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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3898306206
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But @stevenzenith, our tweets about semiotics, market collapse, and field theory risk crowding out f-rt jokes. This is twitter..
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3877568772
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I feel confident of what I have said about Gauge theory and Inflation. Here is something much more far out: George Soros' Thy as a gauge Thy
|timestamp=1:46 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3877576933
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Soros' General Thy of Reflexivity:
Markets tell worldviews how to move. (Cognitive)
Worldviews tell markets how to curve. (Participating)
|timestamp=1:47 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3877657313
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I think Soros may well be trying to tell us something Deep but we are holding him back with ugly nonsense about mkt actors.
|timestamp=1:50 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3877955434
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So G.Soros: It ain't nutty. I'll try rendering your theory of Reflexivity in elegant mathematics...If you'll spring for beer.
|timestamp=2:03 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3880715217
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I am not ignoring the micro/macro divide. I just don't buy this "micro is healthy and macro is sick." B-S always goes metastatic.
|timestamp=4:17 AM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3885934794
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I am also not ignoring the freshwater/saltwater divide. The difference between these two schools is nothing compared to science/silliness.
|timestamp=12:09 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886175728
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=VaR -> Kayfabe | Coase -> Economics | Stable Tastes -> Kayfabe | Arrow's Theorem -> Economics | Rep. Consumer -> Kayfabe | B. Scholes-> Econ
|timestamp=12:26 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886259358
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Good Work (e.g. Black Scholes) doesn't have to be perfect. But if it's sillier than Dr. Seuss, it should .. y'know .. probably rhyme.
|timestamp=12:32 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886414257
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Now let me unpack my point about Inflation. The vulnerability of Kayfabe economics is that it can't come into contact with economics.
|timestamp=12:43 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886859191
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Inflation exists in Microeconomics, In Macroeconomics, and in Kayfabe Economics. So Kayfabe is forced into convulsions to avoid the topic.
|timestamp=1:12 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886926550
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Kayfabe solves it by fiat while, as the quotes show, it is thought unsolvable even in standard theory. But In Gauge theory it is solvable.
|timestamp=1:16 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3887031317
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What happened in 1996 is that Economics and Kayfabe Economics accidentally ran into each other head on at Harvard over inflation.
|timestamp=1:23 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3887069578
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is where I learned not only about the very existence of a made up world of economics but its power and ubiquity. Kayfabe is amazing!
|timestamp=1:25 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896311326
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=To @stevenzenith: I disagree with reasoning that says "you need a theory that does x." Jagger be damned: You can't always get what you need.
|timestamp=9:17 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896350590
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Imagine you say to Ken Arrow: "Well you still need a voting system that gets a group to act like an individual." He says: Fuggedaboudit.
|timestamp=9:19 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896376112
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=On behaviors: We haven't even gotten there. I am just trying to allow market actors to change their tastes. Taste change is econ [[Intellectual Kryptonite|kryptonite]].
|timestamp=9:20 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896413533
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Litterally, folks like Becker have tried to write the ability to study taste change out of economics in the definition of the field.
|timestamp=9:22 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896541280
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Econ is: "The combined assumptions of maximizing behavior, market equilibrium, and stable preferences, used relentlessly and unflinchingly"
|timestamp=9:29 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896599301
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Explaining away evolving preferences (as due to advertising) is an obsession for UChicgao Folks as taste change is an existential threat.
|timestamp=9:32 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896637934
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now you don't have to know ANY econ to see that after being the lede at ScienceBlogs.com no one engaged @dabacon on the science question.
|timestamp=9:33 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896802201
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=No @stevenzenith, evolving tastes in econ is modeled by making the foliation of the space of goods by indifference leaves time-dependent.
|timestamp=9:42 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3896934987
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is serious "Did you just tell me that all people have the same fixed tastes...and you are in the NAS?" blow-your-brains-out-stupid.
|timestamp=9:48 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3897064442
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I don't know what to say. In science you would measure taste change. You'd have a theory of social behavior. Here, you just assert stuff.
|timestamp=9:55 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3897220615
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @aldoric, I'm trying to open the mathematical door to biology so we can see "Markets as the Continuation of Selection by Other Means."
|timestamp=10:03 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3897254724
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The idea @aldoric is to show economists that by embracing humanity in models (heterogeneous taste in evolution) they don't lose everything.
|timestamp=10:04 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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|timestamp=10:58 PM · Sep 10, 2009
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