The Big Nap: Coronavirus and World War II - Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman | AI Podcast Clips
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Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light on the darkest corners of our society. He is the host of The Portal podcast, a part of which, he recently released his 2013 Oxford lecture on his theory of Geometric Unity that is at the center of his lifelong efforts in arriving at a theory of everything that unifies the fundamental laws of physics.
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In Vietnam, I saw a wedding couple at a war memorial and never understood it until now. Thank you Eric.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"- Vladmir Lenin
The quote has not been more relevant than during covid time
It's boring as Fyck in Australia.
I don’t think COVID-19 will last decades and there sure isn’t much happening in this quarantine
Milton77 your missing what he means. Not talking about Covid directly lasting a decade. More or less talking about things that are occurring on a economic level and things that are getting passed into law.
Milton77
He means in a strategic sense of a small passing of time in which structured events can take effect as if it were decades in the making
Yeah, because the Global Elite orchestrate it.
It does feel like some kind of weird firedrill
That... is a very good way of putting it.
or a shit test.
I suspect it is more like a dress rehearsal, seeing how far they can push the authoritarian rules, snitch culture, as long as people's self interest is at stake (being infected)
It feels like the twilight zone to me. Everyone all creepy hiding their faces behind masks. The grocery store intercom reminding you to wash your hands. & social distancing our new mantra. It’s insanity to me
You guys are some of my new favorite people, just discovering ya'll. Keep up the good work and continue helping honesty and the truth moving forward! Love the podcast.
The thing about the two stories is that capacity isn’t perfectly distributable.
Right now is the under ocean earthquake. The tsunami is coming later
philhellmuff - Very good analogy which I will steal to explain something I’ve been failing to explain simply
Right, and what tsunami are we talking about here precisely?
"it's not a museum piece, handed to you by your great grandparents" - Eric W.
Like Eric, I can't make up my mind wtf is going on but I my instinct tells me it sure aint kosher. Meantime I pray for the good souls whose business & lives have been smashed to bits out of the blue by this invisible enemy. 🙏
yes. when will the enemy reveal itself and how large of an enemy will it be? something just flattened us. the whole world just got shut down. something is happening. this is not a drill
Or by the government...
A really well thought out interview and analysis
Thank you, Mr Weinstein. I cant figure it out either. It feels like a paradigm shift that everyone is choosing to ignore, regardless of the fact that its a mallet in our faces.
My two favorite podcasts of recent, thank you
Lex, thank you for this. Love everything you do and I trust your genuine spirit. Eric was ok too. 😄
Interesting how he predicted post-covid almost perfectly at 6:40
6:00 Eric, thank you for putting it so concisely. Something just feels off about the whole situation
everyone is finally waking up
I felt it from the start. When schools were officially cancelled for the remainder of the year I felt even more uneasy. I refuse to wear a mask. Yes I’m one of those. How do we prepare for the unknown? I try not to scare myself but my instincts tell me it’s going to get worse
definitely feel like we were all invited to a "out of season Halloween party" that no one knows who is the host...and therefore whats the finale ??? 😕
I like how thoroughly they avoid the word «fascism» and shift discourse to «abstractions», «tragedy»… ah… «silent suffering» (w-h-a-t?) and even «The Plague» by Camus (aha… they've heard something… oh… someone spelled it out…) doesn't help them to recall the word and bring it up. Excellent chatter to rule out _this word_ from the very thing it defines!
Lex. A GREAT guest for you: Peter Zeihan. Topic: Geopolitical landscape post current crisis. ENJOY!!
I really love these two men. Always enlightening, thank you
As always, great stuff
Thank you for this discussion.
Brilliant conversation and deep thoughts here.
I have a very similar feeling about Covid-19. On one hand it seems obvious that everyone has to shelter. On the other hand it seems that if we could just get the deaths over with, that too might be a satisfactory solution. Yes, these points of view seem contradictory, but maybe we should just think of them as two legitimate strategies, of which one or the other might eventually prove itself better, but we do not yet know which is better. Or maybe we need a mixture of both?
Good interviewer, great subject.
You should have on Charles Eisenstein he did an excellent interview on rebel wisdom called the epidemic of control.
Lex u studied both WWS but forgot your own backyard of the #coldwar infact i think this is the the 2nd version of it cos until a country falls we wont realise that it was the cold war ❄
u hit the nail on the head! no one can figure this puzzle out either 😕
quess we need to keep waitin on the clues they give us....
There are countless variables to this. We as humans are just having a problem of understanding that some things are bigger than us.
Great channel, keep it up!
I like hearing Eric's perspective. He's quite a treasure.
Definitely feels like we are all in a global stanford prison experiment. And all I can hear in my head is Morgan Freeman at the end of Seven saying, "John Doe has the upper hand."
Aristotle thought that reading would diminish the ability to remember properly because reading is a way to transmit data to/from someone you can’t see. With the invention of broadcast many people began not thinking for themselves and on the same schedule. The internet became an exponential of a problem we all kind of knew, but were hoping would resolve itself. The problem of the Tower of Babel. We’re all watching the same thing but having different interpretations, for good reasons. These interpretations become the only differences as long as we’re all agreeing that whatever the thing said is what we should be talking about. We get stuck in a position and and nothing gets done.
Death and rebirth. Kill the notion the thing dictates what the positions are. Your interpretation of the positions or of the thing itself may be what’s in the way
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Exactly, two parallel experiences. Perfect. You nailed it. I cant wrap my head around it either, it isn't natural to our usual life challenges. I do feel like a guinea pig......like Alice in Wonderland.....
I’ve often pondered this. Could earth have possibly split in 2 parallels. I’ve never been much of a believer in this but nothing makes sense right now. So many obvious contradictions
But I thought "stay home" and social distancing id saving the U.S. hospital system as well as many lives, for now, anyway. Would the crash of the hospital system been worth saving the economy?
Mabel yourmama With the exception of a few hotspots areas, hospitals are so empty they have furloughed doctors, nurses & other staff. Here in TX they are saying rural hospitals might permanently close unless the state &/or federal gov bails them out. The healthcare systems should have been monitored locally to determine when/if the extreme measures were needed to prevent the healthcare systems from being overwhelmed. Instead the entire country based stay at home restrictions off of New York’s situation.
What if we create new type of currency system. Country based currency system is not helping anyone 🤓
Seems China didn’t take many chances with their food sources from international markets
You refuse to see?
The similarity is that then was WWII, now is WWIII. The main difference is that then nations fought with kinetic weapons, now it’s biological, which is genius on China’s part just for the sole issue of deniability.
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Systemic Evil
Exactly
Maybe you're not hearing it because you're not looking for it? There are plenty of stories being told on facebook, youtube and even reddit straight from those who are experiencing hardship everyday
Love the podcast but I'm curious: Did Lex explain why he's continuing to have live guests-- particularly live guests without masks?
Who cares?
For the same reason I see medical professionals walking around in public spaces without face masks.
I’d rather see people without masks. It’s insanity the whole mask thing, it’s not normal. Humans are social by nature & we rely on faces to interact with one another. Is this a step to towards human detachment from one another? The psychological effects are detrimental considering we’ve detached ourselves by forms of social media
Maybe we're going to to go through want are great grandparents went threw Coronavirus Pandemic , The Great Depression II 2030s , World War III 2040s
Eric for President in my favorite dream
Someone should tell Eric that in Ukraine they don’t say the Great Patriotic war anymore. It’s been removed with all the other remnants of the USSR.
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Maybe we're going to repeat History
thought,arms of the octopus,the ability to regenerate.....good discourse.
02:14
trancript said : "corruption of Steven Pinker´s optimism"
transcript must said: "DESCRIPTION of Steven Pinker's optimism"
The lack of a pictorial presentation of those who have died is a problem. Tragedy is understood on a human level not by speeches or statistics but in our ability to see it. The photography of the Civil War and the Holocaust are examples. So far we’ve not seen any pictures or videos of the 90,000+ dying or dead. This isn’t about spectacle or shock value but about the true human experience and our instinct to make good or bad choices. We have become insulated from death and birth as a society; it’s been sanitized and removed from our experiences. I don’t think it’s been helpful for us psychologically. It allows us to live in a strange twilight zone where we are cut off from two of the most important events of human existence.
For a guy who’s very smart he’s sure making little sense here. “We’re overreacting and we’re not reacting enough at the same time. I can’t quite explain it. It’s really strange”
Thanks Eric, that really clears thing up.
You missed the central theme. By his statement, he is saying this situation and storyline we are being fed, does not add up. There is insufficient information to even suppose a conclusion. In effect, it should drive us all to demand clarity/action.
If you were looking for something or someone say a needle in a timeline...get everyone's cellphone home?
@Roy Barry
This is a tremendous fact that has never been done before.
Some have to be using it to their advantage, as a random opportunity, or even a planned opportunistic thing based on a “what if a pandemic hit?” possibility.
Please expand on this, you’ve totally got me spinning.
If dude doesn't get it then something is wildly off .
Man this aged well
Only believe half of what you see nothing you hear
I love you guys.
Brian Cave
Individualism is an abstraction that can only exist during extreme abundance and affluence.
There, I said it....
It’s funny to read that from someone using your handle
Aye!
@@milton7763
Organic ≠ Enforced
Individual Rights ≠ Individualism
Pragmatism ≠ Idealism
Dignity Cultures ≠ Honor Cultures
Community ≠ Collective
@@Neptunion118 I think you're right.
There is not much to admire about someone pretending to be out on their own unless for introspective porpoises....
Nietzsches Power Thanks, but rather irrelevant to my remark. My remark was about your handle pointing to Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest proponents of the power of the individual and making a statement about individualism being an abstraction
The realization will suddenly hit those who preached "lost your coal mine job, here's a voucher to retrain to learn computer coding" that they are now the target. Recession is where your neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose your own livelihood.
Only the smartest people realize how dumb they are in many respects
6:03 "something is wildly off" . Yes. The President is that something.
Kjw sad they come on such a logical and profound CZcams channel to show their TDS
He never seems to understand where Lex is coming from
My belief system tells me this current crisis is Biblical. There IS real evil. And there is God. Part of why we don't understand where we are is our reluctance to accept that God is working to get our attention and we would rather worry about our marble counter tops. We are basically full of crap. And He is knocking and we are all pretending we aren't home.
Lex was right, look at the demonstrations all over the world, people are frustrated.
This man Weinstein sounds like he may be the most intelligent person I’ve ever listened to. His grasp seems so wide and far reaching and totally unusual.
He subtly claims a lot of knowledge that he does not truly understand. He's a mathemitician and a great wordsmith, so he has the ability to seem high level when he discusses any issue. His main focus is economic and financial work, so he has a genuinely good grasp on politics and macro issues. His brother is a biologist and former professor. They're both brilliant.
So the critique at the beginning about short term selfishness, by Eric, seems invalid...
Rational individualism (Objectivism) is not “do whatever he or she wants and just leave everyone else alone.”
Eric knows very well that a rational person assesses the relationships in their life, and acts accordingly, hopefully rationally.
“Collective action” is the real abstraction here.. only individuals can act.
Eric seems disingenuous at best here... because he’s well aware of Objectivism.
invalid, false, mean, and stupid as hell if I may add..
great discussion, like every crisis, it's about how one responds... so far we are failing ... but the game has just begun
The serious part is the China ccp part. The fallout from this could be huge.
Be sure and watch the entire interview. 👍
Is this interviewer 'a young bright mind'??? Does he place himself in this particular group? I was unimpressed with his take on what people feel i.e numb among other statements
10:15 I think what Lex was sensing is playing out, and the current scapegoats are the police (who do deserve to be shamed to some degree).
🏴☠️ sumthin is off.
I want to know has anybody been talking about the Pope and his new world one religion . It is very important to bring out into the open how do you force people to one religion that is so wrong
feed the A
Love ya guys
Theres plenty of suffering. Its just nobody cares. It will all become very real when homelessness rises and paycheck to paycheck is destroyed even further through even further inflation.
The year 2020 will become recognized as the year having a dose of the flu became a criminal offense.
The Hair!😁👍
A brilliant mind unable to see what is clear to others who don’t refuse to insert the God/Jesus variable
I've got two nickels
And "go get retrained"... same message from trump and biden......
It feels "off" because it undermines a myth of America.
Exceptionalism just took a bath.
Aliens r coming !!!
There’s no such thing as aliens. Read the Bible & everything celestial will make sense
I’ve seen a ufo
If this was our generation's WWII, it would be young people's responsibility to be productive, build immunity, protect the vulnerable, and ensure people can return to society. This is more like our generations internment
The “collective” is itself an abstraction
those two bumps on Weinstein's face is distracting.
The 'moonlanding'. Sorry to wake you up, but that was a big lie I'm afraid. But carry on.
Lex - love you , man, but can I give some feedback on your interview style? Please stop looking down at your questions for so long and not engaging with the guest! They're your questions, right? Surely a micro-glance at a bullet-point will remind you, don't read every frikkin word from the page! You'll get more from your guests if they feel truly engaged .. just sayin. Love the channel.
I couldn’t disagree more. I honestly had to re-watch twice more bc I truly am blown away by his style overall, and manner of speaking. It’s very rare. Also I didn’t get the impression at all that Eric didn’t feel engaged, he seems like enjoys talking to Lex.
@@amykarpowicz2510 Fair enough , your opinion, and I cannot deny he's successful and again I really like Lex/the channel.
Just saying that I find myself shouting at my PC sometimes ... stop reading your questions (as if someone else wrote them) !
I'd love this kind of conversation in private.
I don't think it's a great idea in public.
Bryan Slankster you’re an idiot
@@MikeSmith12345 That's what I like best. When smart people start prepping for wars and end of the world scenarios, someone gets trigger happy and a whole lot of bad shit happens.
@@MikeSmith12345 And if I can offer a suggestion, don't spend a lot of your time trying to convince me your smarter than me because I won't believe you and you will have wasted your time.
Neither of us will have benefited from it.
Then go to the corner and talk to yourself about it.
@@bryanslankster7937 . The reason we're in this mess in the first place, is that whenever a great tragedy or disaster happens, those that wish to exploit the situation to their own benefit, say that it's not the right time or place to discuss it. Or it's too soon to talk about why it happened. On the contrary, while it's still happening, and while it's fresh in people's experience, is precisely the time and place to openly discuss it and find solutions which will help if the situation occurs again in future.
what i don't get is Trump says he chats on the phone to these vip presidents kings and yet he doesn't ask them the ultimate question...."what the hell happened?" so maybe its truly a private convo that even if u are a democratic society its all #hushhush #shhh
Wow! Is this the cuckoo’s nest?
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Dont listen to him he is delusional. Some fish with blank stare.
You guys are some of my new favorite people, just discovering ya'll. Keep up the good work and continue helping honesty and the truth moving forward! Love the podcast.