Yeah, that's fair. And it was really impressive in particular since he actually gave full proofs often in 2-3 statements (which again were only useful if you'd already had a solid grasp of what was going on but still...).

I attended a spring school once where DZ needed some representation theory for his part. So he started out giving a 1h "intro" to represenation theory which in essence contained a semester's worth of results (including proofs). Fun to watch but useless for people not already familiar with RT.

Definitely giving you that. Don't really see how that could reliably be implemented at the moment.

Then don't default to zero.

Opposition to certain idealogies though...

True, but how would a worse reaction to weightlessness improve your odds of surviving? Arguably being able to keep calm and trying to land reasonably well are the better adaptation.

I completely forgot about Jordan algebras. Less terrible than I would have expected of such a ring.

Are there any prominent examples of commutative but nonassociative rings? That sounds like an absolute nightmare.

Sure, but afterwards you're still associated with Lex Friedman so...

I still don't get how he gets these high profile guests considering he is possibly the worst interviewer I have ever listened to on a podcast.