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|content=Since basic research is a public good (i.e. inexhausible & inexcludible) markets will fail here: We need to know what you need to take risk.
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|content=New Topic: "Thank you Science" vs. "You're welcome Science"
|timestamp=4:53 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6041155051
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content="let me just say to the funding agencies who have supported me thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" -@dabacon. This is "Thank you science."
|timestamp=4:56 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6041230439
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content="Thank you Science" is a danger to all of us. Scientists like @dabacon likely need more freedom & acting like street musicians doesn't help.
|timestamp=4:59 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6041439626
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Oddly, we don't need additional scientists to compete.  We need our scientists stronger, richer, and more independent. Con huevos y dinero.
|timestamp=5:09 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6041613025
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=What is "You're welcome science"? It is a vision of science getting off its kness to remind the public of the fantastic deal it has w/ you.
|timestamp=5:18 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content="Dear Suzie Taxpayer: You're most welcome for the 2002 work warning of the coming danger posed by the misvaluation of illiquid assets." -ERW
|timestamp=5:28 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6042066185
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The value that scientists could bring by debunking market thys alone could save the taxpayer billions upon billions. That's a lot of SSC's.
|timestamp=5:42 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6042108715
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Bottom Line: If you need more salary, help in the house, security, and '''academic freedom''', remember why we fund. It's *not* as favor to you.
|timestamp=5:44 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|timestamp=5:50 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content=Q: Cost(Collapse) >> Cost(Protected Dissenting Scientific Elite) --->
Cost(Cheap Academic Life) >> Cost(Expensive Academic Freedom)
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 1, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=How to avoid spending billions bailing out reckless bankers? Spend money on true academic freedom: the world's biggest bargain.
|timestamp=5:18 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880914448
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.
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|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true '''academic freedom'''?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838308391
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.
|timestamp=8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838455405
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.
|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838569973
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content='''Academic freedom''' is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.
|timestamp=8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838623987
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content='''Academic freedom''' comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.
|timestamp=8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838700951
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.
|timestamp=8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838791487
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.
|timestamp=8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.
|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6839187811
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."
|timestamp=8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6842114543
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).
|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843262668
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide '''academic freedom''', science needs to move homes.
|timestamp=11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.
|timestamp=11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843422913
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=To maintain '''academic freedom''' we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.
|timestamp=11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843642117
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).
|timestamp=11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843806778
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.
|timestamp=12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843869151
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.
|timestamp=12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6844057198
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.
|timestamp=12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846235134
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.
 
Yet that's insane.
|timestamp=1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846560285
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.
|timestamp=1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846719547
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Last point for now:
Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6860675916
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own academic freedom, you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.
|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861338460
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.
|timestamp=2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861412057
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861511471
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6869677070
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880681250
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.
|timestamp=3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|timestamp=3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928517639
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era @NSF can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era NSF.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6927406238
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=An email from Twitter overnight said: "National Science Fdn (@NSF) is now following your tweets on Twitter." Yet, now @NSF is gone. But why?
|timestamp=12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928366796
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As we can obviously see each other @NSF, I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).
|timestamp=1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928405316
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you would like to see a dialogue with @NSF on '''academic freedom''', compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.
|timestamp=1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|timestamp=1:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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=== 2010 ===
 
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/20438919999
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=How about Coasian markets in 'academic freedom'? Cap&Gown -> Cap&Trade? Or fractional ownership: Zip-Tenure! Anything but scientific silence
|timestamp=3:49 AM · Aug 6, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9642230826405889
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The father of Israel's Nuclear Program, Yuval Ne'eman eulogizes Abdus Salam, the father of Pakistan's http://bit.ly/fAMNda (from the Arabic)
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9616751591424000
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=New Topic: Targeted killings of scientists & their families or "just what are you saving your academic freedom to protest?"
|timestamp=2:36 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9617702695993344
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let's skip the foreplay: nobody outside Iran wants to see a nuclear theocracy. Does that allow us to assassinate scientists & their kin? No.
|timestamp=2:40 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9618842103848960
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As an American PhD I have every right & intention to strengthen & guide my country militarily..as do fellow scientists of hostile nations.
|timestamp=2:44 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9621493021409280
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If N. Korea slips polonium into the sushi of a US Prof. for sharing her knowledge of elliptic curves w/ NSA cryptographers will you protest?
|timestamp=2:55 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9624287828770816
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you follow scientists on twitter, you will notice an absence of strong opinion on targeted killings of Iranian academic families.
|timestamp=3:06 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/9625332428570624
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=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.
|timestamp=3:10 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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|timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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Revision as of 06:44, 9 October 2025

On X

2009

Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

New Topic: "Thank you Science" vs. "You're welcome Science"

4:53 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

"let me just say to the funding agencies who have supported me thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" -@dabacon. This is "Thank you science."

4:56 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

"Thank you Science" is a danger to all of us. Scientists like @dabacon likely need more freedom & acting like street musicians doesn't help.

4:59 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Oddly, we don't need additional scientists to compete. We need our scientists stronger, richer, and more independent. Con huevos y dinero.

5:09 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

What is "You're welcome science"? It is a vision of science getting off its kness to remind the public of the fantastic deal it has w/ you.

5:18 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

"Dear Suzie Taxpayer: You're most welcome for the 2002 work warning of the coming danger posed by the misvaluation of illiquid assets." -ERW

5:28 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

The value that scientists could bring by debunking market thys alone could save the taxpayer billions upon billions. That's a lot of SSC's.

5:42 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Bottom Line: If you need more salary, help in the house, security, and academic freedom, remember why we fund. It's *not* as favor to you.

5:44 AM · Nov 25, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Since basic research is a public good (i.e. inexhausible & inexcludible) markets will fail here: We need to know what you need to take risk.

5:50 AM · Nov 25, 2009


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Q: Cost(Collapse) >> Cost(Protected Dissenting Scientific Elite) ---> Cost(Cheap Academic Life) >> Cost(Expensive Academic Freedom)

2:33 PM · Dec 1, 2009


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

How to avoid spending billions bailing out reckless bankers? Spend money on true academic freedom: the world's biggest bargain.

5:18 PM · Dec 19, 2009


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

New Topic: "What's your vision of true academic freedom?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]

8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.

8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.

8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.

8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.

8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.

8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Academic freedom is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.

8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

What few people admit is that opposing "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.

8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."

8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).

10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide academic freedom, science needs to move homes.

11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.

11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

To maintain academic freedom we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.

11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).

11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.

12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.

12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.

12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.

Yet that's insane.

1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.

1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Last point for now: Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.

1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own academic freedom, you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.

1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.

2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.

2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.

2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?

8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.

3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.

3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009


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An email from Twitter overnight said: "National Science Fdn (@NSF) is now following your tweets on Twitter." Yet, now @NSF is gone. But why?

12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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As we can obviously see each other @NSF, I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).

1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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If you would like to see a dialogue with @NSF on academic freedom, compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.

1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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Eric Weinstein

An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era @NSF can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era NSF.

1:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009

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How about Coasian markets in 'academic freedom'? Cap&Gown -> Cap&Trade? Or fractional ownership: Zip-Tenure! Anything but scientific silence

3:49 AM · Aug 6, 2010


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New Topic: Targeted killings of scientists & their families or "just what are you saving your academic freedom to protest?"

2:36 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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Eric Weinstein

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
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As an American PhD I have every right & intention to strengthen & guide my country militarily..as do fellow scientists of hostile nations.

2:44 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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If N. Korea slips polonium into the sushi of a US Prof. for sharing her knowledge of elliptic curves w/ NSA cryptographers will you protest?

2:55 PM · Nov 30, 2010
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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
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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
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The father of Israel's Nuclear Program, Yuval Ne'eman eulogizes Abdus Salam, the father of Pakistan's http://bit.ly/fAMNda (from the Arabic)

4:17 PM · Nov 30, 2010

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