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=== 2013 ===
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|content=It's only my character. I play an economist in Kayfabe. But I dance under the name 'Moral Hazard'.
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|content=How-Stuff-Works goes in depth devoting their 'Stuff to Blow Your Mind' Podcast to my theory of Kayfabe: https://web.archive.org/web/20130127144639/http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2013/01/24/blow-your-mind-keeping-kayfabe-with-guest-colt-cabana/
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|content=@EricRWeinstein Nice. But when were you demoted to economist?
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|content=Honored to have the theory of Kayfabe peer reviewed (!?!) by Jewish ProWrestling legend and grappling scholar
@ColtCabana on @BlowTheMind.
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|content=My [[Kayfabe]] theory &amp; @edge essay just morphed into a video by the @BLOWtheMIND folks at @HowStuffWorks. Thanks guys! http://t.co/HVNOIkFLX9
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=== 2016 ===
 
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|content="Things are seldom what they seem" -G&amp;S
 
An invitation to all interested in Hulk Hogan to first read up on [[Kayfabe]]:
https://edge.org/response-detail/11783
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|content=Few knew if I was serious calling [[Kayfabe|'Kayfabe']] a scientific concept in 2011. Please reread now:
https://t.co/AdUt2Mbtak
Welcome to Kayfabe USA. https://t.co/DxelZNmpwR
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|content=Yes. We're all analytically drained. [I tried this point using the death by immune system over-reaction via "cytokine storm" &amp; via [[Kayfabe]] ] https://t.co/kzeyh4B5O4
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|content=The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
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|content=@mike__cunning @MarcBodnick Doesn't work like that. Move to randomly half staged / half real renders the strategy dead in the water.
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|content=When faced N times w/ "Was that real or fake?", your decision🌲grows as 2^N.


=== 2016 ===
An N of 3 renders discussion impossible.


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|content=Advice to the reason-based: for the next month, get calm &amp; ask "What's my 4Y plan for a 🌎that can overwhelm me w/ computational complexity?"
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|content=@arsatiki The world will be overwhelming us all with "real or fake" questions.
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|content=@MarcBodnick Ah. I Agree that this is the easy part. Disagree that this gives lion's share of relief under state sponsored kayfabe (SSK).
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=== 2017 ===
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|content=From where will we reboot literal speech once fully mired in the cognitive quicksand of [[Kayfabe]], Kompromat, Post-truth, [[Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)|FUD]], &amp; Psyops?
 
IDK.
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|content=While often tempted, I'm not a [[Free Speech|free speech absolutist]]. I'm an anti-utopian w a commitment to keep our world safe from well meaning utopians.
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|content=Most of my friends who are free speech absolutists have never run the simulator forward to see the dystopia total free speech would create.
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|content=@mmay3r @micsolana
 
I guess I'm just a utopian idealist.
You favor government planning.
He is a fascist using the state to impose madness.
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|content=@mmay3r @micsolana That's not a perfect Russell Conjugation because there are anarchists and market utopians. Help me out?
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|content=@realDanielWalsh Not even close: clear and present danger, prior injunction, slander, libel, fighting words, obscenity standards, etc....
|timestamp=6:32 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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|content=@mmay3r @micsolana Russell Conjugation is open source. You have commit privileges. Give it a shot!
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|content=@TarCiryatan @Silvereaper so true, so true. Planet Clair actually.
|timestamp=6:34 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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|content=@mmay3r @micsolana "It is a poor student who does not surpass his teacher." - L da Vinci
 
Nice!
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|content=@HisllllDudeness As we say in the theory of selection, a chicken is simply an egg's way of making another egg. But I don't misunderstand you
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|content=@njroode I struggle with this. As do we all. Nothing clever I'm afraid.
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|content=@Regressipedia That's not bad. But it seeeps the problem under the "compelling" rug. I like it though.
|timestamp=7:56 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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|content=@wobbles That I had no idea what the DJT payload would be b/c the campaign was a kayfabe work &amp; trolling of PC. Now we're playing for keeps.
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|content=As of today, my stance readjusts. Put simply:
 
Cooperation everywhere possible.
Vigilance wherever necessary.
 
Thank you BHO
Welcome DJT
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|content=An upcoming part of a Kayfabe script would be acute physical threat requiring concentration of power &amp;  hyperloyalty to defeat.
 
Let's see.
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|content=A main target of my @edge Kayfabe essay in '11 was @nytimes acting as @StateDept extension.
Revolution is not 'unrest', 'rage', or 'spring.'
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|content=According to my Kayfabe to English dictionary 'Unrest' and 'Rage' are @NYTimes-speak for 'Revolution'.
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|content=I'm looking again at this tweet. It's from 3Days in to the Tahrir sq. revolution.
It got 1 'like.' Why?
 
B/c no one would use the real term.
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|content=According to my Kayfabe to English dictionary 'Unrest' and 'Rage' are @NYTimes-speak for 'Revolution'.
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|content=That’s not an answer. I can easily believe we will have an “Ironic War” on the Korean Peninsula. That China is in it for the Lulz. That Putin’s pawnage of journalists is amazeballs.
I wrote my [[Kayfabe]] essay on this. But as a 2011 warning to our future:
https://edge.org/response-detail/11783
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Kayfabe is a term from professional wrestling that refers to the portrayal of scripted events as real, maintaining the illusion that the competition, rivalries, and personas are genuine. Wrestlers traditionally adhered to their in-ring characters both during performances and in public to preserve this illusion. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.

Eric Weinstein's Perspective on Kayfabe[edit]

In 2011, Eric Weinstein expanded the concept of kayfabe beyond wrestling. He suggested that kayfabe could describe situations where the public is aware of being deceived but accepts the deception because it serves a purpose or provides entertainment. Weinstein proposed that recognizing the presence of kayfabe in various aspects of life could enhance our understanding of societal dynamics. [1]

Weinstein's insights have influenced discussions about the blurred lines between reality and performance in various domains, including politics and media.

Kayfabe as a Scientific Concept[edit]

The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.

Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information.

If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe".

Source: Eric's Edge essay on Kayfabe

Community Contributions[edit]

In 2021, Portal Community contributor and media producer Jake Orthwein released Part 1 and 2 of a high quality informative miniseries tying together Eric's ideas about politics, Kayfabe, Embedded Growth Obligations and #whathappenedin1971.

On X[edit]

2009[edit]

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This is intolerable. English needs more words: Kayfabe, Nu, Sanuk, Yakamoz, Dafka, Paskutsvah, Masti, Retcon, Subclass, etc... #newesperanto

5:14 AM · Aug 30, 2009


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Huge thanks to the good folks @ScienceBlogs who set up a forum:

"@EricRWeinstein the Krugman debate carries on at ScienceBlogs..."

8:59 PM · Sep 9, 2009
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"[A] time varying objective function generally cannot be tracked by an economic index." -The Fed's T.N. 2007 Sure....without Fiber Bundles

10:01 PM · Sep 9, 2009
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"The definition of the true cost-of-living index depends crucially upon the choice of a single indifference map" -F&S 1972. But it doesn't.

10:08 PM · Sep 9, 2009
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"The obstacle is the lack of an answer to the question: how can you do welfare economics, if preferences change endogenously?" -CvW 2005

10:12 PM · Sep 9, 2009
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"How can we evaluate an economic system with a measuring rod that itself changes with the system?" -CvWeizacher 2005 Wait...lets ask H. Wyl!

10:16 PM · Sep 9, 2009
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I feel confident of what I have said about Gauge theory and Inflation. Here is something much more far out: George Soros' Thy as a gauge Thy

1:46 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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Soros' General Thy of Reflexivity:

Markets tell worldviews how to move. (Cognitive) Worldviews tell markets how to curve. (Participating)

1:47 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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I think Soros may well be trying to tell us something Deep but we are holding him back with ugly nonsense about mkt actors.

1:50 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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So G.Soros: It ain't nutty. I'll try rendering your theory of Reflexivity in elegant mathematics...If you'll spring for beer.

2:03 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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I am not ignoring the micro/macro divide. I just don't buy this "micro is healthy and macro is sick." B-S always goes metastatic.

4:17 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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I am also not ignoring the freshwater/saltwater divide. The difference between these two schools is nothing compared to science/silliness.

12:09 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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VaR -> Kayfabe | Coase -> Economics | Stable Tastes -> Kayfabe | Arrow's Theorem -> Economics | Rep. Consumer -> Kayfabe | B. Scholes-> Econ

12:26 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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Good Work (e.g. Black Scholes) doesn't have to be perfect. But if it's sillier than Dr. Seuss, it should .. y'know .. probably rhyme.

12:32 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Now let me unpack my point about Inflation. The vulnerability of Kayfabe economics is that it can't come into contact with economics.

12:43 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Inflation exists in Microeconomics, In Macroeconomics, and in Kayfabe Economics. So Kayfabe is forced into convulsions to avoid the topic.

1:12 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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Kayfabe solves it by fiat while, as the quotes show, it is thought unsolvable even in standard theory. But In Gauge theory it is solvable.

1:16 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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What happened in 1996 is that Economics and Kayfabe Economics accidentally ran into each other head on at Harvard over inflation.

1:23 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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This is where I learned not only about the very existence of a made up world of economics but its power and ubiquity. Kayfabe is amazing!

1:25 PM · Sep 10, 2009


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4 YO: ROAR: I'm an Allosaurus 7 YO: No-you're-not! 4 YO: Okay. But...I'm an Allosaurus in Kayfabe! [Advantage: 4 YO]

5:39 AM · Sep 13, 2009


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I am asked about my supposed hatred of Kayfabe. I don't hate all Kayfabe. But I demand quality Kayfabe that is science compatible.

6:51 PM · Sep 13, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

But that's political Kayfabe. In science, obligate Science is critical. It's hard to find nice things to say about Kaybrication in science.

6:55 PM · Sep 13, 2009

2010[edit]

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My #ff rec: @Evan_Lerner. The only (other) person I've met trying to connect science as social construct with kayfabe & WWE.

10:52 PM · Mar 12, 2010


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Cool science memes displacing deeper science are termed "Sea Cucumber Videos" at recent meetings of the NYC Kayfabe Science Fight Club.

7:23 PM · Jul 18, 2010


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Eric Weinstein

Evolutionists for Kayfabe: http://bit.ly/fFfDvd ! RT@TJ_Kelleher: if u only were allowed 1 tool for..life, u could do worse than..#kayfabe.

11:25 PM · Dec 6, 2010

2011[edit]

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According to my Kayfabe to English dictionary 'Unrest' and 'Rage' are @NYTimes-speak for 'Revolution'.

8:42 PM · Jan 28, 2011


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WOW Wow wow wow.

Kayfabe 1, Egypt 0.

9:05 PM · Feb 10, 2011
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Note to protesters in Tahrir: Those of you with sons, go immediately to your doors and smear them with lamb's blood. We've got your back.

9:17 PM · Feb 10, 2011


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CNN breaks Kayfabe to the obvious surprise of Bahrain: http://bit.ly/ezP5YZ After 1980, reporting is so rare that it is shocking to see it.

1:33 AM · Feb 20, 2011


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Kayfabe voted top scientific concept at @Edge by head of the Technion Management Institute Shlomo Maital: http://bit.ly/gQVKNE ! #aprilfirst

9:32 PM · Apr 1, 2011


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@umairh Yes. Kayfabe. See the essay at Edge.org on this. "Is there a word for the level of delusion we're approaching."

3:05 PM · Aug 31, 2011


2013[edit]

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How-Stuff-Works goes in depth devoting their 'Stuff to Blow Your Mind' Podcast to my theory of Kayfabe: https://web.archive.org/web/20130127144639/http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2013/01/24/blow-your-mind-keeping-kayfabe-with-guest-colt-cabana/ [w ProWrestler]

8:40 AM · Jan 25, 2013
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@EricRWeinstein Nice. But when were you demoted to economist?

1:12 PM · Jan 25, 2013
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Eric Weinstein

It's only my character. I play an economist in Kayfabe. But I dance under the name 'Moral Hazard'.

1:33 PM · Jan 25, 2013


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Eric Weinstein

Honored to have the theory of Kayfabe peer reviewed (!?!) by Jewish ProWrestling legend and grappling scholar @ColtCabana on @BlowTheMind.

3:54 PM · Jan 25, 2013

2015[edit]

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My Kayfabe theory & @edge essay just morphed into a video by the @BLOWtheMIND folks at @HowStuffWorks. Thanks guys! http://t.co/HVNOIkFLX9

9:19 PM · Mar 20, 2015

2016[edit]

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"Things are seldom what they seem" -G&S

An invitation to all interested in Hulk Hogan to first read up on Kayfabe: https://edge.org/response-detail/11783

6:19 PM · May 26, 2016


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Eric Weinstein

Few knew if I was serious calling 'Kayfabe' a scientific concept in 2011. Please reread now: https://t.co/AdUt2Mbtak Welcome to Kayfabe USA. https://t.co/DxelZNmpwR

12:02 AM · Dec 10, 2016


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Yes. We're all analytically drained. [I tried this point using the death by immune system over-reaction via "cytokine storm" & via Kayfabe ] https://t.co/kzeyh4B5O4

7:33 PM · Dec 13, 2016
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Garry Kasparov

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

7:08 PM · Dec 13, 2016


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Eric Weinstein

When faced N times w/ "Was that real or fake?", your decision🌲grows as 2^N.

An N of 3 renders discussion impossible.

Welcome to #Kayfabe.

4:16 PM · Dec 17, 2016
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Eric Weinstein

Advice to the reason-based: for the next month, get calm & ask "What's my 4Y plan for a 🌎that can overwhelm me w/ computational complexity?"

4:27 PM · Dec 17, 2016
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Eric Weinstein

@arsatiki The world will be overwhelming us all with "real or fake" questions.

4:33 PM · Dec 17, 2016
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Eric Weinstein

@MarcBodnick Ah. I Agree that this is the easy part. Disagree that this gives lion's share of relief under state sponsored kayfabe (SSK).

4:36 PM · Dec 17, 2016
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Eric Weinstein

@mike__cunning @MarcBodnick Doesn't work like that. Move to randomly half staged / half real renders the strategy dead in the water.

4:56 PM · Dec 17, 2016

2017[edit]

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Eric Weinstein

While often tempted, I'm not a free speech absolutist. I'm an anti-utopian w a commitment to keep our world safe from well meaning utopians.

6:16 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

Most of my friends who are free speech absolutists have never run the simulator forward to see the dystopia total free speech would create.

6:18 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@mmay3r @micsolana

I guess I'm just a utopian idealist. You favor government planning. He is a fascist using the state to impose madness.

6:27 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@mmay3r @micsolana That's not a perfect Russell Conjugation because there are anarchists and market utopians. Help me out?

6:29 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@realDanielWalsh Not even close: clear and present danger, prior injunction, slander, libel, fighting words, obscenity standards, etc....

6:32 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@mmay3r @micsolana Russell Conjugation is open source. You have commit privileges. Give it a shot!

6:33 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@TarCiryatan @Silvereaper so true, so true. Planet Clair actually.

6:34 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@mmay3r @micsolana "It is a poor student who does not surpass his teacher." - L da Vinci

Nice!

6:37 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@HisllllDudeness As we say in the theory of selection, a chicken is simply an egg's way of making another egg. But I don't misunderstand you

6:41 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@njroode I struggle with this. As do we all. Nothing clever I'm afraid.

7:55 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@Regressipedia That's not bad. But it seeeps the problem under the "compelling" rug. I like it though.

7:56 PM · Jan 13, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

From where will we reboot literal speech once fully mired in the cognitive quicksand of Kayfabe, Kompromat, Post-truth, FUD, & Psyops?

IDK.

8:40 PM · Jan 13, 2017


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Eric Weinstein

As of today, my stance readjusts. Put simply:

Cooperation everywhere possible. Vigilance wherever necessary.

Thank you BHO Welcome DJT

3:31 PM · Jan 20, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

@wobbles That I had no idea what the DJT payload would be b/c the campaign was a kayfabe work & trolling of PC. Now we're playing for keeps.

4:25 PM · Jan 20, 2017


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Eric Weinstein

An upcoming part of a Kayfabe script would be acute physical threat requiring concentration of power & hyperloyalty to defeat.

Let's see.

4:18 PM · Feb 17, 2017


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Eric Weinstein

A main target of my @edge Kayfabe essay in '11 was @nytimes acting as @StateDept extension. Revolution is not 'unrest', 'rage', or 'spring.'

2:19 PM · Apr 26, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

According to my Kayfabe to English dictionary 'Unrest' and 'Rage' are @NYTimes-speak for 'Revolution'.

8:42 PM · Jan 28, 2011


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Eric Weinstein

I'm looking again at this tweet. It's from 3Days in to the Tahrir sq. revolution. It got 1 'like.' Why?

B/c no one would use the real term.

2:34 PM · Apr 26, 2017
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Eric Weinstein

According to my Kayfabe to English dictionary 'Unrest' and 'Rage' are @NYTimes-speak for 'Revolution'.

8:42 PM · Jan 28, 2011


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Eric Weinstein

About to interview @HulkHogan. It's odd to me that the US doesn't recognize one of our own deepest "post-truth" thinkers as a leading mind.

1:38 PM · May 1, 2017


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Eric Weinstein

That’s not an answer. I can easily believe we will have an “Ironic War” on the Korean Peninsula. That China is in it for the Lulz. That Putin’s pawnage of journalists is amazeballs.

I wrote my Kayfabe essay on this. But as a 2011 warning to our future:

https://edge.org/response-detail/11783

https://x.com/undertoad80/status/946806289585266689

6:24 PM · Dec 29, 2017


2024[edit]

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Eric Weinstein

Managed Reality
Kayfabe
Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
Distributed Idea Suppression Complex
GEC
Section A of the Reserve Index
CISA
Narrative Driven Journalism
Democracy Defense Coalition
Journolist

Etc

It is not only coordinated. It is an everyday way of life for them.

8:19 AM · Jul 1, 2024
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Elon Musk

They all turned on Biden in unison immediately. Very odd …

10:00 PM · Jun 30, 2024

Related Concepts[edit]

Additional Resources[edit]

Science Since Babylon

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?". Edge.org. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
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