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[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often uses terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those only. This should not be confused with more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as the [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligation|EGOs]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc.
[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligations|EGOs]], [[Gated Institutional Narrative|GIN]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions. Β 


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'''See also:'''
* [[Portal Concepts]]
* [[Portal Topics]]
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World] – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
* [[Riffs to Animate]]
* [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]


== Minus epsilon ==
== A ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
* [[Abomination Ratio]]
* [[Adaptive Management of Uncertainty (AMU)]]
* [[Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula]]
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[Anthropic Capitalism]]
* [[Anti-Expert]]
* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media |Anechoic Era]]
* [[Anything But Physics]]
* [[Argument as the Frame]]
* [[Artificial Outelligence]]
* [[Audience Capture]]
* [[Audio Samizdat]]


== There is no secret ingredient ==
== B ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Don't Screw Yourself Out of Magic ==
== C ==
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[Checker]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[Checksum Theory of Politics]]
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Chihuahua Effect]]
* [[Cobalt-on-Baby]]
* [[Communication Security Complex]]
* [[Contact with the Unforgiving]]
* [[Contrast Blindness]]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]]


== Resource capture ==
== D ==
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
* [[Defragilization]]
* [[Degraded State]]
* [[De-Potemkin]]
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
* [[Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack]]
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]
* [[Doubly-Scientific Method]]


== Steel-manning ==
== E ==
The steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the exact opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions.
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect β€˜64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Enforced Helplessness]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
== F ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
* [[Fact-Checker]]
* [[Facultative Autism]]
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
* [[Feedback Capture]]
* [[Follow the Silence]]
* [[Forced Citation]]


== Maladaptive strategies ==
== G ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
* [[Goliaputian]]


== Deaths of accountability ==
== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== Adaptive landscapeΒ  ==
== I ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[Iago Media]]
== Overton window ==
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Inferential Clusters]]
* [[Injustice Budget]]
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
* [[Intellectual Arbitrage]]
* [[Intellectual Border Collies]]
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
* [[Intellectual Kryptonite]]
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]


== Selective pressures ==
== J ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]
* [[Jessupization]]
* [[Journopaigning]]


== Environmental insult ==
== K ==
* [[Knarc]]
* [[Kayfabrication]]


== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== L ==
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
* [[Litella]]
* [[The Locrian Era]]
* [[The Looting Party]]
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]


== Gating function ==
== M ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]


== Adjective, occupation, name ==
== N ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]


== β€œIt's a beautiful thing” ==
== O ==
This originates from New York City.
* [[Observerse]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]


== Steady hands ==
== P ==
This originates from Washington D.C.
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]


"He has steady hands."
== R ==
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
* [[Radical Uncertainty]]
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
* [[Rebel end of Corporate and Corporate end of Rebel]]
* [[Recursion Limit]]
* [[Redistribution of Empathy]]
* [[Reflexive Contrarianism]]
* [[Regulated Expression]]
* [[Rent-seeking Elites]]
* [[Reputational Violence]]
* [[Resource Capture]]
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]
* [[Rhizomatic Conspiracy]]
* [[Riding on a technical substrate]]
* [[Rough Space]]


== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== S ==
* [[Seberging]]
* [[Seleconometry]]
* [[Selective Pressures]]
* [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making]]
* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]]
* [[Shockley-Test]]
* [[Sinclairs Prison|Sinclair's Prison]]
* [[Smart-bait]]
* [[Snap to Grid Intellectualism|Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism]]
* [[Speaking Fee]]
* [[Split-Level Argument]]
* [[Straw-checking]]
* [[Streisand Squeeze]]
* [[Surveillance Level Data]]


== Riding on a technical substrate ==
== T ==
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[The Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Thinkquisition]]
* [[Thug-Review]]
* [[Today, the dollar surged against equities]]
* [[Totalizing Ideologies]]
* [[Transcendence Hacking]]
* [[Trauma Cluster]]
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]]
* [[Tuskegee Principle]]


== Artificial out-teligenceΒ  ==
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]


== Church and Pike commissions ==
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]


== Umwelt ==
== W ==
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
* [[Weaponization of Peer Review]]
* [[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]
* [[White Suit]]
* [[Who Wins in a Muddle]]
* [[Woke]]
* [[Worldwide Uncle Shortage]]


== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
== X ==
(1 overarching crisis)
* [[Xenophilic Restrictionist]]


== Thinkquisition ==
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== Artificial out-telligence ==
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== Anti-expertΒ  ==
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== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
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== De-Potemkin ==
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Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
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[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
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== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
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== Potemkin village ==


== Peer review ==
{{WikiProject}}
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== Forced citation ==
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== Operation Cointel pro ==
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== Kayfabe ==
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== Efficient FrontierΒ  ==
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== The Observerse ==
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== Anthropic capitalismΒ  ==
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== Genius vs Excellence ==
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== Samizdat ==
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
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== Adaptive valley ==
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
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== 4-quadrant model ==
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
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== Rent-seeking elites ==
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== Long term vs short term optimization ==
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== β€œNo more heroes” Charles Lindberg ==
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== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
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== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
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== Teaching disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities
Differential diagnosis
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== A/B testing ==
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== Irrationality ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
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== Pseudo riemannian geometry == -->
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where/when -> space/time
who/what -> fermions/bosons
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians) -->
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(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
== The Long Nap == -->
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Latest revision as of 06:14, 3 November 2024

Eric often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as DISC, EGOs, GIN, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.

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