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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=If you want a great introduction to the unusual thinking and sui generis wisdom of this man, you could do worse than his article on “Missed Opportunites”:
|content=If you want a great introduction to the unusual thinking and sui generis wisdom of this man, you could do worse than his article on “Missed Opportunites”:


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. [[Freeman Dyson|Freeman Dyson’s]] trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar.
|content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. [[Freeman Dyson|Freeman Dyson’s]] trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar.
|timestamp=6:20 PM · Oct 16, 2018
|timestamp=6:20 PM · Oct 16, 2018
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|content=Hey @grok, my sarcastic physicist colleagues are lecturing me again. Maybe I’m a big dumb-dumb, but I seem to remember something about [[John Aristotle Phillips|John Aristotle Phillips’]] undergraduate work under [[Freeman Dyson]] in 1976 at Princeton.
|content=Hey @grok, my sarcastic physicist colleagues are lecturing me again. Maybe I’m a big dumb-dumb, but I seem to remember something about [[John Aristotle Phillips|John Aristotle Phillips’]] undergraduate work under [[Freeman Dyson]] in 1976 at Princeton.


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|content=Ah. Good to know @grok.
|content=Ah. Good to know @grok.


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|content=Wow! That is crazy @grok. This is like an undergraduate thesis!!
|content=Wow! That is crazy @grok. This is like an undergraduate thesis!!


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|content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|the “Only Game In Town”]].  
|content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|the “Only Game In Town”]].  


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|content=Good to know @grok! I was worried that I was losing my mind with all these wild ideas.  
|content=Good to know @grok! I was worried that I was losing my mind with all these wild ideas.  


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|content=So interesting @grok.  
|content=So interesting @grok.  


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|content=Woah @grok. Let’s think about what this means together.
|content=Woah @grok. Let’s think about what this means together.


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|content=Good question my silicon friend @grok. I dunno.  
|content=Good question my silicon friend @grok. I dunno.  


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|content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok.  
|content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok.  


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|content=Well, GU. Which produces bizarre lying behavior. I mean out and out lying from my colleagues. It sorta blows my mind.
|content=Well, GU. Which produces bizarre lying behavior. I mean out and out lying from my colleagues. It sorta blows my mind.


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|content=You can look at my pinned tweet @grok.  
|content=You can look at my pinned tweet @grok.  


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|content=Crazy prediction @grok? DESI isn’t gonna stop at Lambda CDM. It’s headed for [[General Relativity|GR]] via Lovelock.  
|content=Crazy prediction @grok? DESI isn’t gonna stop at Lambda CDM. It’s headed for [[General Relativity|GR]] via Lovelock.  


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