even destructive. If I didn't believe that I'd hate the whole world, because I've never met anyone, not even my closest friends, who believe precisely what I believe even on the most important issues.
I really enjoyed your last two podcasts Lex! This one and the one with Max Tegmark!
Thank you for introducing me to so many amazing minds.
He had lex rolling 😂😂😂
Lex, I’m afraid I watch you more than Joe… I feel bad about this, but Joe R is a solid second. It happened organically…thank you for all you do…🇨🇦
Lex. Putt adyashanti on your podcast. Love to ser that 😊❤️
My god. Those final few sentences were of the charts🥹
Speaking of Eric's integrity, I appreciated the suspicious treatment he gave Alan Dershowitz on the topic of Virginia Giuffre, when both appeared together recently on Piers Morgan's talk show.
Bring Edward Witten on ♥️
I am saddened that Lex didn't react to joke about number 42. Because he is super computer and he already knows the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
"Love is the soul of genius."--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When nobody knew how to solve a problem in my math class my teacher would always call me to the board lol I was scared but had to figure it out along the way lol seriously scary I’m Russian too lol
"the higgs boson is called a boson for a reason: because its a boson."
edward frenkel 2023
Pi 1 of so3 is like a pochmar countour integral 😂
Eric will be loved and respected for a long time to come! G-Unit of physics. 🔥
hahahahah always love to hear support for Eric!
Why is he talking about Ray Kurzweil? It’s like the answer to some different Ray Kurzweil part of the interview was inserted into this Eric Weinstein question spot
incredible
very "special "
42
Some much needed recognition for this man !!
hes truly special because he actually says nothing, invents nothing, publishes nothing yet truly believes and gets treated as if hes the incarnation of einstein
thats truly special 😂
what??? He invented the rotato!!
i think hes wrong on this. you dont have debates to settle personal scores. you have debates to show to the public why the other guys ideas are wrong. if a guy wants to put nanobots in our brains then you debate him to show to the public all the things that could go wrong. a lot of people that are not so good at critical swallow up everything and may find nanobots in the brain a great idea, but after such a debate they hopefully change their tune a bit.
I saw a video of him playing guitar... that was truly **ahem** ... special
My favorite number is 1. And it's better than your favorite number.
What if my favorite number is also 1
@@BuiltInBrooklyn dude, there are literally like HUNDREDS of numbers. Ugh. Wanna split a two?
@@darksalmon Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing? my 1 plus your 1 = 2
this is what the internet is for, education, ideas, conversation. Thanks Lex, you are a brilliant young man.
Is the ''evil'' in the world is all a projection of my ''fear''? Really, so ''subjective''?
This realization makes people more stoic and unfortunately less vocal as they measure their words more carefully which in turn allows the misguided to be more visible and audible :/ Where were the intelligent ones before the second world war? Quietly watching the world ending. The more intelligent, the bigger the distance between other humans, it seems.
"Frenkel & Weinstein" would make a
Great brand for a jewish frenchise / electronics hardware store @ the bronx
Borough park in Brooklyn already has a Frenkel & Weinstein, but they sell pastrami sandwiches instead. Eric is so smart, he doesn’t like putting all his eggs in one basket!
@@BuiltInBrooklyn haha... Of course, electronics come and goes, pastrami is here to stay forever.
What a poignant conversation on projection
AI has an off switch
did this bro really just say Weinstein has a certain level of self-awareness
stunning conversation, gotta be careful of commonsense though, as einstein warned, there's big difference between "being in touch with your heart" and mature compassion, children are not innocent in the adult world, see Hitler's reaction to the death of his mother, and why ai to recreate ones father is a bad motive, bad start, when it comes to nextgen computing. the motivation does matter, but that should be of the perennial wisdom, not base OS 'child' emotions, silly dichotomy debates as per the muscular aristotle, instead playful with socratic daimon, compassion as what the oracle of delphi suggested, as prof frenkel says. beautiful conversation.
"Special" as in special ed.
u
Special needs
I'm not a smart person, per se. Certainly not a STEM person. But what I do have a handle on, is politics. Also, the fates have conspired to make it such, that as it turns out, I have listened to hours of Weinstein speak. And I have to ask myself: what he's doing and saying with regards to our political situation is so very wrong-how smart can he really be? You tell me.
If I have a baby, I'm skipping most of the dumb content that is designed for young children. My son or daughter will watch the Lex Fridman podcast from day one.
Your kid will hate you for that. You are supposed to give them content they can actually process as children.
Best one
❤
Hazme preguntas a mi porfa
Why?not(!?)
Mathemagician
Lex removed my post . It was that the Weinstein brothers, here on YT pondering the 2020 upcoming election felt that Tucker Carlson might make a good president. ""Courage" was mentioned. Tucker- he of courage, not a despicable presence.
I mentioned that the Weinsteins were brilliant and also crackpots.Many agree.
Some of you will have read this comment before Lex takes it down, again. Shame on him.
The Weinsteins took down their podcast. I guess they embarrassed themselves. Actually they pulled back on Tucker without saying anything, other than it was a stretch for him to be president, back then in 20 20 in Bret Weinstein's back yard.
Empathy
Why does Lex bring up Eric every time?
Because Lex's feelings are hurt
Because they run in the same circles.
Podcasters promoting each other.
@@Apjooz Eric hasn't had a podcast for years, and I don't think he gives Lex much publiclity.
@@LindaMcification About what?
Eric is special yeah. But definitely also very very frustrated
I don't get why Lex is such a fan boy of Eric.
These guys are real perverts when it comes to numbers and machines. Lex talks about his work with robots in this full episode and is drooling when he discusses making it wiggle its butt.
Translation : even Eric's closest friends think he's wrong on pretty much everything. But he's very nice and makes good omelets and is nice to cats... or something - so we keep him around. Hooboy - that wasn't quite the compliment they thought it might be.
Yeh fermions on Im(ζ) bosons Re(ζ)
Cancer is special and narcissistic
Eric and Bret, both, are "special" in the way that an irregularly-shaped mole is special...🤷
a hedge fun director?????? lame
Eric Weinstein is truly special just like everyone else.
How do we know Eric is special?.....hel tell us 😅
Remember if Eric ever wins a noble prize you know he stole the idea of written 😅 😂 😢
Jesus Christ, can we stop talking about Eric Weinstein, Lex? Please?
Ugh.
It's just in-group promotion. None of these people are really geniuses. Einstein was a genius, Galileo, Spinoza. Real geniuses are very few and far between. Eric is nowhere near the likes, nor is anyone really today. They're just piggybacking off of previous geniuses.
Why Erics great and brings up alot of controversial thought.
@@SalVatore-sp9cm doesnt mean hes not smarter than you
@@raydead2670 He may very well be, but he's not a genius, not even close. Learn about them, and you'll probably agree.
@Sal Vatore depends on your perception of genius. This guys is an anomaly in his field hes deff not the avg.
Extra chromosome special
Eric Weinstein has bigger EGO than alex jones.
So what? Why not? You sound as if there's something wrong with that.
if i were eric weinstein i would be so mad that brett weinstein exists, bc they both look just alike and brett is a hot mess
?
...you know theyre brothers...right?