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[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often uses terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those only. This should not be confused with more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as the [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligation|EGOs]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc.
[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligations|EGOs]], [[Gated Institutional Narrative|GIN]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.  


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'''See also:'''
* [[Portal Concepts]]
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World] – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
* [[Riffs to Animate]]
* [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]


== Minus epsilon ==
== A ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
* [[Abomination Ratio]]
* [[Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula]]
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[Anthropic Capitalism]]
* [[Anti-Expert]]
* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media |Anechoic Era]]
* [[Argument as the Frame]]
* [[Artificial Outelligence]]
* [[Audience Capture]]
* [[Audio Samizdat]]


== There is no secret ingredient ==
== B ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Don't Screw Yourself Out of Magic ==
== C ==
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[Checker]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[Checksum Theory of Politics]]
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Chihuahua Effect]]
* [[Communication Security Complex]]
* [[Contact with the Unforgiving]]
* [[Contrast Blindness]]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]]


== Resource capture ==
== D ==
== Potemkin village ==
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
== Steel-manning ==
* [[Defragilization]]
The steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the exact opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions.
* [[Degraded State]]
* [[De-Potemkin]]
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
* [[Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack]]
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
* [[Distribution of Empathy]]
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]
* [[Doubly-Scientific Method]]


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
== E ==
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect ‘64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


== Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) ==
== F ==
== Maladaptive strategies ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
== Deaths of accountability ==
* [[Fact-Checker]]
== Adaptive landscape  ==
* [[Facultative Autism]]
== Overton window ==
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
== Selective pressures ==
* [[Feedback Capture]]
== Environmental insult ==
* [[Follow the Silence]]
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
* [[Forced Citation]]
== Gating function ==
== The Big Nap / The long nap ==
== Freedom is an export ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en


== E8 ==
== G ==
== Pseudo riemannian geometry ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
== “It's a beautiful thing” ==
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
(In New York City)
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
* [[Goliaputian]]
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
He has steady hands.
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== Riding on a technical substrate  ==
== Artificial out-teligence  ==
== Paraesthetize  ==
== Church and pike commissions ==
== Umwelt ==
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
(1 overarching crisis)
== Thinkquisition ==
== Artificial out-telligence ==
== Anti-expert  ==
== 4 quadrant model ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
== De-Potemkin ==


Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
== I ==
* [[Iago Media]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Inferential Clusters]]
* [[Injustice Budget]]
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
* [[Intellectual Arbitrage]]
* [[Intellectual Border Collies]]
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
* [[Intellectual Kryptonite]]
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]


== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
== J ==
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]
== Potemkin village ==
 
== Peer review ==
== K ==
== Forced citation ==
* [[Knarc]]
== Operation Cointel pro ==
* [[Kayfabrication]]
== Kayfabe ==
 
== Twin Nuclei ==
== L ==
== Efficient Frontier  ==
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
== The Observerse ==
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
== Anthropic capitalism  ==
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
== Genius vs Excellence ==
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
== Samizdat ==
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
== Adaptive valley ==
* [[Litella]]
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
* [[The Locrian Era]]
== 4-quadrant model ==
* [[The Looting Party]]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
== Rent-seeking elites ==
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
 
== “No more heroes” Charles lindberg ==
== M ==
== Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
* [[Madness]]
== The long nap ==
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
* [[Map the Silences]]
== A theory is like a newspaper story
* [[Message Violence]]
where/when -> space/time
* [[Minus Epsilon]]
who/what -> fermions/bosons
 
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians)
== N ==
--Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
== Teaching disabilities ==
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
Not Learning Disabilities
* [[New Orchards]]
Differential diagnosis
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
A/B testing
* [[No-Pill]]
== Irrationality ==
 
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
== O ==
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]
 
== P ==
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]
 
== R ==
* [[Radical Uncertainty]]
* [[Rebel end of Corporate and Corporate end of Rebel]]
* [[Recursion Limit]]
* [[Reflexive Contrarianism]]
* [[Regulated Expression]]
* [[Rent-seeking Elites]]
* [[Reputational Violence]]
* [[Resource Capture]]
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]
* [[Riding on a technical substrate]]
* [[Rough Space]]
 
== S ==
* [[Seberging]]
* [[Selective Pressures]]
* [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making]]
* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]]
* [[Shockley-Test]]
* [[Smart-bait]]
* [[Snap to Grid Intellectualism|Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism]]
* [[Speaking Fee]]
* [[Split-Level Argument]]
* [[Straw-checking]]
* [[Streisand Squeeze]]
* [[Surveillance Level Data]]
 
== T ==
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[The Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Thinkquisition]]
* [[Thug-Review]]
* [[Totalizing Ideologies]]
* [[Transcendence Hacking]]
* [[Trauma Cluster]]
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]]
* [[Tuskegee Principle]]
 
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]
 
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]
 
== W ==
* [[Weaponization of Peer Review]]
* [[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]
* [[White Suit]]
* [[Woke]]
* [[Worldwide Uncle Shortage]]
 
== X ==
* [[Xenophilic Restrictionist]]
 
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Revision as of 05:24, 29 March 2024

Eric often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as DISC, EGOs, GIN, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.

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