This is everything that every thinking person has been wanting to hear for over a decade. eg the DISC - how many of us got hammered at university when we tried to think for ourselves rather than follow the party line? The world needs an intellectual revolution - and each of us has to do our bit to bring it about. We don't need the institutions.
@@HanzHermannHoppe Could be, could be. But how long until the unscrupulous and the mediocre work out how to game them? Heck, I don't know what the answer is.
Dissident intellectuals 2019: "I got the Journal of Irrelevant Affairs to publish a paper that isn't strictly true!" Dissident intellectuals 2020: "The publishing house is illegitimate and we're burning it all down - who's with me?"
I appreciate what he says he is doing, but there are many students and researchers who challenged the system before they had money and fame to stand on. Also, Aaron Schwartz.
@@cannaroe1213 I dont think we all end up penniless and depressed. I had a pretty good run in a non-academic field after running into the DISC. Depression usually comes from hopelessness, and identifying the DISC is the first step towards hope for truth in public research. There is no risk if you realize the toxicity of the current system and the need to stay out of it while dismantling it. Staying aligned with the status quo is more risky.
@@tigerstallion Well that is exactly what i did :) I quit the PhD after 4 years because I wouldn't publish lies. They published anyway after i left. I agree with your sentiment in principle.... but a lot of people were beheaded for blasphemy before the separation of church and state. DISC gonna DISC. Thank you for the DISCussion though :) I enjoyed what you had to say
I can think a continuous stream of reasonably coherent consciousness but I can't speak one. I really envy people who can talk without a script. It's a very valuable skill in today's media landscape.
Don't be so certain there's not a teleprompter in front of him. I talk to people all over the world, and want to know all points of view. You know what immediately raises my suspicions about this? TH-cam recommended this to me. TH-cam generally recommends me some corporate propaganda scum to me. It's fine to listen but never drop your suspicion.
Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Typical anti-establishment: “Let’s just flip the table over.” Eric: “Join me in building a better table right next to it and see who wins.” Also Eric: “We need beer drinking songs as well.” Heroes are present my friend.
Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
When the establishment has gotten rotten and self celebrating, you better oppose it and anti is often more pro than pro, hence a true friend talks also facts when its hurting the other;) The pea counters in science, don't want to be disturbed by counting peas They are more related with their careers reaching smoothly their times of pension, than being curious. It's a shame how unscientific these minds are, ignoring all hints not fitting into their beloved narrative. What is scientific with such ignorance, not only in the humanities, too bad, also increasingly in hard sciences the uninspired have become an ideological group of lemmings defending their mediocrity. No, the big era of Einsteins, Maxwell, Faraday, Tesla is over long time ago. We still enhance their true goodies, but real novelties don't come out of these emperors with no cloth, too bad. Think its not possible real boosters of innovation come out of these vanity circles, celebrating their nothing in nothing-symposiums. It will need outsiders or dropouts to burn new stages of the human rocket, like Eric and other passion driven persons who strive for their curiosity first, not thinking of dangers but follow their erotism with the unsolved, the undiscovered which is badly missed with the pea counters inside the ivory towers.
You are a true Hero..!!! A person with the Courage to bring forth a forum where people can understand they are not alone and find there own strength to work for the changes needed to bring on positive changes in all these Institutions !!! Thank you Blessings !!!
Thank you for your perspective and reason Eric, you make me feel so much better, knowing that there are still some sane people in the world. You are a great thinker and a man of our times, thank you very much.
Hi Eric. I don't know if you actually read the comments here on TH-cam, so I'll keep it short : since I discovered your existence -probably in a Rubin interview- I'm very grateful and enthusiat for what you're trying to do putting all those dense topics in the public debate. Thank you very much, and cheers from France.
Eric, please have the first Portal episode discussing your mathematical theory of everything! When you first announced the Portal and said your theory was the main premise, I was extremely excited. Every time there's a new episode, I hope that it's about your theory, but it never is (although the one with Lisi gave us a taste). That being said, this podcast is fantastic and I check every day on Spotify to see if there's a new episode, and when there is it makes my day.
Your recognition of this problem in society and your vision to fix it may one day lead you into a league with the heroes you mentioned. Thanks for your willingness to bring this into such a public forum!
Eric. You and this Portal project give me hope for the future as someone who has felt out of place for close to a decade. Thank you for all that you do and keep on fighting and if need be, there is an ocean of us out here ready to help out. You´re not alone in this and the ocean of supportive emails that you get is at least a proof of that.
YES! Thank you Eric! I shall spread the word! I love that no subject is taboo. I'm GenX ('68) and about time we had a voice! Thank you and bless your entire brilliant family!
Eric, I am so sympathetic to the situation you describe with the DISC and could add many stories of my own. Brother, I do feel your frustration deeply both from within myself and for other academicians with similar stories to yours that I have interacted with personally. So the following comments are said with the utmost kindness and respect. (My wife personally hit me with the first point years back. She is the child of an academic as I am.) 1. Who told you that overthrowing an existing orthodoxy or paradigm would be easy? It isn't the least bit easy at the best of times. (Second point is from me directly given recent experiences.) 2. Taking another's new pet theory seriously is a process with many pitfalls. I got my PhD at a more advanced age than is usual. In my thesis, what I was able to do was to show that my advisor's long-held pet theory was wrong-headed and not worth pursuing. I am older and well set with respect to my profession and publication list, so there were no serious repercussions to the thesis. I graduated with little difficulty and no resistance from my advisor or committee. However, if I was a 20-something with my heart set on an academic or research position, my thesis would be quite undesirable. Going to a prospective (say) department and giving a lecture on the demise of one's advisor's pet theory does not impart any charisma to a talk on "what I have done recently." Hence, my gentle advise to you is... a theory that lets folks go up and down the same well trod trails of thought is not motivating to a prospective convert. Cruel as it may sound, it is up to you to find the "killer app". i.e. Find the physical phenomena that are beyond explanation without your theory. Only then will folks invest the considerable time and effort required to follow your trail. Sorry for the tough love, but I've now seen it in gory detail from both sides.
It feels great to have a guy like Eric having a greater voice. I also had learning disabilities like severe dyslexia for which I had to hack my own brain as a kid in order for me not to be considered a problematic child. Just like my father i also am on the spectrum. It's fair to say that I had my fair share of challenges, never cared about grammar, i confuse the mechanics of certain analytical tools and so on. Paradoxically I was always considered the gifted child and always had an ease to understand extremely abstract ideas. The DISC was never my friend and it won't stop me either.
Really appreciative of the big ideas Eric is trying to put out there. It's not always easy to commit the time and attention to this show that it deserves but that's simply the cost of raising the bar on online discourse.
Eric, listening to you makes me feel really dumb but at the same time getting smarter. You are one smart man and you have a wonderful way of communicating your ideas. Keep it up
Eric: thank you immensely for your work, which I have been tracking for about 2 years now. It's hard to articulate but the way you explain topics really resonates with me, as if it's the right level of complexity that I deep down always wanted but isn't easily available to me in day to day life.
Although 99% of the content in these high level conversations, between powerhouse intellectuals, goes way over my head, that 1% slow drip does seep in and it starts to add up over time. Just listening in is, of course, no substitute for doing the real academic work required to really participate in these discussions or even comprehend them. I may never be fluent, but it definitely feels as though over time I am gaining a conversational grasp of the language, and that’s incredibly valuable to me. There are plenty of other shows doing the pop science, dumb it down for the general audience thing, which is sometimes nice as well, but crossing that line makes your show unique.
As a Gen Xer, who hasn't yet found the stability and comfort that my parents found - granted, choosing music as a life path didn't help - I found this topic of conversation not only validating but wonderfully captivating. I look forward to hearing more as you further develop this platform. Best to you in 2020 and beyond.
I always thoroughly enjoy watching the Portal. You have an intriguing, inquisitive mind, and a way with words that suitably articulates your thoughts, and arouses the curious minds of your audience. Keep up the great work Eric. I would love to have a chat with you at some point.
Eric Weinstein, Keep it coming. Many critical thinkers need the intellectually challenging discussions you offer. Formats like yours are rare, if there really are any at the level you present. Thankyou!
Ok. My mission for the weekend is to binge watch. I need to get caught up on where the thought process has led to and the route it took so that I don't get lost moving forward. Have a great weekend everyone.
This was so crucial for me to hear to finally understand in detail where you are coming from. You've alluded to all this before but this is the first time I've heard you address it all so directly, clearly, and in detail. Thank you for getting us (or at least me - I tent to lag) up to speed!
I believe I have listened to most if not all of your podcasts on TH-cam. This one was a tour de force! Your integration of past topics made it very clear where you want to go with the Portal. I am an old man now, but clearly much of what you said hit intellectual and emotional chords. As someone who has always been a black sheep, and too often punished for being too radical and not nearly political enough, it brought back many reflections on the dangers of new ideas I once was fired, largely because I developed a piece of software alone in 15 days, that conventional wisdom said it would take 15 people 2 years to accomplish. My success made the senior IT management look bad, and generated far too many questions from their peers. Keep up the good work; in an alternate universe we are probably friends!
When you start a new job, you see all the problems with the way the company works. If you say anything about it, the typical explanation is "you just don't understand how we do things." After a few months at the company, you 'understand' how everything is done, and you can no longer see the 'problems' you once saw before. I think this happens at every stage of life, when you are a kid, when you go to school and when you get a job etc. It never changes and seems to be about people not willing to give up their 'power' of authority.
WOW WOW WOW! I'm so beyond THRILLED and inspired after listening to this episode. An imagine of Elliot Spitzer, former prosecutor and governor for NY, came to my mind after this episode and a phrase he used during an interview. I'm paraphrasing but he said something like, "We knew we were walking into some of the most powerful and influential buzz saws in our nation, but we did it anyways." That sounds like what you have planned. I cannot wait to see how you go forward from here. Thank you!!! And I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
@EricWeinstein @ThePortal... I think The Portal and it’s viewers will benefit from welcoming Ben Goertzel. I’d love to observe your minds intersect information and bring awareness to the most important issues of our time, plus discuss possible solutions. I’ve been trying to solve a problem in my mind about the knowledge of economy and I think a conversation between You (Eric Weinstein) and Ben Goertzel is the only answer I have to that question. Thank you for your time and expertise! I can’t say that enough! Warm regards. Thank for the housekeeping and hey the ads are pretty cool. We all definitely appreciate your transparency.
Yeah, this is great, though I rarely watch. I hope he organizes it all into a book as I don't really have the time for a podcast. Perhaps a book will coalesce from the podcast at some point, hint, hint.
@Captain 7 I have never heard Eric express anything about being asked to dumb it down. Instead, I have seen the opposite scenario. People, not just me, are hungry for deep conversations that have been suppressed, ignored, etc. by the mainstream. The comments section here is a testament to that.
@Captain 7 Not offended in the slightest. Still disagree completely. This is a niche community to begin with. The last thing you want to do is turn off the core audience in an attempt to cater to those with a short attention span. The dullards can simply go watch Discovery Channel.
@Larry Myers Which part do you disagree with? That this isnt a niche community? That you should turn off the core audience? Or perhaps, you should cater to those with short attention spans instead of the actual people interested and willing to do the homework?
God damn I'm happy that Eric Weinstein is alive and well. Such a badass! I get so pumped listening to this show and so much more hopeful about the future. Things may seem dire, but the earnest pursuit of truth is what we need most right now. And please Eric, don't hold back on the challenging topics. I think you're underestimating how insightful your perspective is and how challenging a lot of the material you've already discussed with guests is. You've probably already filtered out the audience members you're thinking of
Thank you Eric for bring forth Truth! This speaks so much to the institutions of medicine and health care (also a sinking ship that won't hold new ideas) that has structured itself on keeping people scared of their bodies and their potential and removed the champions and trust of who really heals - nature and the divine. Look forward to watching, commenting & contributing.
Looking forward to the next 'Portal', and the one after that. And then the following one after that one, on and on. I've come to depend on them. Interestingly enough after watching each new episode, replacing an initial feeling of malaise and uncertainty, which seemingly abounds within, is confidence and focus. Thank you Eric.
How do you know he's on the right path, though? If you only listen to him, and know nothing about the subjects he's talking about, then you're just blindly trusting him. Why not trust any randomly chosen PhD student from anywhere in the world?
Admittedly, some of your discussions are above my brain grade. That being said, keep going. I didn't expect to find a great artist... great discussion with Lun-Yi on how art should be represented.
Thank you for a clear and honest reflective view of what you are trying to achieve. More times than I would like, I struggle through some of the ideas you discuss or viewpoints you and your guests present, but there is more than sufficient material to both confirm some of my own awe at the weirdness of these days and trigger my interest in digging deeper to (and many times fail) understand these "new" concepts. This is very much appreciated. Please keep it up, with one more ready to pass through The Portal, all the way from beautiful Lisboa.
I worked on the Matrix, I see now as it felt back then that it was a documentary. Glad to see such a bright and articulate mind, please continue, you have my full attention.
Thank you so much Eric and all the contributors to this wonderful channel! If you folk want some more participation, even unskilled thirtysomethings like myself can shore up, get a little nicer and more disciplined and attentive with running our lives, and hell maybe even leave a tiny supportive comment or two like this one. And gratitude, pardon the grammar, not so much the intention. Very much thanks for this portal out into something better, cant wait to see what we cook up next!
Love these solos, keep them up Eric, same with artist involvement for visual communication, great points with the DISC & focuses for 2020, we love you very much
I left academe after 20 odd years. It's the most rigid system we've ever built. I have hundreds of stories of how corrupt grant funding, peer review, and administrative mismanagement of research monies managed to kill meaningful work and results. Along with the ever-present diversity maxims I don't see the system as salvageable, and the crop of now specially selected faculty will further informationally contaminate the few good students most schools select...the products of a truly ruined state secondary school system. So it goes...someone down in the comments quoted Bucky Fuller about building new models...and I would argue new institutions. How to fund them would be an interesting discussion...Charter Universities?
It would then be a question of building all of the material that is somehow translationaly acreditable and transferable; such as MIT courses or coursera. That would take a lot of capital to start and substantial planning to insure or guarantee. We have the material, but have not developed it, and would take multiple groupthink conferences
Would love to see more solo episodes. I love the guests and this podcast is my favorite currently, but I think there’s also some value in truly being in the zone with nothing but your thoughts. I find with myself my best ideas manifest from solitude. Conversations between 2 people are great and provides a valuable perspective since ideas can contend with each other and create new ideas, but with solo you can dive in deeper with specific topics rather than bounce around between topics.
Eric we need more content! I could only hope to even approach your intellect and education and I really admire your perspective on virtually every topic you speak on. Please dont stop... The world needs to hear more of your opinions and observations generally. Cheers from a patriotic American.
"String theory is effectively an Affirmative action program for mathematically talented baby-boomers who do not wish to sully themselves with the problem of working on the physical and real world as we have it." - Eric 2020
This guy is so freaking fabulous! I wondered why Andrew Yang wasn't taking hold, bc his policy ideas were very well thought out, unique, and worth a look. Thanks for being here!
Keep on growing Eric! You are my number 1 source globally. I recommend your podcast to everyone I meet. It is THAT good. Thank you SO much for all you do and please continue for a loooong time
Thank you for doing these episodes Eric. I could listen to you talk for hours. I mostly follow the show on TH-cam (Red) so I hope some of the money I pay for my ad-free subscription to TH-cam filters down to your show.
Love everything the Portal is about. Only critique to date: Before you say that nobody is proposing a grand unified theory, or theory of everything, you need to have checked out folks who are. ie, Thunderbolts Project and Electric View. It's time to take the electric universe theory seriously, and this podcast would be an ideal format to get one of their leading lights on record. They have no problems with demonstrable experimentation and observation, as in the stagnated world of theoretical physics. Plasma physics is hiding in plain site, were it not for the very gatekeepers that Eric laments.
I enjoy the show so much. Love the bumper music...reminds me of the Art Bell radio program. Thanks for not dumbing things down. As an autodidact with no formal education I like the challenge and learn so much. Hope you keep it going....
The moment someone enters the portal is the moment they truly internalize that a single entity can be honestly and rigorously interpreted in multiple, conflicting ways given different starting contexts/states. Further, these contexts are usually not the result of individual growth, but rather cultural and familial programming, all of which are imposed on the individual without consent. It is painful when you enter the portal. I would imagine most people sit on the edge for a while, in massive amounts of pain. Part of you clings to the fantasy world you once knew. Another part dangles between dimensions, disoriented and grasping for anything that you can know for sure. Anything you can rely on. You come up empty-handed. It continues to be painful until you either renter the fantasy world of lies, knowingly melting into ignorance so deep you classify those thoughts as "dark" and "crazy," or you let go of the need to hold on to anything.
The Hero has to die and be resurrected (or nearly die in weaker versions) before he can return to the society to save it. Without risk of death, there is no hero.
Considering the internal pain and discomfort Jordan was in while he was delivering his message to the world, while receiving alot of external push back, lies , slandering and misrepresenting what he was saying by the media. The man was sandwiched between pain and still managed to do what he did.....Hero is a good word for him
Eric-thanks for your time and effort. Your podcast is excellent. Keep the "higher level" ideas coming (as well as talking about the Beatles like you did with Tyler). Include artists as well. Although, we are in the "fly over" State of Michigan you have a robust and enthusiastic group of listeners here in the Great Lakes State-keep it coming. BTW how the hell are you so smart on so many diverse, different and varied topics? I'm a fan.
I'm pretty sure you already know how to Destroy 'DISC' forever and are on the path to doing it. You form a multi-disciplinary team and offer peer review in an open setting posted online for everyone to see. Your team has enough followers to bring enough value to each peer review. Every institution/company can view a persons work directly instead of placing any trust in 'DISC' and it's famous institutions. Much like Wikileaks you shine enough light on the truth and you will very quickly build up a great reputation. It takes a ton of work and the funding for a project of this size is enormous. Get it going on a shoestring budget and poke around for an angel investor that also wants to end the hegemony of 'DISC'.
Trust your audience, they want the complicated topics.
This is a movement... you have a colony
@@tehnokracijad.o.o.tehnokra5940 I know how to complicate a topic, if you know what I mean.
What is the agree upon lie?
@@cosmicmuffet1053 it's a private party time?
Also want people like nick mullen on.
This man just spit out an incredible hour unscripted
He’s got my confidence.
And my bow.
No kidding. Amazing.
And my axe.
@David McCarthy you are
@David McCarthy I feel like there's something you don't tell me.
This is everything that every thinking person has been wanting to hear for over a decade. eg the DISC - how many of us got hammered at university when we tried to think for ourselves rather than follow the party line? The world needs an intellectual revolution - and each of us has to do our bit to bring it about. We don't need the institutions.
That's right Darlin!
I'd go even further than that and say that we absolutely need institutions, just those of our own design.
@@HanzHermannHoppe Could be, could be. But how long until the unscrupulous and the mediocre work out how to game them? Heck, I don't know what the answer is.
@@stalkinglikecandy yeah but you can say that about any group. Collaboration is important enough to make that risk worth it.
Israel would be gravely endangered...
This is the ballsiest thing an American intellectual has done in a very long time.
Dissident intellectuals 2019: "I got the Journal of Irrelevant Affairs to publish a paper that isn't strictly true!"
Dissident intellectuals 2020: "The publishing house is illegitimate and we're burning it all down - who's with me?"
I appreciate what he says he is doing, but there are many students and researchers who challenged the system before they had money and fame to stand on. Also, Aaron Schwartz.
@@tigerstallion Yes, but we all end up penniless and depressed. Would you risk it if you were rich and happy? RIP Aaron.
@@cannaroe1213 I dont think we all end up penniless and depressed. I had a pretty good run in a non-academic field after running into the DISC. Depression usually comes from hopelessness, and identifying the DISC is the first step towards hope for truth in public research.
There is no risk if you realize the toxicity of the current system and the need to stay out of it while dismantling it. Staying aligned with the status quo is more risky.
@@tigerstallion Well that is exactly what i did :) I quit the PhD after 4 years because I wouldn't publish lies. They published anyway after i left. I agree with your sentiment in principle.... but a lot of people were beheaded for blasphemy before the separation of church and state. DISC gonna DISC.
Thank you for the DISCussion though :) I enjoyed what you had to say
Can’t believe he just talked like that straight to the camera without stopping. Spoke to me with that call to action
He's an odd duck. IQ off the chart with gifted verbal skills.
I can think a continuous stream of reasonably coherent consciousness but I can't speak one. I really envy people who can talk without a script. It's a very valuable skill in today's media landscape.
Don't be so certain there's not a teleprompter in front of him. I talk to people all over the world, and want to know all points of view. You know what immediately raises my suspicions about this? TH-cam recommended this to me. TH-cam generally recommends me some corporate propaganda scum to me. It's fine to listen but never drop your suspicion.
@@richardwicks4190 all his interviews are this way also. Vast wealth of knowledge on many subjects. Watch him on JRE or others
Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
@Optimus Phoenix Prime ...until eventually you can do everything with nothing!
@Optimus Phoenix Prime I am not, but I will look him up. Cheers!
@Optimus Phoenix Prime Will do.
A paradigm-shift yes.
Here’s an undiscovered orchard: robot existentialism
Typical anti-establishment: “Let’s just flip the table over.”
Eric: “Join me in building a better table right next to it and see who wins.”
Also Eric: “We need beer drinking songs as well.”
Heroes are present my friend.
not all heroes wear capes, some of them have funky hair
Way hey up she rises!
Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
When the establishment has gotten rotten and self celebrating, you better oppose it and anti is often more pro than pro, hence a true friend talks also facts when its hurting the other;)
The pea counters in science, don't want to be disturbed by counting peas
They are more related with their careers reaching smoothly their times of pension, than being curious. It's a shame how unscientific these minds are, ignoring all hints not fitting into their beloved narrative. What is scientific with such ignorance, not only in the humanities, too bad, also increasingly in hard sciences the uninspired have become an ideological group of lemmings defending their mediocrity.
No, the big era of Einsteins, Maxwell, Faraday, Tesla is over long time ago. We still enhance their true goodies, but real novelties don't come out of these emperors with no cloth, too bad.
Think its not possible real boosters of innovation come out of these vanity circles, celebrating their nothing in nothing-symposiums. It will need outsiders or dropouts to burn new stages of the human rocket, like Eric and other passion driven persons who strive for their curiosity first, not thinking of dangers but follow their erotism with the unsolved, the undiscovered which is badly missed with the pea counters inside the ivory towers.
J. H Well, and elegantly said.
You are a true Hero..!!! A person with the Courage to bring forth a forum where people can understand they are not alone and find there own strength to work for the changes needed to bring on positive changes in all these Institutions !!! Thank you Blessings !!!
Eric is really on to something
And Epstein didn't kill himself.
Fatty, friend of idubbbz, his mom had the papers on something big as well. Wouldn't be terribly surprised if Eric's name popped up in one of them
@David McCarthy no offense, but you sound like you have a schizo related disorder. Wish you all the best.
@David McCarthy Trolling
@David McCarthy your "facts" without facts = trolling. why U troll us David?
Thank you for your perspective and reason Eric, you make me feel so much better, knowing that there are still some sane people in the world. You are a great thinker and a man of our times, thank you very much.
This episode and what you laid out is why I’m a subscriber to The Portal. Thank you for being so intensely reasonable!
Hi Eric. I don't know if you actually read the comments here on TH-cam, so I'll keep it short : since I discovered your existence -probably in a Rubin interview- I'm very grateful and enthusiat for what you're trying to do putting all those dense topics in the public debate. Thank you very much, and cheers from France.
Eric, please have the first Portal episode discussing your mathematical theory of everything! When you first announced the Portal and said your theory was the main premise, I was extremely excited. Every time there's a new episode, I hope that it's about your theory, but it never is (although the one with Lisi gave us a taste). That being said, this podcast is fantastic and I check every day on Spotify to see if there's a new episode, and when there is it makes my day.
I second all the above, although in my case it's a TH-cam sub complete with notification bell.
I love you Eric like a big brother, you are so smart that its a pleasure to listen to you talking on any topic.
Your recognition of this problem in society and your vision to fix it may one day lead you into a league with the heroes you mentioned. Thanks for your willingness to bring this into such a public forum!
Thank you again, Dr. Weinstein, for providing us with a glimmer of hope in this difficult world. You are an inspiration to so many of us! ❤
Eric. You and this Portal project give me hope for the future as someone who has felt out of place for close to a decade. Thank you for all that you do and keep on fighting and if need be, there is an ocean of us out here ready to help out. You´re not alone in this and the ocean of supportive emails that you get is at least a proof of that.
YES! Thank you Eric! I shall spread the word!
I love that no subject is taboo.
I'm GenX ('68) and about time we had a voice! Thank you and bless your entire brilliant family!
I like the choice to *watch* podcasts if it's offered, so thank you Eric for having a video version.
Eric, I am so sympathetic to the situation you describe with the DISC and could add many stories of my own. Brother, I do feel your frustration deeply both from within myself and for other academicians with similar stories to yours that I have interacted with personally. So the following comments are said with the utmost kindness and respect. (My wife personally hit me with the first point years back. She is the child of an academic as I am.) 1. Who told you that overthrowing an existing orthodoxy or paradigm would be easy? It isn't the least bit easy at the best of times. (Second point is from me directly given recent experiences.) 2. Taking another's new pet theory seriously is a process with many pitfalls. I got my PhD at a more advanced age than is usual. In my thesis, what I was able to do was to show that my advisor's long-held pet theory was wrong-headed and not worth pursuing. I am older and well set with respect to my profession and publication list, so there were no serious repercussions to the thesis. I graduated with little difficulty and no resistance from my advisor or committee. However, if I was a 20-something with my heart set on an academic or research position, my thesis would be quite undesirable. Going to a prospective (say) department and giving a lecture on the demise of one's advisor's pet theory does not impart any charisma to a talk on "what I have done recently." Hence, my gentle advise to you is... a theory that lets folks go up and down the same well trod trails of thought is not motivating to a prospective convert. Cruel as it may sound, it is up to you to find the "killer app". i.e. Find the physical phenomena that are beyond explanation without your theory. Only then will folks invest the considerable time and effort required to follow your trail. Sorry for the tough love, but I've now seen it in gory detail from both sides.
It feels great to have a guy like Eric having a greater voice. I also had learning disabilities like severe dyslexia for which I had to hack my own brain as a kid in order for me not to be considered a problematic child. Just like my father i also am on the spectrum. It's fair to say that I had my fair share of challenges, never cared about grammar, i confuse the mechanics of certain analytical tools and so on. Paradoxically I was always considered the gifted child and always had an ease to understand extremely abstract ideas. The DISC was never my friend and it won't stop me either.
Hear Hear! Dyslexia has been my curse for a long time but I to have come to see it as a superpower.
you have my support! ... we need something bright, new and authentic and moving beyond the BS. thank you Eric.
“String theory is effectively an affirmative action program for mathematically talented baby boomers”
That's such a nice insult
Really appreciative of the big ideas Eric is trying to put out there. It's not always easy to commit the time and attention to this show that it deserves but that's simply the cost of raising the bar on online discourse.
Eric, listening to you makes me feel really dumb but at the same time getting smarter. You are one smart man and you have a wonderful way of communicating your ideas. Keep it up
This is one of the best podcasts out there. We need more discussions like this. Learning a lot. Thanks a lot.
Eric: thank you immensely for your work, which I have been tracking for about 2 years now. It's hard to articulate but the way you explain topics really resonates with me, as if it's the right level of complexity that I deep down always wanted but isn't easily available to me in day to day life.
Thank you Eric, a teacher of your talent, skill, knowledge and humility are all too rare. I just found this channel and it is much appreciated!
Although 99% of the content in these high level conversations, between powerhouse intellectuals, goes way over my head, that 1% slow drip does seep in and it starts to add up over time.
Just listening in is, of course, no substitute for doing the real academic work required to really participate in these discussions or even comprehend them. I may never be fluent, but it definitely feels as though over time I am gaining a conversational grasp of the language, and that’s incredibly valuable to me. There are plenty of other shows doing the pop science, dumb it down for the general audience thing, which is sometimes nice as well, but crossing that line makes your show unique.
As a Gen Xer, who hasn't yet found the stability and comfort that my parents found - granted, choosing music as a life path didn't help - I found this topic of conversation not only validating but wonderfully captivating. I look forward to hearing more as you further develop this platform. Best to you in 2020 and beyond.
I always thoroughly enjoy watching the Portal. You have an intriguing, inquisitive mind, and a way with words that suitably articulates your thoughts, and arouses the curious minds of your audience. Keep up the great work Eric. I would love to have a chat with you at some point.
Eric Weinstein, Keep it coming.
Many critical thinkers need the intellectually challenging discussions you offer.
Formats like yours are rare, if there really are any at the level you present. Thankyou!
Ok. My mission for the weekend is to binge watch. I need to get caught up on where the thought process has led to and the route it took so that I don't get lost moving forward. Have a great weekend everyone.
This was so crucial for me to hear to finally understand in detail where you are coming from. You've alluded to all this before but this is the first time I've heard you address it all so directly, clearly, and in detail. Thank you for getting us (or at least me - I tent to lag) up to speed!
Ron Paul on the portal before it's too late. Someone, like yourself, that had a seat at the table. And yet whose ideas were rejected for discussion.
They already missed the chance to have Harold Bloom
Ron is not interesting
Thank you for your time and efforts. I'm proud of you.
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." - Robert A. Heinlein
Here, here!!! This was inspiring. Thanks for taking the risk to step out of line and lead.
Do I sense a contention of: "Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable"? Great segment Eric.
I believe I have listened to most if not all of your podcasts on TH-cam. This one was a tour de force! Your integration of past topics made it very clear where you want to go with the Portal. I am an old man now, but clearly much of what you said hit intellectual and emotional chords. As someone who has always been a black sheep, and too often punished for being too radical and not nearly political enough, it brought back many reflections on the dangers of new ideas I once was fired, largely because I developed a piece of software alone in 15 days, that conventional wisdom said it would take 15 people 2 years to accomplish. My success made the senior IT management look bad, and generated far too many questions from their peers. Keep up the good work; in an alternate universe we are probably friends!
When you start a new job, you see all the problems with the way the company works. If you say anything about it, the typical explanation is "you just don't understand how we do things." After a few months at the company, you 'understand' how everything is done, and you can no longer see the 'problems' you once saw before. I think this happens at every stage of life, when you are a kid, when you go to school and when you get a job etc. It never changes and seems to be about people not willing to give up their 'power' of authority.
WOW WOW WOW! I'm so beyond THRILLED and inspired after listening to this episode.
An imagine of Elliot Spitzer, former prosecutor and governor for NY, came to my mind after this episode and a phrase he used during an interview. I'm paraphrasing but he said something like, "We knew we were walking into some of the most powerful and influential buzz saws in our nation, but we did it anyways." That sounds like what you have planned.
I cannot wait to see how you go forward from here. Thank you!!! And I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
Thanks for your time Eric. Bring on the real shit!!
@EricWeinstein @ThePortal... I think The Portal and it’s viewers will benefit from welcoming Ben Goertzel. I’d love to observe your minds intersect information and bring awareness to the most important issues of our time, plus discuss possible solutions. I’ve been trying to solve a problem in my mind about the knowledge of economy and I think a conversation between You (Eric Weinstein) and Ben Goertzel is the only answer I have to that question. Thank you for your time and expertise! I can’t say that enough! Warm regards. Thank for the housekeeping and hey the ads are pretty cool. We all definitely appreciate your transparency.
I can't wait to see where this community is in a couple of years. So glad I get to be a part of it from the beginning
The most inspirational episode of the portal yet! Love this channel and very excited for what's to come
People wouldnt be here if they didnt want to explore complicated topics. Relax, Eric.
Yeah, this is great, though I rarely watch. I hope he organizes it all into a book as I don't really have the time for a podcast. Perhaps a book will coalesce from the podcast at some point, hint, hint.
@Captain 7 I have never heard Eric express anything about being asked to dumb it down. Instead, I have seen the opposite scenario. People, not just me, are hungry for deep conversations that have been suppressed, ignored, etc. by the mainstream. The comments section here is a testament to that.
@Captain 7 Not offended in the slightest. Still disagree completely. This is a niche community to begin with. The last thing you want to do is turn off the core audience in an attempt to cater to those with a short attention span. The dullards can simply go watch Discovery Channel.
@Larry Myers Which part do you disagree with? That this isnt a niche community? That you should turn off the core audience? Or perhaps, you should cater to those with short attention spans instead of the actual people interested and willing to do the homework?
@Larry Myers A well reasoned and thought out reply both times. I commend you good sir.
Eric I like this hearing your ideas without interruption is really great... Eric for President :)!!!!
God damn I'm happy that Eric Weinstein is alive and well. Such a badass! I get so pumped listening to this show and so much more hopeful about the future. Things may seem dire, but the earnest pursuit of truth is what we need most right now. And please Eric, don't hold back on the challenging topics. I think you're underestimating how insightful your perspective is and how challenging a lot of the material you've already discussed with guests is. You've probably already filtered out the audience members you're thinking of
Thank you Eric for bring forth Truth! This speaks so much to the institutions of medicine and health care (also a sinking ship that won't hold new ideas) that has structured itself on keeping people scared of their bodies and their potential and removed the champions and trust of who really heals - nature and the divine. Look forward to watching, commenting & contributing.
Looking forward to the next 'Portal', and the one after that. And then the following one after that one, on and on. I've come to depend on them. Interestingly enough after watching each new episode, replacing an initial feeling of malaise and uncertainty, which seemingly abounds within, is confidence and focus.
Thank you Eric.
I sometimes feel out of my depth listening to your show, but it still intrigues me. You're on the right path. Thanks.
How do you know he's on the right path, though? If you only listen to him, and know nothing about the subjects he's talking about, then you're just blindly trusting him. Why not trust any randomly chosen PhD student from anywhere in the world?
Nice! Please make more of these where you put your thoughts out and comment on current topics.
Pedro Gorilla Bump.
Thank you for addressing us directly and for all that you're doing! Come do a live show in Boston next!
Admittedly, some of your discussions are above my brain grade. That being said, keep going. I didn't expect to find a great artist... great discussion with Lun-Yi on how art should be represented.
Thank you Eric! I really appreciate your point of view and you allowing me to try and wrap my mind around all of these ideas
Keep 'em coming, Eric. Hoping the gap between the audio and TH-cam releases might close a little...either way FANTASTIC.
Eric, thank you very much for all the prior work and thought which has made possible this exceptional synthesis.
Thanks for squeegeeing the Overton window, Eric.
I very much enjoyed this solo episode. Keep them coming!
Whoo, Eric! We love you!
Thank you for a clear and honest reflective view of what you are trying to achieve. More times than I would like, I struggle through some of the ideas you discuss or viewpoints you and your guests present, but there is more than sufficient material to both confirm some of my own awe at the weirdness of these days and trigger my interest in digging deeper to (and many times fail) understand these "new" concepts. This is very much appreciated. Please keep it up, with one more ready to pass through The Portal, all the way from beautiful Lisboa.
I agree with you when you previously said "It's up to Gen X to do something."
That's YOU and ME😎👍
gen x? I'm guessing I'll be dead by then.
Scott McCloud yeah I’m not gonna hold my breath either.
I worked on the Matrix, I see now as it felt back then that it was a documentary. Glad to see such a bright and articulate mind, please continue, you have my full attention.
Final point, “Why there are no living heroes”. I think I’ve found one. Keep it up!
I want to give you a ticker tape parade.
Thank you so much Eric and all the contributors to this wonderful channel! If you folk want some more participation, even unskilled thirtysomethings like myself can shore up, get a little nicer and more disciplined and attentive with running our lives, and hell maybe even leave a tiny supportive comment or two like this one. And gratitude, pardon the grammar, not so much the intention. Very much thanks for this portal out into something better, cant wait to see what we cook up next!
Also it would be nice to read about how mathematical emergent structures manifest themselves in the field of economy, markets and politics.
@Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana how so? What do you mean?
Here is an emergent mathematical structure: th-cam.com/video/sQywitFAkfE/w-d-xo.html
Love these solos, keep them up Eric, same with artist involvement for visual communication, great points with the DISC & focuses for 2020, we love you very much
I left academe after 20 odd years. It's the most rigid system we've ever built. I have hundreds of stories of how corrupt grant funding, peer review, and administrative mismanagement of research monies managed to kill meaningful work and results. Along with the ever-present diversity maxims I don't see the system as salvageable, and the crop of now specially selected faculty will further informationally contaminate the few good students most schools select...the products of a truly ruined state secondary school system. So it goes...someone down in the comments quoted Bucky Fuller about building new models...and I would argue new institutions. How to fund them would be an interesting discussion...Charter Universities?
It would then be a question of building all of the material that is somehow translationaly acreditable and transferable; such as MIT courses or coursera. That would take a lot of capital to start and substantial planning to insure or guarantee. We have the material, but have not developed it, and would take multiple groupthink conferences
You are a living hero my friend. You are the modern day Lindbergh flying over the cesspool that is present day media and political institutions!
Would love to see more solo episodes. I love the guests and this podcast is my favorite currently, but I think there’s also some value in truly being in the zone with nothing but your thoughts. I find with myself my best ideas manifest from solitude. Conversations between 2 people are great and provides a valuable perspective since ideas can contend with each other and create new ideas, but with solo you can dive in deeper with specific topics rather than bounce around between topics.
Yes...more .more individual pods!
Eric we need more content! I could only hope to even approach your intellect and education and I really admire your perspective on virtually every topic you speak on. Please dont stop... The world needs to hear more of your opinions and observations generally. Cheers from a patriotic American.
Lining up behind The Most Dangerous Man In America
Another great episode. Always enjoy listening. These ideas really are not talked about anywhere else. Refreshing!
Good episode, lots of interesting thoughts.
As a painter I love that you want to bring more artists into the Portal and can't wait to see how you do this in your always unique approach.
"String theory is effectively an Affirmative action program for mathematically talented baby-boomers who do not wish to sully themselves with the problem of working on the physical and real world as we have it."
- Eric 2020
This guy is so freaking fabulous! I wondered why Andrew Yang wasn't taking hold, bc his policy ideas were very well thought out, unique, and worth a look. Thanks for being here!
He must’ve been talking about me when he said significant people were listening
clearly this podcast is about me.
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We needed this! I just listened to your latest podcast on JRE. Thank you! We need you to keep doing this.
"The world is not behaving properly" Profound.
Keep on growing Eric! You are my number 1 source globally. I recommend your podcast to everyone I meet. It is THAT good. Thank you SO much for all you do and please continue for a loooong time
Hey - this IS high quality content, Go Eric.
Just for your information, I follow and love this podcast because of YOU. The guests are hardly a draw for me.
This is my favorite Portal to date. What a concentrated dose of calories for thought.
Thank you for doing these episodes Eric. I could listen to you talk for hours. I mostly follow the show on TH-cam (Red) so I hope some of the money I pay for my ad-free subscription to TH-cam filters down to your show.
Love everything the Portal is about. Only critique to date: Before you say that nobody is proposing a grand unified theory, or theory of everything, you need to have checked out folks who are. ie, Thunderbolts Project and Electric View. It's time to take the electric universe theory seriously, and this podcast would be an ideal format to get one of their leading lights on record. They have no problems with demonstrable experimentation and observation, as in the stagnated world of theoretical physics. Plasma physics is hiding in plain site, were it not for the very gatekeepers that Eric laments.
Yes 100 % . Even I get it and it feels truthful. Thunderbolts project is exciting and real .
Youre creating youre own institute here. Youre essentially our professor and us students. It's an incredible thing.
Part of me hopes every edition of The Portal is 'unusual'
I enjoy the show so much. Love the bumper music...reminds me of the Art Bell radio program. Thanks for not dumbing things down. As an autodidact with no formal education I like the challenge and learn so much. Hope you keep it going....
The moment someone enters the portal is the moment they truly internalize that a single entity can be honestly and rigorously interpreted in multiple, conflicting ways given different starting contexts/states. Further, these contexts are usually not the result of individual growth, but rather cultural and familial programming, all of which are imposed on the individual without consent. It is painful when you enter the portal. I would imagine most people sit on the edge for a while, in massive amounts of pain. Part of you clings to the fantasy world you once knew. Another part dangles between dimensions, disoriented and grasping for anything that you can know for sure. Anything you can rely on. You come up empty-handed. It continues to be painful until you either renter the fantasy world of lies, knowingly melting into ignorance so deep you classify those thoughts as "dark" and "crazy," or you let go of the need to hold on to anything.
Thank tou for this solo podcast Eric, looking forward to the future developments !
about the hero point, i can't stop thinking about jordan peterson. This is probably one of the best podcast episodes ever
30 days in ICU. Nearly died several times. Off to the land of unending Quackery to seek healing? I'm not holding out any hope for his return
The Hero has to die and be resurrected (or nearly die in weaker versions) before he can return to the society to save it. Without risk of death, there is no hero.
Considering the internal pain and discomfort Jordan was in while he was delivering his message to the world, while receiving alot of external push back, lies , slandering and misrepresenting what he was saying by the media. The man was sandwiched between pain and still managed to do what he did.....Hero is a good word for him
Get Jordan on ur pod when he's recovered from recent illness.
Eric-thanks for your time and effort. Your podcast is excellent. Keep the "higher level" ideas coming (as well as talking about the Beatles like you did with Tyler). Include artists as well. Although, we are in the "fly over" State of Michigan you have a robust and enthusiastic group of listeners here in the Great Lakes State-keep it coming. BTW how the hell are you so smart on so many diverse, different and varied topics? I'm a fan.
I'm pretty sure you already know how to Destroy 'DISC' forever and are on the path to doing it. You form a multi-disciplinary team and offer peer review in an open setting posted online for everyone to see. Your team has enough followers to bring enough value to each peer review. Every institution/company can view a persons work directly instead of placing any trust in 'DISC' and it's famous institutions. Much like Wikileaks you shine enough light on the truth and you will very quickly build up a great reputation. It takes a ton of work and the funding for a project of this size is enormous. Get it going on a shoestring budget and poke around for an angel investor that also wants to end the hegemony of 'DISC'.
What a great precursor to the interview with your brother Bret and Ben Greenfield! The best pod cast for 2020...
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Give us the complicated concepts, so we can expand our interests.
There’s a great many of us who have been waiting for a Podcast such as this one.
Exposing the upside down world. I'm excited
This is what I came here for, I got a glimpse of your idea on Joe's show and have been waiting for this. Please continue.