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It's the US’s Competitive Advantage. One of the things that the US still has over, let’s say, a competitor like China is that we tolerate the middle finger. it’s really important to start respecting our marginal citizens of greatest ability, and looking for the unusual personality types that are irreverent and committed enough to making things happen and really do things.
It's the US’s Competitive Advantage. One of the things that the US still has over, let’s say, a competitor like China is that we tolerate the [[Middle Finger|middle finger]]. it’s really important to start respecting our marginal citizens of greatest ability, and looking for the unusual personality types that are irreverent and committed enough to making things happen and really do things.


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* https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein
* https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein
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|content=@karaswisher @brianmcarney @joerogan @seanmcarroll @HeatherEHeying @BretWeinstein @SamHarrisOrg @sapinker @DrDebraSoh Agree w/ you both. I actually want some Overton window. But if I can’t even discuss the *reasonable* reasons on MSM why 1/2 the US is so pissed off that it sent a wild “can you hear me now” message in 2016, we’re going to get another larger [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] in 2020. We need to talk.
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|content=I can’t repeat this enough: The sacred [[Middle Finger]] remains the soul of the US research enterprise.
Our institutions have become lame. They are there to be opposed by individuals. They are led by the timid & their breakable rules are our opportunity set:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html
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|content=Kai Lenny is in the process of turning the world’s largest surfable wave into a private skatepark.
The soul of America remains the graceful [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] pointed at the impossible.
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|content=So here’s our choice.
Either:
A) Stop whining and pay US STEM costs for some of the best and most irreverent mavericks in the world.
B) Shut down the programs that can’t compete.
C) Prepare to have PRC work its way into every corner of US R&D by supplying our workforce.
🙏
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|content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong.
A) We the US are GREAT at science.
B) Workers are mislabeled as students/trainees.
C) We underfund research.
D) China sends workers valued by Unis as they not as free or expensive as our own people.
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|content=Are you suggesting that US universities should have had fewer STEM doctoral candidates in total, or that they should have excluded foreign nationals, or only foreign nationals from a country with an “incompatible form of government?” 1/x
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|content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at @NSF and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids.
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|content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom & irreverence based education. Our edge is our [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy.
|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020
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|content=And as far as the WHO is concerned I actually agree with them on many things. But they are not above science, scrutiny and common sense. Stop pretending you are in a position as a platform to act as a publisher. Maybe listen to The Who:
<nowiki>#</nowiki>MeetTheNewBoss #JustTheSameAsTheOldBoss
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|content=It’s *imperative* in the midst of a public health crisis that we able to question and CONTRADICT “Authoritative Sources” like the WHO when they appear to be lying to us or covering for endangering the public. Google, Facebook &amp; Twitter are expendable.
Freedom &amp; science are not.
https://x.com/LeighStewy/status/1252671705539121152
|timestamp=8:59 PM · Apr 21, 2020
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|content=There are other countries who believe in obedience. The United States is not one of them. And the technology used to build YouTube did not arise in those countries because it could not. Google is a product and beneficiary of the American [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] to “Authoritative Sources”.
|timestamp=8:59 PM · Apr 21, 2020
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|content=Word to executives at Tech Companies: Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent. Put it out of your mind. Stop fantasizing about being N Korean. The WHO, CDC &amp; Surgeon General have an obvious truthfulness problem (e.g. PPE). Pretending otherwise is evil.
Don’t be evil.
|timestamp=8:59 PM · Apr 21, 2020
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|timestamp=9:07 PM · Apr 21, 2020
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