Glenn Beck interview of Eric Weinstein 3 weeks ago. Moreover, these populations also seem to overlap with groups conditioned to disbelieve anything they see in the mainstream news. —  James @ Megacancer.com, ‘peak demand for oil’ is the economic equivalent of saying the reindeer on St. Matthew Island faced ‘peak demand for lichen’ — Nate Hagens. Meaning comes from understanding why we can understand there is no meaning. Fire to cooking to intelligence to denial to god to plotting to capital punishment to self-domestication to Apollo 11 to 7 billion too many. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present – Frank M. Snowden, “A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. The most precious and rare thing in the universe is the human brain. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise, the success of the Green Revolution will be ephemeral only. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.” If you do not understand energy, you understand nothing. He's spot on about the LARPing stuff, and it … (They are what William Catton in “Overshoot” referred to as “cargoists”. I barely knew who Eric Weinstein was, still don't really. Our only choices are do we want to fall from a higher elevation later, or climb down from a lower elevation sooner? Since I was a little boy the most important question for me has always been Why?. In this new interview from March 2020, Eric Weinstein goes to the bottom of what happned to Jeffrey Epstein, and asks precisely why journalists and government official do not ask some very basic questions. At the end of the series of lectures she told me that she couldn’t believe the university was allowed to teach so many lies! A few months ago there were reports that US intelligence agencies figured out what happened. Sad too. It is remarkable that a brain emerged from a cloud of hydrogen and figured out the laws of physics that governed, and possibly made inevitable, its own creation and destruction. It’s much easier to detect denial in polymaths because almost always fossil energy driven overshoot is the only important topic they are completely blind to. Eric Weinstein is a case of serious and profound denial by someone that has no excuse. The cumulative effect is the very definition of decline-collapse. He’s apparently blind to the relationships between energy, wealth, debt, and growth. Interview With Eric Weinstein Nov 25, 2019 Leigh Cuen talks Bitcoin with Thiel Capital’s Eric Weinstein. “No warthog restricts calories to look good in a bathing suit next summer.”), This book is a miraculous synthesis of scholarly domains, and at the same time laudably careful in its determination to point out at every step the limits of our knowledge. Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. It can be argued that slowing it down is still technically possible, but that would require a monumental change in human behaviour or a very fast intentional kill off of billions. He thinks the public education system broke down after desegregation. Keep up the great work! Watch Weinstein’s discussion about the future of academia on Lex Fridman’s Artificial Intelligence Podcast. No need to worry about a deficit when the government can print money, say some economists, ‘Modern Monetary Theory gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy’. I don’t know where it came from as neither of my parents were obsessed with Why?. He’s apparently blind to human overshoot and the need to get our population down quickly. Thank Michael. The episode reinforced my opinion that Weinstein is a brilliant polymath in deep denial of reality. ; In a recent interview with Rebel Wisdom, Weinstein spoke … 12 0. We Search the Web for the Best Intellectual Dark Web Podcasts, Lectures and Videos that can be understood by merely listening to save YOUR time. The only way to know for sure is to explain the facts and associated evidence about human overshoot to someone and then observe if they still deny our predicament and what needs to be done about it. Years ago when I was at university I attended lectures on evolution in 1st year biology. Watch Dave Rubin’s full interview with Eric Weinstein here: Is the state of US news driving you crazy? Yesterday I worked as a mason’s assistant building a brick wall. The bursting of the global dollar debt Bubble will likely coincide with a major deterioration in the dollar’s value as the world’s reserve currency. They’re ordered events, because microbes selectively expand and diffuse themselves to explore ecological niches that human beings have created. At least Weinstein, born in 1965, chose to have only one kid; Sagan, born in 1934, had five, two well after overpopulation was presented to the public. Apocalypse never: what coronavirus teaches us about doomsday denial. I don’t attribute this to denial, economists are simply idiots. There is no VS, it’s both. May 15, 2020. Some Population Matters doomer said this once about the future: “With the earth groaning under the weight of 7+ billion people, most wanting to consume as much as possible, I think the last thing any ecologically literate person would do is add to the burden. I’ll check out your new series. Eric Weinstein Interview - Is Technology Killing Capitalism ERIC WEINSTEIN INTERVIEW THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB PODCAST. Eric Weinstein Interview AI Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society. But we need more funding. This is the 3rd post of 5 containing the transcript of a podcast hosted by Eric Weinstein interviewing Peter Thiel. Faced with news photographs of makeshift morgues and dire headlines reporting body counts, we see that all of us, from Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, are vulnerable—a fact that we push out of our minds in less threatening times. *I don’t disbelieve anything I see in the mainstream news. What planet is she living on? Weinstein had some type of professional business interaction with Jeffrey Epstein before the Florida sex case took place, and he knew something was fishy about the guy. I’ve added Weinstein to my list of famous polymaths in denial. Some of the denial of the risks of COVID-19 comes from religious or political beliefs, or simply from a lack of first-hand experience with the virus; sadly, COVID-19 causing the death of a family member or close friend is too often the only way to crack the wall of denial. Thanks, an excellent example of in your face denial. Can you imagine the mayhem when JoeSixPack wakes up to the reality and implications of peak oil and climate change? Nobody discusses our Byzantine debt bubble machine and denial thereof better than Doug Nolan. I have to admit that I’m only paying a fraction of attention compared to to what I used to. For explaining why humans are odd Regarding “A 30-year no-child policy”, do you have a basis for thinking we have the luxury of 30 years to sort out what we have already done? It’s something that authors of apocalyptic narratives have rarely, if ever, envisioned. He thinks non-carbon energy is a feasible solution to climate change, and is thus just as wrong as all the other famous polymaths. Cholera and tuberculosis in today’s world move along the fault lines created by poverty and inequality and the way in which, as a people, we seem to be prepared to accept that as somehow right and proper, or at least inevitable. Homo sapiens are the only species with a brain capable of avoiding the worst of nature’s harshness, if we could break through our inherited reality denial. Interesting Apneaman. Have you seen the new 52-minute documentary, “Living in the Age of Dying” yet? While it digs its own grave, all the mind can do is entertain fantasies and create excuses. We have to think that we have to work together as a human species to be organized to care for one another, to realize that the health of the most vulnerable people among us is a determining factor for the health of all of us, and, if we aren’t prepared to do that, we’ll never, ever be prepared to confront these devastating challenges to our humanity. Alas, less than 3,000 views. It could be worse. Sapolsky offers a vivid account of a standard view before lining up complications or objections to it from other research, particularly in brain science. I respect Wade Davis. There’s no reason to expect that this kind of thinking would be solely limited to a pandemic crisis. Watch Weinstein’s latest interview on The Joe Rogan Experience. While genetics is probably heavily to blame I can’t help think the environment has some big influences. Do you have a link or example? Is there one thing … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization. It’s complicated. There is no individual behavioural determinism. “Since the pandemic hit, much of the world seems to be adopting measures that come right out of the modern monetarist’s playbook; central banks have put their printing presses on high speed, and governments have been piling up trillions of dollars in debt. And here he is talking about debt. I see literally nothing in your post that addresses where we are today. But the concept is built on the earlier work of anthropologist Ernest Becker, whose 1973 book, The Denial of Death, argued that the majority of human actions are undertaken primarily as a means to ignore or evade death. But it’s likely to be in that range, it seems to me. Behave by Robert Sapolsky review – why do we do what we do? Capital without energy is a sculpture. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. “Spending should never be constrained by arbitrary budget targets or a blind allegiance to so-called sound finance.” (According to one astonishing survey, 46% of women would save their own dog rather than a foreign tourist if both were menaced by a runaway bus. Lets also ignore that people who do not have children are still going to spend or invest any money saved. Curious minds want to know: Why isn’t the US government more visibly outraged over an engineered virus that leaked from the Wuhan lab and damaged the world economy? Our forecasters can’t even predict 6 hours in advance these days. Whether 100% of our species dies this century of if it’s only 99%, we cannot know. Then that thread went quiet. A story told me by my mother from before my first memory to which I can assign a date (early March 1948) is that she asked me why I had stopped calling her “Mama” and started using her given name. Trying to hurt China is obvious, but I’m not up to speed on, “efforts to rebuild US manufacturing capability for key products required to survive”. ( Log Out /  Yellen: Crypto Use In Terrorism “A Growing Problem”, 2021 Will Be “Tough Year” For U.S. Dollar. Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the “Population Monster”. Now, it’s too late. I also was infested with the Elephant Child’s insatiable curtiosity. Nature is harsh. No mention that all policy recommendations to date have been completely ignored & all political efforts went to MORE. The masses have never thirsted after truth. Change ). One path to address this fear is to assure themselves that they are part of an important group. Well, that’s a very bleak thought, if I may say so, because I think it’s unlikely we are going to experience that change of mind-set.”, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-pandemics-change-history, “…. David, I’m curious… have you seen my “Collapse 101” video yet? This magisterial account of human behaviour journeys from immediate brain response back to long-term social causes. Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist and managing director of Thiel Capital. These days, attention has shifted completely away from the global financial “plumbing” that became utterly clogged up in March. I agree with your assessment, Rob. It’s a morbidly comical image. Denial is the reality that must be most aggressively denied to avoid collapsing the house of cards that keeps us functioning. Perhaps The Chinese will pull off a moon mission as a last hurrah. It was a hard but honest life. I really like the look of your postdoom site. I decided to ride my motorcycle 60 km to the job site because the weather forecast in the morning promised no rain. (Humans, he notes, can “delay gratification for insanely long times” compared with other animals. Yes, I agree. Eric Weinstein, managing director of investment firm Thiel Capital and host of "The Portal" podcast, is not a conservative, but he says conservative and center-right-affiliated media are the only ones who will still allow oppositional voices. Balance economies not budgets, Modern monetary theorists are essentially looking to shift the focus of economic policy-making away from a preoccupation with balanced budgets. Debt is a promise to produce more wealth in the future than we do today, so that we can consume more wealth today than we could without debt. The other tribes were soon toast and we took over the planet. We simply don’t have TIME to create a space infrastructure of a scale needed to save our economy – we are already past the time period where we had the excess resources to effectively build that infrastructure. As I discuss in my “Collapse 101: The Inevitable Fruit of Progress” video, even if 7.8 billion of us woke up tomorrow somehow miraculously cured of denial, I no longer think there is anything we can do to stop (or even slow down) irreversible, runaway abrupt climate disruptions. I recently discovered Eric Weinstein via an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. The humans are incapable of meaningful voluntary collective change & it’s not their fault. There are myriad complexities and challenges being ignored today by the risk markets. An interesting comment from another site: “I think intentional non-breeders are a manifestation of an extremely rare allele or gene, which is probably some sort of empathy gene. There are enormous amounts of dollar-denominated debt in China and Asia – too much held by leveraged speculators. Eric Weinstein:So with your indulgence, let's talk a little bit about what you and I see, and any differences that we might have, about this period of time that we find ourselves in, in 2019. It's an hour and a half. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. Noisy protests—sometimes armed—and reports of violent acts of defiance appear repeatedly in the news, and not just in the United States. What we should do but won’t do will happen anyway, unfortunately too late. And you, so not to be distracted from my command, deny reality. I moved back in my late 20’s to work, but was long intellectually divorced by then. The fact that most believe in sustainable growth is proof that most are in denial. This may be one reason it’s so difficult for societies to take action on global warming. One of the reasons Daniel Everett’s book resonated with me is that I went through a similar experience as a young adult as Daniel did when it comes to faith in God. Oil then was a side show to the farming main event. . Nice. The risk discussed seems greater than investing in the next Microsoft, FB, or AMZN etc. http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-commentary-global-lender-of-last.html. We’ve seen amazing examples of people stepping up to help others during the pandemic: from a 99-year-old army veteran who raised $33 million for the U.K.’s National Health Service by walking laps in his garden to a royal milliner who started making face shields for hospital workers. We formulated the laws of thermodynamics at about the same time we decided they didn’t apply to humankind. I think it’s unlikely we are going to experience that change of mind-set.”. I thought you would enjoy this piece from Wikipedia about space exploration. It turns out that an unwillingness to cooperate can also arise from the complete denial that a global catastrophe is underway. Did you watch this episode with Daniel Schmachtenberger, on the topic of “Avoiding Apocalyspe”? Weinstein has a PhD in physics from Harvard and hosts a podcast called The Portal in which he discusses big picture problems facing society. My position on a population crash, is with regard to those that either already exist or are about to. Since many scientists are cited, it’s a perfect example of smart people seemingly not understanding how important energy is in underpinning everything that we do in this world, let alone anywhere else in the solar system. Some MSM is worse than others. To study them is to understand that society’s structure, its standard of living, and its political priorities.”. I consider myself lucky. One way or the other, population will fall. On the family front, some of my cousins in Calgary have become facebook spreaders of rightwing-nut anti-masker, covid hoax, propaganda (most of it’s from the US & some UK). A resistance to facts doesn’t arrive spontaneously. Peter Thiel: Well, you … I’d be very interested in hearing your response to both. …to live in Canada today is like owning an apartment above a meth lab. http://energyskeptic.com/2020/mars-is-not-going-to-save-us/, https://www.patreon.com/posts/thermodynamics-2-38554796, https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-interview/videos/steve-keen-we-need-a-private-debt-jubilee. It has been selected for "Best of Apple Podcasts" three times, it is often the #1 interview podcast across all of Apple Podcasts, and it's been ranked #1 out of 400,000+ podcasts on many occasions. That’s possible I guess. Check out Jordan Peterson’s interview with GQ ; Joe Rogan Experience: big bang, eric weinstein, gauge theory, joe rogan, mma, physics, theoretical physics Notes By MMiller. I love you all. See here to access both: https://postdoom.com/resources/. - Eric Weinstein My guest this episode is my friend, Eric Weinstein (@ericrweinstein), managing director of Thiel Capital, a Ph. I actually think I’m just an average Jo who was lucky enough to live in an environment that fostered learning and had access to good information. So, when deficits explode yet interest rates continue to trend down, you think you are king of the world. A beautiful example of un-denial thinking and feeling! YouTube screenshot of Glenn Beck interviewing Eric Weinstein. Cells vote for whomever offers the best chance of fulfilling their dream of becoming two cells. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I get pissed off when I see Alberta plates driving around the Comox Valley and think go home you disease spreading rednecks! Way too many smart people with big reputations are wrong about everything that matters. AMAZON DELETED THE … Yabut, no matter what happens, Canada will be fine. Empathy – feeling someone’s pain – is not as likely to lead to useful action as dispassionate sympathy, or “cold-blooded kindness”. TMT proposes that individuals are motivated to develop close relationships within their own cultural group in order to convince themselves that they will somehow live on—if only symbolically—after their inevitable death. It birthed an entire new branch of anxiety. IOW, only tell the public what they want to hear – that all their ScFi fantasies are possible…..some day. But it is interesting. With average citizens it’s hard to distinguish ignorance from denial. A few weeks ago, I listened to a podcast featuring a 90-minute discussion between Glenn Beck and Eric Weinstein. Key Takeaways. —  Gail Zawacki. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. INTERVIEW STUDENT DEBT Peter Thiel: It's like, again, if you come back to something as reductionist as the ever escalating student debt, you know, the bigger the debt gets, you can sort of think what is the 1.6 trillion, what does it pay for? Essentially, if I were to gauge or poll those in this category, I think the majority would test for high degrees of empathy and/or higher intellects or spatial awareness than on average.There are genes for risk-taking (DRD4), so there are other genes that would encourage empathy. The less well-off are trying to deal with locusts, infectious diseases, climate-change crop failures, depleting water resources, and just plain excessive heat. Eric Weinstein Interview (Full Episode) 2016-01-30 Verdict with Ted Cruz: A Portal Into the Progressive Mind ft. Eric Weinstein – Ep. All 8 billion of us originated from one small tribe in Africa about 100,000 years ago that gave birth to a child with an improbable mutation for a more powerful brain that denied reality. Tim Dillon on Eric Weinstein & the IDW: "Is there anything they've done? This has been noted long before the scientific revolution by many observant thinkers. Simplistic number crunching (using n=1 case reviews) is weak evidence and your comments smack of ad-hominem attacks (see goofy and synthetic above… would you prefer smooth/charismatic & vapid?). In fairness to Eric Weinstein, it could not have been easy to host a guest like Daniel Schmachtenberger (true brilliance) and keep the conversation semi-grounded without drifting too far off into the esoteric. “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. As you and Rob both know, I much prefer a live call to text-only based communications. Mike is a great listen, but why aren't we seeing another Thiel Cap honcho Eric Weinstein. You’ve listed a number of ways for people currently living to die prematurely, but another way for population to crash is by young people simply deciding that they’re not going to procreate. A 30-year “none-child” policy would do the trick, and the prosperous countries are well on their way. If you’re wondering the ultimate style of this podcast, it’s going to be an interview-style podcast, a la Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman. The most amazing thing about human overshoot is that we do not discuss it. (Testosterone, for example, does not cause aggression but amplifies pre-existing tendencies for or against it. We have a cosmic obligation to use it. SUBSCRIBE Eric Weinstein, managing director of Thiel Capital, talks about when he met Jeffrey Epstein and what his impression of him was at that time. That money quote is here : https://youtu.be/_b4qKv1Ctv8?t=8514 Gigantic in scope, stretching across centuries and continents, Snowden’s account seeks to explain, too, the ways in which social structures have allowed diseases to flourish. I’ll put it on the reading list. Two of my post-doom guests who live in a largely denial-free zone (and speak boldly from that place) are Meg Wheatley and Rory Varrato (others, too of course, but those two stand out). According to TMT, death anxiety drives people to adopt worldviews that protect their self-esteem, worthiness, and sustainability and allow them to believe that they play an important role in a meaningful world. Individuals may derive some psychological comfort from the denial of climate change, but counterintuitively, doing so could jeopardize the survival of the species. In a recent interview with Rebel Wisdom, Weinstein spoke about the … Here’s a free Ebook version (PDF). The end. Rhonda … Great image from Dave Pollard’s latest effort. Our only hope on that front is that the conspiracy theories are true and we DO have some of that technology and infrastructure, hidden from public knowledge. Building a competition for maximum power on top of a finite energy source equals exponential build-out and collapse. I highly recommend this great book by Robert Sapolsky which delves deep into this topic – “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst”. Read books, listened to more music & re-watched old movies & foreign films & fixed stuff. How do people cope with mortality? Also missing was any discussion of time scales. Lots of elephants in the room, but no adults. There was no part of the conversation that focused on the “how” of getting from where we are today, to where Daniel thinks we could/should be. It seems CC has broken their prediction models. Those of us that make it through the first years of the real crash will see things that we might prefer not to see – alas, nature does not negotiate. Denial is the default behaviour for many in cataclysms, war & late/last stage societies & civilizations. Modern monetary theorists are essentially looking to shift the focus of economic policy-making away from a preoccupation with balanced budgets. People are scared now and FEAR is the mother of denial. I’m also positive that most of them, and I include myself in this group of outliers, view most human interactions as extremely selfish and frustrating, and we find ourselves questioning why people do the things they do. Thomas Ligotti, born in 1953 and child-free by choice, said this once about the world: “Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls — while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”. Every boy has a mama. The singular emergence of human intelligence, and its ability to write and read this paragraph, evolved in a gene controlled machine with an unusually powerful computer, that was created by an improbable simultaneous adaptation for an extended theory of mind with denial of reality, and whose complexity was enabled by the increased energy per gene provided by mitochondria, that resulted from an accidental endosymbiosis of two prokaryotes, powered by an unintuitive chemiosmotic proton pump, that originated in an alkaline hydrothermal vent, on 1 of 40 billion planets, in 1 of 100 billion galaxies, and that planet had an improbable store of photosynthetic and geothermal generated fossil energy, that the species leveraged to understand and appreciate, the peak of what may be possible in the universe, before it vanished, because it denied the consequences of its success. Most psychologists consider TMT to be a sort of evolutionary trait. I wrote about our stagnation after the 70’s. No I don’t have a link but it’s a theme I’ve recently detected with a push to re-localize manufacturing for drug precursors and PPE, and a push to move manufacturing from China to other more friendly Asian countries. Economic growth today is faked with debt which is a big problem that threatens democracy. Interesting theories ...sounds like no place to hide. And this seems like a pretty good explanation for surging precious metals prices. Could it be otherwise? Money is a call on energy. Small business startups are a hedge to a over valued and primed by the Fed mkt. The only thing I can think of is that there is a very human psychopathy that defines our species, and for whatever reason, we intentional non-breeders did not inherit it. There’s something goofy and synthetic about Weinstein, who reminds me of Carl Sagan in his style. Those niches very much show who we are—whether, for example, in the industrial revolution, we actually cared what happened to workers and the poor and the condition that the most vulnerable people lived in. mission to China, came back to Geneva at the end of it and was asked a question very similar to the one you posed, he said that the major thing that needs to happen, if we are to be prepared now and in the future, is there has to be an absolutely fundamental change in our mind-set. You raise interesting questions. The catch-22 of course is that denial enabled our intelligence. Just listen and watch the whole thing. ConOmists said so, so you know it’s true. In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination. But the psychologists who developed TMT also considered the potential upsides—specifically, that when one is aware that their actions are being influenced by the fear of death, they can consciously choose instead to take positive steps toward acting with kindness and finding meaning in their lives. And it's brilliant. I no longer do. Ligotti introduced me to Zapffe, Celine, Pessoa, and others who weren’t afraid to look at reality. In addition to providing historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world’s preparedness for the next generation of diseases.”, Coping with ‘Death Awareness’ in the COVID-19 Era, According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions. According to TMT, people need to insulate themselves from their deep fear of living an insignificant life destined to be erased by death.