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Weinstein: US failure with Iran will trigger global nuclear proliferation
“And by the way, if the US fails with Iran, you're going to see a proliferation of countries acquiring nukes because we trusted the US.”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:05:42 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weinstein: Chinese science will excel until political taboos interfere
“And we are going to train them up and they are going to be frighteningly good up until the point that that freedom involves Tibet, Tiananmen Square, and Taiwan.”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:17:29 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weinstein: AI models will soon train on rejected 'trashcan' scientific papers
“The AIs are going to change soon. Right now, the AIs are trained on a corpus that privileges things like cell nature and science as the prestige journals of biology or in mathematics, it would be the Invenciones and the Al's and the Journal of the American Mat…”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:17:58 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Weinstein: Pati-Salam model will be proven correct first-order grand unification
“I believe that the Patti Salam model will be found to be the correct first order grand unification above where we are.”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 55:23 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
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