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+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions.
+So….Where is yours? Thanks again.
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+|name=Eric Weinstein
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+|content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.:
+[[CN Yang]] (with Lee and Simons)</br>
+[[Paul Dirac]]</br>
+Ernst Stueckelberg</br>
+[[Madame Wu]]</br>
+David Bohm</br>
+Abdus Salam</br>
+[[Ken Wilson]]</br>
+[[Emmy Noether]]</br>
+Ettore Majorana</br>
+Carlo Rubio</br>
+Shin'ichirō Tomonaga</br>
+[[Lev Landau]]</br>
+Simon Van der Meer</br>
+Freeman Dyson</br>
+Julian Schwinger</br>
+Paul Ehrenfest</br>
+John VonNeumann</br>
+Feza Gursey</br>
+Wolfgang Pauli</br>
+Louis and [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]]</br>
+Hans Bethe</br>
+George Sudarshan</br>
+Vera Rubin</br>
+Gerard 't Hooft
+Not all of those stories are…uh…simple.
+Would be curious to hear names from others.
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+|nameurl=https://x.com/sama/status/1682809958734131200
+|name=Sam Altman
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+|content=i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
+let's get that movie made!
+(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
+|timestamp=5:48 PM · Jul 22, 2023
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+|timestamp=4:54 AM · Jul 23, 2023
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+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682977591836196866
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is:
+A) Terrible Pay.
+B) Worse Odds of Survival
+C) Decoupling of Success at Physics from Success in Physics
+D) The Matthew Effect.
+E) Math and Physics Pricks
+F) Tyranny of large programs over individuals.
+G) Multi Decade Stagnation
+H) Un Scientific And even Anti-scientific behavior.
+I) The Matilde Effect
+J) The Sudarshan Effect
+K) Ethics Collapse
+L) Needlessly long pedagogical sequence (e.g. intro physics -> Classical Mechanics -> Grad Classical Mechanics -> Symplectic Geometry)  driven by history.
+M) Socializing physics into a team sport in areas dominated by individuals and iconoclasts.
+N) Tolerance for Program level failure (e.g. *obsessive* use of toy model physics to evade a reckoning).
+O) Intolerance for individual error and failure by those in programs.
+P) Failure to reward early contributions (e.g. *Abelian* Chern Simons QFT).
+Q) Atrocious MSM journalism distorting the public understanding.
+R) Relentless discussion of woo physics in public and 3-5 real topics (e.g. somebodies cat).
+S) Learned Helplessness coming from over-learning Ken Wilson.
+T) Inability to support motherhood of female physicists.
+U) Inability to keep physics marriages easily together with jobs.
+V) DEI loyalty oaths and loss of autonomy.
+W) Flooding of markets with disposable labor and abuse apprenticeship as labor.
+X) Kicking up on attribution.
+Y) Overpaying for cherry topping.
+Z) Fetishizing the quantum when innovation in classical field theory remains the heart of QFT.
+|timestamp=4:55 AM · Jul 23, 2023
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+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682977595321720832
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure.
+You need to hold meetings where you get disagreement. So choose the leaders and iconoclasts with great care. Patrick Collison isn’t terrible at this. B+. Best I have ever seen. Start there. Good luck. 🙏
+|timestamp=4:55 AM · Jul 23, 2023
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+|timestamp=5:14 AM · Jul 23, 2023
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