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=== 2021 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795368840138753 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I wrote this 11 years ago. I always thought you’d read it & come find me. You weren’t rich then. You were either a government project, a collective or a lone genius. But you inspired me like little in our time. This was my attempt to get you to reach out: https://t.co/6rVAj2jQYQ |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795358949920768 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The Nakamoto Collective is almost the only forward looking thing I can think of. 11 years ago, I was unable to get our Prime Broker to take seriously that a small Hedge Fund wanted to speculate on some new concept. It was so cumbersome that I gave up and wrote an essay instead... |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795362531856384 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Bitcoin at the time felt totally sketchy as a financial instrument as it was tied to contraband. But I didn’t see it as money. If I did, I would be unimaginably wealthy if I didn’t lose it all to digital theft, accidental loss or spending it . But I am an idiot in these matters. |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795367741378563 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So, [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshis]] if you’re out there, you haven’t needed fame or been eager to cash in. That is likely because you get where this is going. Please find me or someone who can explain how AU works as a wave in a bundle. Let’s build a new digital physics around local conservation laws. |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795365954441218 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=And I hated the blockchain. What the [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi collective]] had done was genius. But there should be no ledger. Gold, as a wave, doesn’t tell you where it has been. So instead I dreamed of meeting the [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshis]] and getting rid of that damn implementation by using digital bundles. |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795365040058370 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Can you imagine. Some group was creating as-if physics inside the network. Bitcoins to me were ‘waves’ propagating not in vector bundles, but on networked computers as substrate. This was genius. I reasoned at the time that it didn’t make sense to me as a medium of exchange. |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795363710537729 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The reason I was interested in it was more complex. If Bitcoin was digital gold, and gold was a quantum mechanical wave, then some group had created a: 1) Novel</br> 2) Locally enforced</br> 3) Digital</br> 4) Conservation law Called the blockchain. And money was but one thing it could be. |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345795369863499777 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Thank you. For everything. And congratulations. Not on your wealth, but for giving us all the means of escape. For creating something truly new. And for having it up for for so long and proving the naysayers wrong. I have no words. What you created wasn’t money but hope. 🙏 |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} |timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345808785483255808 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=It’s time. Put distributed computing on a bundle. Stop worshiping the initial blockchain innovation. Time to move to full digital physics with space-time replaced by the networked computers in distributed computing, and by the Observerse in actual physics. We can’t stay here. 🙏 |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345808779003117570 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=No. Your job is to liberate physics. Mine, to liberate you. Presumably some of you understand the peril we’re in. We can’t stay here. I didn’t mention Geometric Unity to the 🌎 from the early-mid 1980s until 2013. Let’s see if the [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi collective]] can go that long. #TimeToGo |timestamp=7:06 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345808784153669632 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=But Bitcoiners must stop fetishizing the BTC/USD exchange rate and wealth. Set your sights higher. Become the numeraire. Time to fund the worthy outside your communities. There aren’t many. Become our adults. And also look for an update from me around April Fools day. Hopefully. |timestamp=7:06 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345808782794788865 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I would however come to any credible meeting about freeing [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi’s genius]] from the loss of anonymity to the ledger that is the blockchain. Bitcoiners are the logical saviors of physics. And post-Einsteinian space travel and local digital conservation laws are out best hopes. |timestamp=7:06 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1345808781532282887 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I have contributed nothing to the vision of distributed computing. I don’t talk much about the essay even. I’m not a Bitcoiner. Keep me apart from that discussion and I will always support you all. People confuse the new as-if physics for money. So I stayed out to do my vision. |timestamp=7:06 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} |timestamp=7:06 PM · Jan 03, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360270458038362112 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@alexbilz @DavidBCollum True |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254932398448642 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Unfortunately, I can’t live under either. So each of the warring parties thinks I’m against them & for the other team. In their mentalities if you aren’t on their simplistic team you are, de facto, working for the other side. There’s no basic concept of *responsible* heterodoxy. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254931400204292 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The entire war over fact checking is a war of 2 low resolution teams. One team wants absolute freedom to spread wild eyed theories that just about everything is a psyop or a false flag. The other team wants to impose institutional consensus reality on everyone via media & tech. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254928929738756 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Thanks for the invitation. I can try to explain my concern. There really *is* a problem w MAGA, Trump, Qanon & conspiracy theories running rampant. And it will result in death & destruction if it spins out of control. However it is being fueled by those who claim to fight it. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254936504627202 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=These are the folks who tell you “masks don’t work” rather than “save masks for doctors as we forgot to restock them and moved all manufacturing to China like morons”. They will then spin on a dime to tell you “Only bad dumb people don’t wear masks”. This is the worst of Harvard. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254935560933378 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=When they wanted to cut our Social Security payments & raise our taxes they opted to try to change the CPI rather than pass legislation. When they wanted to pay less for scientists they knew to keep *silent* about NSF Labor Shortage claims even though such shortages don’t exist. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254934520721410 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Having spent a good portion of my 20s at Harvard, I know *exactly* how this game works. Our betters sit down and try to figure out how to control others behind closed doors. They see themselves as the intrinsically enlightened people who need to do the thinking for all of us. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254933476417540 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=No the Freemasons do not run everything on behalf of pedophile reptilians who faked Sandy Hook with crisis actors. Yes there are/were conspiracies behind Epstein, H1B, @MSNBC, PPE, climate science, the “Great Moderation”, Great Reset...everywhere institutions want a “consensus”. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254940799668225 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Managed Reality ™ has a weak spot. It’s not run by our A-team anymore. Fauci isn’t Francis Crick. Biden isn’t Elon. Janet Yellen isn’t [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi]]. In general, the A-Team is going independent because tech/media/Ed are enforcing way too much conformity through personal destruction. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254939549769728 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I cannot live in Managed Reality ™ because I think it defeats the purpose of being a human being. It negates being an American. It abdicates responsibility for our children. I have defeated Harvard about half the times we have fought. How? Because they just aren’t that good. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254938513764354 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So, my belief is that anyone who rejects/questions Davos, Consensus Reality, Institutional Narrative, Public Health Campaigns, High Immigration, Peer Review, Primary Election Coverage, Trust & Safety...will be treated as Alex Jones sooner or Later. This is Managed Reality ™. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254937456730120 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So I don’t want Alex Jones and Qanon nor do I want @TwitterSafety, @msnbc and @Harvard. I see them as very different forms of the same thing: people who want to take away our ability to see clearly. And, I assure you, @Harvard tries to paint anyone it can’t control as dangerous. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254943983140865 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Thanks. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254942955540482 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=If I were a tech guy I’d retreat into wealth. If I were a professor I’d shut up and collect my salary with job security. If I was a politician or journalist I’d follow the other sheep. But I’m a science guy, an American and a dad. And I want my kids to have a particular future. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254941873414148 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So why am I worried? Well, I’ve been trying to save the institutions. It’s probably doomed, but almost no one is trying to do what I do: rescue the institutions from their death spiral by reinserting their critics in positions of prominence (eg Chomsky at MIT). Hence my fear. |timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} |timestamp=4:52 PM · Feb 12, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1371192273212338181 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=What was funny about Allen’s medium piece was that he didn’t catch that he the bitcoiner was being the credentialist. Allen was happily quoting our own original ideas back to us..but via Juan Maldacena. A legacy of credentialism and a failure of “Proof of work”. Hilarious really. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1371190427261399042 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Yes. But it is “You pl.” My co-discoverer is @PiaMalaney who Maldacena sourced but didn’t (originally) cite. You can read all about the discovery and burial of Gauge Theoretic economics by the Boskin Commissioners on the Harvard Economics Faculty in “The Physics of Wall Street.” |timestamp=8:04 PM · Mar 14, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1371192274806267904 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=You can read all about this attempt to disintermediate legacy economics in the final chapter and epilogue of this best selling book from a few years ago by Jim Weatherall in the time before [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi]]: https://t.co/oyB3snTBv0 |timestamp=8:11 PM · Mar 14, 2021 }} |timestamp=8:11 PM · Mar 14, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375102961735503872 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@PrometheusAM Respectfully. I’m not one of the BTC fanatics. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100248327024641 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=How can a political Left be: Pro-billionaire and anti-worker? Pro-empathy w ‘fragility’ accusations as its response to pain that cashes out in sky high differential suicide rates. Pro-Science by not permitting questioning of public health/climate? Pro inclusion, anti white. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100252110213124 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Things that are different: Elon, [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi]], JRE, ML, Bio-Hacking, etc. But dammit, we can’t just burn all the institutions now headed by an extractive leader that we can’t figure out how to fire. We’re *playing* at Revolution when we have to figure out how to oust the extractives. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100251372056582 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The simple answer is we have to stop taking multiple choice solutions. This whole menu of options is wrong from stem to stern. Every day, my main thought is “None of this. None of the above. It’s just the same recycled 15 unworkable ideas that won’t die from the same people. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100250629697539 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Many of you didn’t flee to the Left because of Trump. You stayed and said what needed to be said. Trump wasn’t wrong about everything; he was right about a lot. But he was a real problem. Well Biden/Harris aren’t wrong about everything either. And they represents a real problem. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100249866260481 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Let’s be honest at least: This isn’t the Left. This is a hostile takeover of everything the principled thinking compassionate Left has ever stood for. Period. And to my conservative friends, thanks for the invites. But I’d rather you help get our home invasion under control. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100249077739523 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Anti-McCarthyist, Pro-Cancelation blacklisting. Pro-Diversity w zero-tolerance for viewpoint diversity. Have a Magazine called Mother Jones and spit ‘Deplorables’ on those coal/steel families for whom Mother Jones fought. Want “No more police” protecting. our most vulnerable. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375100253100068872 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Rant over. The madness is just getting to me. Thx. |timestamp=3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1375102667135983621 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@PrometheusAM The bitcoin maximalists don’t care for me & are pretty awful to deal with. But they aren’t wrong because they are dicks. They are dicks because it is an amazing invention. Something truly new. You can’t say it’s just same old same old. It’s not my religion, but it’s *astounding*. |timestamp=3:09 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} |timestamp=3:11 PM · Mar 25, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377568727139553289 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@luecki23 @allenf32 I’m not against that. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377557836234907648 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@allenf32 That is about right. We appear to still be divided on toxicity but not on substance. I was trying to say this if I understand you correctly. I also understand that your community has needed to defend itself. Don’t stop as I have been fighting your same enemies. But, I’m not them. |timestamp=9:45 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377559021255819268 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@allenf32 I just wanted not to have the world’s digital currency barking anonymous transactions to those in control of violence. I’m not for lawlessness but I am for privacy and don’t want BTC vulnerable to angry state actors when nations awaken to the threat to fiat currency & C-banking. |timestamp=9:50 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377560084667043840 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@allenf32 Remember this: those in control of the printing presses which devalue fiat currency through seigniorage are also in control of the guns needed to enforce the use of fiat currency. And I’m not even a libertarian. Just a soul who hates being controlled by economists who lie to us. |timestamp=9:54 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377563338591338497 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@btcede @allenf32 No. I’m not telling you something you don’t know. I’m trying to think about what technology might lack this vulnerability and on what theory it would be based around. But...Let’s leave that for a while. |timestamp=10:07 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377568080625287170 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@btcede @allenf32 Happy to think in those terms as well. Will need teachers. Can’t do toxic. But otherwise, yes. However I’ve been on [[Gauge Theory|gauge theory]] and [[Markets|markets]] since the early 1990s and that has been our baby since well before [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi’s]] masterstroke. Why not assume it’s additive and not rivalrous? |timestamp=10:26 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377568249626427394 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@btcede @allenf32 Have to switch gears for a bit now. |timestamp=10:27 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1377568484264194048 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@StopAndDecrypt @allenf32 Will do in a bit. Thx. |timestamp=10:28 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} |timestamp=10:29 AM · Apr 01, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1401599326594375680 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@FThousandaire @JaredBlm @BretWeinstein @lishali88 @edfrenkel @thegoodtomchi @SamHarrisOrg Shhhhh. Not so loud. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1401392547511947265 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I’d want @witten271. Whatever my differences w him have been, I’d put them aside in a minute to get our best people on this [He’d bring his dad as well. ;-)] Nima Arkani-Hamed might by my 2nd pick. I’d take Simons, Alvarez-Gaume, Weinberg, Yang, Maldacena & Seiberg, etc as well. |timestamp=4:16 AM · Jun 06, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1401392859358531584 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Biologists/Naturalists I’d take Bob Trivers, @BretWeinstein, Mark Ptashne, David Attenborough, Liz Blackburn and some others. I’d make some picks many wouldn’t get: Chuck Hoberman, @lishali88, Peter Thiel, @edfrenkel, @thegoodtomchi, Esther Perel, @SamHarrisOrg, [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi]], etc... |timestamp=4:17 AM · Jun 06, 2021 }} |timestamp=5:58 PM · Jun 06, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404148915251814401 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=@trevorchodge Oh….I didn’t say that. You did. ;-) |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131487692115972 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Dear @michaelshermer, Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also don’t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of “no isolated discontinuous innovation” quite interesting! Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics? |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131496059805698 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Next challenge: doesn’t your line of reasoning prove that “Renaissance Technologies” is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131494289760259 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically “centuries ahead” is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg. Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? I’d have guessed “many” (not .5) and been wrong. |media1=ERW-X-post-1404131494289760259-1.jpg |media2=ERW-X-post-1404131494289760259-2.jpg |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131500753182720 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=But it’s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten & Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius & power looking for its 1st application to the 🌎. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131499977318403 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=It’s not physics exactly. But [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]] w support from a small number of folks rewrote [[Quantum Field Theory]] as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else). Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131499197157376 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the world’s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this? |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131498391871490 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people can’t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, [[Satoshi Nakamoto]], etc. They all exhibited the “a little unlocks a lot” paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131497641082880 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations. Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty. Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked. The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131496844165120 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Now I’ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, it’s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131504586838016 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (& friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. 🤷♂️ |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131503827685378 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, we’d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists & ML experts by a national lab & an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry & physics. But enough crazy talk..] |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131503064289281 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=If I thought like CCP, I’d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131502275776512 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I don’t know those systems as well so I’ll use the US example. We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldn’t. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131501512433665 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen & G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didn’t need much more. In fact you don’t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131507686363138 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible. We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I can’t think of a single story to fit to these reports I’m hearing about. I welcome your thoughts. As always. Warm regards, Eric |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131506876928003 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Which is to say we’re not monitoring. Maybe we think that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible. How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if they’re right? Price the Type I & II error. Nuts. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131506121961473 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=You don’t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404131505350201345 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong. But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working. |timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} |timestamp=6:49 PM · Jun 13, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461434251107180551 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=<nowiki>#</nowiki>bitcoin #Crypto #nft #Blockchain #Decentralization #DeFi #web3 #inflation #cpi #Trade #gaugetheory |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432604477911040 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=We don’t always agree. I’ve no idea how [[Satoshi Nakamoto|Satoshi]] took aim at I) above. And I don’t yet know how to explain the importance of gauge theory to Gold (physical Gauge Theory), Prices/Quantities (abelian GT), Trade (non-abelian GT) and Utility (infinite dim GT): https://t.co/16D1phhNTC |timestamp=8:34 PM · Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432608923914241 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=But we’ve been working together behind the scenes. I so appreciate @Breedlove22 coming to Chicago to witness what I hope will be the beginning of an attack on abuses of perhaps the second most dangerous printing press in Washington as inflation heats up. Thanks #Bitcoiners: LFG. |media=ERW-X-post-1461432608923914241-FEgNNkoVEAAcdGr.jpg |timestamp=8:34 PM · Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432612933693442 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Bitcoiners, open minded economists & math/physics folks: we have a serious problem navigating world markets using indicators that currently rely on *preposterous* assumptions (homotheticity, law of one price, stable tastes, etc) Economics needs more eyeballs on it from outside.🙏 |timestamp=8:34 PM · Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432611918651392 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Lastly when we trade with nations that have a different currency from ours, how can we measure inflation of both separate currencies relative to two baskets (imports & exports) without artificially assuming the law of one price? We *must* innovate here: https://t.co/2xyIv0UONT |timestamp=8:34 PM · Nov 18, 2021 }} |timestamp=8:40 PM · Nov 18, 2021 }}
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