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Eric Weinstein

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Eric Weinstein
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Eric Ross Weinstein (/ˈwnstn/; born October 26, 1965[2]) is an American investor and financial executive.[3] As of 2021, he was managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital.[4] Weinstein hosted a podcast called The Portal, coined the term "intellectual dark web", and has proposed a theory of everything called "Geometric Unity" that has largely been met with skepticism in the scientific community.[5][6]

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Education

Weinstein received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott.[7][8] In his dissertation, "Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension", Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.[9]

Career

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Finance

In 2013, Weinstein was working as an economist and consultant at the Natron Group, a New York City–based hedge fund.[5][6][10][3] As of 2021, Weinstein is the managing director for Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm founded by American financier Peter Thiel that invests in technology and life sciences–related companies.[3][4][11][1]

Geometric Unity

In May 2013, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy invited Weinstein to give a lecture at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory on a theory called "Geometric Unity";[5] Sautoy also wrote an overview for the The Guardian newspaper.[6] Physicists David Kaplan and Jim al-Khalili as well as Joseph Conlon of Oxford expressed skepticism.[5] Physicists criticized Weinstein and du Sautoy for not publishing any equations related to the theory, which is a normal part of scholarly peer review.[5][3][6][12] Science writer Jennifer Ouellette criticized the favorable coverage given to the theory by The Guardian, arguing that experts could not properly evaluate Weinstein's ideas without a published paper.[13] In April 2021, Weinstein self-published a paper on Geometric Unity and appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss it. In the paper, Weinstein stated that he was "not a physicist" and that the paper was a "work of entertainment".[3] Cosmologist Richard Easther of the University of Auckland said Weinstein's theory has had "no visible impact" and "looked massively undercooked after the buildup it got from du Sautoy".[3]

Other ventures

In 2019 and 2020, Weinstein hosted a short-lived podcast called The Portal.[14][15] As of 2024, he is a member of the research team on The Galileo Project, founded by astrophysicist Avi Loeb to investigate potential signs of extraterrestrial technology.[16][17]

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Personal life

Weinstein coined the term "intellectual dark web", later popularized by Bari Weiss, an opinion editor for The New York Times. The term has been applied to a loose network of public figures opposed to left-wing identity politics and political correctness.[18]

Weinstein is Jewish.[19]

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