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|content=Attempt @1tweet #foo summary: 'Massively parallel [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] intervention via saturation Asabiyyah-boarding' | |content=Attempt @1tweet #foo summary: 'Massively parallel [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] intervention via saturation Asabiyyah-boarding' | ||
|timestamp=11:03 PM · Jun 30, 2010 | |timestamp=11:03 PM · Jun 30, 2010 | ||
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|content=Obviously unworkable ideas 1, [[Learned Helplessness]] 0. | |content=Obviously unworkable ideas 1, [[Learned Helplessness]] 0. | ||
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|content=@Martyrmade Interesting point. But this is a warning shot across the bow of a new ship. A peaceful demonstration of less peaceful power. | |content=@Martyrmade Interesting point. But this is a warning shot across the bow of a new ship. A peaceful demonstration of less peaceful power. | ||
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|content=It's easy to miss a bigger point: folks shaking off our national [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. Folks who can overwhelm D.C. won't need fear as much. https://t.co/cBWHpgzcz6 | |content=It's easy to miss a bigger point: folks shaking off our national [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. Folks who can overwhelm D.C. won't need fear as much. https://t.co/cBWHpgzcz6 | ||
|timestamp=8:38 PM · Jan 21, 2017 | |timestamp=8:38 PM · Jan 21, 2017 | ||
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|content=.@united There has to be a hack against mere [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. If we can't avoid @united, driving their cost is necessary to complete the market. | |content=.@united There has to be a hack against mere [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. If we can't avoid @united, driving their cost is necessary to complete the market. | ||
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|content=Can we drown out @united's safety script w passenger participation? | |content=Can we drown out @united's safety script w passenger participation? | ||
Ex: "In the unlikely event of a waterboarding" | Ex: "In the unlikely event of a waterboarding" | ||
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|content=Can we stop pretending that we care as a nation? Because clearly we don’t. There can be 10 of these in a month and we don’t do a thing. We don’t try things. We don’t experiment. We sit here like low agency idiots suffering from [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. | |content=Can we stop pretending that we care as a nation? Because clearly we don’t. There can be 10 of these in a month and we don’t do a thing. We don’t try things. We don’t experiment. We sit here like low agency idiots suffering from [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]. | ||
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|content=I’m numbed. I think I’m done talking about whatever the current mass shooting is. I want to say to all of us who still have children, parents, spouses, hold them close. I’m so sorry for all who are about to lose them during September. Which hasn’t happened yet. But it will. | |content=I’m numbed. I think I’m done talking about whatever the current mass shooting is. I want to say to all of us who still have children, parents, spouses, hold them close. I’m so sorry for all who are about to lose them during September. Which hasn’t happened yet. But it will. | ||
|timestamp=1:50 AM · Sep 01, 2019 | |timestamp=1:50 AM · Sep 01, 2019 | ||
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|content=BTW I don’t mean to pick on the specific post. There are many such tweets and DMs making the same points with not much variation. But it has become almost an automated reflex despite there being some validity in the arguments. | |content=BTW I don’t mean to pick on the specific post. There are many such tweets and DMs making the same points with not much variation. But it has become almost an automated reflex despite there being some validity in the arguments. | ||
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|content=I suggested that I’m numbed by our [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] around an increasingly lethal US mass shooting problem *without* mentioning gun control. Suddenly I’m an irrational jerk who doesn’t care about auto accidents, water, pools, etc and let everyone down? | |content=I suggested that I’m numbed by our [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] around an increasingly lethal US mass shooting problem *without* mentioning gun control. Suddenly I’m an irrational jerk who doesn’t care about auto accidents, water, pools, etc and let everyone down? | ||
|timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | |timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | ||
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|content=Immediately lecturing folks feeling specific loss of life in a single community (and who are not yet even talking 2nd amendment rights) on general swimming pool safety, or how disappointed you are in the logic of the posters is bad optics & an excellent way to lose your argument. | |content=Immediately lecturing folks feeling specific loss of life in a single community (and who are not yet even talking 2nd amendment rights) on general swimming pool safety, or how disappointed you are in the logic of the posters is bad optics & an excellent way to lose your argument. | ||
|timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | |timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | ||
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|content=Word to the wise: wait for someone (like me) to actually make a bad argument. I might! But a mass shooting of say N dead in one school community with a note from a deliberate killer with a known mental health history is a bigger deal for society than N diffuse auto fatalities. | |content=Word to the wise: wait for someone (like me) to actually make a bad argument. I might! But a mass shooting of say N dead in one school community with a note from a deliberate killer with a known mental health history is a bigger deal for society than N diffuse auto fatalities. | ||
|timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | |timestamp=2:56 PM · Sep 01, 2019 | ||
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|content=@Neubian Agreed. | |content=@Neubian Agreed. | ||
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|content=Let’s talk about the next major US school shooting with more than 3 dead. Those folks are currently alive. They are just having a day today like anyone else. They don’t need our thoughts & prayers yet. We could take action to save those lives. We know it is going to happen. | |content=Let’s talk about the next major US school shooting with more than 3 dead. Those folks are currently alive. They are just having a day today like anyone else. They don’t need our thoughts & prayers yet. We could take action to save those lives. We know it is going to happen. | ||
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|content=@RealJimbabwe Don’t forget malaria. Or suicide. Or snakes. | |content=@RealJimbabwe Don’t forget malaria. Or suicide. Or snakes. | ||
|timestamp=4:09 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:09 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@RichyDispatch I don’t like mondays. | |content=@RichyDispatch I don’t like mondays. | ||
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:10 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@CarrisJake Here’s my plan: That we begin talking ahead of time and not retroactively. Move to the next one. Like it is “Groundhog day”. Let’s set a schedule of anticipation and see if it changes anything. Why are we exhibiting [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]? Makes no sense. | |content=@CarrisJake Here’s my plan: That we begin talking ahead of time and not retroactively. Move to the next one. Like it is “Groundhog day”. Let’s set a schedule of anticipation and see if it changes anything. Why are we exhibiting [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]]? Makes no sense. | ||
|timestamp=4:12 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:12 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@CarrisJake Gun control is feared by many of my fellow Americans. Ok. So...I want the strong 2A crowd to take the lead. What real plan do we have that we can fund and implement to get these deaths toward numbers that aren’t an embarrassment? | |content=@CarrisJake Gun control is feared by many of my fellow Americans. Ok. So...I want the strong 2A crowd to take the lead. What real plan do we have that we can fund and implement to get these deaths toward numbers that aren’t an embarrassment? | ||
|timestamp=4:15 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:15 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@Lann5000 @CarrisJake Okay. Do we raise taxes and do mental health checks? What is it we do to avoid restrictions on firearm ownership to get good results? | |content=@Lann5000 @CarrisJake Okay. Do we raise taxes and do mental health checks? What is it we do to avoid restrictions on firearm ownership to get good results? | ||
|timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@IbnChristo So, this is a negative externality of freedom and we are on the efficient frontier? | |content=@IbnChristo So, this is a negative externality of freedom and we are on the efficient frontier? | ||
|timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:17 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@Beefalo37 I just took it. My solution is to shift the burden onto future shootings so that we can find out why we refuse to cry over milk that is as yet unspilled. As it were. | |content=@Beefalo37 I just took it. My solution is to shift the burden onto future shootings so that we can find out why we refuse to cry over milk that is as yet unspilled. As it were. | ||
|timestamp=4:19 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:19 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@Thinkofwhy So this is too far down the list and we should not over focus? | |content=@Thinkofwhy So this is too far down the list and we should not over focus? | ||
|timestamp=4:20 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:20 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@JamesDeanAnder1 So, focus on the media distortion? | |content=@JamesDeanAnder1 So, focus on the media distortion? | ||
|timestamp=4:21 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:21 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@JamesDeanAnder1 @RealSaavedra So prioritize things that are more deadly? | |content=@JamesDeanAnder1 @RealSaavedra So prioritize things that are more deadly? | ||
|timestamp=4:29 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=4:29 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@HamfistHarold @CarrisJake I don’t hate armed guards. Fill me in. How does this part of the conversation go when you bring it up? I’m not a veteran of this stalemate. More of a casual observer. Thanks. | |content=@HamfistHarold @CarrisJake I don’t hate armed guards. Fill me in. How does this part of the conversation go when you bring it up? I’m not a veteran of this stalemate. More of a casual observer. Thanks. | ||
|timestamp=5:47 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:47 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@CrisVerdonik I want to understand what a conversation looks like that isn’t held in the aftermath of a shooting. I always see this done after a shooting with bodies that are still warm and grieving parents everywhere. I want to understand the issue. Why do we deadlock? It’s sad & surprising. | |content=@CrisVerdonik I want to understand what a conversation looks like that isn’t held in the aftermath of a shooting. I always see this done after a shooting with bodies that are still warm and grieving parents everywhere. I want to understand the issue. Why do we deadlock? It’s sad & surprising. | ||
|timestamp=5:52 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:52 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@CoffeeBear5 Sure. | |content=@CoffeeBear5 Sure. | ||
|timestamp=5:52 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:52 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@MiTenYo This is a highly conserved quasi response. Not without some merit. But also oddly reflexive as well. | |content=@MiTenYo This is a highly conserved quasi response. Not without some merit. But also oddly reflexive as well. | ||
|timestamp=5:54 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:54 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@BadHombreMarcoB That makes some sense. It is a possible approach. Does that inhibit shooters or just limit their damage in your opinion? Has it been studied? | |content=@BadHombreMarcoB That makes some sense. It is a possible approach. Does that inhibit shooters or just limit their damage in your opinion? Has it been studied? | ||
|timestamp=5:56 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:56 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=@BadHombreMarcoB I’m just ignorant of the theory here. | |content=@BadHombreMarcoB I’m just ignorant of the theory here. | ||
|timestamp=5:57 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | |timestamp=5:57 PM · Nov 25, 2019 | ||
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|content=[[Learned Helplessness|Learned helplessness]] is UnAmerican. This is like China or Russia controlling our minds from a bad sci-fi thriller. But we are being controlled by our grandparents and parents instead. And they don’t care. | |content=[[Learned Helplessness|Learned helplessness]] is UnAmerican. This is like China or Russia controlling our minds from a bad sci-fi thriller. But we are being controlled by our grandparents and parents instead. And they don’t care. | ||
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|content=Listen carefully: you don’t have to elect Biden or Trump. | |content=Listen carefully: you don’t have to elect Biden or Trump. | ||
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|content=Pick someone who never met Jeffrey Epstein. Pick someone who can code or with a masters degree or better in STEM. | |content=Pick someone who never met Jeffrey Epstein. Pick someone who can code or with a masters degree or better in STEM. | ||
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|content=You would be better off with a thoughtful and competent 45 year old electrician or self made businessperson as president. Almost no ordinary people have family business interests in China or Ukraine. Chose anyone without dementia. Pick someone who can’t remember the moon landing. | |content=You would be better off with a thoughtful and competent 45 year old electrician or self made businessperson as president. Almost no ordinary people have family business interests in China or Ukraine. Chose anyone without dementia. Pick someone who can’t remember the moon landing. | ||
|timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | |timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | ||
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|content=You don’t have to take these choices. *Nobody* smart wants these people except to defeat each other. You don’t really like Fox. Or CNN. Or the NYT. Except when they go after your enemies. | |content=You don’t have to take these choices. *Nobody* smart wants these people except to defeat each other. You don’t really like Fox. Or CNN. Or the NYT. Except when they go after your enemies. | ||
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|content=If the enormous generation of you young folk can’t use this mismanagement of a pandemic by a bipartisan kleptocratic gerontocracy, then you aren’t thinking like young folk at all. Demand your debt free future and the removal of this preposterous class of ancient legacy predators. | |content=If the enormous generation of you young folk can’t use this mismanagement of a pandemic by a bipartisan kleptocratic gerontocracy, then you aren’t thinking like young folk at all. Demand your debt free future and the removal of this preposterous class of ancient legacy predators. | ||
|timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | |timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | ||
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|content=That card says “Biden”. Take that card and a lighter and set it on fire. Then grab the deck and pick another card, rifle it to check for markings on the back, look to see if they all say Biden, and chose a different card at random. This was never a primary. There was no election. | |content=That card says “Biden”. Take that card and a lighter and set it on fire. Then grab the deck and pick another card, rifle it to check for markings on the back, look to see if they all say Biden, and chose a different card at random. This was never a primary. There was no election. | ||
|timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | |timestamp=5:54 PM · May 06, 2020 | ||
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|content=@agoonforhire Thank you for this! | |content=@agoonforhire Thank you for this! | ||
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|content=I think that’s great. Where we differ is that I don’t think Earth, our Moon & Mars plus space stations connected by rockets give us much real diversity. It’s barely doable. But assume you could make it work. I would want to run 1000s of uncorrelated experiments as most will fail. | |content=I think that’s great. Where we differ is that I don’t think Earth, our Moon & Mars plus space stations connected by rockets give us much real diversity. It’s barely doable. But assume you could make it work. I would want to run 1000s of uncorrelated experiments as most will fail. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=Let’s be clear about this weird sounding issue. | |content=Let’s be clear about this weird sounding issue. | ||
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|content=But yes, he believes. In fun. In hope. In ending the epidemic of [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] that has infected everyone else. So I’m a pretty die hard Elon supporter. Not because I agree w/ everything. But he gets **the** big issue right. We need to end the single correlated experiment. | |content=But yes, he believes. In fun. In hope. In ending the epidemic of [[Learned Helplessness|learned helplessness]] that has infected everyone else. So I’m a pretty die hard Elon supporter. Not because I agree w/ everything. But he gets **the** big issue right. We need to end the single correlated experiment. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=And if we are stuck in this solar system with the physics we know there is only one good surface and two marginal ones. | |content=And if we are stuck in this solar system with the physics we know there is only one good surface and two marginal ones. | ||
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|content=But because Elon is so smart, I don’t discount the idea that he isn’t interested in finding out if post-Einsteinian physics for some reason. I just doesn’t add up to me, but maybe he knows something I don’t. But north of $100B w/ his knowledge of physics, he could change it all. | |content=But because Elon is so smart, I don’t discount the idea that he isn’t interested in finding out if post-Einsteinian physics for some reason. I just doesn’t add up to me, but maybe he knows something I don’t. But north of $100B w/ his knowledge of physics, he could change it all. | ||
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|content=Now he may have a reason. But I have never heard him address this so it just makes no sense to me. No one is taking the need to go beyond Einstein seriously so we are pretty much trapped here in this solar system with the physics we know. That means three terrestrial surfaces. | |content=Now he may have a reason. But I have never heard him address this so it just makes no sense to me. No one is taking the need to go beyond Einstein seriously so we are pretty much trapped here in this solar system with the physics we know. That means three terrestrial surfaces. | ||
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|content=So on the main issue we agree. The second issue is where we differ. A | |content=So on the main issue we agree. The second issue is where we differ. A | ||
multi multi billionaire (12 digits!) as smart as Elon w a physics background could diversify & place a small 2nd bet on rendering General Relativity a mere effective theory by single handedly fixing physics. | multi multi billionaire (12 digits!) as smart as Elon w a physics background could diversify & place a small 2nd bet on rendering General Relativity a mere effective theory by single handedly fixing physics. | ||
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|content=I just want to know why no one asks this question. Lex could do it. Joe could do it. But he doesn’t seem to address it so I have no idea what is going on. It’s not some special insight of mine. Our best hope for his stated dream is new physics. And making physics rich is cheap. | |content=I just want to know why no one asks this question. Lex could do it. Joe could do it. But he doesn’t seem to address it so I have no idea what is going on. It’s not some special insight of mine. Our best hope for his stated dream is new physics. And making physics rich is cheap. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=And the two multi billionaires I believe have the best technical chops to do this are Jim Simons and Elon Musk. But no one wants to build institutions that can do this because our institutions haven’t worked well enough since the Apollo program. So, I’m hopeful he gets asked. | |content=And the two multi billionaires I believe have the best technical chops to do this are Jim Simons and Elon Musk. But no one wants to build institutions that can do this because our institutions haven’t worked well enough since the Apollo program. So, I’m hopeful he gets asked. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=Now that doesn’t strike me as a small ask. It’s a big bill. But it is also our best hope. Imagine COVID was radioactive fallout from a serious nuclear exchange and compute half lives. Or imagine a climate disaster. | |content=Now that doesn’t strike me as a small ask. It’s a big bill. But it is also our best hope. Imagine COVID was radioactive fallout from a serious nuclear exchange and compute half lives. Or imagine a climate disaster. | ||
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|content=Imagine you wanted to pay 2m salary to all the top 50 theorists in the world for 10 years to get them all to move to a couple of centers to free them from careerist temptations so they could at last swing for the fences. The salaries would be about 0.005 of current net worth. | |content=Imagine you wanted to pay 2m salary to all the top 50 theorists in the world for 10 years to get them all to move to a couple of centers to free them from careerist temptations so they could at last swing for the fences. The salaries would be about 0.005 of current net worth. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=#OccupyMars is good, but #FreeThePhysicists isn’t even as popular as #FreeTheNipple or #FreeBeer | |content=#OccupyMars is good, but #FreeThePhysicists isn’t even as popular as #FreeTheNipple or #FreeBeer | ||
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|content=There isn’t much left that works in this area. I’m still betting on Elon making sense. It’s one of our last really good hopes. And returning fun and mischief to public spirited scientific attempts to “preserve the light of human consciousness” is something I’m 100% behind. | |content=There isn’t much left that works in this area. I’m still betting on Elon making sense. It’s one of our last really good hopes. And returning fun and mischief to public spirited scientific attempts to “preserve the light of human consciousness” is something I’m 100% behind. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=Either way I want to encourage him. But I want to know why rockets over physics. Why not both? Why is a physics guy w a HUGE risk appetite not trying to do for Einstein & his speed limit what Einstein did for Newton’s Gravity? If you know the answer, I’d love to know it as well. | |content=Either way I want to encourage him. But I want to know why rockets over physics. Why not both? Why is a physics guy w a HUGE risk appetite not trying to do for Einstein & his speed limit what Einstein did for Newton’s Gravity? If you know the answer, I’d love to know it as well. | ||
|timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:30 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=@finaltoe Physics is subject to survivor bias in a system of perverse incentives. We induce physicists to work within failed paradigms if they want to eat or house their families. It’s an insane thing to do. We shoot ourselves in the foot when we take away their independence. | |content=@finaltoe Physics is subject to survivor bias in a system of perverse incentives. We induce physicists to work within failed paradigms if they want to eat or house their families. It’s an insane thing to do. We shoot ourselves in the foot when we take away their independence. | ||
|timestamp=6:36 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | |timestamp=6:36 PM · Sep 01, 2021 | ||
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|content=@jetpen No one sane wants to have to lean on time dilation for the reason you state. | |content=@jetpen No one sane wants to have to lean on time dilation for the reason you state. | ||
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|content=@AndrewS65627884 Sure: @elonmusk, you have an open invitation to talk whenever you want. In confidence if preferable. On a podcast if desired. | |content=@AndrewS65627884 Sure: @elonmusk, you have an open invitation to talk whenever you want. In confidence if preferable. On a podcast if desired. | ||
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|content=@mdotgru @jordanbpeterson The word has seen many wars. And eastern/Central Europe has had its borders redrawn many time. But this post-Thermonuclear scenario is entirely without meaningful precedent. And we are pretending it is merely another conventional war. | |content=@mdotgru @jordanbpeterson The word has seen many wars. And eastern/Central Europe has had its borders redrawn many time. But this post-Thermonuclear scenario is entirely without meaningful precedent. And we are pretending it is merely another conventional war. | ||
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|content=@jordanbpeterson I don’t know Doc. After the pull out from Afghanistan, Kamala being second to the presidency, and the president having a 1/20 chance of death in any year, I think we are just tired of living and mainstaing this beautiful planet. | |content=@jordanbpeterson I don’t know Doc. After the pull out from Afghanistan, Kamala being second to the presidency, and the president having a 1/20 chance of death in any year, I think we are just tired of living and mainstaing this beautiful planet. | ||
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|content=@hereforElon @jordanbpeterson That’s what they do: Prebunk any one capable of forcing investigation. | |content=@hereforElon @jordanbpeterson That’s what they do: Prebunk any one capable of forcing investigation. | ||
|timestamp=4:37 AM · Jan 28, 2023 | |timestamp=4:37 AM · Jan 28, 2023 | ||
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|content=@brucefenton @jordanbpeterson Are you kidding??? | |content=@brucefenton @jordanbpeterson Are you kidding??? | ||
|timestamp=7:35 PM · Jan 28, 2023 | |timestamp=7:35 PM · Jan 28, 2023 | ||
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|content=@brucefenton @jordanbpeterson You have got to be kidding. | |content=@brucefenton @jordanbpeterson You have got to be kidding. | ||
|timestamp=7:35 PM · Jan 28, 2023 | |timestamp=7:35 PM · Jan 28, 2023 | ||
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|content=@mdotgru @jordanbpeterson Sorry to lose you. This is happening at two levels: national & planet-wide. | |content=@mdotgru @jordanbpeterson Sorry to lose you. This is happening at two levels: national & planet-wide. | ||
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|content=@nandor117 Forgot Rabi. Super inspiring story along with Schwinger. | |content=@nandor117 Forgot Rabi. Super inspiring story along with Schwinger. | ||
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|content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.: | |content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.: | ||
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|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is: | |content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is: | ||
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|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure. | |content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure. | ||
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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | |content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | ||
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|content=@Perterra1 No. And it doesn’t include people for different reasons. Feynman is already known to the public. People | |content=@Perterra1 No. And it doesn’t include people for different reasons. Feynman is already known to the public. People | ||
have no idea who Robert Herman is. Etc. | have no idea who Robert Herman is. Etc. | ||
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|content=@Perterra1 @patrickc Man is incredible. On so many levels. | |content=@Perterra1 @patrickc Man is incredible. On so many levels. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@illogicalUSA It took zero. Not as artful as I could have been. But there are so many issues. | |content=@illogicalUSA It took zero. Not as artful as I could have been. But there are so many issues. | ||
|timestamp=5:05 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:05 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682980760020561921 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682980760020561921 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@DrBrianKeating Not true. At least Three. But to your point, this is just the list that inspired me…and I am not a physicist. | |content=@DrBrianKeating Not true. At least Three. But to your point, this is just the list that inspired me…and I am not a physicist. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682981552152608770 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682981552152608770 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@darreljlewis1 @Perterra1 It’s also *deliberately* incomplete. | |content=@darreljlewis1 @Perterra1 It’s also *deliberately* incomplete. | ||
|timestamp=5:10 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:10 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682981883162894336 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682981883162894336 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@bluesneakerdog @Perterra1 @patrickc The clarity is double edged. But let’s just say I trust Patrick more than anyone else when I disagree with him. | |content=@bluesneakerdog @Perterra1 @patrickc The clarity is double edged. But let’s just say I trust Patrick more than anyone else when I disagree with him. | ||
|timestamp=5:12 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:12 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | |content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@alexattack88 Ran out of letters. Devanagari next time. | |content=@alexattack88 Ran out of letters. Devanagari next time. | ||
|timestamp=5:18 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:18 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983512570306560 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983512570306560 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@ziegler34 Damn you Matthew! | |content=@ziegler34 Damn you Matthew! | ||
|timestamp=5:18 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:18 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983649224818688 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983649224818688 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@KeithJensonn @MarkSeanPuls Already well known. | |content=@KeithJensonn @MarkSeanPuls Already well known. | ||
|timestamp=5:19 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:19 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983884173062144 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682983884173062144 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@ThePudyTat Aware. Bizarre. | |content=@ThePudyTat Aware. Bizarre. | ||
|timestamp=5:20 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:20 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@complex_maths If I put them on we wouldn’t have a general discussion. See Paul Ehrenfest. | |content=@complex_maths If I put them on we wouldn’t have a general discussion. See Paul Ehrenfest. | ||
|timestamp=5:20 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:20 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@renegademormon @Perterra1 I laughed. Didn’t see it coming… | |content=@renegademormon @Perterra1 I laughed. Didn’t see it coming… | ||
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:27 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@Circusponi Funny | |content=@Circusponi Funny | ||
|timestamp=5:30 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:30 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682987551617961985 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682987551617961985 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@raulsplay I made the name up: but the fact is that EVERYONE who matters will get it. And without explanation. | |content=@raulsplay I made the name up: but the fact is that EVERYONE who matters will get it. And without explanation. | ||
|timestamp=5:34 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:34 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682989993822679040 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682989993822679040 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@MrJPL @witten271 The greatest of our time. | |content=@MrJPL @witten271 The greatest of our time. | ||
|timestamp=5:44 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=5:44 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1774175799236858187 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1774175799236858187 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@WeLivetoServe @martinmbauer No kidding. | |content=@WeLivetoServe @martinmbauer No kidding. | ||
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|content=@martinmbauer So let’s talk about the best new theories with new particle predictions. | |content=@martinmbauer So let’s talk about the best new theories with new particle predictions. | ||
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|content=I’m not truly understanding even though I think I follow everything you wrote. I sense the word “agnostic” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in not giving me 5 modern theories. | |content=I’m not truly understanding even though I think I follow everything you wrote. I sense the word “agnostic” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in not giving me 5 modern theories. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Nice to meet you. | |content=Nice to meet you. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1774099388329234800 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1774099388329234800 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Longer discussion. But SUSY and GUTs both got associated with particular instantiations of general ideas by zealots. | |content=Longer discussion. But SUSY and GUTs both got associated with particular instantiations of general ideas by zealots. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=That gives me some insight into your worldview. If I understand correctly, it hugs the shore of observed SM phenomenology to avoid tilting at windmills of geometry or chasing shadows of quantum gravity for the most part. | |content=That gives me some insight into your worldview. If I understand correctly, it hugs the shore of observed SM phenomenology to avoid tilting at windmills of geometry or chasing shadows of quantum gravity for the most part. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@martinmbauer Got it. Is this exciting to you? Are you hopeful here? High conviction? | |content=@martinmbauer Got it. Is this exciting to you? Are you hopeful here? High conviction? | ||
|timestamp=6:29 PM · Mar 30, 2024 | |timestamp=6:29 PM · Mar 30, 2024 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@StephenLeeCarr “Bitcoin Fixes This.” | |content=@StephenLeeCarr “Bitcoin Fixes This.” | ||
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|content=With respect to our institutions in the west, I can’t stop seeing the fundamental division as being into two basic groups: | |content=With respect to our institutions in the west, I can’t stop seeing the fundamental division as being into two basic groups: | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@NicoleBehnam Every word Nicole. | |content=@NicoleBehnam Every word Nicole. | ||
|timestamp=7:47 AM · Aug 19, 2025 | |timestamp=7:47 AM · Aug 19, 2025 | ||