to it makes me think that he might be thinking a few moves ahead of us. So having Trump in office surrounded by smart people who are pro-crypto, it feels good. I'm glad that the Trump administration — not Trump specifically, he's no crypto expert — but he's certainly surrounded by people who are going to advise him well on that I think.

Meanwhile France has announced that Netanyahu is entitled to immunity from the International Criminal Court because they're not a party to the court. Now why did it take me until today to realize that? So the International Criminal Court has a bunch of countries signed up but it does not include the United States and it does not include Israel for I guess obvious reasons because they would be basically the only ones taken to court. But France is saying we're not going to arrest somebody who never signed that treaty, to which I say, oh why did it never occur to me that you wouldn't arrest somebody who wasn't part of the treaty so they couldn't have broken it? Makes sense. Now obviously that was just a workaround because France doesn't want to be enemies with Israel. But it's just funny that I didn't see that obvious play that you can't arrest somebody who didn't sign up for it. It's worth a shot.

Eric Weinstein agrees with me on physics. The difference between us is that he's deeply invested and educated and experienced in the domain of physics and has his own well-educated, smart thoughts about string theory. And his well-educated thoughts match my own thoughts for the past 20 years. For at least 20 years I've been saying, you know this string theory thing, it sure has every signal for being — now obviously I have no science background whatsoever but everything that I kept hearing about it, every time I heard something about it I thought, you know I don't think that even looks real. Just doesn't even look real.

And Eric Weinstein says that string theory has sort of been the dominant thing people were trying to look at for the theory of everything to tie everything together. And then because it was so dominant as a promising direction that it blocked any real breakthroughs for 40 years. And that at least is a confident or optimistic — I'll say he's optimistic — that after 40 years of not getting the job done the physicists might be willing to look past it now. And if they look past it suddenly the possibility of major breakthroughs might be better.

Now this is sort of one of those hunch kind of ideas because you don't know what the future looks like. So you don't know that there's something out there that's better than string theory and that we have access to it and it'll make a difference. We don't know that. But to me it's a warm feeling to know that somebody who is as deep into this topic as Eric is has exactly the same opinion I did as just somebody who can spot pretty easily. The only thing I claim is not that I know what is true but I can often spot what isn't. So that's my only comment on string theory is like I don't know. Every time I read a story about this it's not that I think the science is wrong