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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The best relative value trade in human beings:
|content=The best relative value trade in human beings:


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Three thoughts on 9/11:
|content=Three thoughts on 9/11:


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=People are always confused: “I don’t get it, are you for or against. You are on a fence. Don’t BothSides this dude!”
|content=People are always confused: “I don’t get it, are you for or against. You are on a fence. Don’t BothSides this dude!”


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We have an auto immune disease. An essential part of us is attacking us. You can’t “Burn It all the F down” even if tempted with your commandeered institutions.
|content=We have an auto immune disease. An essential part of us is attacking us. You can’t “Burn It all the F down” even if tempted with your commandeered institutions.


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=@Mangocorona No. Or at least they weren’t very recently. A professor had the salary of a dentist but the intellectual freedom of a billionaire until recently. If we could restore that we wouldn’t need much [[FU Money|FU money]]. But now we do. Because
we blew it on witch-hunting independent thinkers etc.
|content=@Mangocorona No. Or at least they weren’t very recently. A professor had the salary of a dentist but the intellectual freedom of a billionaire until recently. If we could restore that we wouldn’t need much [[FU Money|FU money]]. But now we do. Because
we blew it on witch-hunting independent thinkers etc.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=High Trust and Dependence
|content=High Trust and Dependence


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=In particular, it explains my own politics. I am [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|short the leadership and current experts within our institutions]] but “against burning them all the F down”. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why I’m not a natural conservative.
|content=In particular, it explains my own politics. I am [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|short the leadership and current experts within our institutions]] but “against burning them all the F down”. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why I’m not a natural conservative.
|timestamp=1:17 AM · Oct 30, 2021
|timestamp=1:17 AM · Oct 30, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I don’t trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I don’t trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I don’t trust Fauci who lies to us. I don’t trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasn’t been taken over by our military. Etc.
|content=I don’t trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I don’t trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I don’t trust Fauci who lies to us. I don’t trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasn’t been taken over by our military. Etc.
|timestamp=1:24 AM · Oct 30, 2021
|timestamp=1:24 AM · Oct 30, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=But I also know our history. And it wasn’t always like this. Not everyone who has a glass of Chardonnay ends up two weeks later sleeping in the gutter. And I am not having it that all liberalism automatically tends to illiberalism.
|content=But I also know our history. And it wasn’t always like this. Not everyone who has a glass of Chardonnay ends up two weeks later sleeping in the gutter. And I am not having it that all liberalism automatically tends to illiberalism.


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=In particular I don’t trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that won’t celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you won’t protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university?
|content=In particular I don’t trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that won’t celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you won’t protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university?
|timestamp=1:34 AM · Oct 30, 2021
|timestamp=1:34 AM · Oct 30, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=So to sum it up, I don’t want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But “Burn it all the F Down!” Only works if it’s restricted to [[Managed Reality TM|managed reality]].
|content=So to sum it up, I don’t want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But “Burn it all the F Down!” Only works if it’s restricted to [[Managed Reality TM|managed reality]].


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=ericweinstein
|content=I am [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|long Science and our Universities]] but [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|short their current leadership and their disastrous spiral into meaninglessness, madness and drudgery]].
|content=I am [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|long Science and our Universities]] but [[Long-short positions (nuanced positions)|short their current leadership and their disastrous spiral into meaninglessness, madness and drudgery]].
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