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=== 2020 ===
=== 2020 ===


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|content=@Mkouri @grahamfarmelo I don’t want to approach it that way. I would say that [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]] and [[Michael Atiyah]] are the most impressive minds on this list. Like just shockingly impressive.
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|content=The Portal Podcast just passed 4000 reviews! We have had amazing guests!
 
Yet, if you want to see an off-beat contender for the world’s smartest guest list, it may be a podcast with only 6 reviews!!?! @grahamfarmelo is pushing the envelope pretty darn hard. Give him some love!
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|content=It’s hard to imagine a more impressive line up of true heavy hitters. This is the best of what we humans are capable of at our peak.
 
If you want to be early on a discovery that shows markets are not efficient, here‘s your proof. Get in on the ground floor. These guests are tops.
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|content=Which episode would you say is most accessible, or just best?
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|content=If I ever have [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]] on the program I will ask him how he manages this horrible aphorism.
 
It’s like the ultimate Sisyphean troll of Ed: expecting him to instantly exit every room he encounters simply for the high crime of entering it....
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|content="If you're the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room."
@EricRWeinstein's the portal podcast feels like the right room for me.
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|content=There's a follow on discussion over at the @notevenwrong physics blog w/ John @Horganism, @johncarlosbaez, Scott Aaronson, @peterwoit & others. @RHDijkgraaf & I have disagreed about this before, but either he or [[Ed Witten]] may be the best to make this case:
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12053#comments
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|content=My colleague @RHDijkgraaf (who heads @the_IAS with the world's top physics department) has written a provocative argument attempting to refute the narrative of an End of Fundamental Physics. It would be terrific to have him on The Portal to make the case:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/contemplating-the-end-of-physics-20201124/
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|content=Is physics facing a nightmare scenario? A desert scenario? Worry not, writes @the_IAS director @RHDijkgraaf. "What we currently know is an absolutely negligible fraction of the physics that’s out there, waiting to be investigated." https://quantamagazine.org/the-end-of-physics-20201124/ via @QuantaMagazine
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=== 2021 ===
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