link to episode
~4 hr podcast from yesterday with Eric Weinstein on JRE.
Loaded with interesting science/UFO topics, wanted to post a few below;
-Originally uninterested in UFO topic, believed it was all a cover for military programs. Compared to WW2 when the US was planning to “invade
Norway” as a cover for D-Day. Understandable train of thought - didn’t want to waste time pondering what he thought was a cover story.
-Claims he has been getting “Charlie Brown’d” by various intelligence agencies promising to show him mind blowing, advanced tech only to back
out over and over again for ~3 years.
-Questions these agencies assertions that they are seeing things that “defy the laws of physics” - he has repeatedly asked for someone to talk to
that understands physics enough to even properly define the laws that are being broken. No luck - doesn’t understand how they can make these claims
without knowledgeable Physicists to confirm.
-Interesting theories on why IF this was a government fake, it would make total sense that they would want to ensure real, knowledgeable Physicists
weren’t involved. Example of if these are just “lasers being reflected from mirrors to appear that we have physics-defying craft”, when you let
the actual knowledgeable smart people look under the hood they would quickly realize this.
-Interesting connections between Stony Brook U & Renaissance hedge fund - believes if there was a “Manhattan Project” level of underground science
going on, that’s his bet where it is. Talks about (4) “unknown” sources of mass wealth in recent history - two were Epstein and Madoff, one is
this “Renaissance” hedge fund.
-Lots of interesting comments on the stagnation of science and particular fields within it. Basically says anyone who colors outside the lines is
immediately labeled a crackpot and discredited to the nth degree.
-Thinks conspiracy theories and the big “push” of them lately is due to private citizens stumbling on big gov projects. Gov has internal tools to
check with other gov orgs before pursuing leads to ensure when they do things like arrest a drug lord they aren’t actually screwing up the CIA’s
15-year infiltration plan. What do they do when a private citizen stumbles on this though? They paint them into the conspiracy theorist corner.
-Loved his comparison of VHS/cassette “rewinding” vs current streaming and how we currently think about movement. With rewinding we were going
Point A => Point B, then Point B=> Point A each time we wanted to watch something. This later becomes unnecessary and we can now just continually
watch Point A => Point B and immediately restart at Point A each time. How often is our current tech “rewinding” unnecessarily?
-Small mentions of some cattle mutilation stuff that seems to really freak him out. Something about the 3 inner ear bones with mammals. Don’t know
enough about it to understand much but he seemed really perplexed that he wasn’t able to quickly dismiss some of these accounts.
-Talks about one of the other scientists connected to all of this being into remote viewing. Says that guy told him they do it in pressurized
submarines at the bottom of Mariana Trench. Interesting thoughts about how neutrinos could be involved. I pictured the Batman Dark Knight scene where
he turns all the cell phones into a viewable real-time map of Gotham.
These were just some of the more interesting topics I remember from watching it yesterday. Wondering if any others have given it a watch yet and what
things stood out?