01 January 2026
Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories, & New Year’s Resolutions! (Repost from 2021)
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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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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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Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with productivity tips from 9 Nobel Prize winners: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life-changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA
The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un
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