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== On X ==
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=== 2009 ===
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|CLAIM]]: Gauge Theory is the natural marginalism for economics. CHALLENGE: help launch a 2nd marginal revolution virally via social networks.
|timestamp=11:46 PM · Jun 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2213733544
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|CLAIM]]: in the future, the only case for W as greatest US president will be the two words 'Alphonso mangos'. Now where are they??
|timestamp=10:46 PM · Jun 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3850206941
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=That "Magic" is lying about H. Sapiens. It is also ugly. Beauty removes the lie. So if we're full of it, invite us to Princeton. I'll come.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3845309967
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Ok @dabacon Beauty in Econ:
SpaceTime->OrdinalPrefs x Time
InternalSymm->Util Re-Params
GaugeFields->Indifference\Mkts
FieldStrength ...
|timestamp=6:22 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3845402642
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now @dabacon: do you know anyone in physics with a blog and the cojones to engage this? I [[Claims|claim]] that Paul can't define inflation w/o gauge.
|timestamp=6:27 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3846093722
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @riemannzeta and @dabacon: I don't want to get specualtive or distracted. [[Claims|Hard claim]]: Krugman can't define inflation in theory w/o gauge.
|timestamp=7:05 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3846197290
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I'll be happy to make a precise statement to that effect when a physicist or geometer with some self respect steps forward to host a debate.
|timestamp=7:10 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3850074461
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Ok Paul: if you even had a perfect world, *define* inflation with evolving ordinal tastes O_t under prices p_t if O_t isn't fixed by Magic?
|timestamp=10:30 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|timestamp=10:37 PM · Sep 8, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4966087309
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=When Krugman's NYT blog promoted the 'smart people are the problem' theory, I realized 'The Matrix' was my favorite documentary.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4932918804
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=New topic: The Self-Hating American Scientist.
|timestamp=2:21 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933063084
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I find it fascinating that a couple of top-notch biologists consider themselves lucky to get jobs in "adjacent western states."
|timestamp=2:28 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933091381
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I stare in wonder at a highly trained physicist repeatedly 'apologizing for wasting your time' on 'a crazy idea' to his audience.
|timestamp=2:30 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933169187
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I gaze in wonder at a math student hitting his head against a window intoning 'i'm so stupid, i'm so stupid' as I find his proof's flaw.
|timestamp=2:33 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933258581
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What no one I know is talking about is that manipulation of S&E labor markets is destroying the 'take-no-prisoners' American Scientist.
|timestamp=2:38 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933384588
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We are about to start the LHC. Q: Where are the young turks with predictions other than the usual safe SUSY/Higgs offerings? A: In hiding.
|timestamp=2:44 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933431473
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Q: Where are the economists who know where the bodies are burried in the neo-classical canon? A: Calculating where their bread is buttered.
|timestamp=2:46 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4933509739
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|Claim]]: Making scientists cheaper makes scientists crappier. The economic issue is that the brilliance of "L" changes with price.
|timestamp=2:50 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4934784926
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What if we were to make a pledge that along with training in science came a serious academic freedom committment to protect OUR investment.
|timestamp=3:52 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4934810000
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If my tax dollar is going to fund your PhD, I want you to have help in the house, and security so that my investment isn't squandered.
|timestamp=3:54 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4935183387
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don't mean to sound overly mercinary, but lack of self-esteem, security and power in young scientists is a dilution of U.S. investment.
|timestamp=4:13 AM · Oct 17, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4964120692
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What to do about physics hype? If the LHC doesn't deliver time-traveling spaceman from a 37D-black hole it will anti-climax.
|timestamp=10:09 AM · Oct 18, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4965778876
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What makes Goldman fearsome is not that they're smart and stand up for their interests. It's taxpayers who refuse to do likewise.
|timestamp=1:02 PM · Oct 18, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4965900465
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='Remember laymen: when trying to understand markets crises DONT CONSULT SCIENCE PHDS. They're the cause. Avoid smart people.' -Big Brother
|timestamp=1:12 PM · Oct 18, 2009
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|timestamp=1:28 PM · Oct 18, 2009
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{{Tweet
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5574405979
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There is something bizarre about the fear of disruption in the sciences. Yeah, it's disruptive *&* childishly simple. That's the BEST part!
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5570135130
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Parents, your kids are never to young to have 'that talk' with them. Let your child learn basic particle theory from home, not the streets.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5571237013
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @Gelada asks a great question. The right age to talk about something has to do with what you understand about it.
|timestamp=10:36 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5571309539
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=New Topic: "How to Talk to Exceptional Children" or "The importance of never ever ever ever creating prodigies"
|timestamp=10:39 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5571956891
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=First, fetishizing synthetic prodigies is a direct threat to exceptional children. When you create a street urchin, you create a prodigy.
|timestamp=11:03 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5572017643
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Almost any child, can be turned into a prodigy by an insecure parent. If you've been in a top math department, you've seen these victims.
|timestamp=11:06 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5572079267
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But the other week, I gave a plan of how to build a true Klein bottle from 2:1 gears, a lazy susan, and a wheel. That can't hurt anyone.
|timestamp=11:08 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5572290090
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now if you push Terry Tao's Gauge theory intro on kids using formal definitions you'll blow their little neurons to bits. Don't do it!
|timestamp=11:16 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5572485822
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=When I ask if I can teach gauge theory to little kids, I'm trying to find examples in real life. Yet we don't understand our own subjects.
|timestamp=11:23 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5572821024
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So I ask @Gelada, "How well do *you* understand Gödel's theorems?" 22YO-well? 16YO-well? 5YO-well? That's my best answer.
|timestamp=11:36 PM · Nov 9, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5573852175
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @republicofmath asks what I mean by 'teach' gauge theory to kids. I mean, can you recognize & understand bundles and their connections.
|timestamp=12:14 AM · Nov 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5573997445
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Bottom line: Prodigy-victims keep us from treating kids as the true geniuses they are. Teach kids about that which moves you without fear.
|timestamp=12:20 AM · Nov 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5574115071
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@republicofmath I mean hand them examples, screen them examples,  build examples, analyze examples, invent examples.
|timestamp=12:24 AM · Nov 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5574222109
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|CLAIM]]: I could teach a 7YO why intertemporal economic welfare is based on gauge theory so she could explain Dale Jorgenson's error.
|timestamp=12:28 AM · Nov 10, 2009
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|timestamp=12:35 AM · Nov 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5625543462
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|CLAIM]]: "Experiment automatically trumps Theory" is broadly distributed science malware. Malware sent to Grad School...but malware it is.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5620791654
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In dialogue with theory, experiment has the last word.
Often, "I'm Sorry! I was so wrong baby. Please don't leave me."
|timestamp=3:12 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5621781130
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@orzelc The use of 'often' had such a point in mind. But the sins of bad theory are legend. Experiment's, less so.
|timestamp=3:51 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5623188934
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='What experimental sins?' asks @orzelc. Ask @BretWeinstein about drug testing on lab mice w/o contolling for divergence from wild-type. Oy.
|timestamp=4:46 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5624547219
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I respectfully disagree in strongest terms with my friend @orzelc about experiment 'trumping' theory in conflict. From whence this edict?
|timestamp=5:41 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5624783704
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Conflicts between theory & experiment are Prize fights. If you always short theory, I'll selectively take your action. Ka-ching!
|timestamp=5:51 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5625280419
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I spot 3 separate difficulties in the last tweet alone @orzelc regarding 'trumps', 'useless' & 'reality'. It would be a pleasure to discuss.
|timestamp=6:11 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5625364501
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=A) Experiment doesn't trump theory. B) Observations of reality are not reality. C) All theories that do not fit experiment are not useless.
|timestamp=6:15 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|timestamp=6:22 PM · Nov 11, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5648592838
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=No doubt, my points about K-meson decay and Hayflick limits in toxicology were also contaminated by my trying to make econ. a science? ;-)
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5642230131
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=New Topic: Scientific Malware, Theory-Phobia, and the Proxy Economy of Science.
|timestamp=5:49 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5642371977
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let me make a [[Claims|claim]]: Science is too disruptive to result in an orderly market place of ideas. If you like orderly markets, ya got trouble.
|timestamp=5:58 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5642463955
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What we have built is a compromise: a proxy economy which is nothing if not orderly. In fact, the proxy economy is a towering achievment.
|timestamp=6:03 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5642635320
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The proxy economy gets results but in a weird way. A falsifiable hypothesis sent to a leading journal can be returned as 'speculation'.
|timestamp=6:13 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5642744662
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The vulnerability of the proxy economy is that achieves an orderly market place of ideas at the expense of efficiency. Enter "Theory".
|timestamp=6:20 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643070858
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There are *distinct* fears surrounding new theory. A) It is crap. B) If not, It threatens stabilty, my grant, my oeuvre, my self-worth.
|timestamp=6:42 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643167121
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=A game is to make lay people interested in radical progress fear disorderly change as if they were rentseekers, by feeding the fear of crap.
|timestamp=6:48 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643361621
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The crap, though, is easy to spot. String triumphalism, genetic determinism, etc.. Yet so is an advancement like gauge theoretic economics.
|timestamp=7:02 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643613608
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So, in my case, while *experiment* shows consumer tastes changing, we claim any theory incorporating this is crap. Now, that's some malware!
|timestamp=7:20 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643801627
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In particle physics, wagers (more than data) have showed us how weak actual conviction in theory is relative to stated confidence.
|timestamp=7:34 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5643926363
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Bad Theory is overblown. Good theory is a remaining threat to orderly science. But if you fear disruption, run the malware. Thx.
|timestamp=7:44 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5647987525
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @orzelc claims I'm making a mistake fallling for economics as a science.  Yeah. I thought we were apes with behavior to study. My bad.
|timestamp=12:46 PM · Nov 12, 2009
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|timestamp=1:18 PM · Nov 12, 2009
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5759528816
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|CLAIM]]: It is unethical to offer rent seekers anonymity w/ peer review if they refuse to risk profit 'shorting' what they block.
|timestamp=7:20 AM · Nov 16, 2009
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=== 2010 ===
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/8171341572
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|Claim]]: The science world version of the index "Log(Morpheus per unit Neo)" went well negative before a mild recovery.
|timestamp=1:09 AM · Jan 25, 2010
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/12128911998
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Claims|Claim]]: "He said / She said" journalism perpetuates the status quo via muddled stalemate. I'll prove it objectively: try covering this story.
|timestamp=10:52 PM · Apr 13, 2010
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=== 2020 ===
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1281703671328194560
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Perhaps my identification before even Male, Jewish or American is non-neurotypical. Precisely because the issue is invisible. My community of neurodivergents isn’t a white or privileged issue. We‘re a totally inclusive 🌈,only we’re somehow in the ultraviolet you don’t see yet.🙏
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1281703659206672384
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I respectfully **strongly** disagree. To many of us “Learning disabled” kids w/ lousy grades & crappy teacher recommendations they are our only lifeline. True, we may struggle with them as well. But sometimes one can show a C-average student in the >95% percentile on such a test.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1281703662469832704
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This allows a truly marginalized community (those of us w/ significant learning differences) with *no political presence* at all and which is shat upon w/ impunity by almost all educators that the problem is actually “Teaching Disabilities” which show up as terrible evaluations.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=How do you explain a student getting C’s w 1400 on an SAT? Those tests w/ all their flaws have been the lifeline of people like me. Without them we have no way of pointing to the problem as being our teachers.
If those tests didn’t exist, you would not be following this account.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=By all means let’s make our tests better, but give us the means to throw off our damned educators who attempt to destroy my community of learners. So why do they do it? Because we are the one community that consistently reveals the inadequacy of our schools, material & educators.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=So I’m sorry to Black and Latino advocates that may argue that the tests are unfair to those marginalized communities. But there are MILLIONS of voiceless Americans who are **openly** discriminated against and destroyed by our schools.
It’s totally invisible with *zero* empathy.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=Short of asking blind musicians to read music, it‘s actually the clearest demonstration of “Structural bias” we have. Every second of every day of school is based around neurotypical expectations. K-12 is 13yrs of everyday being a humiliation communicating that you are an idiot.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=So here‘s my [[Claims|claim]]: those tests are all some of us have. The next time someone says “Tests only measure an ability to take tests.” show them this thread and tell them to look at the contributions of dyslexics & others non-neurotypicals.
Fix the educators. Or hands off the tests.
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|content=And lest you think this isn’t empathic towards racial minorities, the joke‘s on you. Those tests save Black dyslexics. They save Latinos w “attention deficit”. The multiple choice questions rescue Trans kids w disgraphia.
Yet we aren’t even recognized by “Diversity & Inclusion.”
|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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|timestamp=9:35 PM · Jul 10, 2020
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=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===
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|content=The [[Morals|moral]] of the story to me is this:
We can’t have outside folks calculating and theorizing while the inside economists are fudging and cooking the books.
And calling me crazy won’t change a thing when this is finally understood. It’s simply institutional academic malpractice.
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|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous [[Claims|claims]].
One of my most *outrageous* is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics [[Boskin Commission|Boskin Commissioners]].
Yet it’s admitted:
https://ritholtz.com/2010/01/why-michael-boskin-deserves-our-contempt/
|timestamp=4:12 PM · Apr 14, 2021
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|content=It’s kind of an interesting puzzle. Why is it that a Harvard Professor (Mankiw) can say the truth which is that this was a conspiracy to cut entitlements. But the only two people who can CALCULATE a COLA for changing tastes are crazy for saying their work was deliberately buried?
|timestamp=4:12 PM · Apr 14, 2021
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|content=In any event, I stand by my [[Claims|claim]]. The [[Boskin Commission]] was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years.
And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this.
|timestamp=4:12 PM · Apr 14, 2021
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|content=On of the reasons is that one of the commissioners bragged about this being the motivation behind the scenes.
Okay. So why can’t we have gauge theoretic economics reevaluated? Everyone admits this is what happened. Why continue to bury the advance?
I dunno. But it’s amazing!
|timestamp=4:12 PM · Apr 14, 2021
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|timestamp=4:12 PM · Apr 14, 2021
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|content=Enough! Let’s get back to UFOs and space opera so we don’t have to worry about China & Iran making a breakthrough on a white board in some lab we can’t see.
[[Morals|Moral]]: if you take UFOs seriously but not the risk of new physics, you aren’t thinking clearly.
Just think about it. 🙏
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|content=At this point, the story I am tracking isn’t “Little Green Men”. It is “Officials inexplicably change course on UFO narrative”.
Also, the story about “Technology never before seen.” Would make more sense with “Technology” replaced by “Physics”.
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|content=High level government officials have given [[UAP|UAPs]] credibility, but it's still pretty hard for an outsider to analyze the evidence objectively. It's all video footage and testimony. We need much stronger evidence to form any real opinion on UFOs being extraterrestrial or not.
|timestamp=12:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=The US/Europe seriously diverted attention from doing real theoretical physics almost 40 years ago in 1984 to explore physics inspired mathematics. Did China/Iran/Russia/Israel? I don’t know.
But I can tell you this: no one in government is appropriately focused on new physics.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Imagine in 1900 some “crank” told you about thermonuclear weapons. Would you listen or laugh? Well, they’d be only 5 decades away with no aliens necessary. And powered flight hadn’t happened yet!
That’s how powerful a “new physics” advantage is. We’re behaving like lunatics.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Any time ANYONE at least 1/2-way viable says something weird or kooky or interesting (Wolfram, Lisi, etc.) the cost of a Department of Energy 1hr phone call is negligible. Almost no one with that background says anything like this. Maybe less than 1 such PhD “lunatic” per year.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Do I think Wolfram, Lisi, Kaku, Smolin, Klee Irwin, Sarfatti, Woit/Penrose etc are right or on the doorstep of new physics? No! But It’s also totally irrelevant to the security risk.
It wouldn’t matter to me at all.  I would check in with all of them: the cost is zero. The risk?
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=The thing I like least about [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity]] is not being able to know what it would unlock if true, any more than Einstein and Bohr understood Lise Meitner, Stan Ulam & Edward Teller’s weaponization of New Physics.
We are talking about UFOs while not worrying about New Physics.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Think about the g-2 muon anomaly. Have you heard as much about that suggesting the possibility of New Physics from high precision (rather than high energy) as you have about the TicTac UAP?
Similarly, how often do you hear about [[UAP|UAP technology]] rather than physics issues. Right??
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the [[UAP|UAP narrative]]. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few [[Claims|claims]] seriously.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As we saw over & over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.
The handful of PhD level [[Claims|claims]] are of negligible cost to investigate & dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.
DOE lost the plot.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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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 đŸ‘œ *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
|timestamp=2:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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?
|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263871347159044
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263873117155328
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263874748813313
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263875562512384
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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 [[Claims|claimed]] Pati-Salam is a maximal compact subgroup of the [[Bundles|normal bundle of metrics]].
That’s not a bug.
|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263876577497088
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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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This is not fact checking @PolitiFact. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts.  
This is not fact checking @PolitiFact. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts.  


You aren’t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink. https://t.co/wY4NgkWXML
You aren’t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink.
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|content=[[Claims|Claim]]: @PolitiFact and our other fact checkers are reliable fact checking organizations as they simply check their own facts without bias and nothing more.


Truth-O-Meter: https://t.co/0d45VchJ3h
Truth-O-Meter:
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=== 2023 ===
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|content=@TomBilyeu @JosephPConlon My completely crazy [[Claims|claim]]: I don’t think there is a log jam. String theory is relentlessly jamming the future. It has taught people how to *stop* progress.
The future of physics is not necessarily evenly distributed.
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=== 2024 ===
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|content=[Note: This Graph dramatizing just how dramatically we have reached a new regime was made in good faith, but was both complicated and somewhat involved to put together. I am solely responsible for its construction; any oversights or errors within it lie entirely with me. I encourage others to check it, and I will be happy to correct it if necessary. However, the basic point is that the Standard Model and General Relativity are now both 50 years old, and the hope that String Theory / M-Theory would provide the next big insight has been downgraded many times in the years since the 1984 G-S anomaly cancelation ushered in the modern String Era. ]
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|content=I've a tradition where I use April 1 not for pranks, but to say a difficult thing that's actually TRUE.
We're now in a current fad where famous physicists deride even the mere idea of any crisis in fundamental physics, treating those who claim one as delusional.
They're lying:
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Here is the alternative text explaining the picture above.
ALT TEXT: "Graph of the youngest living Nobel Laureate in Fundamental Physics over the last 100 years.
Before the 1984 explosion in String Theory, the graph shows a physicist 50 or younger. After 1984, the graph shows that there has not been a single year in which we have had such Nobel Laureates below that age. Since 2021, the youngest such living laureate has been above the age of 70 and was given the prize done for work that is now more than 50 years old as of 2024.
While the String Era is not the sole cause of this crisis, it has covered up this crisis by pretending that the field of fundamental physics is in a normal regime. This is widely disputed within the field....and even privately among the String Theory community. Most importantly, no one in the field actually believes that there is anything delusional or abberant about seeing this crisis. The String-Theory / M-Theory community members have simply decided to misportray & strawman their critics against all scientific ethical norms."
|timestamp=5:12 AM · Apr 2, 2024
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|content=I am prepared to stand by the following [[Claims|claim]]: I believe that every single member of the theoretical physics community knows that there is *nothing* at all abberant about seeing the current regime as a potentially catastrophic crisis for fundamental physics.
Without exception.
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: Discoveries in Classical Field theory have been FAR more important historically for our deep understanding of the physical world than Quantum theory. As late as 1986, this wasn’t even that controversial of an observation.
Further, the theory of Geometric Quantization can be interpreted as saying that classical Hamiltonian systems are roughly *Self Quantizing*. Which is huge and rectified a huge oversight.
I am not sure why I am constantly supposed to ooh and aah about all things quantum (“It’s entangled!!!” “The cat is both dead AND alive!” “It goes through both slits!!”) while pretending that our classical field theory is just a low energy effective theory.
This should be reversed in my opinion. Perhaps we aren’t making progress following the Quantum Fetishists with their Quantum Gravity that doesn’t work.
[[Claims|HERETICAL CLAIM]]: Classical Theory is FAR more important than the failed Quantum Gravity crowd understands. We would be much further ahead if we stopped the quantum fetish. The world *IS* quantum. But it is *also+ likely classical in a way that is equally if not more profound. We should split the field into quantum supremacists and mixed Quantum / Classical people and see if the second group doesn’t outpace the fetishists within the first.
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|content=@karch_andreas @elonmusk The “promises” were not “just overblown”. Careers of competitors were ended. It was a time of “Join or Die”.
There was a bloody takeover of theoretical physics.
A lot of people had alternatives. Where are they now? They are gone.
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|content=This is how String Theorists lost the plot and everyone outside of physics.
@elonmusk makes a comment about String Theory not making any Predictions. He sees the next move coming and uses the word “testable”.
What could we say to an engineering CEO who *LOVES* physics, needs it to traverse the cosmos, and could save the field single-handedly
if we just wanted to piss him off instead by making it sound like the field is fake?
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|content=“I didn’t forget your birthday at all! I just wrote you a birthday card that is 10,000,000,000,000,000x smaller than a quark. You just can’t read it.”
“String Theorists never claimed that Super-Symmetric String Theory would almost certainly mean Superpartners at LHC energies. It only seems that way to stupid people.”
“We didn’t fail to deliver a Unique Theory of Everything in 10 years as we claimed in the 1980s when we murdered the reputations of all our competitors as being stupid people who just didn’t get it.  No no no. Instead you merely got impatient in 2025 after a mere 4 decades of ‘aleged failure’. Because you don’t get science the way we do!!”
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|content=I didn’t say that. I think @elonmusk thinks *theory* is dead or all but dead.
And I could not disagree with him more on this. But I *totally* understand why he would think this. Consider this:
“Well, the Challenger Space Shuttle Worked Perfectly,, except for one silly O-Ring. So the mission was actually a success if you think about it from that perspective.”
I would read the room and never say this. It’s important to admit failure.
String Theory failed. It was a hyper aggressive dismissive movement that cut it self off and became a cult and a culture that could not face its own failures. Let’s admit it, take the losses, listen to the OTHER voices who called this fiasco correctly,  and move on before we piss off the last of our friends and supporters.
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|content=Andreas, I can defend String Theory and it’s technical accomplishments. And I can do so honestly.
But the “promises” were not “just overblown”:
We are *NOT* trying to measure physics as the “best candidate for unifying gravity and quantum mechanics”. The goal of fundamental physics is to progress our Actions, Equations, or the Lagrangians.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: String Theory has at no point in its modern history Since 1984, been the unambiguous leading candidate for going beyond the Standard Model and/or General Relativity.
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: Discoveries in Classical Field theory have been FAR more important historically for our deep understanding of the physical world than Quantum theory. As late as 1986, this wasn’t even that controversial of an observation.
Further, the theory of Geometric Quantization can be interpreted as saying that classical Hamiltonian systems are roughly *Self Quantizing*. Which is huge and rectified a huge oversight.
I am not sure why I am constantly supposed to ooh and aah about all things quantum (“It’s entangled!!!” “The cat is both dead AND alive!” “It goes through both slits!!”) while pretending that our classical field theory is just a low energy effective theory.
This should be reversed in my opinion. Perhaps we aren’t making progress following the Quantum Fetishists with their Quantum Gravity that doesn’t work.
[[Claims|HERETICAL CLAIM]]: Classical Theory is FAR more important than the failed Quantum Gravity crowd understands. We would be much further ahead if we stopped the quantum fetish. The world *IS* quantum. But it is *also+ likely classical in a way that is equally if not more profound. We should split the field into quantum supremacists and mixed Quantum / Classical people and see if the second group doesn’t outpace the fetishists within the first.
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