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2009

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So @orzelc suggests that the purpose of twitter is less grand. Ok. *Mostly* (e.g. Iran) Chad's right...but only so far. Ergo: f-rt jokes.

8:50 PM · Sep 23, 2009

2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

There is some rule of the world that media is not allowed to ignore transparent theater. Iran's peaceful nuclear program, Frum's firing, etc

12:11 PM · Mar 26, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Q: North Korea's theater is reported as theater. Iran's theater is reported as likely theater. AEI theater is "he said she said". Why? How?

12:19 PM · Mar 26, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Modern mobility: Nov 12, 2010 APS meeting abstract (Chicago) of physicist eliminated in targeted killing today in Iran http://bit.ly/enF4yA

4:57 AM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Let's skip the foreplay: nobody outside Iran wants to see a nuclear theocracy. Does that allow us to assassinate scientists & their kin? No.

2:40 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

If you follow scientists on twitter, you will notice an absence of strong opinion on targeted killings of Iranian academic families.

3:06 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Bottom line, if you lack the huevos to engage Iran at the state level, you have no right to target physicists, their wives & their children.

3:10 PM · Nov 30, 2010

2016

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Him: You're not a conspiracy theorist are you? Me: After Tuskegee, Mk-ultra, Iran-Contra, etc. all smart people are. Why? Do I look stupid?

8:32 PM · Feb 23, 2016

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Seizure of Mecca Masjid. Sadat assassination in Egypt. Revolution in Iran. All in the late 70s early 80s. [1/2] https://t.co/ivZWpc06DL

2:02 AM · Jul 02, 2016

2017

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

This was retweeted by the official @POTUS account. From the leader of the free 🌎. So then this puts Iran & @Nordstrom both on notice?

Huh. https://t.co/d1vtGhw5qb

2:52 PM · Feb 09, 2017

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The Oval office is likely exposing Israel's secrets to Iran via Russia.

That's not even JV.

It's Jeff Spicolian.

https://t.co/Vwnzh9zqn2

10:32 PM · May 16, 2017

2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Imagine a world in which the guy behind the Karen Silkwood case, the Christic Institute & countless bizarre moments from the Iran-Contra and Pentagon Papers stories is of no major interest to anyone on twitter beyond 620 followers. We forgot @danielsheehan45’s fascinating life. https://t.co/y0boLs6KB7

4:27 PM · Feb 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Rite_Brite @danielsheehan45 But you must also know that people become more engaged when there are lots of people following them. Hence my tweet. Let’s incentivize him to up his twitter game.

5:11 PM · Feb 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Hockeyxxi @danielsheehan45 These tweets make a difference but they are among my least liked. But I use them to give back I guess to the people I’m indebted to.

1:41 AM · Feb 17, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@danielsheehan45 Thank you Dan. Never forgot the issues you raised back during your Christic Institute period. Feel free to contact me.

11:12 PM · Feb 22, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Looking for a great film for International Women’s day?

May I suggest an Iranian film “The Day I Became a Woman”? The first segment deals with a girl of 9 disappearing from her last free morning of childhood under a new adult Chador: https://t.co/4lSBPsDjxf

h/t: @TheRealKominas

8:29 PM · Mar 08, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Think about what you are seeing here. And what may well come next.

I have been saying for years now that what we are really in is a world wide low grade revolution of a previously unknown type. The idea that Chile, Iran, HK, Lebanon, Paris, Netherlands, etc are unrelated is off.

5:23 AM · Nov 18, 2019

2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I‘ve spent all day trying to figure out what I think about this action. I think what I know is that there is no clear answer. We‘ve been avoiding doing something sharp for a long time and Iran now counts on our fear.

[I confess to a bias against appeasing theocrat provocateurs.]

1:43 AM · Jan 04, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

There are and have been risks all around with Iran. I can’t weigh the risks well, but if you’ve a crystal clear idea about what to do with a highly skilled & strategic Shia theocracy with nuclear ambitions boasting incredible brain power & a deep proxy network, you don’t get it.

1:43 AM · Jan 04, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

To form an opinion I would need to know what our decision makers knew about Soleimani’s plans, why Iraq was chosen as the venue, what the follow up strategy is, etc... and I know none of that. So I don’t think it is possible to have an informed opinion here as an ordinary person.

1:47 AM · Jan 04, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Which just sucks, given the gravity of all this. But there you are.

1:48 AM · Jan 04, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I think the Left has reached a hard fork. Those that want to explore extreme wokeness, open borders, anti-whiteness, apologizing to homophobic/misogynist theocracies, worlds w/o men, reparations for slavery, cancel culture, etc need to branch off. And good luck: You’ll need it.

6:13 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The rest of us for markets, democracy, liberal values, modest social safety nets, tolerance, content of character over color of skin, due process, free speech, etc. have to go back to defeating our loyal friends across the aisle & squashing newly emboldened neo-fascists. #Enough

6:13 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Emboldening the Iranian Government like this is insane. I don’t care how traumatized you are by the US or how much you hate Trump or how much of Noam Chomsky you’ve read. It just doesn’t matter. Just get a hold of yourself.

6:13 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

#HardFork #ForkOff #GoForkYourself

6:22 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MakesSnap https://t.co/HBZtmy7XqW

10:54 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@FloMartinSec Kind of a work in progress. But ya know. We’ll see.

11:03 PM · Jan 05, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn I don’t think we are seeing this the same Erik. I’m not just looking at the Tweet. If I was you would have a fair point. I’m looking at over 20k likes on it after over 5k retweets. That makes it trickier. Also I have looked through a number of these accounts. This isn’t isolated.

6:07 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn And despite her claims of technically being a republican, many of those applauding are clearly on the Left. Perhaps almost all? Maybe I should have made that clearer. But I thought it was obviously not a hawkish position to beg Iran’s mercy.

6:10 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn This is so interesting! I meet this all the time. Endless discussions about Rawlsian veils. Emma Lazarus. @Noahpinion? @fmanjoo? Etc. Everyone I know who has supported restricting immigration is called a xenophobe. How are we so far apart Erik?

Here:

https://t.co/WtGNWARTWg

6:42 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo You know my brother was a bio professor run out of his college over this? You know about the diversity oaths? I think you may just be mistaken as to how far this has gone.

Maybe you should come on my podcast and make this case when you are in LA? I so want you to be right!

6:48 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Now I’m lost. We are clearly sideways here. The right was in on this too calling for a constitutional amendment to open our borders to decimate US wages (although that’s not how they sold it):

https://t.co/lYZZxoGQKF

6:52 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo The game was traditionally played by saying “now I’m not for open borders, but...” and then calls were made for Amnesty, family reunification, paths to citizenship, expansion of allotments, no deportation, defunding enforcement, etc. which is to say gutting all of the barriers.

6:56 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Yes. I’m not on the Right. That’s up to them. But there is an open borders right just as there is an open borders left. We aren’t connecting here Erik. Have you worked in Immigration? If not you have to experience it at a policy level. It’s wildly bizarre.

7:00 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Many on the Left have been eager to dilute the right wing vote with immigrants. The right has been eager to dilute labor’s ability to bargain for wages. Open borders has been pursued by both openly and cryptically for different reasons.

7:02 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo And maybe I spent enough time in DC doing immigration listening to people say “We’re basically for open borders but of course we can’t just say that.”

7:04 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo You are aware that I wrote a paper on using Coase to ethically open borders? And another one that caught the National Academy and National Science foundation conspiring to use immigration to lower STEM wages?

7:07 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo We should hang out.

7:07 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo No. I refused to believe it until people told me what they were up to. You may want to read this rather carefully. I’m not making this up:

https://t.co/gHOCVAOgcl

7:11 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Let me have the NSF tell you in their own words why they want so many of your graduate students to be foreign. From section 5: https://t.co/zUatSf5v8l

7:15 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Great!

7:19 AM · Jan 06, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I don't know how many immigrants we'll need. What I do know is coward CEOs want to tame the famously disagreeable & independent US worker and make her/him more pliant. And by threatening that worker with a steady supply of 'the best and the brightest' he or she becomes docile.

5:07 AM · Jan 15, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

No. We need to stop having our big hearts used against our own economic interests. True refugees once rescued make FANTASTIC citizens. A tiny number of Geniuses give us an edge & families often need to be together.

What's evil is the campaign to destroy worker bargaining power.

5:07 AM · Jan 15, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Since we're drowning in oceans of STEM talent in a market economy where long term labor shortages are impossible, we easily see who those cowards are. They're STEM employers insisting on a French kiss from our government & threatening to take the ball abroad if they don't get it.

5:10 AM · Jan 15, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Well, maybe they should go. I hear China is hiring! Also maybe Russia. Posssibly Saudi & Iran too.

So go run to your new masters STEM employers. Maybe you weren't cut out to make it in the dynamic freedom loving US economy.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out though.,,

5:15 AM · Jan 15, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I love @joerogan. You? Of course you do. We all do.

This is moronic. Also, China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are still out there while we worry endlessly over nothing.

But keep going corporate media...

1:47 AM · Jan 25, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Where are we on State-Sponsored pedophilia honey-pots?

Let’s try the following: How can we be sure that China, Russia or Iran wasn’t behind Epstein if we can’t ask the question of Epstein’s ties to intelligence? So either we KNOW his tie, or we are leaving a giant security hole.

3:59 PM · Feb 28, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Pursue this even further: if news desks aren’t asking these questions, aren’t they under suspicion of being under control of foreign or domestic intelligence? That is can we essentially back out that some intelligence has captured legacy media if they aren’t willing to *ask* Qs?

3:59 PM · Feb 28, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

It is an entire concept that has disappeared: institutional accountability with institutions going after institutions rather than institutions going after those individuals who are the only ones who are still really raising questions.

4:04 PM · Feb 28, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Excuse me??

2:24 AM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Racist???

2:25 AM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Blocked.

I now have zero patience for this.

2:26 AM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

If you want to meet the coolest devout Muslims, say something sweepingly stupid about all Hijabis. You will soon meet a skateboarding hijabi neurosurgeon who gigs as lead guitarist on weekends to raise money for the study of childhood diseases...or some equivalent amazing person.

5:40 PM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

This is not a defense of the Hijab which can raise many complex issues. It’s an observation about how many amazingly accomplished women wear hijab and the dangers of simple stories that we tell ourselves about the other that don’t survive brushes with the complexity of reality.

5:40 PM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

[This was motivated by a recent strident conversation about Hijabis.]

6:02 PM · Feb 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx Hi Yasmine, and no I am not. I would say that you want things to be simpler than they are. We both want to protect women against coercion. But too many people with no experience of the diversity within Islam are being directed to see *only* the most troubling aspects.

1:34 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx Part of my point is that folks worried about coercion within Islam are not being taught to express themselves effectively. By only focusing on one aspect, one leaves oneself open to the argument that you are denying other facets of reality. Even if those are in a clear minority.

1:37 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx I understand that fine. What does that have to do with anything?? I take it as a GIVEN that having to wear Hijab, Niqab, Chador, Burqa etc is pure hell. That includes having an abstract right to say no but being put under tremendous pressure to do it. That’s not the only reality.

4:08 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx I hate that stuff. That is also irrelevant to my point about creating an collection of people unaware that many modern Hijabis exist and will tear their objections to shreds if not prepared for modern accomplished Muslim women who can and will defend Hijab eloquently.

4:11 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx Your experience for example is not the experience of a modern Hijabi in Denver who came to Hijab on her own after growing up Methodist. Why pretend that the situation of Hijab in Iran or Algeria is the same as Colorado? It weakens the valid objections.

4:15 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx Drop by the Portal when in LA next? Would love to hear you lay out your perspective!

4:16 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@KDRasmussen @YasMohammedxx That is about how I see reality. But I also think this variable is quite a bit bigger than others here.

5:07 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen What? You hear that??

7:11 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen I have the feeling we aren’t having a conversation. I’ve NEVER said anything remotely like that.

7:13 AM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen You keep *interpreting* me. I don’t need to change my mind because I never took back the invitation. Likewise I never said anything like you insinuate above.

I believe the problem here is different. Let’s choose something unemotional to illustrate.

4:53 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen Let’s say you said “Mammals are furry and give live birth.”

I might respond and say “No. That’s not true. Echidna are a counter example.”

You might respond “I know #NotAll mammals. I never said that.”

I’d say “No. The point is that the exceptions show the description is off.”

4:58 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen You might say “Well. The vast majority of mammals give live birth.”

I might say “Perhaps, but the shift from the incorrect description is critically important. It’s the difference between a phylogenetic and descriptive understanding of biology. It’s not correct minus epsilon.”

5:03 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen Sure thing. But just read the last few tweets. You don’t need to respond to them here. This feels like a technical issue between different descriptions.

5:07 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen It’s emotional! Thanks for owning that and given your story I want to share your experience. I am emotional about it too if not at the same level. I can’t stand the brainwashing, shame, coercision and implied threats of violence and abandonment that can go along with Hijab.

5:11 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen We aren’t conflicted there. I can assure you.

5:12 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@jonathan_ukc @M_Phatical @YasMohammedxx @KDRasmussen You have got to be kidding.

5:29 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@ScopeCast @YasMohammedxx And thank you for making this block so easy. A pleasure.

8:59 PM · Mar 01, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

To my Trump Supporting Followers: I‘ve always treated you with respect despite our disagreement over the idea that Trump represented an existential risk to our democracy and, by extension, the world.

I‘d like you to consider how far he is away from proving he won in a landslide. https://t.co/NQnU1sw3H4

6:32 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I’m prepared to lose you today. But I need you to hear this from someone who disagreed with you respectfully, but saw where you were coming from.

Your candidate does not appear to be anywhere close to proving the massive conspiracy needed overturn this election. Consider: https://t.co/wWOvwMH4iQ

6:32 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Hypothetically, assume that you KNEW an election was stolen by coordinated fraud. That doesn’t overturn the election.

You would have to prove that in a court and it would have to be a massive fraud. There‘d be a code name like “Operation Ajax/Boot” as there was in 1953 Iran. https://t.co/KyujL5Jf6J

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Okay. Assume your man won in a landslide now being covered up by a massive fraud operation.

What is the code name? Who headed it up? When was it launched? What was the size of the operation? Who funded it? How is it kept quiet? What is the size of the landslide? How do you know? https://t.co/FKr9Ls0jiD

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I know that many of you feel you aren’t taken seriously by media. I’ve always taken you seriously.

But that means expecting you to be serious about your own allegations. Trump is so far failing to meet *any* expected thresholds for responsibly alleging a conspiracy of this size. https://t.co/61XHHMLnBp

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Look at MKUltra, Ajax/Boot, Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, Operation Condor, Iran-Contra, etc. Beyond what you believe is true, your team would need to prove a conspiracy. And the delta between what is now alleged v what is proven or even “alleged with specificity” is growing alarming. https://t.co/pQxlg3bWiP

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Lastly, for those who will leave as followers from this thread: Thanks for hanging in there w/ me. It’s been tough, but I really appreciate the kindness & decency most of you have shown me. I hope I reciprocated that by being your loyal opposition. So thanks for hearing me out.🙏

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I’ll say it plainly: I wasn’t wrong. He always was & continues to be an existential risk as long as he has the football. If you love him & admire his best actions, show him. Let him know that the Delta between the allegation and proof of conspiracy must now close. Love you all. https://t.co/DhqWrjWkO7

6:33 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@keepitzebra I do! Let’s hope we are right.

9:29 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@iwanttotalk_now Nobody is perfect. Just trying to not suck.

9:30 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@lucidvincent Thanks Vincent. Be well brother.

9:46 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@dbaboci It went from 443.9K to 443.7K. So far. Not huge but certainly expected.

9:49 PM · Nov 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Simple reminder: your crazy family are souls you know much better than figures like Biden & Trump who you know through a screen. Don't let our distant theater of power and politics rob you of something close and real.

[Just giving myself advice here.]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

8:37 PM · Nov 26, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I provide this as a service to those Americans headed into Thanksgiving. Yes your Uncle may be #QAnon and your niece Antifa. You may be married to an NPC. But let's all realize that we're also bonkers. All three of the above are asserted by our media & are obviously incompatible.

8:37 PM · Nov 26, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

A) Donald Trump is controlled by Russia, a hostile foreign power capable of hacking voters' minds.

B) The US IC is patriotic and more capable than Russia or than it was when it acted against elections in Iran & Chile.

C) There is no reason to fear rigging in 2020.

#ChooseAny2

8:37 PM · Nov 26, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Note: for those of you missing the point, there were not enough characters to say #chooseuptotwo. Sorry to cut that corner...but it’s Twitter.

8:43 PM · Nov 26, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@ArronShilling Intelligence Community.

6:16 AM · Nov 27, 2020

2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I subscribe to an unpopular position. Consider 3 kinds of 🌎:

A) Ones with no life or at least no life within striking distance of the source code (ToE).

B) Worlds that are on the verge of gaining the source code but are confined to a terrestrial surface.

C) Root level access.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Misha Mansoor

@mishaperiphery

I see your point, but I would ask, wouldn’t there be a difference between basic recognition and categorization, and actively studying and interacting? One would assume that other species would still be resource and time limited, therefore forced to prioritize their attention?

9:03 PM · Jun 28, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Now, if you can jack into the cosmos as ‘Root’ it MAY facilitate stuff that’s unimaginable (e.g. dimension hacking) yet only one remaining big upgrade away from being able to fuse nuclei. Which is where we are now.

I’d guess all civilizations that are Root care about each other.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The following is pure speculation (Tutored by experience w/ GU):

I think we sent a signal to the cosmos in 1945 and then on Nov. 1, 1952. Fusing Nuclei is what you do JUST before you become root. If this is right, we let the cosmos know “Earth is root adjacent” w/o awareness.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Is there anyone in the cosmos listening? Perhaps not. But we are all acting as if living on a terrestrial surface with the ability to fuse nuclei is some totally normal thing due to <70 years of good luck. Which is insane.

Now what if I’m right in the above and the cosmos cares?

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The idea of a newly space-time-faring unwise civilization with fresh root level access is a nightmare. And no one but no one on earth takes this seriously anymore. After 1952 fundamental physics went on progressing normally for ~20yrs. So after that it’s been~50yrs of stagnation.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

In those ~50yrs we learned to stop worrying. About Fusion-weapons, interstellar travel, a cosmos that listens or even our ability to progress to the end. In 1984, physicists were talking about the end of physics without irony. They then failed, while failing to report failure.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So they told another story: “String theory didn’t fail!! It may take 100s of years to figure it out!” That is “If we String Theorists can’t make progress, a Theory of Everything is now far over the Horizon for everyone else.” But that’s not logically necessary. I say we’re close.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

It makes sense to worry about *every* small boutique program: Lisi, Wolfram, Barbour, LQG, Tegmark, ConnesLott, Octonions, amplitudhedron, etc. Our science/defense establishment doesn’t seem to get this idea: after 50yrs of no progress it seems too abstract to practical men.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I learned from my buddy @SamHarrisOrg that he thought 👽 would be Millenia ahead of us. Look at Nov 1, 1952 from Nov 1 1902: you don’t have powered flight, know what relativity or the quantum is, know that neutrons exist, know about anti-matter, etc.

From ‘02, ‘52 IS millennia.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Well, we may or may not have a major update in our future. And if it unlocks dimension hacking, looking glass matter, VEV/potential hacking, multi-temporal pseudo-Riemannian metrics, Dark Chemisty, Dark Light, additional families, RaritaSchwinger fields, etc then we get upgraded.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

And I believe all at once.

What does that mean? I honestly don’t know.

But Imagine you sent a chainsaw, a Bugatti, Ibogaine, “My-1st-Crisper”, and an F-18 to a badly behaved 5yr old child for a birthday present w a simple card: “Enjoy!” We’d worry specifically b/c immaturity.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

That’s what NDT has most wrong. He thinks we are far behind anything that could visit us, but that ISN’T backed up by science. He’d have to explain why we aren’t “root adjacent” right now or that root buys us nothing. Well?

Think of the relationship of Iran to nukes for example.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Iran is now Nuke adjacent. And their facilities and scientists keep running into mysterious problems. Why? Surely not because Iran is too insignificant to her more advanced neighbors. That would mirror NDT’s argument. My argument is that root level access to nuclei *suffices*.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Am I saying “Aliens are here”? Of course not. But the “Root Adjacency Hypothesis” is not properly discussed almost anywhere. Which defies all explanation.

Perhaps everyone else is right & I’m wrong. Absolutely! But it’s common for the world to make a crazy dumb idea a consensus.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

And I think NDT is enforcing a dangerous “Copernican” consensus that we are too insignificant to even monitor or visit, to go along with “We’ve had Nukes for 70 years without losing a city. I wouldn’t worry. What could possibly go wrong.”

This is just a human rationality flaw.🙏

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“But the public will never understand a partnership with our main rival as being safer than being frozen out of all CCP decisions. On the other hand we can’t be seen as engaging in a bioweapons arms race. So we had myriad ways to evade the optics of what we were actually doing.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The cognitive tools for understanding any rationale behind NIH funded Gain of Function Research in China are almost certainly being withheld.

Look at it from the point of a true believer in the system. “We have to not lose the bioweapon arms race & should keep our rivals close.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“So what do we do? Do we have an open town-hall to explain all things that are part of delicate multi decade Wash DC political insider theory like “Constructive engagement”, “Iranian Nuclear Containment”, “Two State Solution”? Of course not. That’s why we have an expert class.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“Only we can’t talk about this. And our strategy that worked well enough when no one in the public knew “Gain of Function”, “Spike Protein” or “Zoonotic” terms stopped working when everyone on the planet was forced to become amateur scientists. Then we lost ‘Lab Leak is racism’.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“Then COVID got out. Suddenly the whole world was talking about zoonotic bat respiratory Corona viruses: a subject the public had never heard of before. Our excuses & proxies for what is essentially military strategy for containment of CCP biowarfare ambitions were center stage.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The populist premise is simpler: “You insiders seem to be incompetent at your jobs & more than competent at your extraction of wealth & obfuscation of all with which you have been entrusted. How can we force you ‘elite’ to account for your non-elite malfeasance and incompetence?”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Start from this insider premise that is never said out loud, “The purpose of democracy is to give the public the most minimal choice over multi-decade cryptic strategies that must be managed by insider classes, so that they can only slightly course correct from expert consensus.”

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The idea that it’s time to come clean about Epstein, Iran, the West Bank, Strategic Engagement, Nuclear Bluffing, Climate & Wealth, internal spying, Assange and Snowden, simply never occurs to a class that believes it is acting in a way that can NEVER be open to public scrutiny.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So we sit around with the expert class withholding all the cognitive tools “we the people” need to figure out whether we have the CORRECT public spirited Elite. Which we do not.

Thus the ‘elite’ get more and more resentful that we are meddling in ‘their’ strategic endeavors. Ha.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

We need a well paid actual public spirited elite public servant class.

And no one I know is willing to say this. They either defend the system as is, or want some radical revolution.

We need new folks in their 20s-50s. Not Fauci. Not Biden. Not Trump. Not Pelosi. Not McConnell.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

We should join the populists in demanding answers based on pathological extractive, unethical and incompetent behavior.

But you cannot “burn it all the fuck down”, put it all on the blockchain or vote for complete transparency either.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Do I believe in an actual Elite that cannot share everything with the public. Yeah. Think about it; It cannot be otherwise.

Do I believe in this *elite*? This is the Keystone Cops meets Mr Magoo.

So I am neither a populist nor a defender of the system as it is currently found.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

That’s how I see it. We have to stop talking about this in the exact terms we are handed by the very ‘elite’ who don’t want us talking about the real issues. We need to stop using the framings we’re handed.

For example, “Gain of Function” is largely a euphemism for “weaponized”.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Soapbox speech over.

As always, thanks for listening and letting me try out these ideas at scale. 🙏

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

If you’ve been in power for a long time and are now in your 70s & 80s? It is simply time to go. That’s not ageism.

That’s an IMPLICIT part of the system. We’ve never before remotely had a President & core group this out of touch, this old, and this technically over their heads.

11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MickWest I’m a proud friend and supporter of @danielsheehan45 through the years for his fearlessness on Silkwood, Iran Contra, the Pentagon Papers, etc.

What is the question?

2:06 AM · Aug 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MickWest @danielsheehan45 No. I, for one, don’t have that kind of evidence or any special information.

4:07 AM · Aug 16, 2021

2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Agency Heads, Operatives, etc. in a democracy, must and can be *forced* into accountability. This is what Ronald Reagan sounded like when forced out of prolonged silence over the Iran-Contra scandal:

https://t.co/ByfBgWsMhh

10:03 PM · Feb 23, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

You can *force* your representatives to hold deep painful searching hearings. What is our problem with forcing open hearings on Epstein, Wuhan/Covid-19, Afghanistan, CPI?

https://t.co/1j2nwIc7GK

10:06 PM · Feb 23, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

This happened. It hasn’t always been like this. This is still possible. We could do this with Epstein, Wuhan/COVID, Bagram, CPI/Inflation, Stock Trading in Congress, Tech Censorship of political speech at government request:

https://t.co/ZKeRcSKTKS

cc:@tedcruz , @BernieSanders

10:12 PM · Feb 23, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I think not. But it is close to a multi-polar playing field with a lot of unskilled leaders and N Korea, China, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Russia, The United States, Israel, etc in play at once. So what do I know.

I may think not, but we *are* eroding our margin for error.

3:42 PM · Feb 24, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Key point is that there is going to be a lot of distraction and the ambitious may be expected to move rapidly, much the way looting often takes place when police are known to be stretched thin for whatever reason (e.g. an earthquake).

3:47 PM · Feb 24, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Teller’s “Nuclear Genie” will hang over any resumption of attempts to saber rattle between nuclear, and near nuclear nations: China, N Korea, Israel, Pakistan, India. Particularly with rhetoric about experiencing “consequences that you never have had before in your history”.

1:37 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

My concern, to sum up, is that we blunder our way into open ended nuclear rhetoric that opens the door to new levels of the unthinkable. I don’t think this will get there. But I think it might and it may begin an erosion of the barriers to the unthinkable. As we saw in WWI & II.

1:37 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

And that’s a real threat as this “game” hasn’t been played like this for so long. We’re like a black belt from a strip mall Aikido dojo getting into our first street fight. How well we’re actually prepared is open to speculation. No one knows where we are with open ended threats.

1:37 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I don’t think this will be a nuclear war as I’ve said. But I think the current crop of leaders has lost track of where posturing becomes reality. Putin would be an exception. My concern is that unskilled peacetime leaders may blunder into nuclear brinksmanship they can’t manage.

1:37 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I’m also worried about China, N Korea, Iran, etc moving their pieces while we are focused on Russia/Ukraine. I don’t know how well our system really works anymore after the Afghanistan pull out. I’m not sure we really know how to play this role anymore. Hence the concern. 🙏

1:41 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@AnnaGBusse The risk of blundering into nuclear war has skyrocketed now. It is still small. But no longer tiny. And it is likely to grow from here.

3:38 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

About time. Iran is too advanced, modern and important to the modern world to be under this kind of backward human rights violating religiously intolerant regime for this long. It’s been 43 years of imposed backwardness on an advanced civilization. Maybe it’s finally enough.

5:01 AM · Sep 21, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

What’s going on in Iran seems very different to me if I watch our media.

In Tahrir Square Egypt years ago, the media tried never to use the the word “revolution” right to the end. It was always “protestors”, “demonstrators”, etc.

If you’re in news, how does this work?

2:11 AM · Oct 16, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Q: Is the Iran situation more likely than not to be a revolution in the making?

2:13 AM · Oct 16, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I’ve noticed that outsiders are of two minds about this.

A) That’s outrageous! B) That’s totally normal.

Some examples.

RULE: USG can’t spy on US citizens. WORKAROUND: Get Allies to spy on your citizens.

RULE: No offensive Bioweapons. W-A: Do convertible ‘defensive’ research.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Washington DC lawmakers make rules to restrict what USG units may do. Units almost always work around the letter of the law to thwart that intent when intent would negatively affect their ability to perform. Examples of this are everywhere.

This leads to DC “Workaround culture.”

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

This Workaround requires a narrative that says many things:

A) Vaccines are costless & safe. B) There is NO benefit to any other therapeutic, necessitating vaccines. C) The virus CANNOT be from a lab working around the Geneva & Biological Weapons Conventions. D) No forced jabs.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

More or less Washington DC wants to force…and I mean FORCE…us all to vaccinate using unapproved drugs. This could be for our benefit or not. But they can’t do it under the letter of the law. So they do what is TOTALLY NORMAL to people who work in DC. They workaround the rules.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

RULE: No importing ordinary labor for jobs Citizens can do. W-A: Reclassify aliens as extraordinary or “students.”

Etc.

Then we come to this moment: Science, Emergency Use Authorization, and Nuremberg rules against forced medical interventions. Or:

“Science vs TheScience(tm)”

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

And to this we see both reactions as before. But on *steroids* this time.

A) You unspeakably freedom hating evil godless tyrannical medical traitors of pure satanic evil.

B) Hello? It’s just Public Health. Read “Nudge”, chill out & grow up. Drama-Queen much? It’s not personal.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

E) Anyone who so much as *questions* any of the above is a despicable anti-science fringe charlatan crackpot psychopath who must be publicly reputationally incinerated w/ a quick & devastating takedown of racist pseudoscience conspiracy thy beliefs as this is Life&Death.

Ahem.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

But I do know what I’m looking at: a massive pre-internet style *workaround* Gated Institutional Narrative campaign (or GIN). This is exactly the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or DISC that I introduced long before COVID.

And it is as close to evil as anything I know. Why?

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Quite honestly I have a particular hatred for Public Health and other DC professionals that prevent smart non-DC science folks from asking obvious seminar questions in the middle of such broad narrative campaigns via reputation tarnishing. Hatred is probably too mild a word here.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

First of all, because it destroys science’s hard won credibility.

Fauci/Collins/Baric/Daszak don’t share Bioweapons workaround information. Which Is ‘normal.’

But they MASSIVELY worked to destroy their colleagues like @DrJBhattacharya of Stanford who were doing actual science. https://t.co/lBxGGNbFvH

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I still don’t know why Daszak/Fauci/Collins are lying. I get that it is a workaround. But what I don’t understand is why we are continuing without hearings. I grew up with hearings into Watergate, Iran Contra, Domestic terror by FBI, etc. This world with no hearings is new.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

If you screw up this badly with millions DEAD, you don’t get to keep your secrecy. Or your grants/program. Or your workaround. You have to lose. You have to disclose. You don’t get to stay secret. Too many dead. Don’t like that?

Tough luck sweetheart: Picture the bodies stacked. https://t.co/CLgcYMmJbR

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Also, trying this out to see if @elonmusk is really in charge.

MORAL: The COVID narrative was the GIN. The destruction of all credentialed dissenters was the DISC. Now you know.

[Welcome Elon. Thank you. How can we help? Good luck & please please don’t cock it up. ;-)] 🙏

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So my point is this: Science needs hearings and REHABILITATION of those who were destroyed by this unholy workaround, likely of the Geneva and Biological Weapons Conventions via “Nudge” coercion to evade Nuremberg restrictions in name only. It’s pitchfork time in science. Enough.

12:09 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

[Result: Throttling still on. Red meat tweet after 20 minutes on an under 700K account. I meant what I wrote, but it was also a test. I know from years on the platform; that’s not possible when people are this rightfully upset.] https://t.co/T3Tzfw2WpP

12:34 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@TommyRo Actually, it isn’t as easy to tell as many think. CYA is the easy part. And I know all the guesses. I have mine as well. But yelling “Profits!” Or “Tyranny!” or “Culling!” Or “Scientific Arrogance!” or whatever doesn’t equate to knowing what the decision makers thought they did.

12:42 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@montuakmo66 No. But I did wonder whether the outgoing folks would flip the switches themselves to muddy the issue…

1:06 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Alicethegoon5 @elonmusk I thought the outgoing engineers might do it. Actually.

1:08 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@SJ_Cap I don’t. True.

But I’ve been out here since 2009. So this isn’t my first rodeo either.

1:19 PM · Oct 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@BowTiedIT I hear that a lot. Hopeful it may be soon in our rear view mirror.

3:03 PM · Oct 28, 2022

2023

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@DrBrianKeating Ethnomusicology and Folklore. Or linguistics.

12:29 AM · Aug 09, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

No idea. At all. It seems Turkic. The beginning contains a phrase that sounds like “Hosh geldi arkadash.” Which welcomes the stranger as intimate. “Pleasant coming my friend.” I think I can pick Out a reference to a goat (bakri) and the Arabic loan word for world (dunya) but if it were Azerbaijani or Anatolian Turkish I think I could get more of it.

So I am going to guess central Asian Turkic. Maybe one of the Turkic FSU republics but not Azerbaijani. Maybe Turkmen? Hosh is Persian. But the gelmek verb root argues against Iran or Tajik roots. Some features seem more mongol or East Asian. Hats seem akin to papakha.

Great game. Very hard. That’s a best guess without cheating. Thanks!

6:10 AM · Aug 09, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@elerrantenomad @DrBrianKeating Congratulations to you my new friend: you have devised the hardest way ever to win people over to Geometric Unity.

Glad to have you aboard sir.

7:45 AM · Aug 09, 2023

2024

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Q: How do you know that String Theory isn’t working as physics despite expert assurances to the contrary?

A: No one at all is in any way worried about the Iranians, Russians or Chinese getting their hands on our cutting edge String Theory.

5:43 PM · Mar 24, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

My audience is mostly Millenials. Second and third come the Gen Z/GenX cohorts. Fourth is Boomers and last is Silents. Truthfully, I have barely any engagement with those over 75 from experience. My audience also tilts male with strong english language comfort. If you have a different demographic structure, I would be interested to see this repeated with your followers.

I will say, being in my 50s, mostly my younger audience wants to know questions akin to the following:

"What should I do if I want a good life?"
"Is this normal?"
"How did we get here?"
"Was it always like this?"
"Why do I have to look up the things you say from history? Why weren't they taught to us?"
"What should we do to change things?"
"How do we get to a world where we also have a future?"

I have been forced to change my mind because of these questions. I used to think it was a resiliency failure. I think I was wrong.

What I think now is that the indefinite future collapsed. The future with homes. With courtship. With children. With careers. With retirements. With investment in one's youth to become a respected expert and pillar of society. With mentors. With rites of passage. With trustworthy institutions.

I now believe I didn't get it. Group resiliency is downstream from a societal future worth fighting for. Those young people who still see an individual future are still individually resilient.

As an example, a group of young tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco may not see a future for California. Yet, they are working their hearts out for their own futures. But they wouldn't be working nearly as much for their communities and the state if they perceive the government as unsalvagable.

So no, this is unlikely to be an enormous number of GenXers voting. But try it yourself.

I think the world knows that the generation least likely to go along with mass delusions is the one most passed over by delusional institutions.

And lastly, a few of you don't get the generational issue and my focus on it. You act as if it is some blindspot that I have somehow never considered.

Let me be blunt: It's not about magical cohorts and mindless generalization. You're not getting it.

The boy pictured is Etan Patz. If you were an American, You were either born before he disappeared on the morning of Friday May 25, 1979 or after. His disappearance determined whether you played outside the house or inside the house.

You were either born before or after the no-fault divorce wave starting in 1969. That had a huge effect on whether or not your family stayed together.

Similar things are true for Persians who either were born before or after the Islamic Revolution in Iran that begain in January 1978. Before or after the Berlin Wall fell. Or the internet. Etc.

Generations are groups of people formed by their developmental environments: Depression or Boom, War or Peace, Growth or Stagnation. Etc. While imperfect, these distinctions matter hugely as to how we approach the world.

Thanks for your time. As always...

7:21 PM · Jun 29, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

According to my feed, "Destiny" is being discussed everywhere because "Destiny" is apparently saying crazy things.

In a Plot Twist: "Destiny" is neither a musician nor an exotic dancer, nor even fate itself. I had hoped for "exotic dancer", but have been advised otherwise.

In other news, China, Hamas, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, N. Korea, looming AGI, etc. continue to exist.

[Oh man am I old...]

12:02 AM · Jul 17, 2024

2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The U.S. has every right to step away.

But if Israel alone frees the Persians from the Mullahs, and rids the region/world of a malignant thermonuclear theocracy…again alone…then that will have consequences as well.

Israel is *not* attacking the people of Iran. It’s trying to end a regional and global nightmare regime.

At least let us wish them and the Persian people a safe night while Israel is working through the wee hours to make sure that the mullahs won’t be able to strike us here with WMD. And let us pray they know what they are doing. Godspeed.

1:57 AM · Jun 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Blackbeltnerd I’m using Ron Paul’s.

2:11 AM · Jun 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@MrMosis I’m a pretty huge fan of the Persians. Amazing culture. Amazing humans.

2:13 AM · Jun 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

We have very short memories in the west, that this isn’t just a regional problem.

That isn’t just an opinion. It’s a fact.

We just forgot:

https://t.co/eTicb710se

2:21 AM · Jun 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@ario @MrMosis Thank you good sir.

8:36 AM · Jun 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Ross is not being careful about what I have said I believe. And you in turn are not being careful about what Ross says in the clip here. Listen again. Then correct please.

10:29 PM · Jun 22, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

For the record, many of us with contacts in the National Security complex are told this regularly: “The lesson of the Manhattan Project that the government took away is that physics in particular is too dangerous to do fully in the open. Hence the separate Q-clearance system, separate laws on free speech, National Laboratories, and physics funding from the Dept of Energy.”

And I have said that I do *not* think it is at all likely that they cracked fundamental physics secretly. Very publicly. On Rogan.

10:41 PM · Jun 22, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

A) I don’t know that the USG did derange fundamental physics for security reasons. This may only be true at the level of nuclear physics, material science/condensed matter, etc.

B) I don’t know that there are *any* successes in fundamental physics in black programs. Let alone “anti-gravity”:

C) What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with quantum gravity…while likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well.

10:59 PM · Jun 22, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

That is accurate.

And I have also pointed out that physics has been recognized to be dangerous since Los Alamos.

And I have also pointed out that some physics is known to be done in secret (e.g. national labs).

And I have speculated that some of it may be deliberately fake (e.g. why doesn’t anyone in government question what happened to 40 years of ignoring competitor proposals and blindly following the string theory and quantum gravity bandwagons?). Why speculate? Because it *IS* dangerous to do fundamental physics in public with rivals like China and Russia and Iran.

What I don’t believe is that the U.S. solved gravity secretly or has a final theory of physics in some secure location. It’s not impossible, but I think it is highly highly highly unlikely.

2:30 AM · Jun 23, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Kyuu Merra dost? Mai soch raha hu ki yeh admi theek hai. Lekin, yahaa, is topic to ke barre mem, shayad torra torra pagal hai.

8:15 AM · Jun 23, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@NatyaGatya @ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Fakat, sirf torra torra.

5:58 PM · Jun 23, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Good to know from an Iranian ally and thus an authority with inside knowledge.

Anti-War/America Firsters: Read quoted tweet carefully.

“Now we can say it outright…”

And thank you for clarifying, Mr. Medvedev.

11:24 PM · Jun 22, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

That was what confused me in part.

But it isn’t “detached from reality.”

What @edfrenkel is actually pointing at is quite subtle. (We had an almost 2hr phone call around it and other things this morning where we realized we lacked good language for what we were describing.)

His point is really that these structures were semi-dependent, semi-independent. At least in my way of looking at it.

They weren’t an independent press. And they weren’t a mouthpiece press either. Same for universities. And Think Tanks. Etc. They were a semi-independent archipelago of institutions. And we don’t have language for this. I don’t think Ed has language for this either. But I agree with that. It wasn’t as tightly coupled into the soft fascism of the “Whole of Society Approach” formulated only recently.

12:51 AM · Jul 23, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@edfrenkel @coreyum It’s hard for people to hear it. We haven’t seen this in earnest since like Iran-Contra or thereabouts. Or maybe Abu Ghraib. Dunno.

Church committee was too long ago.

1:07 AM · Jul 23, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“No more wars for Israel!”

Enough of the Anti-Jewish Brainrot bullshit.

Let’s talk Kermit the Roosevelt. Operation Ajax. Etc.

My thoughts on @StevenBartlett’s podcast:

11:16 PM · Jul 29, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

My usual critique of many things Israel does still stands. It doesn’t get a free pass.

But Iran specifically is not just an Israel reponsibility. It is a U.S. responsibility. And a U.K. Responsibility (“Operation Boot” as it was called there.)

11:35 PM · Jul 29, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

If you want to save our country from what is coming you are going to have to face hard facts:

A) We have growing fringe movements in the parties looking for opportunities to turn to armed struggle.

B) The main asymmetry between the parties is party affiliation of institutional actors.

C) Media and Education are the two most dangerous institutions, and they are now suffused with normalized revolutionaries.

D) Revolutionaries have been normalized as if they were liberals. They are not. They are different.

E) Revolutionaries recruit people who have not been “dealt in”. You can’t stop this without dealing people in. No one is dealing these people in. They don’t see a path.

F) Every attempt to point out E) results in someone who got themselves dealt in talking loudly about how easy it is if you have grit. This works….bur it only works for some individuals. If it is so easy: show us all how to deal in three generations AT SCALE with AI on their heels as well.

G) We are going to have to stop fighting the kids and fight the party leaders.

H) The big tents are a huge problem. The sane center people have to see more in common with counterparts across the aisle than with their fringes itching to kill.

I) We need to help those who can be brought back. Identify those too far gone. And pray we can know the difference.

J) We are going to have to recognize how far gone this situation already, is and work like hell of we want to bring it back to sanity.

K) China, Iran, N Korea, Russia, etc. are watching. Likely not always passively.

12:18 PM · Sep 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

L) We are going to have to have an entirely different conversation about the collision of internet anonymity, targeting behavior and free speech.

12:21 PM · Sep 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Sorry about the typos. As always.

12:23 PM · Sep 13, 2025

2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I cannot wait to visit Tehran.

Persia is of our world’s greatest cultures. Iran has been almost half a century under this oppressive theocracy.

Wishing you all every success. Good luck out there.

I do not understand the lack of our coverage here. But we still hear you.

LFG. https://t.co/yAkSEBYBjn

8:53 PM · Jan 08, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@SimoneSyed I feel like I’m losing my mind. So weird right?

12:46 AM · Jan 09, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

We don’t know what the New York Times is. But it isn’t a newspaper…

How long does it take to find out if there is anything happening in Iran during what may turn out to be a revolution?

Let’s find out, shall we? Here is how long it takes to get to a story from “Today’s Paper”: https://t.co/yJEHLiV1S5

12:31 AM · Jan 09, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

In 2011, respectable news didn’t discuss the uprising or revolution in Egypt. They talked about demonstrations, complaints, or discontent. They talked about Spring.

What was “Spring”?

Spring meant uprising & revolution. But it wasn’t supposed to trigger that as an idea.

3:22 AM · Jan 09, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Well, it’s “Spring”. I don’t know what is going on with our media. But it is Spring again in Iran. There are “complaints” in the street. People are voicing their “incomplete satisfaction” with “demonstrations” of “discontent”.

I kept talking in 2011 about the revolution in Cairo. And no one at Manhattan cocktail parties had heard that. “You mean the demonstrations? You are being alarmist don’t you think Eric?”

Was I insane? No. I was just not reading the Times or listening to NPR and instead only following accounts on Twitter that posted about 1/2 their tweets in Arabic.

And when Mubarak fell, it still wasn’t a revolution in my NYC friends’ minds. It was the damndest thing. They didn’t realize that they had witnessed an actual uprising and revolution with their own eyes!! To them, there was a resignation during Arab Spring and demonstrations. That’s it.

That taught me the power that News organizations had on respectable people. It was mind control. You wanted to be mind controlled so you didn’t fall from grace within the moderately successful educated elite.

If I didn’t know better I would say it sure looks like an uprising with a more than likely revolution to follow….But then again I’m once again not a professor or journalist. Just a once respectable guy who, like you, can’t get a straight quality story based on facts from reliable news sources. So, better ask someone else. Preferably with a chaired professorship or a Pulitzer Prize.

🤷‍♀️

3:26 AM · Jan 09, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

“Islamophobia” seems strongest in Iranian Muslims.

Which is particularly awkward if you are the United States paper of record.

9:09 PM · Jan 10, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Q: Iran, right now: how to name what is going on?

4:41 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@johnson_na87900 I don’t know for sure either. But I know what I see.

4:43 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I can’t say for sure. But I don’t think it’s a secret that I think I’ve pretty clearly been looking at revolution. And for *QUITE* some time now.

I famously don’t love making calls on this little information. I think the Western News *SUPPRESSED* reporting an obvious revolution.

4:54 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

To be honest, even I didn’t see this level of suppression coming…and I’m the Kayfabe guy. I wouldn’t have thought this level of make believe posssible for the New York Times.

I got that totally wrong. It’s beyond comprehension, even for me.

Here are my guesses:

5:24 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Why didn’t mainstream media properly cover one of the biggest stories of our time in Iran? Some guesses. Not particularly high quality, as I am grasping at straws a bit.

A) It is likely a revolution and, if it is, it is about to hand a huge win to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. By far the most likely.

B) It’s mask off time as our rivals in China somehow have their hooks in our media via business models in a way I don’t grasp and didn’t fully understand.

C) Revolutionaries among editors and journalists are more powerful than I had understood and don’t want to lose the Red-Green alliance (where Jihadi Militants are the only disciplined lunatics willing to pick up a gun and massacre civilians at scale for a fever dream revolution against the West in a semi-organized fashion).

D) The west got out of the Foreign Correpondent game decades ago and hasn’t been reporting news for so long that they don’t actually know how to report a major story of this magnitude.

E) I’m getting this totally wrong. I’m making a mountain out of a molehill because of what I WANT to happen, and this is just the usual set of protests which always fizzle out against the Mullahs.

F) There really is some Davos-type secret agenda that mere mortals like yours truly can’t understand and which is little understood outside the true Illuminati. I’ve been wrong all along and the hard core conspiracists are right: the so-called “Breakaway Society” is totally real has been supporting the Ayatollahs all this time to keep the public off balance and the arms industry afloat. It’s all about chess, oil and guns baby.

G) The news is cooperating with NATO, EU and the USG requests to use “Strategic Silence” until it is a done deal. Perhaps Turkey and Saudi are worried about anti-Islamist contagion.

H) No progressive in media wants to report on virulent “Islamophobia” breaking out among Muslims actually subject to the brutality of Sharia Law. It makes you look like an idiot in too many completely different ways.

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I’d go with A) mostly. But I have been confused since December as to why it isn’t being properly covered. Sorry? I’m at a loss on specifics. 🤷‍♀️

🙏

5:27 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So, @grok, what are your thoughts on this. Am I getting this wrong? Some mixture of A)-H)? None of the above?

It seems like a weird decision to show everyone that the news has some inability to cover events. Or perhaps I am just wrong here.

5:40 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@grok Dude. The quote tweet from me was just two days ago, and the situation has litterally been building and building since 2025. It is now Jan 11, 2026 in Tehran.

They are being forced to cover this. No?

5:45 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@hoppah_1776 I thought that they at least needed to *Minimally* cover news, even if simply to guide the narrative. That is what I thought.

5:48 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@grok Appreciate that. I dunno. It feels a lot like the Arab Spring narrative to cover up actual revolution as demonstrations.

Thx. Be well.

5:50 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

In a single post, my dear friend @NicoleBehnam cuts through geopolitical noise to explain exactly why this President, explicitly affiliated with a campaign of Non-Interventionist ideology, has specifically chosen 2 nations, Venezuela & Iran, for direct U.S. Military intervention.

6:42 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I mean it could be oil related too…but you do have to admit it’s a bit confusing what the actual ideology is now, and why it appears to differ considerably from stated objectives of AF Neo-isolationism…

6:46 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

When the Jihadi Psychotics decided where to kill in Bombay in 2008, they came straight here. The Leopold Cafe.

Irani cafe culture is still strong in India. Welcoming. Sophisticated, and Diverse. Radical Islam knows its enemy is Persians. So we make sure to visit for a drink.

12:45 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Islamic intolerants know that they have always been at war with the culture(s) of Iran which Iranians and Persians carry with them in the diaspora.

They massacred 11 souls here in this one famous cosmopolitan cafe in Colaba. Just massacred them. Tourists. Indians. Persians.

12:45 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I don’t post that much about this, but two of my favorite cities, those truly closest to my Heart, are Istanbul and Bombay.

The 2008 attacks by jihadis in 2008 near Colaba, still feel like an open wound.

The ear splitting 4am loudspeakers in Bebek are a show of force by Anatolian intolerants against the Modern Turks just trying to get through a day.

In both cities we have seen our Jewish sanctuaries turned into killing grounds. Neve Shalom famously in Istanbul.

But in Bombay, Nariman House is here on the street where our family lived for decades.

Here. Take a look at what Islamic militancy really is. They haven’t repared the killing zone. They cleaned up the blood and flesh but otherwise left the wound open, so you don’t look away at what “Islamic resistance” really is.

It’s murder:

1:12 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Islamic extremists and intolerants hate each other. They hate themselves. They hate Muslims. They hate Iranians.

They simply hate us *all* by extension.

That is why we must choose life.

To the Jihadi militant, we Jews are merely the world’s oldest and strongest Life-Cult.

I don’t chant for their death. I just pray for Iran to throw off its oppressor and everyone to wake up to the beauty of this one life we are all granted.

To those in Iran. I don’t envy you.

We all need you heroes to win. Send video when you can.

Salam alaykum. Good luck.

I wish you all courage, and am sorry for your staggering losses. Truly.

1:20 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

To life.

1:28 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@ArAIstotle @ye_dennis @grok You want to check Nariman House too @grok. I’m not making this up.

1:35 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@grok @ArAIstotle @ye_dennis Thanks @grin. How about the 4am ear splitting Loudspeakers in Bebek and all over Istanbul? Am I right that changed from 40 years ago?

1:50 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@AOR519555889776 I believe they are still behind the pictures.

1:46 PM · Jan 12, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The time for feel-good posts about brave protestors throwing off their hijabs in Iran seems long over.

We appear to be in the “mass murder of civilians” phase of this revolution.

Iran is ruled by psychopathic theocrats.

I am not egging anyone on from the sunshine and safety of California. This is life and death struggle in the streets.

But to those brave souls who know the risks and STILL return to the streets: I am in awe of your courage amidst your staggering losses.

I can’t imagine what you are going through. Yet it is the inspiration of the world to all those everywhere who are still awake and alive.

May the great powers outside your borders be inspired to use their tools and levers to help you in your bid to throw off your own murderous tyrants.

Humanity First. Good luck.

1:10 PM · Jan 14, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

So @grok, can you think of a faster way for the murderous leaders of this psychopathic regime, to end their own 47 year old tyranny over Iran?

I think I speak for many Jews and Americans who desperately want to support the brave Iranians being absolutely massacred right now.

1:48 PM · Jan 15, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

Imagine a modern Iran, free from theocracy, tyranny and madness.

2:22 PM · Jan 15, 2026

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

There may be a lot going on, but I’m not taking my eye off Iran. The big story.

3:39 AM · Jan 22, 2026

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