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|content=Since basic research is a public good (i.e. inexhausible & inexcludible) markets will fail here: We need to know what you need to take risk.
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|content=New Topic: "Thank you Science" vs. "You're welcome Science"
|timestamp=4:53 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6041155051
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content="let me just say to the funding agencies who have supported me thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" -@dabacon. This is "Thank you science."
|timestamp=4:56 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content="Thank you Science" is a danger to all of us. Scientists like @dabacon likely need more freedom & acting like street musicians doesn't help.
|timestamp=4:59 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content=Oddly, we don't need additional scientists to compete.  We need our scientists stronger, richer, and more independent. Con huevos y dinero.
|timestamp=5:09 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=What is "You're welcome science"? It is a vision of science getting off its kness to remind the public of the fantastic deal it has w/ you.
|timestamp=5:18 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content="Dear Suzie Taxpayer: You're most welcome for the 2002 work warning of the coming danger posed by the misvaluation of illiquid assets." -ERW
|timestamp=5:28 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content=The value that scientists could bring by debunking market thys alone could save the taxpayer billions upon billions. That's a lot of SSC's.
|timestamp=5:42 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Bottom Line: If you need more salary, help in the house, security, and '''academic freedom''', remember why we fund. It's *not* as favor to you.
|timestamp=5:44 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|timestamp=5:50 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content=Q: Cost(Collapse) >> Cost(Protected Dissenting Scientific Elite) --->
Cost(Cheap Academic Life) >> Cost(Expensive Academic Freedom)
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 1, 2009
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|content=How to avoid spending billions bailing out reckless bankers? Spend money on true academic freedom: the world's biggest bargain.
|timestamp=5:18 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.
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|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true '''academic freedom'''?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.
|timestamp=8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content='''Academic freedom''' is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.
|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content='''Academic freedom''' is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.
|timestamp=8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content='''Academic freedom''' comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.
|timestamp=8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content='''Academic freedom''' entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.
|timestamp=8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content='''Academic freedom''' is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.
|timestamp=8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.
|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."
|timestamp=8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).
|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide '''academic freedom''', science needs to move homes.
|timestamp=11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.
|timestamp=11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To maintain '''academic freedom''' we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.
|timestamp=11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).
|timestamp=11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843806778
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.
|timestamp=12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843869151
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.
|timestamp=12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.
|timestamp=12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.
 
Yet that's insane.
|timestamp=1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.
|timestamp=1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Last point for now:
Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own academic freedom, you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.
|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.
|timestamp=2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.
|timestamp=3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|timestamp=3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|content=An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era @NSF can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era NSF.
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|content=An email from Twitter overnight said: "National Science Fdn (@NSF) is now following your tweets on Twitter." Yet, now @NSF is gone. But why?
|timestamp=12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=As we can obviously see each other @NSF, I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).
|timestamp=1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=If you would like to see a dialogue with @NSF on '''academic freedom''', compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.
|timestamp=1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|timestamp=1:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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=== 2010 ===
 
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|content=How about Coasian markets in 'academic freedom'? Cap&Gown -> Cap&Trade? Or fractional ownership: Zip-Tenure! Anything but scientific silence
|timestamp=3:49 AM · Aug 6, 2010
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|content=The father of Israel's Nuclear Program, Yuval Ne'eman eulogizes Abdus Salam, the father of Pakistan's http://bit.ly/fAMNda (from the Arabic)
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|content=New Topic: Targeted killings of scientists & their families or "just what are you saving your academic freedom to protest?"
|timestamp=2:36 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|content=Let's skip the foreplay: nobody outside Iran wants to see a nuclear theocracy. Does that allow us to assassinate scientists & their kin? No.
|timestamp=2:40 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|content=As an American PhD I have every right & intention to strengthen & guide my country militarily..as do fellow scientists of hostile nations.
|timestamp=2:44 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|content=If N. Korea slips polonium into the sushi of a US Prof. for sharing her knowledge of elliptic curves w/ NSA cryptographers will you protest?
|timestamp=2:55 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9624287828770816
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=If you follow scientists on twitter, you will notice an absence of strong opinion on targeted killings of Iranian academic families.
|timestamp=3:06 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9625332428570624
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Bottom line, if you lack the huevos to engage Iran at the state level, you have no right to target physicists, their wives & their children.
|timestamp=3:10 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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