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#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Free Speech for Ideas Is Meant to Be Dangerous

I can go to a public park and I can shout if I get a permit. Even there, in the ninth, late 1980s in Atlanta, we came up with free speech zones where you can't protest at a convention. The idea that one life is too much is preposterous. Why do we send anyone to the beaches of Normandy? We are a country about danger and risk.

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