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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/831358941225365504 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/831358941225365504 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=[[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Can't anybody here play this game?"]] | |content=[[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Can't anybody here play this game?"]] | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252880912057917440 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252880912057917440 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=I’m sorry. The bullshit. The pseudo facts. The septuagenarian and octogenarian gerontocracy. The absence of smart people or independent journalists. The inability to figure out anything that involves China. | |content=I’m sorry. The bullshit. The pseudo facts. The septuagenarian and octogenarian gerontocracy. The absence of smart people or independent journalists. The inability to figure out anything that involves China. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878401360158722 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878401360158722 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Cards on the table: none of this makes sense to me. | |content=Cards on the table: none of this makes sense to me. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878403629223936 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878403629223936 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Have our senators made enough money shorting the market from security briefings? Does Nancy have enough premium chocolate ice cream and have we built the enclosed golf courses Trump will require? | |content=Have our senators made enough money shorting the market from security briefings? Does Nancy have enough premium chocolate ice cream and have we built the enclosed golf courses Trump will require? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878404740767748 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252878404740767748 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=We have insufficient tests so we can’t track, and we send people to go home and endanger their families? China has all our critical manufacturing? Biden is senile? Bernie is 80? | |content=We have insufficient tests so we can’t track, and we send people to go home and endanger their families? China has all our critical manufacturing? Biden is senile? Bernie is 80? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1529993749832404993 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1529993749832404993 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content='''“Can’t anybody here play this game?”''' | |content='''“Can’t anybody here play this game?”''' | ||
-Casey Stengel | -Casey Stengel | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618348209059004417 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618348209059004417 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Wouldn't a scientist ask the question: | |content=Wouldn't a scientist ask the question: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347108859535361 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347108859535361 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of [[Intellectual Keep-Away|"Intellectual Keepaway."]] | |content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of [[Intellectual Keep-Away|"Intellectual Keepaway."]] | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347111023800320 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347111023800320 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=For the moment, let me entertain a wild idea. Truly wild. | |content=For the moment, let me entertain a wild idea. Truly wild. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347112722477057 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347112722477057 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 [[David Gross]] & [[Ed Witten|Ed Wit1ten]] Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if [[Lenny Susskind]] is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time. | |content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 [[David Gross]] & [[Ed Witten|Ed Wit1ten]] Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if [[Lenny Susskind]] is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347114446323712 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347114446323712 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: | |content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347115876601856 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347115876601856 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Why is being older with a long track record of not making progress the way we select our leadership? | |content=Why is being older with a long track record of not making progress the way we select our leadership? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347117277499392 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347117277499392 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"]] | |content=Look, we could just hold a conference: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"]] | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347118720348160 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347118720348160 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=So I will say it from outside the field. I think the problem is that we aren't actually doing fundamental physics and havevn't been for decades. I want a survey of ALL the OTHER paths. It would probably cost a few hundred thousand dollars to fix this field. But this is bizarre. | |content=So I will say it from outside the field. I think the problem is that we aren't actually doing fundamental physics and havevn't been for decades. I want a survey of ALL the OTHER paths. It would probably cost a few hundred thousand dollars to fix this field. But this is bizarre. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347120209334275 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618347120209334275 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Let's survey the heretics who aren't even worth talking to...and then we can go right back to tiny progress when we're done, following Strings, Loops, SUSY, Standard GUTS & Asymptotic Safety all over again. At least we will know WHY we are stuck. | |content=Let's survey the heretics who aren't even worth talking to...and then we can go right back to tiny progress when we're done, following Strings, Loops, SUSY, Standard GUTS & Asymptotic Safety all over again. At least we will know WHY we are stuck. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||