Eric Weinstein (Solo), Ep. #018 of The Portal - Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal/Chapter 2020. Eric Weinstein 2020-02-14 | This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC".From "Terms of Service" changes, to selective enforcement of rules, peer review, "Strategic Silence", 'authoritative sources only', deboosting, shadow banning, down ranking, "unbiasing", "Good Censorship", 'diversity and inclusion' oaths, 'cancel culture', no-platforming, mob shaming, certification requirements, "trust and safety" and quality control, we are surrounded by others interested in various forms of idea suppression who would prefer to work in private. Obviously some, but not all, of those ideas are truly dangerous. But many of those ideas never reached us because they threatened institutional players rather than public safety. This is the year we begin to do the unthinkable: attempt to fully reveal and slip the DISC. Stay tuned to the Portal for 2020. Or feel free to unsubscribe right now before we change it up...hope to see you soon.Our SponsorsOriginal Sponsors of the Audio Podcast: Skillshare: Skillshare.com/PORTALQuip: Getquip.com/PORTALAthletic Greens: Athleticgreens.com/PORTAL
The Twin Nuclei Problem of Cell & Atom Eric Weinstein 2022-02-24 | Eric's website: ericweinstein.orgGeometric Unity: geometricunity.orgAudio narration: Eric Weinstein, Compiled by Timmy MText: Timmy MVideo: Nate DMusic Track, Sound Effects, & Review: Mark SPortal Animation: boqu, edited by Mark SIncludes Clips From:Interstellar (2014)Captain Marvel (2019)Spacetime PBS (2017)Inside Einstein's Mind
Jamie Metzl on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein) Ep. #029 – The Bio-Hacker will see you now Eric Weinstein 2020-11-19 | Former National Security analyst turned author Jamie Metzel has written a book called Hacking Darwin. The book attempts to use storytelling to explore where we are as the new era of rewriting our cells and ourselves gets into full swing. Here he sits down with Eric to explore the negatives and positives of our seemingly ineluctable future of God-like power to rewrite biology. Together they discuss the role of story telling and fiction in understanding cutting edge science, the limits of bio-hacking regulation and the rise of mainland China as the outlying superpower of state sponsored experimentation. Original audio sponsors:Personna Razors: Amazon.com/personna Code RAZORS25Express VPN: Expressvpn.com/PORTALBoll and Branch: BollAndBranch.com and use code PORTALLamps Plus: lampsplus.com/PORTAL
Lynching, Police Brutality, BLM and Defunding the Police: a Contrarian Reality Check. Eric Weinstein 2020-06-07 | Some thoughts on defunding the police.
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Eric Lewis on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #028 - The Singular Genius of Elew Eric Weinstein 2020-05-08 | Eric Lewis is an open portal, a wonderful friend and one of the most important pianists in the world by our measure. As such, we will not bother with further notes for this episode. If you love the quest of the show as well as authentic soulful music, this is your guy. We simply sat down at a famous Yamaha grand piano at The Village recording studio in Los Angeles and this is the interview that transpired. Original Audio SponsorsTheragun: Theragun.com/PORTALWine Access: WineAccess.com/PORTALAthletic Greens: AthleticGreens.com/PORTALQuip: GetQuip.com/PORTAL
Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses Eric Weinstein 2020-04-28 | In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet. Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subculture of the human potential movement. This group bets that there is a second evolutionary stable strategy for cohabiting not based on conflict or rivalry, even for life raised in Game A (i.e. standard evolutionary and economic environments based on scarcity and rivalrous goods. Eric asks Daniel about where the bright spots and progress might be in this movement which refuses to accept the fate that that Eric has elsewhere put forward as the Twin Nuclei Problem of having unlocked the power of both Cell and Atom in the early 1950s without the wisdom to use it. Original Audio Sponsors:Athletic Greens: AthleticGreens.com/PortalMack Weldon: MackWeldon.com - (promo code PORTAL)Four Sigmatic: FourSigmatic.com/Portal
The Jeantreprenuers Animated Portal Clips (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #001: GIN, DISC & EGO. Eric Weinstein 2020-04-24 | The Jeantreprenuer's Animated Portal Clips is a new experiment with the Guerilla artist or collective known to us only as "The Jeantrepreneur". We have asked The Jeantreprenuer to come out of the shadows and take credit for his/her/their work but have been politely and firmly refused. The Jeantreprenuer is a member of the Portal Discord Server group and specializes in high agency maker activities appearing and vanishing at random. Future community generated clips may appear here or on the Portal Community's new clips channel at: youtube.com/channel/UCSO7rmulFozNeXN_xKZz4xAPlease subscribe there and click the bell icon to be informed of future releases!All credit is due to The Jeantreprenuer who has freely and generously contributed this to support The Portal.
James O’Keefe on The Portal, Ep. #026 (w E Weinstein) - What is (and isnt) Journalism in the 21stC. Eric Weinstein 2020-04-21 | [Original Audio Release Date: 03/19/2020]James O'Keefe is a dangerous man. He records people without their knowledge and publishes the results using the full power of our technological toolkit. He is well versed in the details of the law as to what can and cannot be legally recorded and/or published without the consent or even awareness of his targets. He is willing to risk prison to capture his stories and he has developed a policy of not settling out of court, even when it would be financially advantageous to do so. Clearly, he is willing to risk ruin and hatred for what he is doing, and is therefore not a man to be lightly trifled with. In this episode, Eric sits down with James to try to understand the mutant future of journalism as it reckons with the power of new technology, while continuing to move away from traditional newspapers and reporting. Eric tries to discover what is truly motivating O'keefe and why he would want to come on a show that has been so openly critical of his organization. James has many who see him as a crusading hero. He has also been accused of unethical deception, trespassing, entrapment, selective editing, and an entire litany of ethics complaints from traditional media. Oddly, however, more standard reporters working for traditional news desks openly discuss among themselves the professional need to deceive their targets in order to get the truth, or at least the story. Such strategies include using disingenuous flattery, pretending to be the source's friend, threats, the lure of fame, and a host of other edgy techniques to get people to say things that the reporter knows will likely be personally disastrous for the person being quoted. This raises the question of just what it is that makes James O'Keefe different from a more mainstream reporter. Is it his method, more than his chosen targets? Is it that he really doctors his footage or instead that he has revived older journalistic techniques to hunt new journalists? This interview may not answer all of these questions, but we hope it may prove to be a conversation unlike any you have previously heard on this topic.Original Audio Sponsors:Skillshare: Skillshare.com/portalBlinkist: Blinkist.com/portalPitney Bowes: PB.com/PortalVincero: VinceroWatches.com - (code PORTAL)
The Portal, Ep. #025 (solo with host Eric Weinstein), The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein Eric Weinstein 2020-04-10 | Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in hopes that its subject matter would be overtaken by investigative journalism. As this has not happened, it is being released with some trepidation in March of 2020 due to the issue of state involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Eric discusses his memories of his single bizarre meeting (circa 2004?) with Jeffrey Epstein in Epstein's 71st St. townhouse in Manhattan. While at that meeting, Eric was surprised by Epstein's strange behaviors and came to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely that Epstein was actually the money manager he claimed to be. Instead, Eric came to the conclusion that the person with whom he was sitting was more probably a construction of one or more intelligence agencies, interested alternatively in powerful actors and scientists.This 15-year-old hypothesis and Epstein's mysterious death lead to Eric's four questions: A) Where are the newspaper stories tracking the financial records from the Villard House offices on Madison Avenue of Jeffrey Epstein's hedge fund and financial management firm J. Epstein & Co.? Who holds these records? What trades do they show? Who were the prime brokers? Where are any former employees who executed trades? Was there never a hedge fund at all? If not, is the inexplicable Epstein fortune and the missing Robert Maxwell fortune actually one and the same fortune? B) Where are the newspaper stories detailing the known border crossings where Ghislaine Maxwell's passports were last presented to the immigration agents of any government? Where was her last known social engagement? Is she continuing to file and pay taxes? Why is she not being sought by law enforcement and where is the government request for any information as to her last whereabouts? How did this person simply vanish in a world where Tech tracks everyone at all times? Where did her digital trail run cold? C) Where are the newspaper stories asking whether Jeffrey Epstein was known to be connected to any US or foreign intelligence agencies? Where are the on-the-record stories asking if the US and its allies categorically deny refusing to work with any known child sex traffickers? Why have such questions not terminated in at least a categorical denial or "no comment" response or even a refusal to discuss "sources and methods"? D) Why is there no routine call from Journalists, Senators, Congressmen and women, Academics, Clergy or Business leaders for hearings into the intelligence communities in the wake of Epstein and related affairs, as there was during the 1970s when the Church and Pike Committees uncovered dirty tricks campaigns against lawful citizens? Why are these agencies now protected and immune in a way that they were not previously?
A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look Eric Weinstein 2020-04-02 | A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
Kai Lenny on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #024 - To Play and Flirt with Giants Eric Weinstein 2020-03-16 | In a world which is often slow-moving and even stagnant, there are always sectors and individuals who buck the trends. In this episode of The Portal, Eric sits down with his favorite surfing hero Kai Lenny who is pioneering a new approach to big wave surfing. By availing himself of the latest technology and dedicating his life to innovation and discipline, all-around waterman Kai Lenny is redefining what is possible with boards and waves. Whether it is kite surfing, hydrofoils, paddle boards or towing into monster waves, Kai is not only riding, but playing in the biggest surfable waves as if they were up to an order of magnitude smaller. Eric attempts to understand Kai's approach to innovation and how he can be so carefree and seemingly casual when he is always flirting with death within some of the most powerful structures and forces nature can throw at a single individual from Jaws in Maui to Nazaré in Portugal.Please Subscribe to the Podcast wherever you listen to The Portal and make sure to check out our YouTube channel and click the bell icon to be notified when our next episodes appear! Hope you enjoy this. The original Audio Podcast Sponsors: Athletic Greens: www.AthleticGreens.com/portalTheragun: www.Theragun.com/portalWine Access: www.WineAccess.com/portalClear: www.Clearme.com/portal
Prof. Agnes Callard on The Portal, Ep. #023 - Courage, Meta-cognitive Detachment and Their Limits Eric Weinstein 2020-03-11 | Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog of feelings and societal taboos that often keep us from delving deeper into the questions that animate our lives. Agnes began this unusual back and forth by writing an article about status negotiation in first meetings shortly after the pair first met. Eric and Agnes then use the opportunity of this episode to continue this line of thought by exploring the limits of courage and meta-cognition within the examined life of a modern Philosopher. This results in a real-time exploration by two people who mutually respect each other as to whether they can actually negotiate a detached discussion in real time on the very issues of status, feeling, and taboo that may divide them and/or arise between them. As Agnes has written thoughtfully about the many layers of anger, the conversation culminates by exploring dyadic feelings of hurt and indignation with which we all struggle and suffer in our relationships. Ultimately the two finish this experimental conversation with good cheer, together with a wish to continue the discussion at a later date under continuing mutual fondness and admiration.Original Audio Sponsors: Indeed: www.Indeed.com/PORTALMack Weldon: wwwmackweldon.com (promo code: "portal")Four Sigmatic: www.foursigmatic.com/PORTAL
Ben Greenfield on The Portal (w/ host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #022 - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness Eric Weinstein 2020-03-11 | Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature. The academic and medical literature in health and medicine is a disaster. Studies are performed and reported in non-standard and idiosyncratic ways which are then further distorted by a press often looking more for headlines and scoops than facts and rigor. In this episode we get to ask one of the most sought after fitness optimizers how ordinary people can better understand their own minds, brains and bodies in light of the cacophony of 'expert' opinion. Ben, here in his role of master pedagogue, gives detailed implementable answers as well as simple to follow priorities that sum up his years of study and training for the mere mortals who wish to better everything in their lives by tackling health at the fundamental level. Original Audio Sponsors:Pitney Bowes: www.PB.com/PORTALBlinkist: www.Blinkist.com/PORTALAthletic Greens: www.Athleticgreens.com/PORTALSkillShare: www.Skillshare.com/PORTAL
Ashley Mathews (Riley Reid) on The Portal, Ep. #021 - The Mogul & Brains Behind Americas Sweetheart Eric Weinstein 2020-03-05 | Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim Morrison, Mae West, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have all been arrested for exciting the public in ways that authorities have found threatening. Recently, however, the erotic and comedic arts have undergone more cryptic attacks via Operation Chokepoint, "cancellation", "no platforming", and inadequate press coverage given to cases of legal intimidation (e.g. the federal case under Miller v California standards brought against director John Stagliano).In this episode, Eric sits down with the business woman who created the enduring character of the unlikely top pornstar Riley Reid. Continuing the theme of the DISC (Distributed Idea Suppression Complex) we discuss issues like Operation Chokepoint and obscenity law as well more subtle issues like the difficulty of finding vendors willing to cross the Rubicon to work with legal erotic businesses. Ashley, in the role of the Riley Reid character, has defied all pornographic convention by embracing body positivity, forgoing plastic surgery and opting for natural body hair at times. Additionally she has made a social statement by doing a popular artistic scene which makes a political and business case for greater transsexual acceptance. Her main tool appears to be a palpable human decency and sweetness coupled to an uncanny ability to assess, manage and survive extreme business risk within a poorly understood industry that has confounded all expectations. While this episode is generally not explicit, it is not for everyone given the content and so listener discretion is advised. Original Sponsors of the Audio EpisodeAthletic Greens: www.athleticgreens.com/portalBlinkist: www.Blinkist.com/portalQuip: www.Quip.com/portal
Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (filmed interview w Eric Weinstein) Eric Weinstein 2020-03-03 | This short piece first debuted in January of 2019. It is a video made by David Fuller at Rebel Wisdom about the so-called Intellectual Dark Web and its counter-cultural origins. It consists principally of an extended interview with Eric Weinstein who named the movement. It is used here with the permission of the filmmaker and Rebel Wisdom for the benefit and convenience of this channel's subscribers. It has not been altered from the original.
Roger Penrose on The Portal (w Eric Weinstein), Ep. #020 - Plotting the Twist of Einsteins Legacy Eric Weinstein 2020-03-01 | Sir Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendant of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to Roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Field Theory” before it fell out of fashion a couple of generations ago. In particular, Roger is the dean of one of the only rival schools of thought to have survived the “String Theory wars” of the 1980s-2000s. We discuss his view of this Twistor Theory and its prospects for unification. Instead of spoon feeding the audience, however, the material is presented as it might occur between colleagues in neighboring fields so that the Portal audience might glimpse something closer to scientific communication rather than made for TV performance pedagogy. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Prof. Penrose.
Bret Weinstein on The Portal (w/ host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #019 - The Prediction and the DISC. Eric Weinstein 2020-02-20 | All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan.There was however, a remarkable story of science at its both best and worst that had not been told in years. After an initial tussle, we dusted off the cobwebs and decided to reconstruct it raw and share it with you, our Portal audience, for the first time. I don't think it will be the last as we are now again looking for our old notes to tighten it up for the next telling. We hope you find it interesting, and that it inspires you younger and less established scientists to tell your stories using this new medium of long form podcasting. We hope the next place you hear this story will be in a biology department seminar room in perhaps Cambridge, Chicago, Princeton, the Bay Area or elsewhere. Until then, be well and have a listen to this initial and raw version.[The DISC referred to in the Title is the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex as discussed on episode #018 of The Portal Podcast.]Original Audio Only Sponsors:Quip: Getquip.com/portalWine Access: Wineaccess.com/portalIndeed: Indeed.com/portalBlinkist: Blinkist.com/portal
Anna Khachiyan, Ep. #017 of The Portal (with Eric Weinstein) - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine. Eric Weinstein 2020-02-06 | Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive and popular Red Scare podcast) to find out what is brewing on the anti-woke Left among the intellectual daughters of Camille Paglia. Anna takes us through her project of the reconstructed feminine combining irreverent intellectual dominance with a return to valuing motherhood informed by her claims on Soviet & American heritage. The intellectual foundation of the intersectional “oppression Olympics” and reparations discussion is further dissected amidst the twin specters of the Armenian & Jewish genocides which mysteriously appear not to register at all with today’s progressives. No puppies were eaten during this podcast, but an ambient trigger warning is otherwise in order for those with exquisite sensitivities. Caveat emptor and welcome to the Grand Finale of the inaugural year of “The Portal.” See you all again in 2020!The following were the original sponsors of the audio version of this episode:Skillshare: Skillshare.com/PORTALChili: chilitechnology.com/PORTALPhlur: phlur.com/PORTAL
Tyler Cowen on The Portal, Ep. #016 (w/ Eric Weinstein) - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized. Eric Weinstein 2020-02-06 | In this episode, Eric sits down with economist Prof. Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishment, various forms of existential risk, tech/social stagnation and more. On first glance, Tyler Cowen is an unlikely candidate for America's most influential economist. Since 2003, Cowen has grown his widely read and revered economics blog Marginal Revolution with lively thought, insight and prose resulting in a successful war of attrition against traditional thinking. In fact, his well of heterodox thinking is so deep that there is an argument to be made that Tyler may be the living person with the most diverse set of original rigorous opinions to be found in any conversation. The conversation takes many turns and is thus hard to categorize. We hope you enjoy it. Please subscribe to this channel and click the Bell Icon to be notified when our next video drops. Original Sponsors for the Audio Podcast: Wine Access: wineaccess.com/PORTALExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/PORTALLamps Plus: lampsplus.com/PORTALFour Sigmatic: foursigmatic.com/PORTAL
Garrett Lisi on The Portal, Ep. #015 - My Arch-nemesis, Myself. (with host Eric Weinstein) Eric Weinstein 2020-02-03 | Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding meaningful employment for his entire adult life. Instead, he lives in Maui and travels the world chasing the perfect wave.In this episode Garrett and Eric sit down to discuss the current status of Garrett's ideas for a final theory based on a mysterious object called E8, perhaps the oddest of mathematical symmetries to be found in the universe. Garrett and Eric have held each other in mutual “contempt” for over a decade. By vacationing together and staying in each others' homes, they had hoped to hone and deepen their mutual disgust for each other's ideas. However, as the theoretical physics community moved away from actually trying to unify our incompatible models of the physical world, it became intellectually unmoored, and drifted toward a culture of performative Cargo Cult Physics. The antagonists were thus forced by necessity to develop a begrudging admiration for each other's iconoclasm and unwillingness to give up on the original dream of Einstein to unify and understand our world. The discussion is rough but a fairly accurate depiction of scientific relationships belonging to a type that is generally not shown to the public. This may be uncomfortable for those who have been habituated to NOVA, The Elegant Universe, or other shows produced for mass consumption. We apologize in advance.Original Sponsors of the Audio Version of the Episode: Skillshare: Skillshare.com/PORTALWine Access: Wineaccess.com/PORTALChili: Chilitechnology.com/PORTALBlinkist: Blinkist.com/PORTAL
London Tsai on The Portal, Ep. #014 - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians Eric Weinstein 2020-01-26 | What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground. In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one that is smuggling higher level science into transcendent art forms. Eric had to coax one the movement’s foremost members, London Tsai, to come out of obscurity where he had been preserving his mathematical art in sarcophagi of unopened bubble wrap sitting for decades in various New York City studios. London is just the first of these New Escherians we’ll be profiling. These modern day Prometheans are stealing higher level mathematics from the professorial priesthood replacing the Seraphim and Cherubs of antiquity with topological paintings, protein sculptures, and light symphonies that speak to our hearts, minds and desires for transcendence. Video of this podcast was delayed due to focus issues at a remote location in Manhattan. It is released however to show a taste of Tsai's groundbreaking work. Original Sponsors of the original Audio only podcast were: Lamps Plus:: Lampsplus.com/PORTAL Wine Access Wineaccess.com/PORTAL Skillshare: Skillshare.com/Portal
Garry Kasparov on The Portal, Ep. #013 - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics Eric Weinstein 2019-12-18 | In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champion and (inarguably) one of the greatest players of all time, Garry Kasparov. The two discuss transcending AI-induced demotivation, AI brilliancy (and lack thereof), the perilous time for global democracy in Russia, America and globally and Garry's penchant for risking his life for what he believes in. Beyond Chess, Garry is an active political dissident and truth seeker; founding the Russian "United Civil Front" and speaking out against Putin since his retirement from the game in 2005, he's an ardent defender of democracy in Russia and abroad. 1997 was also a watershed year for Garry; it was the year that AI - in the form of IBM's Deep Blue - was able to beat the best chess player in the world (Kasparov). Since then, Garry's been thinking deeply about the role of a newly positioned mankind in the world of a rising AI. From tech displacement to political unrest, please enjoy this wide ranging episode covering some of the most crucial issues of our time. This Podcast was orginally brought to audiences in Audio form courtesy of the following sponsors: ExpressVPN: www.expressvpn.com/PORTALFour Sigmatic: www.foursigmatic.com/PORTALSkillShare: www.Visit Skillshare.com/PORTAL
Vitalik Buterin on The Portal, Ep. #012 - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine Eric Weinstein 2019-12-12 | In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox economics. Taking note of the new development of blockchain in 2010, Eric wrote an essay called “Go Virtual Young Man”. A few years later, a Thiel Fellow named Vitalik created a virtual machine with an idiosyncratic smart contract system and a currency. Ironically, Eric had recently become a Managing Director at Thiel Capital. Perennially circling each other intellectually, the two now sit down in person to discuss economic paradigm shifts, crypto and the future of online sovereignty and social coordination. Note: This Episode was originally made possible by The Portal's returning sponsors. Wine Access: WineAccess.com/Portal Chili Technology: chilitechnology.com/PORTAL Phlur: phlur.com/portal Blinkist: blinkist.com/portal
Sam Harris on The Portal with host Eric Weinstein, Ep. #011 - Fighting with Friends. Eric Weinstein 2019-12-11 | On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to close friend, neuroscientist, philosopher, author and meditation-guru, Sam Harris. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, Jeffrey Epstein's demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more. Note: This Episode was originally made possible by The Portal's returning sponsors. Skillshare: Skillshare.com/PORTALBoll and Branch: Bollandbranch.com/PORTALFour Sigmatic: FourSigmatic.com/PORTALExpress VPN: Expressvpn.com/PORTAL
Julie Lindahl on The Portal, Ep. #010- Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree. Eric Weinstein 2019-12-09 | What happens when an SS Officer's Granddaughter comes to Los Angeles to stay with a Jewish family after discovering the true nature of secrets hidden for decades within her family's tree?Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". As an ethnically German girl growing up in Brazil, Julie got curious about finally make sense of the puzzles inside her family history, in order to stop a mysterious cycle of dysfunction within which she found herself trapped. In her new book "The Pendulum", she shows us just how much it can take to find a portal out of inter-generational trauma. Eric welcomes his house-guest Julie Lindahl to tell her extraordinary story on this emotional and challenging episode of The Portal. The episode is raw and recorded at home on a hand held device; there will be no video.
Bryan Callen on The Portal, Ep. #009 - Cracking Wise. Eric Weinstein 2019-11-30 | Eric sits down with friend, drawing room philosopher, comic, actor and fighter Bryan Callen for a wide ranging conversation on camaraderie, conflict and comedy. Over the course of 2+ hours, the two discuss difficult topics like the holocaust, gender dynamics and the legacy of the enlightenment on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. Bryan and Eric oscillate between levity and intensity as they navigate these hard-to-broach topics. Hilarity and occasional insight ensues.
Andrew Yang on The Portal, Episode #008: The Different Candidate the Media Wants You to Ignore. Eric Weinstein 2019-10-10 | In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric rise of his candidacy; one that represents an insurgency against a complacent political process that the media establishment doggedly tries to maintain. Andrew updates Eric on the state of his campaign and the status of the ideas the two had discussed as its foundation when it began. Eric presents Andrew with his new economic paradigm; moving from an 'is a [worker]' economy to a 'has a [worker]' economy. The two also discuss neurodiverse families as a neglected voting block, the still-strong but squelched-by-the-scientific-establishment STEM community in the US, and the need to talk fearlessly - and as a xenophile - about immigration as a wealth transfer gimmick.
Bret Easton Ellis on The Portal, Episode #007: The Dark Laureate of Generation X. Eric Weinstein 2019-10-07 | [Subscribe to this channel and click the 'Bell Icon' to be notified when our next video episode of "The Portal" drops.]Eric sits down with Bret Easton Ellis; the two Gen X’ers graduated from rival high schools in a disaffected 1982 Los Angeles that inspired Ellis’ first novel “Less Than Zero”. In this conversation, they reflect on LA, Generation X, and the different notions of childhood held by Gen x and Millennials. They then discuss Bret's anti-anti-Trump position and Eric's anti-anti-anti-Trump position having both lost patience with the pro and anti-Trump views found in the Republican and Democratic party positions.
Jocko Willink on The Portal, Episode #006: Jocko Willink: The Way of the Violent Intellectual Eric Weinstein 2019-09-20 | Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to test themselves in the crucible of deadly combat against an evil and implacable foe. Eric sits down with Jocko to learn how this cerebral Navy SEAL and hero of the battle of Ramadi against ISIS managed to bring military discipline home to the fight for personal freedom in peacetime writing kids books that teach ‘extreme ownership’ and radical accountability to children. Give warriors a chance, and then subscribe to The Portal to be sure to catch our next and future episodes when they drop.
Rabbi David Wolpe on The Portal, Episode #005: “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...” Eric Weinstein 2019-09-18 | Leading Conservative Rabbi David Wolpe drops by The Portal to chat with Eric to discuss what everyone might be getting wrong about the divide between religion and rationality by focusing on the existence or non-existence of god(s). Eric starts off with a gambit by asking the Rabbi what the question of god's existence might be crowding out and the conversation goes from there to unusual places (e.g. "Was Seinfeld secretly a course in Talmudic law with a laugh track?"). Subscribe to this channel and click the bell to make sure you are updated when the next episode of "The Portal" drops on YouTube. And thanks for watching The Portal!
The Portal, Episode #002: What is The Portal? Eric Weinstein 2019-09-07 | Eric discusses his thinking behind launching The Portal Podcast, as well as his theory that the podcast industry should explore moving to what he terms a "Riskvertising" model. In his theory, advertisers transition to becoming 'riskvertisers' by pledging to support and protect popular and responsible programs through hysterical social media outrage events. In such a model, audiences reward riskvertisers with a higher level of brand loyalty for taking the risk in not bending to moral panics in backing the most popular and responsible programs willing to tackle difficult issues that must be discussed in a healthy civil society. Interested parties should ask about risvertising opportunities on The Portal by sending an email to riskvertisers@gmail.com describing your product in any I way you think would best work for our audience.
Prof. Timur Kuran on The Portal, Episode #004: The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception. Eric Weinstein 2019-08-27 | In this fourth episode of "The Portal" podcast, Eric interviews renegade economist, Timur Kuran about his theory of revolutions and "Preference Falsification."What happens when entire societies of individuals lie to themselves and to each other? Does it set the stage for revolutions? If you've wondered what force is sweeping the planet towards a mysterious populism bringing Brexit, Trump and other improbable phenomena out of the shadows, then this your portal to a new economics of black markets in truth, authenticity and hidden desires.Subscribe (and click the bell icon) to join the conversation right outside your Overton window.
Werner Herzog on The Portal, Episode #003: The Outlaw as Revelator Eric Weinstein 2019-07-31 | In this episode of "The Portal" podcast, Eric interviews legendary film-maker and director, Werner Herzog about his life in outlaw film-making before a live audience.[Note: Episode #002 is currently available as an audio only Podcast but will be released shortly on YouTube for completeness as a convenience to subscribers. Make sure to subscribe and click the 'bell' icon to be notified when it appears.]
Peter Thiel on The Portal, Episode #001: An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure. Eric Weinstein 2019-07-19 | Billionaire Technologist and Investor Peter Thiel is the guest as he joins Eric Weinstein in the studio to Launch "The Portal": a new podcast and video channel dedicated to our search for a path to a more transcendent and transformative future together. Peter and Eric discuss the link between growth and violence and the need to rejoin the quest for a more energizing future for all levels of society.
Advice for Beginners: Choosing Your Arch-Nemesis to Last a Lifetime. Eric Weinstein 2018-09-21 | Most people only see arch-nemeses in movies. Thus, as a luxury item or a bucket-list entry they are surprisingly satisfying as so few people have one. In this video I go into some of the thinking that lead me to choosing my arch-nemesis to be the surfer-dude/investor/physicist Garrett Lisi. Since you can really only have one Arch-Nemesis, I thought it was a bit disappointing that there was no canonical guide available (particularly for young men interested in life long rivalry as a motivator) for making a successful decision in this important irrevocable life-cycle event. If this video enables just one young person to choose an adversarial tormentor successfully, it will all have been worthwhile.
Looking Beyond the Millennials: A brief discussion with my son Zev Weinstein at 13. Eric Weinstein 2018-08-21 | [I have kept my son, his face, gender and name off of Social Media almost completely for 13 years to preserve his options and anonymity. He has now asked to come forward with a YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUrd25AGg0KyuJgdHdxIEGQ]Everyone wants to know what the generation after the Millenials makes of this world and what will they be like when the come of voting, working, and consuming ages. So, why don't we just ask them? I'm lucky to have one at home, but if you don't have one living under your roof you can borrow mine as he's starting a channel. I often get asked about my approach to parenting and perhaps this models a bit of it. Here I chat briefly with my son Zev,13, about what it is like to have such a tumultuous time as the current era for your developmental environment. If you don't have a Generation Z member with whom you can discuss their various lenses, I can say that I feel I've learned a lot from having Zev as a guide who always enriches my perspective and often corrects me in this area to keep me from error. You can follow Zev by subscribing to his YouTube CHANNEL, GenerationZ by clicking the link below: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUrd25AGg0KyuJgdHdxIEGQHis first introductory video can be viewed here: youtu.be/PQo_rmkWuho
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has such a crazy name. Eric Weinstein 2018-06-07 | I saw a counter-culture developing which the main media institutions were mostly intent on ignoring or deeply misportraying. In this video, I explain how we got them to move from ignoring us to trying to laugh at us and spreading awareness and our message in the process, as well as how this counter-culture's name was born according to the main lesson of Nasim Taleb's "Anti-Fragility." "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." -N. Klein, 1914We have now progressed quickly to living between Klein's stage 2 and 3 as of June 2018. If we get to the end, we intend to skip phase 4 and hold an all night intellectual victory rave instead and invite the vanquished to join in, in the spirit of drunken friendship and loyal opposition. But do subscribe to stay tuned, get invited and get involved with what happens next.[NOTE: The subject matter of this video was re-recorded due to an audio problem on a previous version. The content is partially, though not perfectly, overlapping.]
First Ever Video Upload: Request to Subscribers for Content Suggestions. Eric Weinstein 2018-02-16 | Taking a (small) plunge with a first video upload. Please let me know here what content you would be most interested in should I start producing short videos as a way of directly interacting beyond Twitter, Edge.org and random podcasting. No promises, but if there is really strong interest I will be happy to discuss more on this channel. Thanks to everyone for subscribing!Eric
