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Enjoy this classic episode from the vault: Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein, New Years Eve 2020!

Brian Keating brings together two thought leaders at the edge of physics and philosophy: Max Tegmark, physicist, cosmologist, and pioneer at MIT, and Eric Weinstein, mathematician, economist, and creator of Geometric Unity.

Timestamps:

00:00 "Ambitions in AI, Physics, News"

16:58 "Emergent Reality from Proto-Spacetime"

22:50 "Rethinking Unification in Physics"

36:09 "Value of Disagreeable Individualism"

45:32 "Optimism for Academia Careers"

01:04:08 "Dangers of Oversimplifying Physics"

01:07:34 "On Success, Science, and Wonder"

01:18:47 "Funding and Advancing Physics Research"

01:30:28 "Perspective on Science and Society"

01:43:13 "Three Types of Scientific Experiments"

01:52:05 "Collaboration and Discovery in Science"

02:02:20 "The Messiness of Scientific Truth"

02:13:08 "Simulation, AI, and Ethics"

02:20:55 "Limits of Technology in Cosmos"

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