Lex Fridman Podcast

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

Oct 30, 2020

02:57:31

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The Joker and the Thief Are on the Other Side of the Internet

01:51

The World With Conspiracy Theories

02:33

The US Was the Greatest Thing in the World

02:03

Introduction

2min

Getting 20% Off Grammarly Premium at Grammarly.com

2min

How to Optimize Your Digital Life

3min

Is That Voodoo Magic?

2min

How to Live a Life of Love and Joy

3min

The Most Perfect Example of What a Human Being Can Be

2min

Is It Love? Is It Love?

2min

A Love Song Is Like Nina Simone's Feeling Good

4min

Bob Dylan - I Was in the House When the House Burned Down

3min

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The Greatest Conversation I'll Ever Have

3min

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Suicide and Depression - What's the Only Escape Out?

4min

12.

Leonard Cohen and the Beauty of Darkness

2min

13.

Is There a Difference Between Differential Geometry and Spanish Fly?

2min

14.

Is Hendrix Really a Russian Virtuoso?

3min

15.

The Goodwill Haunting Story

2min

16.

You Want the Russian Special?

2min

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The US Was the Greatest Thing in the World

2min

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The Digital Orchard

2min

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Is There a Way to Find New Orchards?

2min

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Podcast - Where's the Vodka?

2min

21.

We Are All Editing Ourself All the Time

2min

22.

You Don't Think You Can Build a Rocket Company?

2min

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I Want What Elon Musk Is Having

2min

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Is There a Wrong Kind of Rivalry?

2min

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Is There a Better Twitter?

3min

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Do You Think We're Going to Have a Civil War?

2min

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What's Meta-Violence?

2min

28.

What's on Your Mind, Lex?

3min

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How Do We Let Love Win in This Moment of Potential Chaos?

3min

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Why You Shouldn't Say 'Stuff'

3min

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The Joker and the Thief Are on the Other Side of the Internet

2min

32.

Is There Someplace I Can Stand and Speak the Truth?

3min

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I'm Worried About Joe. He's Not Worried.

3min

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What's the Deal With Spotify?

2min

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Is He Strong Enough to Persuade?

2min

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I'll Bet You Bottle of Stoli That You Can Get

2min

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Is There a War Between Good and Evil?

4min

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Are We Creating Better Platforms?

5min

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You Give, Are You Running For?

2min

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Are You Afraid of the Big?

2min

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Is Elon Musk Divisive?

2min

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The Portal, Is Something That Moves People

3min

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I Don't Want to Be a Patreoner, I Want to Do the Work.

4min

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Are There Any People in Marketing and Sales in the Eyes?

2min

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The Army of People That Love You

2min

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Jack Dorsey, Is There Any Power?

2min

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Why Aren't You Doing the Podcast to Return?

3min

48.

We Need Excellence, Competence, Excellence Behind Closed Doors

3min

49.

Is Jaco Willing the Best That Hollywood Ever Produced?

5min

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The Power of Words at Twitter

2min

51.

Don't Pledge to Be a Prisoner of Your Money

2min

52.

Roger Penrose - Is He the First Physicist?

4min

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The Nobel Prize Is a Prize That Is Used to Rewrite History

3min

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Is Evil Too Strong a Word?

3min

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What Is Jeffrey Epstein? We Don't Know.

4min

56.

What Is the Heroic Action to Take?

2min

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Is There a Conspiracy?

4min

58.

The World With Conspiracy Theories

3min

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Jeff Epstein - The Only Person Capable of Continuing US Scientific Tradition

2min

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Is It Worth Dying For?

2min

61.

Air Quiz Time - Master Uwe

2min

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Is There a Better Hope in Hell?

2min

63.

The Problem Is, You Don't Think Poe Was Jewish?

4min

64.

Are You Thinking of Revolutionary Ideas for Communicating Geometry?

2min

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What Are You Grateful for Today?

5min

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Earnestness Trades at a Discount at the Moment

4min

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Is There a God Above?

2min

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OUTLINE:
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00:00 – Introduction
07:46 – Eddie Van Halen
15:26 – Leonard Cohen
23:22 – Battle between ego and humility
28:38 – Darkness and beauty
35:20 – Jimi Hendrix
38:08 – Good Will Hunting
42:16 – Revolutionary minds
53:49 – Next Elon Musk should come from MIT
58:14 – Love with save the world
1:03:30 – Are we headed toward a civil war?
1:15:04 – Joe Rogan
1:28:52 – Our political leaders
1:34:11 – Younger people should have more power
1:44:30 – The Portal
2:09:20 – Money
2:11:26 – Roger Penrose
2:19:06 – Jeffrey Epstein
2:37:44 – We need to get off this planet
2:40:41 – An update on Geometric Unity
2:46:33 – Gratitude