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#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness


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Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
00:00 – Introduction
07:46 – Eddie Van Halen
15:26 – Leonard Cohen
23:22 – Battle between ego and humility
28:38 – Darkness and beauty
35:20 – Jimi Hendrix
38:08 – Good Will Hunting
42:16 – Revolutionary minds
53:49 – Next Elon Musk should come from MIT
58:14 – Love with save the world
1:03:30 – Are we headed toward a civil war?
1:15:04 – Joe Rogan
1:28:52 – Our political leaders
1:34:11 – Younger people should have more power
1:44:30 – The Portal
2:09:20 – Money
2:11:26 – Roger Penrose
2:19:06 – Jeffrey Epstein
2:37:44 – We need to get off this planet
2:40:41 – An update on Geometric Unity
2:46:33 – Gratitude

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