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=== 2022 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1490951516085448705 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student. We should be embarrassed how far into [[The Precariat|precariousness]] we pushed Generation X & Millennials. Our entire economy is now bet on bargain science provided way below market.#Enough |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1490949894076469249 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Keep your mouth shut or lose job security. Sometimes @skdh drives me nuts. Usually, it鈥檚 in a good way. Can no one with money or power fix this situation? No? Of course not. You want science slaves. How鈥檚 that working in virology? Somebody get our scientists wealth & [[Academic Freedom|freedom]]. |quote= {{Tweet |image=skdh-profile.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1490945304438345728 |name=Sabine Hossenfelder |usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh |username=skdh |content=Of course the vast majority of people who work in the foundations of physics want me to stop pointing out they are working on pseudoscience. Of course I know that this means I will never get a permanent position. |timestamp=7:07 AM 路 Feb 8, 2022 }} |timestamp=7:25 AM 路 Feb 8, 2022 }} |timestamp=7:31 AM 路 Feb 8, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589670486073802753 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one. But not all lights in the darkness are natural daylight leading to the exits from Plato鈥檚 cave. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589640515129339905 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Instantly stop all progress in the world鈥檚 most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned. I鈥檒l go first: [[Quantum Gravity|鈥淨uantum Gravity鈥漖] |timestamp=3:26 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=skdh-profile.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1589660713148375045 |name=Sabine Hossenfelder |usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh |username=skdh |content=you're confusing the symptom with the disease |timestamp=4:47 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589662680318881793 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Hi [[Sabine Hossenfelder|Sabine]]! I don鈥檛 follow your statement here. How am I confused? |timestamp=4:54 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=skdh-profile.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1589664337375166464 |name=Sabine Hossenfelder |usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh |username=skdh |content=I just meant the cause of the problem is that theoretical physicists don't understand the responsibility they carry when experimental tests take longer and longer. That they got stuck on (a particular idea of) quantum gravity is the effect, but not the cause. |timestamp=5:01 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589666440332070912 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Hmm. As you know I鈥檓 historically a big supporter of your courage & insight as critic. Perhaps you know something here that I do not as a nonphysicist. Open to that. But I disagree. The Q-Gravity Mass Delusion is quite different in character. It is highly specific in its effect. |timestamp=5:09 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589667259626434561 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=It is tied to all sorts of weirdness involving top physics and math people, bizarre funders, forgotten research institutes, aerospace companies, post Manhattan Project government secrecy, [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|the golden age of General Relativity]] and鈥ords fail me鈥utright quackery. |timestamp=5:13 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589668082691473408 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=GUTs are a good test case. I believe you are in error going after Beauty when it comes to Grand Unified Theory. Your critique to Neil Degrasse Tyson recently applied to Georgi and Glashow Basic SU(5)鈥ut not to [[Pati-Salam|Pati-Salaam]] SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) for example. |timestamp=5:16 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589668754497359872 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique. The abuse of Beauty in [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] more generally is valid as a target. Critiquing the use of beauty, by contrast is a suicide mission. And I don鈥檛 want to see you on it. As a friend. |timestamp=5:19 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }} |timestamp=5:25 PM 路 Nov 7, 2022 }}
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