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

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:27) - Aliens and physics
(11:12) - Breaking the frame of conversation
(12:56) - Time travel across multiple dimensions
(19:07) - Is the government in possession of alien spacecraft?
(25:31) - Freedom of speech
(36:49) - Elon Musk
(38:07) - Idealism of every era
(41:26) - Non-locality of free speech in the Internet age
(47:03) - Glenn Beck
(48:57) - Joe Rogan
(53:41) - Freedom and fear
(55:14) - Jeffrey Epstein
(58:53) - Aaron Swartz
(1:04:29) - Jeffrey Epstein and Geometric Unity
(1:24:04) - Cancel culture
(1:26:06) - Alex Jones
(1:35:01) - Curtis Yarvin
(1:39:40) - Michael Malice
(1:42:00) - Intellectual Dark Web
(1:48:52) - Innovation
(2:02:10) - Economics
(2:09:29) - Cryptocurrency
(2:15:37) - Geometric Unity paper
(2:32:42) - David Goggins challenge
(2:34:05) - Father and son