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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about [[Academic Freedom|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|academic freedom]]?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838308391
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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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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Academic Freedom|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838569973
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Academic Freedom|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838623987
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838700951
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|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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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131
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|content=What few people admit is that opposing  '''"String Theory"''', "[[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]", "[[Labor Shortages|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|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843422913
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=To maintain [[Academic Freedom|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843642117
|name=Eric Weinstein
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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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|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6844057198
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846235134
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846560285
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846719547
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6860675916
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.
|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861338460
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861412057
|name=Eric Weinstein
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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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861511471
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6869677070
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880681250
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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=== 2010 ===
=== 2010 ===

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Eric Weinstein

New Topic: "What's your vision of true academic freedom?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]

8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.

8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.

8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.

8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.

8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.

8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.

8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

What few people admit is that opposing "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.

8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."

8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).

10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide Academic freedom, science needs to move homes.

11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.

11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

To maintain academic freedom we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.

11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

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.).

11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.

12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

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.

12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.

12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

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.

1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.

1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Last point for now: Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.

1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

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.

1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.

2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

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.

2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.

2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?

8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.

3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.

3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009

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Eric Weinstein

We tell kids: “Actually *anyone* can be a scientist. Science is about asking questions more than having answers. Scientists always welcome questions! Why? Because there are NO stupid questions in science. Science is a journey where professional researchers actually learn from being forced to answer questions. *Never* be afraid to say that something confuses you. Most great discoveries usually begin not with ‘Eureka!’, but with “Huh. That’s odd.”

So you then try to apply that in real life.

12:34 AM · Jul 4, 2023
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Richard Hirschman

I never claimed to be a doctor or scientist, I am an embalmer. I have been only sounding an alarm about what I am seeing! I can only say that this is not normal. In the 20 years prior to 2021 I never seen anything like this. Something is causing this, and I see it often.

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4:09 AM · Jul 3, 2023
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Eric Weinstein

As a STEM PhD, I never say those things to kids. Why? Because we are lying.

It’s a total disconnect. A sense of an imagined life as researchers and scientists that has nothing to do with reality.

Ask questions about COVID, String Theory, CPI, etc and you will *not* find this. 🙏

12:41 AM · Jul 4, 2023


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