Why Does The Modern World Make No Sense? (YouTube Content): Difference between revisions

Looking at is, you know, if you look at Mike Hopkins work on the covariant variant in the mathematics department. That's like opening. Opening weekend statistics. Man, great stuff happens at Harvard. Make no mistake about it. Harvard is an amazing and horrible place. And we're going to all now focus on how dumb it is and how horrible it is. And like then you're not seeing the tragedy, you're not seeing—look, I didn't have an advisor. I am one of the only people you'll ever meet with the PhD that had no advisor. But the guy who saved me was named Raoul Bott. And Raoul Bott discovered something that's so important called Bott Periodicity that, if I could convey it to you, your mind would be—you'd think DMT was for children. It has to do with the fact that there are only four systems of numbers that have a particular property, and one of those sets of numbers spins a merry-go-round with the other three with an eightfold sort of symmetry. Who knew that this thing was even possible? It's just it's an incredible fact about the world. I associate him with Harvard. That's unfudgable. There's no—There's no one in the world who can tell me that Bott Periodicity wasn't one of the most important things that happened in the 20th century. And to have a person like that, you know, just feet from John Tate. I could go on and on about all the real things that happened in Harvard. What we need right now, look, look, I. Would love to run for president of Harvard. If Claudine Gay can be president of Harvard, so can I. And what we need is somebody who's been. Wronged by Harvard. You need somebody who has not been on this kind of escalator to power, who is constantly shown love by the system. There are all sorts of people that represent what I call black sheep. Harvard, you've got white sheep, Harvard and black sheep, Harvard and black sheep. Harvard is no less important, but it's the people who are not loved by the system, who don't know when to shut up, the people who will take a stand and who will zig when everyone else zags.