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2010

'Free markets', 'tolerance', 'pacifism', 'free speech' etc.. are what physicists call 'effective theories' and require warning labels.

8:03 PM · Jan 22, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Obscenity charges against Gonzo pioneer John Stagliano are dropped! Miller v California remains a menace to free speech http://bit.ly/aVTowv

10:10 PM · Aug 12, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The "Free speech zone" = X was invented & named in the USA = Y in 1988. Q: Name its even more important set-theoretic complement Y \ X.

4:33 PM · Feb 18, 2011

2016

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Confused by people promoting free speech by being deliberately offensive when you can offend many more people by simply thinking clearly.

8:04 PM · Jul 22, 2016

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you don't define free speech movement goals carefully, you end up complaining about the free speech of others that inhibits yours.

12:07 PM · Nov 5, 2016

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I'm not as focused on free speech as I am around the "Don't worry, contrarian intellectuals. You'll still have a job on Monday."-movement.

12:26 PM · Nov 5, 2016

2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

While often tempted, I'm not a free speech absolutist. I'm an anti-utopian w a commitment to keep our world safe from well meaning utopians.

Most of my friends who are free speech absolutists have never run the simulator forward to see the dystopia total free speech would create.

10:16 AM · Jan 13, 2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I like free speech but not absolute free speech. The US is the finer but not the latter.

4:53 PM · Jan 14, 2017

2018

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Free speech isn’t a fascinating topic.

At least to me, it’s more like “air hunger”: when you‘re being choked, it’s always super important to you above everything else, even if simple breathing isn’t really something upon which you ever expected to focus your intellectual energy.

8:42 AM · Dec 18, 2018

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