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Eric Weinstein
Managing Director, Thiel Capital
Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician and economist. He earned his Ph.D in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992, is a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, and is a managing director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco. He has published works and is an expert speaker on a range of topics including economics, immigration, elite labor, mitigating financial risk and incentivizing of creative risks in the hard sciences.
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One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?
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Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?
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AI is capable of self-reproduction—should humans be worried?
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Your mind is built to process contradictory, irrational ideas. Use that to reach new intellectual heights.
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Humans worship at the altar of excellence, but is our complete obsession with this "quality controlled" mode of intellect holding us back?