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#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Evil Too Strong a Word?
The Nobel Prizes are plagued by omissions as much as… And distortions and dilutions. For example, Dirac and Schrödinger were, I believe, given the prize in the same year. There's no reason that those two people needed to dilute each other. The same thing with Dyson was an omission. Tomanaga probably got included in part because we had an opportunity to show that something had happened on both sides of the Pacific after the war. But I don't think we needed to Dilute Weinberg or Feynman or Schwinger. It just makes me somewhat sick. All of these people are such important giants... Not wanting to create luminaries and
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