You basically have to listen to any lecture he gives to understand that he has at least a drastically overinflated ego. Compare that to lectures by people like

You basically have to listen to any lecture he gives to understand that he has at least a drastically overinflated ego. Compare that to lectures by people like Witten or any other world-class theoretical physicist / mathematician. The vast majority of them are extremely humble. Seth Loyd and people like Mark Tegmark are the kind of guys that thrive in the current academic environment, flashy ideas with some substance pushed into prestigious journals is a winning strategy.