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'''Eric Weinstein:''' What I'd like to talk to you about is a topic that I feel very uncomfortable with, because many of you are underage and it contains a bad word... but we have to get rid of our inhibitions. The question is, can we educate for genius? Genius is an extremely uncomfortable word in our world today, because many of us don't believe in it, it appears to create inequality, and in general, when we try to think about genius, it doesn't have a systematic explanation, so there's a real question [as to] whether it even exists at all. | '''Eric Weinstein:''' What I'd like to talk to you about is a topic that I feel very uncomfortable with, because many of you are underage and it contains a bad word... but we have to get rid of our inhibitions. The question is, can we educate for genius? Genius is an extremely uncomfortable word in our world today, because many of us don't believe in it, it appears to create inequality, and in general, when we try to think about genius, it doesn't have a systematic explanation, so there's a real question [as to] whether it even exists at all. | ||