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|content=“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.” -Richard P Feynman
[[Morals|Moral]]: A little Feynman is a dangerous thing.
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|content=[Note: I say Ruler because if I say ‘Gauge’ the online BTC community freaks out and thinks it’s under attack from outsider “shitcoiners”. Which it isn’t. But whatever. Toxic fun. They are convinced they don’t speak prose and that BTC & USD aren’t gauges. And hey: Number go up...]
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|content=This is the problem with valuations universally using USD or other managed fiat currencies as Numeraire.
Put simply, you have 2 effects. One is the measurement of a rigid ruler (BTC) by a rubber ruler (USD), the second is the fear of rubber rulers leading to demand for rigid one.
|timestamp=2:59 PM ¡ Mar 16, 2021
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|content=If the USD went hyperinflationary this would clearer: we shouldn’t be using a fiat currency as our ruler because it is subject to mismanagement by central banking. Visa and MasterCard are tied to a manipulated ruler doing two things: measuring things and driving BTC demand.
|timestamp=2:59 PM ¡ Mar 16, 2021
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|content=The question about Gold is a good one. But, more broadly, should we be synthesizing a numeraire from a basket of fairly Rigid rulers that doesn’t include USD? We say “stocks surged across the board today” when we really mean “Our centrally managed USD ruler plummeted today.”
|timestamp=2:59 PM ¡ Mar 16, 2021
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|content=We can’t use BTC for numeraire if we want to measure it: BTC/BTC will never move. But we can have a basket of precious metals, crypto & even CHF if we want to see  USD & BTC moving separately. I just want to move away from having the USD as ruler as it is subject to seigniorage
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|content=To sum up: the big story is that USD/USD is the problem. We put the dollar in our blind spot. It is moving around violently, but it makes everything else that doesn’t co-move with it look violent. The fact that so much co-moves w our crazy rubber ruler drives demand for XAU,BTC.
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: we should synthesize a new  ruler (numeraire) XXX to measure USD/XXX & BTC/XXX separately as institutions tied most directly to USD may strongly co move in ways that disguise the dangers when a (mis)managed USD ultimately becomes the main story. Don’t let the Dollar hide.
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|content=Just interviewed @PJORourke after reading him avidly since the 1980s. Wow. Probably the conservative thinker who has had the most influence getting me to see both logic & decency on the Right using more sympathetic eyes.
[[Morals|Moral]]: Always Meet Your Heroes. Just choose them wisely.
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|content=One last thought. If there aren’t very compelling UAF revelations coming our way, I’d redirect our interest in aliens towards terrestrial physics done by humans. If there were such revelations, then I’d *still* look to physics before tech, as 👽 *still* implies new physics to me.
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|content=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.
Much greater autonomy for theorists.</br>
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Much* higher salaries.</br>
Much greater *diversity* of approaches.</br>
More high precision work.</br>
Fewer graduate programs.</br>
Physics = economic/security priority.</br>
Admit [[String Theory|String Thy]] failure.
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|content=I see now you had a tweetstorm on this, rather than a single tweet. You're right, the physics of UFOs would be world changing, for good and for bad. What do you propose? Somehow keeping the tech within the US gov/military? Eventually it will leak out. Then what? No good solutions
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|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=We need to hire people who will upset the living hell out of the people doing the hiring.
We need to put fundamental physics theory in receivership. No theory lead advance in fundamental physics for almost 50 years, yet no soul searching about who lost physics?? Are we kidding?
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=It’s time to stop listening to the same voices as if they hadn’t failed. This is a national priority, not a cult of personality for a STEM generation that had their time..and then ate their own young across every field. Is no one following what we did to destroy our own capacity?
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|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!
Let’s say it clearly as everyone young is terrified to say it: the baby boomer theorists were successful as geometers while avoiding actual physics over entire careers.
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=By mumbling [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] every 2 minutes as a mantra and recasting actual High Energy Physics as “Phenomenology” they mis-educated an entire generation to think “toy physics” was real physics. It’s unbelievable.
Toy physics is real geometry &amp; topology. But it ain’t physics.
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Real physics:
A) Works with dimension 4.</br>
B) Works with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1).</br>
C) Uses observed quantum numbers.</br>
D) Accepts Lorentzian Signature.</br>
E) Focuses on 3 Generation.
There is *Nothing* wrong with toy models now and then. But we are talking *entire careers* playing with toys.
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=We tell people who are basically mathematicians that they’re physicists.
Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.
We have a culture of people who can’t *afford* error. So they just do math.
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Also, to be a fundamental physicist you really should be telling us what we now have wrong. Every advance partially recovers the one before it but also invalidates it, telling us where to look for error. We’ve made hidden assumptions so you have to tell your elders they goofed.
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Well, young people can’t say that to elders who hold their academic lives in the palms of their hands. [[FU Money|That’s why young/iconoclast physicists need FU salaries]].
Elder “You should work on AdS/CFT or ‘BH information’ if you want to get a job.”
Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
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|content=When I say “There are only two true generations of Fermions.” I’m potentially wrong.
When I listed quantum numbers of the remaining particles, I’m potentially wrong.
As when I claimed Pati-Salam is a maximal compact subgroup of the [[Bundles|normal bundle of metrics]].
That’s not a bug.
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|content=Yet you can’t do this in academic depts.
[[Morals|Moral]]: we destroyed our ability to self-police. Peer review won’t work. We need to go back to doing physics. What’s holding us back may not be physics but the political economy of academic labor, citation, reputation &amp; attribution.🙏
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|content=[[Morals|One Moral]]: Numeraire is an illusion. They are all just reference frames, and none of them have the properties of a fixed Aether. In a dynamic world the search for a fixed store-of-value is a quixotic quest destined for failure. Crypto is the post-Newtonian money, showing us this.
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|content=The interaction between money being a “Store of Value” and “Medium of Exchange” doesn’t say what to make of something that is not inflated away but which is also not exchange rate-stable.
I wonder: is crypto novel enough to simply break our aging concept of money itself?
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|content=ConsumerPrices/Fiat/Crypto are vertices of a triangle. I can imagine Fiat being long term price-stable while subject to inflation and Crypto non-inflationary, but exchange-unstable. In essence exchange-volatility &amp; price-inflatability can be separable threats to “Store of Value”.
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|content=Imagine you were in a regular hyperinflation with a fiat currency &amp; all prices smoothly went up around a regular trend line in one currency. Priced in a 2nd currency however, they bounced around violently but with no trend up or down. There’d be no full “store of value” possible.
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|content=This may be misguided, but it’s one reason I’m not put off crypto. Maybe crypto means to break money itself through such a triangle w/ Fiat &amp; consumer prices revealing that simplistic stores-of-value are an illusion.
Maybe this is a true relativity theory, only now for markets.
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|content=I personally have no idea what’s going on. If I believe in my country then it is most likely aliens. If I disbelieve my country we are engaged in a lie that will soon collapse and destroy our trust and credibility even more.
[[Morals|Moral]]: get us US scientists our own [[UAP|US UAP data]]. Now.
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|content=25000 of you answered. Almost 3 in 4 of you believe either that UFOs are a deliberate fabrication of the government and/or Next Generation US Tech, or from some previously unknown advanced civilization.
About 1 in 4 say the US is just incompetent (in error or being leapfrogged).
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|content=UFO / UAP Poll:
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|content=The poll ran for 3 days to decrease selection bias. It was stable from early on in the response patterns.
Over 2/5 of you have already gone to some form of alien explanation.
Even at this crude level I find this fascinating having run several of these Twitter polls in the past.
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|content=The poll was intended to force people to make a definite guess:
There is nothing real there (lying or incompetence)
There is something there (US tech)
There is something there (Adversaries).
There is something there (Aliens)
More characters would have helped, but not much.
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|content=But here is what I find fascinating: if 2/5 of us think this is Aliens, and 3/4 of us think the US is *baldly* lying on a matter of grave security, in possession of out of this world tech, or are being visited by advanced alien civilizations…and UAP is still not the top story.
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|content=Wish I could do better. But I can’t figure it out for myself and my own family. So I did the best I could as a non-expert without insider access.
So…Good luck. Hope you can do a bit better. Sincerely.
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|content=I appreciate this. I don’t know how to call this for anyone other than myself.
My sense is that we all differ on what to make of the errors &amp; even lies of our authorities.
To some it’s evidence of a great conspiracy. To others it’s just a normal feature of PR. To me? It ranges.
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|content=But if you can see the lies on the surface, you are not obligated to avoid the vaccines.
Perhaps that is my message. I know I’m being pushed to take a vaccine that is being oversold. But I knowingly buy and use products all-the-time that are oversold by people pressuring me.
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|content=Do you eat food that ADM and Monsanto touch? I do. Do I ingest things into my body when I don’t know all the ingredients? All the time.
Seeing the risks of the vaccine, the risks of COVID and the risks of alternative treatment, I chose vaccine. What should you do?
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|content=What I did was to plug my ears to the sales pitch.
As I said, I took a vaccine whose safety was oversold to stop a disease whose lethality is real but also oversold, at some risk that my vaccine may additionally represent risks that I don’t understand. I’m not privy to any plan.
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|content=What I urge you to do is decouple the fact that you are being lied to at one level from the safety issue.
If someone told you that seatbelts absolutely don’t kill people, they are not truthful. But you still likely wear one. If someone tells you vaccines **are** safe, then what?
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|content=This wins me friends with no one. But know that you can see all the lies, distortions and perverse incentives, and still take the vaccine based on the data available today. If there were more and better data, I might take an alternative. But I didn’t see that emerging in time.
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|content=My best guess is that we’re being lied to and sometimes in significant ways, but that the lies are still not as deep as our worst fears on the vaccines.
I don’t like Build Back Better as a creepy one-world Davos mantra. But I don’t think the vaccines are part of a worldwide con.
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|content=It’s not that I don’t fear the Tuskegee medical experiment paradigm. It’s that I don’t think the lies are as deep as our worst fears.
I could be wrong. And I see that.
But I don’t want ability to spot the lies to proxy for your own relative safety assessment. They are distinct.
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|content=I see that there are oversimplifications, censorship &amp; coercion. I hate it, as you know. But I don’t take it as PROOF of evil plans.
Leaders would tell you it’s risk &amp; we expect you to do your part.
We have these people instead. So they lie as a matter of “just doing our job.”
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: even if you see the lies and the danger they represent, you have every right to decouple that from relative risk assessment and to take vaccines despite the sales job.
Most good things are oversold, perversely incentivized, and have disguised risks and costs to them.
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|content=This will again win few friends. It’s pretty hopeless &amp; thankless from here on out. But I encourage @BretWeinstein and @SamHarrisOrg to let it go. I wouldn’t say that if I saw a way forward. But I admit I’m feeling pretty hopeless over all this.
I’m not smart enough for this. 🙏
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|content=Sam Harris in an impossible situation.
Let’s begin with the impossible message: “The obviously not very trustworthy institutions are likely far more trustworthy than you think.”
A probably true but impossible and thankless point to make to those who (accurately) feel betrayed.
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|content=Next impossible point: “We may find out *ex post* that the vaccines are more dangerous long term than anyone imagines or than COVID. But, *ex ante*, you should still vaccinate based on current info.”
This is a point that can’t be made at scale. Ex post wins over practical minds.
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|content=Then there is the “Ivermectin isn’t even widely available.” point.
Then there is the “cost of Covid” relative risk point.
And so on.
And all without lashing out personally at @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying beyond the issue of judgment in a life and death situation.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=For better and worse, both Sam and Bret are working out of a common desire to say something to give people good direction. They both have different things they see most clearly and also different weights on the meanings and truth values of various claims.
Is there any way out?
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1424505933200199683
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Well, it *has* come to this. My big disagreement w @BretWeinstein is how he has structured his point. Trying to sort this out, I saw a much less clear picture. I don’t want to say he’s wrong on substance b/c I don’t know. But the clarity he sees isn’t clear to me as a non expert.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1424505934047367168
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I see government, industry and public health push out massive simplifications, distortions and even lies to hide small and large issues alike. You can have an aircraft carrier size lie that is used to hide 1 reefer and flask of moonshine. Or it can be used to smuggle Tanks/bombs.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don’t know what to make of the public health and newsmedia screw ups. They are beyond preposterous.
But my best guess is that the institutional lies used as vehicles often hide much smaller payloads than one might naively guess. And my **guess** is that this is true here too.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The whole thing makes me sad though. Because of errors in leadership by Fauci, Trump, CNN, MSNBC, Biden, The Lancet, etc we’re being needlessly divided from each other.
Love both @SamHarrisOrg &amp; @BretWeinstein. But perhaps there’s nothing to do without reform of our leadership.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Simple Moral]]: the size of the lying you can spot isn’t necessarily the size of what is being smuggled.
It’s ok to vaccinate, even if  vaccines are at times needlessly &amp; foolishly oversold with ham-fisted sanctimony and authoritarian bullshit that makes you puke. Separate issues.
|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|timestamp=11:00 PM ¡ Aug 8, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433886397136400385
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=*Pus not Puss.
But let’s be honest, your not hear for the spelling and typos. ;-)
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433883648571297793
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now, what was media saying about vaccines vs “Anti-Vaxxer Lunatic Horse Dewormer Snakeoil”?
Forgive me: I was lost in a moment just refreshing my medical history.
https://t.co/UV0wbovWLw
|timestamp=8:04 PM ¡ Sep 3, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Moral: if you want to talk about Ivermectin vs vaccines, don’t **ever** pull that “Horse DeWormer” shaming idiocy if you want independent people to vaccinate. You just look like hate filled idiots. Our precious vaccines come from self experimentation.
Pro-Vaccine IS Pro-Puss.
🙏
|timestamp=8:04 PM ¡ Sep 3, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433885378549714944
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[Brought to you by a pro-Vaxxer who has not taken Ivermectin and who is not an MD and refuses to give medical advice. This is about the inane use of shame in public health by affiliated media, and *not* about relative therapeutic efficacy and risk.]
|timestamp=8:11 PM ¡ Sep 3, 2021
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|timestamp=8:15 PM ¡ Sep 3, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: There never really was an IDW. But whatever there was isn't in such bad shape. There are real divisions in the group to be sure, but most of them aren't so severe. Including, in my opinion, Bret &amp; Sam. So far it's limited to one topic. Not perfect, but not too bad either..
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|content=I listened. It made me think.
I view Sam not wanting to talk to Bret as less significant than many of you, including @joerogan. I think Sam is confused by Bret (which is normal) but worries that working out the issues in public/private could end up in public as a health threat.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don't think @SamHarrisOrg sees @BretWeinstein as a flat earther in any general sense.
Likewise, while I've said that Bret's point is mis-structured, most of his point was that the vaccine/COVID discussion is being managed to avoid legitimate complicating issues around vaccine.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So while I didn't understand where Bret got his clarity from on Ivermectin, VAERS and Pharma incentives, I certainly understood that we appeared to be weirdly avoiding a scientific discussion around data collection, comparative efficacy, long-term risks in novel situations, etc.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But all that isn't the point of this thread. It was to say this, many of us are not fighting with anyone in this group. People may be disappointed in me, but there isn't one person in the IDW (cough, cough) universe that I am not eager to talk to. Most of us have held together.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I am always happy to talk with @MaajidNawaz, @SamHarrisOrg, @bariweiss, @BretWeinstein, @jordanbpeterson, @DrDebraSoh, @HeatherEHeying, @CHSommers, @DouglasKMurray, @RubinReport, @joerogan, @MsMelChen, @clairlemon, @ConceptualJames, @michaelshermer, etc. Even if THEY are pissed.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @ShellenbergerMD, be of good cheer. Not all are fighting. There *are* real tensions in this group, but most of us are happy to be in touch with each other. We have ups and downs and disappointments. But the divisions have been exaggerated by an internet that fetishizes drama.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I do think @joerogan was right in what he said however. I have never seen people of both good charachter and mind so bizarrely divided by intellectual disputes as we all are in 2021. But that is why I think it is inspiring that the greater IDW isn't more divided. It's not so bad.
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As for Bret and Sam...I thought the right thing to do is to give it time. Sam is still more of a believer in the system than Bret. Bret is more sweeping in his critique. But I am happy to help Joe or anyone else in resolving this so it doesn't send the message that 'all is lost.'
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=For the most part, most people in this space are open to working out most of their differences most of the time.
But the internet gossip machine wants catfights. I just don't know why that beats calling a friend up to say "I am having trouble with what you said."
|timestamp=12:13 AM ¡ Oct 18, 2021
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