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Eric Weinstein talks about the lack of clarity in the conventional explanations of mathematics and quantum mechanics. And he explains them in a way that's understandable, even if you have to listen to it a few times, the way he explains what we know about the very fabric of existence is accessible. If I could understand it how he explained it, you can.

#1347 - Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.

Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

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Making Sense Podcast #205 - The Failure of Meritocracy | Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Daniel Markovits about the problems with meritocracy. They discuss the nature of inequality in the United States, the disappearance of the leisure class, the difference between labor and capital as sources of inequality, the way the education system amplifies inequality, the shrinking middle class, deaths of despair, differing social norms among the elite and the working class, the ethics of taxation, scales of philanthropy, universal basic income, the need for a wealth tax, the relationship between meritocracy and political polarization, the illusion of earned advantages, and other topics.

Making Sense Podcast #119 — Hidden Motives | Sam HarrisIn this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Robin Hanson about our hidden motives in everyday life. They discuss selfishness, hypocrisy, norms and meta-norms, cheating, deception, self-deception, education, the evolutionary logic of conversation, social status, signaling and counter-signaling, common knowledge, AI, and many other topics. Robin Hanson is an associate professor … Continued

Making Sense Podcast #41 — Faith in Reason | Sam HarrisIn this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Eric Weinstein about the relationship between faith and reason and about some of the factors that make conversations on important topics so difficult.

27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding ApocalypsesIn this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet. Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subculture of the human potential movement. This group bets that there is a second evolutionary stable strategy for cohabiting not based on conflict or rivalry, even for life raised in Game A (i.e. standard evolutionary and economic environments based on scarcity and rivalrous goods. Eric asks Daniel about where the bright spots and progress might be in this movement which refuses to accept the fate that that Eric has elsewhere put forward as the Twin Nuclei Problem of having unlocked the power of both Cell and Atom in the early 1950s without the wisdom to use it. Thank You To Our Sponsors: Athletic Greens: AthleticGreens.com/Portal Mack Weldon: MackWeldon.com - enter promo code PORTAL Four Sigmatic: FourSigmatic.com/Portal

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