>>12534885He's not a failed academic. He has a PhD and just moved to private industry for many obvious reasons
>peddling his flavor-of-the-week physical unification theoryHe's been peddling the same theory for like 20 years I think. So it's more like flavor-of-the-decade. I agree that it's absurd to talk about when he hasn't even written a paper for it, though
During this interview he actually did say he plans on writing a paper for it in 2021, but we'll see
>As for podcasts, Fridman's outdoes anything old Eric could come up with.I like both of their podcasts. Lex has a ton of interesting guests but Eric contributes a lot more to each conversation than Lex does.
Lex is often just reading off pre-written questions and kind of paraphrasing and restating what the other person just said and sometimes chuckling or saying "that's a great way of putting it" before moving onto the next question, unless it's a softer topic like social media or metaphysics. With Eric, the podcasts are like 50/50 between him and the guest.
