Chemical Rockets: Difference between revisions

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1372834058183483395

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Open to other ideas of course. Just haven’t heard enough that sound plausible.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1372834056514138117

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I am not looking to “Escape Earth”. I want to escape running a single undiversified experiment in human consciousness survivability.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375112456784121856

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It’s as if we’ve got one really nice house, one shack and one lean-to. It’s like deciding that if the US doesn’t work out we can move to Rockall if we just spruce it up or Sealand.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375110712587034625

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The idea that we can’t spend money on trying to diversify humanity beyond one planetary surface with nukes, bio hacking & climate issues until we have solved problems here is ludicrous.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375112457547522061

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Physics may not work, but new physics is our best hope. And we don’t even believe that story anymore.

|timestamp=3:48 PM · Mar 25, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1392658740143218689

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>I

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1392655277648797697

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m usually see @elonmusk as one of the few seeing our long game. This feels bizarre so I’m not getting something.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1400693853179375616

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I mean obviously our government and science establishment should be the ones leading this...but that currently makes no sense in their degraded states.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1400692210731937795

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Makes sense. I guess. Sorta. It’s just super disappointing that we aren’t focused on actually saving ourselves.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1400692209565921285

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My issue has been “How can the richest man worried that we have to preserve human consciousness focus on [[Chemical Rockets|Rockets(?)]]&amp;Mars, when he has a physics background &amp; the ability to personally lead an attack on getting beyond Einstein’s limits?”

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433165663757996032

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@agoonforhire Thank you for this!

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135221205979139

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I think that’s great. Where we differ is that I don’t think Earth, our Moon &amp; Mars plus space stations connected by [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] give us much real diversity. It’s barely doable. But assume you could make it work. I would want to run 1000s of uncorrelated experiments as most will fail.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135218932609024

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let’s be clear about this weird sounding issue.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135225559650305

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But yes, he believes. In fun. In hope. In ending the epidemic of learned helplessness that has infected everyone else. So I’m a pretty die hard Elon supporter. Not because I agree w/ everything. But he gets **the** big issue right. We need to end the single correlated experiment.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135222795563010

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And if we are stuck in this solar system with the physics we know there is only one good surface and two marginal ones.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135234803912707

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But because Elon is so smart, I don’t discount the idea that he isn’t interested in finding out if post-Einsteinian physics for some reason. I just doesn’t add up to me, but maybe he knows something I don’t. But north of $100B w/ his knowledge of physics, he could change it all.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135233616932865

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Now he may have a reason. But I have never heard him address this so it just makes no sense to me. No one is taking the need to go beyond Einstein seriously so we are pretty much trapped here in this solar system with the physics we know. That means three terrestrial surfaces.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135232442519557

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So on the main issue we agree. The second issue is where we differ. A  

multi multi billionaire (12 digits!) as smart as Elon w a physics background could diversify &amp; place a small 2nd bet on rendering General Relativity a mere effective theory by single handedly fixing physics.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135236817162243

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I just want to know why no one asks this question. Lex could do it. Joe could do it. But he doesn’t seem to address it so I have no idea what is going on. It’s not some special insight of mine. Our best hope for his stated dream is new physics. And making physics rich is cheap.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135242081013760

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And the two multi billionaires I believe have the best technical chops to do this are Jim Simons and Elon Musk. But no one wants to build institutions that can do this because our institutions haven’t worked well enough since the Apollo program. So, I’m hopeful he gets asked.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135240889843718

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Now that doesn’t strike me as a small ask. It’s a big bill. But it is also our best hope. Imagine COVID was radioactive fallout from a serious nuclear exchange and compute half lives. Or imagine a climate disaster.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135239501467652

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Imagine you wanted to pay 2m salary to all the top 50 theorists in the world for 10 years to get them all to move to a couple of centers to free them from careerist temptations so they could at last swing for the fences. The salaries would be about 0.005 of current net worth.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135246459871235

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=<nowiki>#</nowiki>OccupyMars is good, but #FreeThePhysicists isn’t even as popular as #FreeTheNipple or #FreeBeer  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135245100912642

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=There isn’t much left that works in this area. I’m still betting on Elon making sense. It’s one of our last really good hopes. And returning fun and mischief to public spirited scientific attempts to “preserve the light of human consciousness” is something I’m 100% behind.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433135243528073216

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Either way I want to encourage him. But I want to know why [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] over physics. Why not both? Why is a physics guy w a HUGE risk appetite not trying to do for Einstein &amp; his speed limit what Einstein did for Newton’s Gravity? If you know the answer, I’d love to know it as well.

|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433136710683004929

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@finaltoe Physics is subject to survivor bias in a system of perverse incentives. We induce physicists to work within failed paradigms if they want to eat or house their families. It’s an insane thing to do. We shoot ourselves in the foot when we take away their independence.

|timestamp=6:36 PM · Sep 01, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433137542358966274

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@jetpen No one sane wants to have to lean on time dilation for the reason you state.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433164723957035008

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@AndrewS65627884 Sure: @elonmusk, you have an open invitation to talk whenever you want. In confidence if preferable. On a podcast if desired.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451721327065251840

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Liv_Boeree @peterwoit @garrettlisi @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @FQXi @penrose @JulianBarbour @DrBrianKeating @skdh Anytime Liv.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697478936367104

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It’s not that I’m not interested in stewardship of planet earth. It’s that we can’t rid ourselves of people who should *never* have power achieving god-like ability to screw up everything. Like the @EcoHealthNYC and/or PRC may have with their virus tinkering god-complex in Wuhan.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697477975830530

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=COVID could be climate destruction. It could be ocean poisoning. It could be nuclear fallout. It represents how what happens in one location will no longer stay there. It will get everywhere.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697476201639941

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What do PostEinsteinian physics, @elonmusk’s Mars agenda &amp; the still COVID-free super remote Island of St Helena have in common?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697483285819395

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m overjoyed that St Helena has made it this far with 5k souls, flights, shipping &amp; no Covid. But their strategy can work with viruses in a way it cannot with nuclear fallout. Plus, they’re not truly self sufficient in any way.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697482321170434

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So that’s a large part of why tiny St Helena, @SpaceX and theoretical physics should be watched by all of us. I’m happy if Elon puts his eggs in SpaceX but if he is serious about what he says on saving humans, it is crazy not to save all of theoretical physics as a side project.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697481478070279

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=That leaves post-Einsteinian physics. And our theoretical physics community isn’t really even doing fundamental physics anymore as a focus of research. They do physics adjacent mathematics and call it physics if they want to be employed and keep their jobs. And no one steps in.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697480572157954

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m not against @elonmusk’s [[Chemical Rockets|rocket]] agenda. Super impressive.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697479762644999

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Stewardship has so-far worked w/ @StHelenaGovt and Covid. It’s just very extreme and hasn’t been effective at isolating larger land masses. Good luck trying to stop billions of people around the world tinkering with the twin nuclei of Cell &amp; Atom as they get easier to manipulate.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697486263767041

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So I hope this explains why, in part, I’m focused on physics, but am also keen on St Helena and @spacex / @elonmusk as well. I even care about people trying to upload us into silicon. Everyone working on diversifying away from a shared fate has my admiration. No matter how crazy.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451697485450121221

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We need our physics community to work with 4 dimensional, 1+3 signature three generation models again and to stop pretending that they are doing physics when they work exclusively on toy models over a career. And we need to insulate them. It’s insane to nickel &amp; dime our top 🧠s.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Oct 22, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451704539015380994

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Liv_Boeree I’d look at @peterwoit, @garrettlisi, @stephen_wolfram, Nima, @DavidDeutschOxf, @FQXi, @penrose, @JulianBarbour, myself and others who are trying new things. @DrBrianKeating and Curt Jaimangul are talking about this on their podcasts. @skdh seeks to be a counterweight to hype.

|timestamp=12:18 AM · Oct 23, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1451706841398874114

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@PeterMcCormack @Breedlove22 You don't need to hustle.

|timestamp=12:27 AM · Oct 23, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1462277035208757254

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@CameronSepahi @bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi Open to this. But let’s not declare victory just yet.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569302927069187

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Finally. (Yes)**100

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569305473011712

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@elonmusk, point blank: why not save the independence of physics so that it can attempt not to break the speed of light, but to render Einstein an *effective* theory. We can’t use [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] to do much. We are talking pennies to you. I just don’t get it. Why is this even an ask????

|timestamp=5:37 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569306794151936

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It may be a waste of money. But it is far more likely to render Einstein’s speed limit irrelevant in a deeper theory, than it is to terraform Mars and stay in this regime of hopelessness. You could dwarf the @the_IAS. Send a jolt of optimism to end the postmodern nonsense.

|timestamp=5:37 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569308098633733

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=$100m for theoretical physics. Just explain to me why this isn’t obvious. Do [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] all you want.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569309596020738

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We should talk. But you should also be talking to @stephen_wolfram, @DavidDeutschOxf, @notevenwrong (Woit), Penrose, @garrettlisi, Julian Barbour, to say nothing of Nima, Lisa, Ed, Juan, Nati, etc. Our window is closing from groupthink and neglect.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461569311764451335

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Dms open.

|timestamp=5:37 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461573445762777091

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@ProNaif No. GR is “True” but as an effective theory. We don’t know what happens in a deeper theory.

|timestamp=5:53 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461573519183994883

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@ProNaif He knows this.

|timestamp=5:54 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461618829541343237

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@benkellyreid The biggest issue is committing to a diverse portfolio of research programs over time.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461619593340878848

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@benkellyreid If someone says “you are fully funded for 2 years” I don’t know that the recipient takes risk.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461620879729704960

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@ks_kulk I would imagine. But many people think Relativity is an absolute theory rather than an effective one. It’s very weird.

|timestamp=9:02 AM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461717096941846531

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi Wildly disagree. Resource constraints kept old programs alive which could not make contact with physical reality well past their exploratory honeymoon periods. It is almost 40 years since the G-S anomaly cancellation result. Yet, here we are.

|timestamp=3:24 PM · Nov 19, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461950770618646531

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@CameronSepahi @bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi When did this happen? Show me. I must have missed that one.

|timestamp=6:53 AM · Nov 20, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1475337460896784385

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@very_real_guy @elonmusk Elon and I barely intersect despite many common friends and colleagues. Don’t know him at all so I can’t comment. But he has dropped more than one knowing comment about advanced physics theory (e.g. 6-dimensional superconformal field theory) like he is signaling. Maybe nothing.🤷‍♀️

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1475326941934747649

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@elonmusk Do you yourself have a fundamental theory? Do you have a theory group working on a T.O.E.?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1475328701977952261

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@very_real_guy @elonmusk He had made other noises. Mostly it’s [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]], crypto, batteries and engineering. But there is more going on. He clearly knows that Mars ain’t gonna be sufficient. I can’t shake the feeling he deeply gets it at another level from public Elon which is more cryptic and chaotic.

|timestamp=4:52 AM · Dec 27, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1475329333052928000

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@NotoriousMHB @elonmusk People always say that… ;-)

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1497065511275819013

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@nostaticzone @elonmusk No. He is partially aware (I’m told) and physically knowledgeable, but curiously focused on [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]]. At least so far.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1496894413687033856

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’ve been perfectly consistent to the point of perseveration. And we are here now.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1496894412390998017

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Twin Nuclei Problem:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1496894410780405761

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I understand many of you can’t handle the idea that we BOTH have to support our leadership in a crisis AND *simultaneously* pressure them to step aside as too old, out of touch and militarily / technically incapable of handling the Twin Nuclei Problem.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1496894414974689297

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=COVID and Russia as the Twin Nuclei Problem: listen again with fresh ears and an open mind.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1496909010309566466

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@jbdaughtry Will not be the first time. But, as someone who has talked about civil disobedience and pressuring the octogenarians to resign, consider what I am saying.

|timestamp=6:04 PM · Feb 24, 2022

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1497274887311749120

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Time to see whether we can diversify off this planet via physics rather than [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]]. Onwards.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1497274109222264836

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Feel free to say such insulting things powered by semiconductors, transmitted over the WWW, encrypted by Elliptic Curves, carried to you via Electromagnetic Radiation after 70 years of peace brought to you by the Teller Ulam design while you navigate by GPS.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1500178584471687168

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Get science back on track.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1500178582403833858

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It is far more likely that we will voyage the cosmos using new science, than that we will make Mars inhabitable using [[Chemical Rockets|rocketry]].

|timestamp=6:37 PM · Mar 05, 2022

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1500178585562218496

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It can’t be clearer. I can’t be clearer.

|timestamp=6:37 PM · Mar 05, 2022

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1540117330973192192

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Chemical Rockets|Rockets]] ain’t gonna cut it. We’re gonna need a “bigger boat”.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1561630662813052928

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@jimmyjandal @elonmusk With Putin in Ukraine? I would restart it in a heartbeat to discuss how we really get off this one sphere to diversify our bet. Not my call however.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1561623187778990080

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We are the first people in hundreds of years to allow known physics to crush our spirit at scale. We made one crazy bet on string theorists 40yrs ago and suddenly we now all give up? I wish I understood this better. Never, never, never give up.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1561625546580054019

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@cornettd We will build tunnels.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570107833710170114

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@MimeTravel I’m not. But there is only one way to find out.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570090986969403394

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Under Newton, we were free to explore the cosmos: 1686-1905.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570092276206149632

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m not going to complicate the basic story with caveats. That’s the basic plot.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570095403038814215

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But if we can leave to explore the universe by going beyond Einstein, anyone else out there can visit.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570096379405676544

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If life is abundant &amp; we’re not the top of the hierarchy (which is reasonable to me), I’d guess that UAP would be here if that is possible in Einstein’s successor theories. The absence of UAP is strong but *inconclusive* proof that Einstein’s restrictions persist in all theory.

|timestamp=5:05 PM · Sep 14, 2022

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570097237136658433

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Hence my interest in UAP. UAP from distant worlds would be a strong indication that it is possible to diversify our shared risk which is that all known technological life is dependent on one atmosphere linking our three main existential risks:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570098837645332486

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So if #ufotwitter ever wanted to know why I didn’t take #UFO seriously, it was because I thought it was *preposterous* given lack of evidence.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570101628317085696

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@sneakin @elonmusk

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570103964460523520

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@White_Shadow81 I chose alphabetical.

|timestamp=5:35 PM · Sep 14, 2022

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570104394603196416

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@HaackRick @White_Shadow81 Lexicographical order is “Fealty”?!

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570107200647090183

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@HaackRick @White_Shadow81 Is PCR a Straussian critique of Fauci’s COVID response?  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1619167588893982720

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Wow. Hard core.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275218631589889

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Here’s a little secret. Some (e.g. @elonmusk) search for good human beings who are also great interviewers when their reach is still *small*.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275222473576454

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As for high “clout” podcasts: a good guest remembers who helped them and publicly acknowledges it. The following people really helped me get reach early on.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275226529435649

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=In my world, @joerogan is quietly one of the most generous people in podcasting. Ask anyone. He offered early on to do my podcast. I never wanted to have him on early because he’s SO big. I thought I would build it up first organically before having him on, as he did JRE.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275224155480064

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Another weird thing is that the ideal guest is someone you can help get reach who is NOT a household name. I started The Portal with two monster guests. But my 3rd guest was pretty obscure. Why? Because he is wildly important to me: @timurkuran, a super innovative economist.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275231185108993

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=How do you signal early on that you’re a great podcast investment? I don’t know…but I’ll give you my favorite question when I started that seemed to work ok: “What are you tired of talking about &amp; what should I research that you are dying to discuss but somehow never get asked?”

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275229163454464

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So here is my advice for what it is worth: clout matters…but NOT the way people assume. The guests you want, mostly want to help you get good and get big. They will do your podcast as a non-transactional investment in you and your future. But you need to be investment worthy.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618275241956102146

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And thanks for *always* being a great and generous friend. Generosity beats  Clout every time because it is so rare in social and new media where mean is everywhere.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618279354957717506

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Bill_LessThan3 @elonmusk I don’t know him, but he is the only person I know who gets the need to diversify humanity’s planetary habitats and is willing to say it in public. So that makes him a pivotal human to me, despite the many flaws we all have. Myself included.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618281722873020417

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@DrDrhello10 My wife @PiaMalaney is senior economist at INET &amp; a Harvard PhD.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618283028119457794

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Honest question: How do we stop the epidemic of amazing accomplished women cutting each other down? Okay. I also see dramatic necklines. But I see entrepreneurs. Authors publishing in @Nature. Film makers.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618285483678892032

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Vihmunhoz Like ambush journalism but as a podcast?

|timestamp=4:31 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618287234058440704

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@rationaloptmist @elonmusk Huh. People tell me they love our interviews together. Which one of them is lousy?  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618296572592422912

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@armysman30 @tferriss @SamHarrisOrg @RubinReport @joerogan @bariweiss @benshapiro @glennbeck Thanks friend!

|timestamp=5:15 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618316417438486531

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@NicoleBehnam @elonmusk When invited.

|timestamp=6:34 PM · Jan 25, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618320210490200065

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature *Treatment  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618376356756328452

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you:

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621931483358461953

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@elewrockjazz Seconded

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054161885499395

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Today May be Considered the 50 year Anniversary of the Stagnation of Particle Physics.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054165408706560

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Unfortunately, it also marks the end of what we can be certain actually is physics.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054168764133376

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To be clear, It is not as if there are no Nobel Laureates recognized for fundamental discoveries in particle theory left. I believe we are down to the last 8. Half of them are in their 70s. One in his 80s. Three are nongenarians. Yes. It's that bad. And we're not honest about it.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054175483432960

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So I am celebrating today by pointing out the obvious: maybe it isn't a good idea to have people who haven't made contact with actual fundamental physics telling everyone else what they must and must not do to be members of a club that no longer works according to normal science.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054172224421888

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=When you hear about "Peer Review" in this field, you have to understand that the field stopped working. Without nature telling us, we don't actually know who the physicists are any more. We have no idea who is a fundamental physicist. All we know is that what we do doesn't work.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054178570407936

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What fundamental physics really is, is (approximately) captured by the table below. In short, if someone is below the age of 70, they may have proven their brilliance and mathematical ability, but they have not proven any ability to make contact with reality as theorists.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054184186613760

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So what went wrong? I will be talking about my understanding of the stagnation this year at a different level. But the single greatest threat to fundamental physics in my estimation is something called "Quantum Gravity" which was really born 70 years ago around 1953.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054181443514369

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I will point out that our experimentalists are in FAR better shape. The massive nature of neutrinos, discovery of gravitational waves, the Higgs field, Intermediate Vector Bosons, Accelerating Expansion of the Universe/Dark Energy are all major successes over the last 50 years.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054187512668160

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To put it bluntly, it is not just that Quantum Gravity doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes StringTheory, Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054190691975168

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern StringTheory to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054196949651456

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It is time to hold conferences dedicated to the issues of groupthink in physics. Why wont our leading voices admit failure? We don't know. Previous generations wanted their students to succeed. But String Theory is dominated by boomers who seem oblivious to danger.

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054193426661376

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We spent almost 80% of this time being told that ST was a 'Piece of 21st Century Physics that fell into the 20th Century.'  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054200439537667

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So by all means, let's celebrate. But it is time to ask new voices for wild, dangerous and irresponsible ideas. Peer review failed. Quantum Gravity Failed. Community norms failed. And soon there will be NO ONE LEFT proven to be able to play this game. So what do we do?

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054198824710144

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If we're going to truly wrestle w/ dark matter, or dark energy, or UAP that supposedly violate our laws of physics (e.g. General Relativity) we can't afford a leaders projecting their fears that THEY have wasted their lives, credibility and students careers on "[[Quantum Gravity]]".

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054205107802112

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let's put resources in new avenues, theories and theorists that have yet to fail. The next time you hear a theorist telling you about quantum gravity, the multiverse or String theory or Loops or Supersymmetry or AdS/CFT, etc. Ask them the following dangerous question:

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054203522347008

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As someone who has tried to ask this question, I can tell you that mostly the big programs have granted themselves a science equivalent of 'dipolmatic immunity' from the standards they impose on their intellectual competitors.  But from today forward, we must end that game.

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054201957847040

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We need to spend perhaps 5yrs asking "If the leaders have not succeeded for FIVE DECADES in moving beyond the Standard Model, then why are they leading this field and directing the resources, research, and path forward? What if we listened to those who the leadership push aside?"

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054206814871552

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content="If you haven't succeeded in 50-70 years, what other theories would be viable if we relaxed the standards you have imposed on your competitors given that your theories do not seem to work? What if your [[Quantum Gravity]] were subjected to such standards? Would QG be quackery?"🙏

|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621055968699383808

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let's honor those who tried before by bringing the same energy they once brought to the attempt to learn our place in the universe. Happy to be corrected. But this is an emergency if we're ever going to go beyond [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rockets]] and use physics to take our place among the stars.

|timestamp=8:00 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621058252246237184

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content="I remember when rock was young...🎶"

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621064891057721345

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Pennywi25761697 Many. What areas?

|timestamp=8:36 AM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621200109215309824

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Seggitorial @martinmbauer Maybe you didn’t get the point of Embedded Growth Obligations. It’s a single point of failure problem. It’s not a million different problems.

|timestamp=5:33 PM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621292942110638080

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@nu_phases @martinmbauer I actually really enjoyed your list. It was quite varied. It included changes in the understanding of the techniques (e.g. RG) and other advancements. And, as you hint at, it dovetails with my point about the stagnancy of fundamental theory. I do not think all physics stagnated.

|timestamp=11:42 PM · Feb 02, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621293652936105985

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@nu_phases @martinmbauer And as per the Renormalization Revolution, a non fundamental result can unlock further fundamental ones as we saw after the late 40s. YM QFT wasn’t built in a day after all.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621911660092067844

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Pennywi25761697 For Classical Mechanics, from a math perspective I liked Arnold’s book.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621912705669136386

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Pennywi25761697 Also, I have been wanting to check out @seanmcarroll’s books and lectures on introductory topics. He is usually very clear and extremely good at explaining things. I might even start there, but I personally haven’t gotten there as of yet so I can’t say for sure.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621913229982318594

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@elewrockjazz Bring that brain of yours from the keyboard to the black board and we’ll get it done.

|timestamp=4:47 PM · Feb 04, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1669378266514489344

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Are we still trapped here in this solar system, even after assuming complete knowledge of physics? What do you think?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1679277222472077312

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@asmotek @elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai Nah.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1679275691295248384

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai Finally: science beyond [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rocketry]]! Just skipped physics and leapfrogged to AI apparently. Wild.

|timestamp=11:44 PM · Jul 12, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1679277062711054336

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@5adcru @elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai I am assuming that one of the primary targets of this effort will be physics and resolving the possibility of interstellar travel through basic physics research beyond Einstein.

|timestamp=11:50 PM · Jul 12, 2023

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1796422736891589011

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@DrBrianKeating Since Saint Helena is a great isolated island to practice making  a small colony truly independent on a terraformed Mars, why is he not there practicing?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1796417518254399868

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Long digression ahead. Please skip if not generally interested in interplanetary/interstellar issues.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1796421035538960387

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don’t think that is right. That is the argument that sounds slightly right. If a grizzly bear is starting to snarl from

100 meters, I don’t pick up and comit to the first twig I see. I scan the forest  floor and environment while there is still time to think.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1849230040804057342

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@JSVoutilainen If you had meaningful post Einsteinian physics and engineering it might make sense to practice using it with a local target.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1849212168664752413

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=A question that I find fascinating:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1849216441725198590

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I should say that this formulation is inspired by @elonmusk. I myself never focused on Mars. I have never thought much about making our Moon or Mars habitable via [[Chemical Rockets|Rockets]]. It seems marginally possible and I have very little to contribute on that issue.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1849218059724263443

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My personal guess is that terraforming mars via [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] is too hard a problem. I personally feel we are more likely to find a scientific way out of this solar system and find new exoplanets that are better suited.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1891415123744489498

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1907840914573124005

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My guess is that isn’t exactly it. He avoids funding physics which is a huge piece of clue.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1907836385756627228

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I love this place. You see it in everything I talk about.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1907838527338926140

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And, praytell, how would you know what is possible? What princpie are you referring to?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975320596755194305

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@sluitel34 Nope. Everything until the after the dash I totally agreed with…but then it went wrong.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975260367715770619

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Spacetime is the map we have confused for the territory for &gt;100Yrs.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975262172839399899

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Scientists and mathematicians urgently need a cutting edge post-Einsteinian Engineering project, the way Mars needs a [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rocket project]].

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975264923065389089

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@sluitel34 Bingo.

|timestamp=6:20 PM · Oct 06, 2025

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975284435621978304

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@sluitel34 Geodesic…in GR.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004818738047320118

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@beffjezos I know. I see the same reality.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004811194037850123

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We’ll do quantum computing.</br>

We can do quantum information.</br>

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004811191588421747

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Mark my words:

“Anything-But-Physics”.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004811195765924092

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Has anyone else noticed how consistent this is? Anyone?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004811933984456760

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@noah_vandal No

|timestamp=7:09 AM · Dec 27, 2025

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004812027223777645

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@FreedomR10156 Exactly. It all sounds physicsish.

|timestamp=7:10 AM · Dec 27, 2025

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2004814550244180096

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@beffjezos This is, in my opinion, and with all due respect, rationalization of what is.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2011091064241996238

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I am going to try to say this once clearly at scale. Many people have developed an @elonmusk fetish where they don’t take inspiration from Elon to go out and change the world. They wait for Elon to do it. Including in science.