Exclusion

Exclusion is often as or more important than inclusion.

You need some means of excluding chaos for your system to function.... Right now, the most important thing is to exclude people who can't think properly from conversations of critical importance, because everyone else can't carry that person in their attempt to reason morally about a technical issue.

-Eric Weinstein on The Jolly Swagman #100 @ 25 min

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A white car pulls up beside me at a light with his window rolled down. The driver is trying to tell me something. I reflexively open my window:

“Dumb, dumb. Are you dumb?”

Taken aback, I say nothing. A metal object is hurled at me. The driver speeds off. It is a liquor flask.

6:25 PM · Sep 13, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I look at the liquor flask now in my car. I think: “How should I have handled it differently?”

Never roll down your window? Don’t drive? Move states? Size up drivers based on appearance?

Then I realized: this problem is isomorphic to this very issue I deal with on Twitter.

6:25 PM · Sep 13, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The world is losing it. You have a right to a measure of insulation.

I think having a metal booze flask thrown directly at my face by a raging fellow motorist is weirdly clarifying. Exclusion is as important as inclusion. I will be slower to roll down my window from now on. Sad.

6:25 PM · Sep 13, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I don’t know how to tell you this.

You are *against* ‘equity’: you are SUPPOSED to be a merit driven hierarchical organization to your core.

4-F is an example of what? *Exclusion*. “Unfit for military service.”

As for diversity…You are SUPPPOSED to be ableist, ageist, etc.

11:43 AM · Feb 20, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is mother at home? Or should we just hand China the keys and tell them where we keep the single malt as we make sure that the morbidly obese and aged feel welcome in our special forces units.

I can’t believe this is how we unravel everything we learned how to do correctly.

11:43 AM · Feb 20, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Do you believe that the armed services of a superpower are made stronger by embracing DIVERSITY-EQUITY-INCLUSION into the core of its mission?

11:50 AM · Feb 20, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@missmeltmyheart Exclusion which violates equality of outcome then? Thx.

12:20 PM · Feb 20, 2023

Related Concepts

• Interoperability and Exclusion
• Lipid Bilayer
• Audience Capture
• Extractive Elite

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