Strategic Silence

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June 1, 2018 headline from The Guardian

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The concept of “strategic silence” in journalism is fascinating. You take something of direct importance to the public that would sell papers because everyone wants to read about it...and then you quietly fail to report because of potential consequences:

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/extremist-ideas-media-coverage-kkk

1:53 AM · Dec 7, 2018

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is how the game is played. People don’t get that the entire REASON 9/11 conspiracies exist is that we can’t admit that some things are not well understood. I don’t believe in a 9/11 conspiracy theory. I do believe we have a building collapse for which we lack a good theory.

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Then the pressure will start “You are feeding lunatics!” No I‘m not. You are the ones *starving* lunatics. And that’s far more dangerous you idiots. This is from the current Wikipedia article on Building 7’s collapse. Can we not say “That’s odd.” Or “That’s weird.” Well, why not?

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Look at the carnage of the ‘08 financial crisis. I was told I was feeding panic from 2002-5 when I claimed I didn’t understand how mortgage backed securities gave rise to the banishing of volatility given the opacity of the products. So guess who caused the crash? Me & math guys!

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I mean really??? You get the physics guy @overbye at the @nytimes to write a story to deflect from the actual people who put the world at risk?? It’s so good!! You people in the institutional world still have no idea why you got @realDonaldTrump elected.

It’s the universal lies.

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is the DISC:

Don’t ask your questions.
Don’t admit you don’t understand.
Don’t question experts.
Don’t listen to heterodoxy.
Don’t associate with iconoclasts.
Don’t befriend the other party.
Don’t criticize your own fringe.
Don’t self-promote.
Don’t be gauche.
Die silently.

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Okay. I caused the 2008 crash together with my colleague @EmanuelDerman. I caused @realDonaldTrump to win because I said during the election what @donnabrazile said after the election. And if you haven’t noticed the US STEM system may collapse.

Put it on my bill with xenophobia!

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

At some point however, you may want to try a new hypothesis: the institutional system is obviously fake & getting faker. Rather than lathering on the cosmetic bullshit until you become Tammy Faye Baker, you might want to just say: “Maybe we have a universal authenticity crisis.”

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’ve been trying to help. I try to tell you that your “Strategic Silence” theory is breeding lunatics. Your demonization of normal Americans is courting fascism. Your rent-seeking pig-out at the trough invites communism.

Or just call me Alex Jones. The choice is yours.

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We’ve been here together multiple times before. You want to go again?

Who knows maybe you’ll win again? But it’s late in the day & your old magic isn’t working as well as it did. Look at the Oval Office you fools.

We know each other so well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10quant.html

Be well.

5:48 PM · Jan 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Unfortunately no one can be told what the D.I.S.C. is:

Terms of service
Superdelegates
Catch & Kill
Blue Ribbon Panel
Trust and Safety
Peer Review
Authoritative Sources
Non-Disparagment/Disclosure
Deboosting
Strategic Silence
Downranking
ML Fairness
No-Platform
Tin Foil Hat
Etc.

12:21 AM · Feb 7, 2020

marc gilpin

@marcgilpin

@EricRWeinstein in as few characters as possible, what is the DISC?

11:52 AM · Feb 7, 2020

Melissa Chen

@MsMelChen

Always a thousand times more eloquent, Dr. @EricRWeinstein

4:44 PM · Jun 28, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MsMelChen @boony_t I wish I came up with “strategic silence” Miss Chen, but Journalism, Statecraft, and Public Relations seems to have beaten us all to this gem.

5:16 PM · Jun 28, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Cars don't randomly attack Germans at HIGH SPEED at Christmas Markets. Just like Trucks don't attack the French celebrating national holidays.

What was the car's motive?

My heart goes out to all those targeted in what is all but certain to be an act of *Anti-Christian* terror.

8:42 PM · Dec 20, 2024

Oceanic Prole

@OShenMetaX

Oh but Eric, didn't you hear in Canada that Flames attacked a synagogue?!

12:59 AM · Dec 21, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@C_Midd77 This is the issue of style guides and their doctrine of “strategic silence”.

12:59 AM · Dec 21, 2024

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• Anti-Interesting
• The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)
• Follow the Silence
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• Managed Reality TM
• Map the Silences