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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. Β 


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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]]


== A/B testing ==
== A ==
* [[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]]


== Adaptive landscapeΒ  ==
== B ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Adaptive valley ==
== C ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* [[Checker]]
* [[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]]


== Adjective, occupation, name ==
== D ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
* [[Defragilization]]
* [[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]]


== Anthropic capitalismΒ  ==
== E ==
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect β€˜64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


== Anti-expertΒ  ==
== F ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
* [[Fact-Checker]]
* [[Facultative Autism]]
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
* [[Feedback Capture]]
* [[Follow the Silence]]
* [[Forced Citation]]


== Anti-interesting ==
== G ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
* [[Goliaputian]]


== Artificial out-telligence ==
== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== Church and Pike commissions ==
== 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]]


== Deaths of accountability ==
== J ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]


== De-Potemkin ==
== K ==
Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
* [[Knarc]]
* [[Kayfabrication]]


[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
== L ==
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
* [[Litella]]
* [[The Locrian Era]]
* [[The Looting Party]]
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]


== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
== M ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]


== Don't screw yourself out of magic ==
== N ==
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]


== Environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== O ==
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]


== Efficient FrontierΒ  ==
== P ==
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]


== Environmental insult ==
== 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]]


== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
== 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]]


== Forced citation ==
== 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]]


== Gating function ==
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]


== Genius vs Excellence ==
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]


== Irrationality ==
== W ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
* [[Weaponization of Peer Review]]
* [[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]
* [[White Suit]]
* [[Woke]]
* [[Worldwide Uncle Shortage]]


== It's a beautiful thing ==
== X ==
This originates from New York City.
* [[Xenophilic Restrictionist]]


Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
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== Kayfabe ==
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== Long term vs short term optimization ==
Β 
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
Β 
== Maladaptive strategies ==
Β 
== Minus epsilon ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
Β 
== No more heroes ==
Β 
== Operation Cointel pro ==
Β 
== Overton window ==
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== Potemkin village ==
Β 
== Rent-seeking elites ==
Β 
== Resource capture ==
Β 
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
Β 
== Samizdat ==
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
Β 
== Selective pressures ==
Β 
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
Β 
== Steady hands ==
This originates from Washington D.C.
Β 
"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
Β 
== Steel-manning ==
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.
Β 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
Β 
== Teaching disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis
Β 
== The Observerse ==
Β 
== There is no secret ingredient ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
Β 
== Thinkquisition ==
Β 
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
Β 
== Umwelt ==
''(in ethology)'' The world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
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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.

See also:

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

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T

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