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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=I like @FQXi's [[Long-Short Position|LONG]] position in exceptional triality for 3 fermion families, but against [[Long-Short Position|SHORT]] exposure to the choice of the 248 Rep of E8. | |content=I like @FQXi's [[Long-Short Position|LONG]] position in exceptional triality for 3 fermion families, but against [[Long-Short Position|SHORT]] exposure to the choice of the 248 Rep of E8. | ||
|timestamp=11:40 PM · Dec 7, 2009 | |timestamp=11:40 PM · Dec 7, 2009 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781206658777223169 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781206658777223169 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=I am however concerned about anti-muslim bigotry. I'm</br> | |content=I am however concerned about anti-muslim bigotry. I'm</br> | ||
[[Long-Short Position|Long]]: Concerns for my Muslim friends & colleagues.</br> | [[Long-Short Position|Long]]: Concerns for my Muslim friends & colleagues.</br> | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781141958597062660 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781141958597062660 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=There is *obvioulsy* nothing "Islamophobic" about choosing & aiding the right side in the Islamic civil war over modernity & human decency. | |content=There is *obvioulsy* nothing "Islamophobic" about choosing & aiding the right side in the Islamic civil war over modernity & human decency. | ||
|timestamp=2:42 PM · Sep 28, 2016 | |timestamp=2:42 PM · Sep 28, 2016 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781205909611708416 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/781205909611708416 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=B/C "Islamaphobia" is what Islamists try to rename any rational disgust for shariah-fascism expressed by non-muslims, & I'm not an Islamist. https://t.co/JouTd6UW2S | |content=B/C "Islamaphobia" is what Islamists try to rename any rational disgust for shariah-fascism expressed by non-muslims, & I'm not an Islamist. https://t.co/JouTd6UW2S | ||
|timestamp=6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2016 | |timestamp=6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2016 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/800396512844922880 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/800396512844922880 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=The best relative value trade in human beings: | |content=The best relative value trade in human beings: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/913045259763965952 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/913045259763965952 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=[[Long-Short Position|Long]]: "X a la carte" | |content=[[Long-Short Position|Long]]: "X a la carte" | ||
[[Long-Short Position|Short]]: "X prix fixe" | [[Long-Short Position|Short]]: "X prix fixe" | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/961673214383464448 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/961673214383464448 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content="Today, the dollar surged against equities" said no financial reporter ever in describing a market sell-off. Beware of cheer-leading journalism. No "long only" portfolio is ever diversified. [[Long-Short Position|Long-only]] means being [[Long-Short Position|short]] a single security that you're encouraged not to think about. | |content="Today, the dollar surged against equities" said no financial reporter ever in describing a market sell-off. Beware of cheer-leading journalism. No "long only" portfolio is ever diversified. [[Long-Short Position|Long-only]] means being [[Long-Short Position|short]] a single security that you're encouraged not to think about. | ||
|timestamp=6:48 PM · Feb 8, 2018 | |timestamp=6:48 PM · Feb 8, 2018 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1039589389309902848 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1039589389309902848 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Three thoughts on 9/11: | |content=Three thoughts on 9/11: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1332112728949813248 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1332112728949813248 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=People are always confused: “I don’t get it, are you for or against. You are on a fence. Don’t BothSides this dude!” | |content=People are always confused: “I don’t get it, are you for or against. You are on a fence. Don’t BothSides this dude!” | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454262528196841474 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454262528196841474 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=So to sum it up, I don’t want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But “Burn it all the F Down!” Only works if it’s restricted to managed reality. | |content=So to sum it up, I don’t want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But “Burn it all the F Down!” Only works if it’s restricted to managed reality. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=High Trust and Dependence | |content=High Trust and Dependence | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454256142100492288 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454256142100492288 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=In particular, it explains my own politics. I am [[Long-Short Position|short]] the leadership and current experts within our institutions but “against burning them all the F down”. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why I’m not a natural conservative. | |content=In particular, it explains my own politics. I am [[Long-Short Position|short]] the leadership and current experts within our institutions but “against burning them all the F down”. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why I’m not a natural conservative. | ||
|timestamp=1:17 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | |timestamp=1:17 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=I don’t trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I don’t trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I don’t trust Fauci who lies to us. I don’t trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasn’t been taken over by our military. Etc. | |content=I don’t trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I don’t trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I don’t trust Fauci who lies to us. I don’t trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasn’t been taken over by our military. Etc. | ||
|timestamp=1:24 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | |timestamp=1:24 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=But I also know our history. And it wasn’t always like this. Not everyone who has a glass of Chardonnay ends up two weeks later sleeping in the gutter. And I am not having it that all liberalism automatically tends to illiberalism. | |content=But I also know our history. And it wasn’t always like this. Not everyone who has a glass of Chardonnay ends up two weeks later sleeping in the gutter. And I am not having it that all liberalism automatically tends to illiberalism. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=In particular I don’t trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that won’t celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you won’t protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university? | |content=In particular I don’t trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that won’t celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you won’t protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university? | ||
|timestamp=1:34 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | |timestamp=1:34 AM · Oct 30, 2021 | ||
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|content=@coecke @dibiagioandrea I am [[Long-Short Position|long]] Science and our Universities but [[Long-Short Position|short]] their current leadership and their disastrous spiral into meaninglessness, madness and drudgery. | |content=@coecke @dibiagioandrea I am [[Long-Short Position|long]] Science and our Universities but [[Long-Short Position|short]] their current leadership and their disastrous spiral into meaninglessness, madness and drudgery. | ||
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Oct 31, 2021 | |timestamp=4:10 PM · Oct 31, 2021 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=[[Long-Short Position|LONG]]: Science + AI + Traditional Academe</br> | |content=[[Long-Short Position|LONG]]: Science + AI + Traditional Academe</br> | ||
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==Related Pages== | ==Related Pages== | ||
* [[Arbitrage]] | |||
* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]] | * [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]] | ||
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]] | * [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]] | ||
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* [[No-Pill]] | * [[No-Pill]] | ||
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]] | * [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]] | ||
* [[Is-a Versus Has-a]] | |||
* [[Morals]] | |||
* [[Markets]] | |||
* [[Market Failure]] | |||
* [[Peer Review]] | |||
[[Category:Ericisms]] | [[Category:Ericisms]] | ||
[[Category:Sensemaking]] | [[Category:Sensemaking]] | ||
[[Category:Concepts]] | [[Category:Concepts]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:40, 5 May 2026
In financial trading, going "long" on something means to buy it with the expectation that its value will increase over time. Conversely, going "short" means to sell something with the expectation that its value will decrease.
Abstracted from financial trading, the concept of long and short positions can be applied metaphorically to various aspects of life, particularly in decision-making, belief systems, and personal values.
Taking a "long" position on something signifies investing in or holding onto a belief, principle, or course of action with the expectation that it will lead to positive outcomes or growth, and taking the view that this thing is presently undervalued. This involves commitment, perseverance, and a willingness to weather challenges in pursuit of one's goals or ideals. Long positions represent optimism, faith, and dedication to a particular path or set of values.
Conversely, adopting a "short" position involves skepticism, caution, or outright rejection of certain ideas, behaviors, or systems. Being short on something means being critical or wary of its potential negative consequences or shortcomings, and taking the view that this thing is presently overvalued. It implies a readiness to disengage, hedge against risks, or actively oppose ideologies or practices that are perceived as detrimental or flawed.
In essence, the long/short metaphor encourages discernment, strategic thinking, and the regulated expression of various approaches to navigating life's complexities. It prompts individuals to evaluate their beliefs and choices with a critical eye, recognizing the inherent trade-offs and uncertainties inherent in decision-making. By considering both the potential benefits and drawbacks of different perspectives or actions, individuals can strive for a more informed and resilient stance in the face of challenges and opportunities.
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There is *obvioulsy* nothing "Islamophobic" about choosing & aiding the right side in the Islamic civil war over modernity & human decency.
B/C "Islamaphobia" is what Islamists try to rename any rational disgust for shariah-fascism expressed by non-muslims, & I'm not an Islamist. https://t.co/JouTd6UW2S
"Today, the dollar surged against equities" said no financial reporter ever in describing a market sell-off. Beware of cheer-leading journalism. No "long only" portfolio is ever diversified. Long-only means being short a single security that you're encouraged not to think about.
High Trust and Dependence
Vs
Low Trust and Independence
with respect to institutional leadership, is the best replacement for our old “Left vs Right” political spectrum that I have found.
Try it for yourself. I found it to be surprisingly efficient.
In particular, it explains my own politics. I am short the leadership and current experts within our institutions but “against burning them all the F down”. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why I’m not a natural conservative.
I don’t trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I don’t trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I don’t trust Fauci who lies to us. I don’t trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasn’t been taken over by our military. Etc.
In particular I don’t trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that won’t celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you won’t protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university?
So to sum it up, I don’t want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But “Burn it all the F Down!” Only works if it’s restricted to managed reality.
I’m low trust for current leaders/ experts. But open to the hard work of rebuilt trust..
LONG: Science + AI + Traditional Academe
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SHORT: Peer Review + Modern Academe
That’s the trade, in my opinion.