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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, you've found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by. | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, you've found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by. | ||
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'''Sam:''' 01:47:03 Yeah. So, he's, he's having dreams about the goddess Lakshmi who handed him theorems. | '''Sam:''' 01:47:03 Yeah. So, he's, he's having dreams about the goddess Lakshmi who handed him theorems. | ||
'''Eric:''' Well there's, there's that, you know, the Kerala School of Astronomy that came up with infinite series before Newton and Leibniz, was doing it in religious poetry, you know, it rhymed I think over there in Kerala. So, there is a, there is a kind of madness that you have to invite to break new ground and there's a kind of sanity that you have to invite to wrestle with the madness. And our friend Dan | '''Eric:''' Well there's, there's that, you know, the Kerala School of Astronomy that came up with infinite series before Newton and Leibniz, was doing it in religious poetry, you know, it rhymed I think over there in Kerala. So, there is a, there is a kind of madness that you have to invite to break new ground and there's a kind of sanity that you have to invite to wrestle with the madness. And our friend Dan Barcay came up with this idea that science is a two-front war, but that most people are only been deployed to one front. And I think that that's a real, it's a really nice image. I do worry that in part the activist mindset, particularly on the left has a very clear idea, which is that, yeah it's really a shame the number of people who have to get hurt for justice to be done. | ||
'''Eric:''' 01:47:56 And that is a highly conserved idea that I had not understood was, was broadly distributed. | '''Eric:''' 01:47:56 And that is a highly conserved idea that I had not understood was, was broadly distributed. | ||