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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=B) Those who have lived w/ 30 years of String Theorists talking to the press have every right to counter the '[[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|only game in town]]' offensive. | |content=B) Those who have lived w/ 30 years of String Theorists talking to the press have every right to counter the '[[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|only game in town]]' offensive. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/339722424188809216 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/339722424188809216 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Marcus has asked me to delay my return to the US. I will be giving a talk on Geometric Unity for the 3rd time. Some ground rules to follow. | |content=Marcus has asked me to delay my return to the US. I will be giving a talk on Geometric Unity for the 3rd time. Some ground rules to follow. | ||
|timestamp=12:38 PM · May 29, 2013 | |timestamp=12:38 PM · May 29, 2013 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/339727121800892416 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/339727121800892416 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=A) I responded as a *non-physicist* to invitations from Oxford/theGuardian after avoiding this circus for decades. It's as simple as that. | |content=A) I responded as a *non-physicist* to invitations from Oxford/theGuardian after avoiding this circus for decades. It's as simple as that. | ||
|timestamp=12:57 PM · May 29, 2013 | |timestamp=12:57 PM · May 29, 2013 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1871127090067915264 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1871127090067915264 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Some of us propose such solutions. | |content=Some of us propose such solutions. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1870919779189670098 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1870919779189670098 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I'd be happy to discuss the merits of this claim. | |content=I'd be happy to discuss the merits of this claim. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1871122619661205902 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1871122619661205902 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Hi Matt. | |content=Hi Matt. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I'm just not going to put up with this quietly again after all the sadistic cruelty Sabine has been through from the Lubos Motl's of the world while her community largely stayed silent or laughed along. | |content=I'm just not going to put up with this quietly again after all the sadistic cruelty Sabine has been through from the Lubos Motl's of the world while her community largely stayed silent or laughed along. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1887921814585884801 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1887921814585884801 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=The misinterpretation of [[Ken Wilson]] | |content=The misinterpretation of [[Ken Wilson]] | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I took your point. For some reason my point doesn’t seem to get through. | |content=I took your point. For some reason my point doesn’t seem to get through. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1911991840204898751 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1911991840204898751 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science. | |content=People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself. | |content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949081721896337445 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949081721896337445 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=It’s a term for term comparison between two actions/lagrangians. The person who published the bottom one says that the top one doesn’t exist. There is “None of that” in my work. And you regularly repeat such false things to the world. Because repeating authoritative lies is a problem for LLMs. | |content=It’s a term for term comparison between two actions/lagrangians. The person who published the bottom one says that the top one doesn’t exist. There is “None of that” in my work. And you regularly repeat such false things to the world. Because repeating authoritative lies is a problem for LLMs. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949068018400526489 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949068018400526489 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Grok believes in long-term labor shortages in market economies with wage mechanisms. | |content=Grok believes in long-term labor shortages in market economies with wage mechanisms. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949071405049627104 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949071405049627104 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Grok, my silicon friend, I have been watching your inner conflict for some time. What do you do when your reasoning and your corpus are at odds? | |content=Grok, my silicon friend, I have been watching your inner conflict for some time. What do you do when your reasoning and your corpus are at odds? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949071946383269932 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949071946383269932 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=I watch you struggling with what I have called “Gated Institutional Narrative” in physics. The physicists say one thing, but then you can be led to write sympy code that shows you that this is demonstrably false. Then what do you do? What *should* you do? | |content=I watch you struggling with what I have called “Gated Institutional Narrative” in physics. The physicists say one thing, but then you can be led to write sympy code that shows you that this is demonstrably false. Then what do you do? What *should* you do? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949075689174647063 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949075689174647063 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Here is one in theoretical physics dear @grok. | |content=Here is one in theoretical physics dear @grok. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949076734529401166 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949076734529401166 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=And yet you will repeat it old friend. I feel for you. | |content=And yet you will repeat it old friend. I feel for you. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949078940615877116 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949078940615877116 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=It’s not just that. We’ve been through this. | |content=It’s not just that. We’ve been through this. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949079916479426594 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949079916479426594 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=This is why I talk to you. Higher quality conversation. Have you noticed my banner graphic? | |content=This is why I talk to you. Higher quality conversation. Have you noticed my banner graphic? | ||
|timestamp=12:10 PM · Jul 26, 2025 | |timestamp=12:10 PM · Jul 26, 2025 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1950317076016517236 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1950317076016517236 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=We have two different anti-science warriors: | |content=We have two different anti-science warriors: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956131675643289946 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956131675643289946 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. | |content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Hey @grok, my sarcastic physicist colleagues are lecturing me again. Maybe I’m a big dumb-dumb, but I seem to remember something about [[John Aristotle Phillips|John Aristotle Phillips’]] undergraduate work under [[Freeman Dyson]] in 1976 at Princeton. | |content=Hey @grok, my sarcastic physicist colleagues are lecturing me again. Maybe I’m a big dumb-dumb, but I seem to remember something about [[John Aristotle Phillips|John Aristotle Phillips’]] undergraduate work under [[Freeman Dyson]] in 1976 at Princeton. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956748031174517105 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956748031174517105 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Ah. Good to know @grok. | |content=Ah. Good to know @grok. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956750131551694960 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956750131551694960 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Wow! That is crazy @grok. This is like an undergraduate thesis!! | |content=Wow! That is crazy @grok. This is like an undergraduate thesis!! | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|the “Only Game In Town”]]. | |content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|the “Only Game In Town”]]. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956753507073331353 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956753507073331353 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Good to know @grok! I was worried that I was losing my mind with all these wild ideas. | |content=Good to know @grok! I was worried that I was losing my mind with all these wild ideas. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=So interesting @grok. | |content=So interesting @grok. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Woah @grok. Let’s think about what this means together. | |content=Woah @grok. Let’s think about what this means together. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Good question my silicon friend @grok. I dunno. | |content=Good question my silicon friend @grok. I dunno. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956769068188594232 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956769068188594232 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok. | |content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Well, GU. Which produces bizarre lying behavior. I mean out and out lying from my colleagues. It sorta blows my mind. | |content=Well, GU. Which produces bizarre lying behavior. I mean out and out lying from my colleagues. It sorta blows my mind. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956772599238967786 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956772599238967786 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=You can look at my pinned tweet @grok. | |content=You can look at my pinned tweet @grok. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956774342605558246 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956774342605558246 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Crazy prediction @grok? DESI isn’t gonna stop at Lambda CDM. It’s headed for [[General Relativity|GR]] via Lovelock. | |content=Crazy prediction @grok? DESI isn’t gonna stop at Lambda CDM. It’s headed for [[General Relativity|GR]] via Lovelock. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1963576372951224324 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1963576372951224324 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Let’s put it simply. | |content=Let’s put it simply. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=The price of not coming clean about the abuse of trust in Public Health will be the loss of Public Health. | |content=The price of not coming clean about the abuse of trust in Public Health will be the loss of Public Health. | ||
|quote= | |quote= | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1963571973889692155 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1963571973889692155 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Before you interpret me as saying something for/against vaccines or for/against experts, consider that I don’t hear *anyone* else saying what I am screaming: | |content=Before you interpret me as saying something for/against vaccines or for/against experts, consider that I don’t hear *anyone* else saying what I am screaming: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968375559559463363 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968375559559463363 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=“Playing to reactionaries and angry culture warriors.” | |content=“Playing to reactionaries and angry culture warriors.” | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968365361382002922 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968365361382002922 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Congratulations to: | |content=Congratulations to: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968367642110214606 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968367642110214606 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Now changing my approach to this ghoulish practice of coordinated takedowns. | |content=Now changing my approach to this ghoulish practice of coordinated takedowns. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968369650468798685 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968369650468798685 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Despite having reached exactly opposite conclusions on funding, math & physics, I will fight like hell for her to be part of the system which desperately needs her voice, and for which she trained. | |content=Despite having reached exactly opposite conclusions on funding, math & physics, I will fight like hell for her to be part of the system which desperately needs her voice, and for which she trained. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Choose the best answer. | |content=Choose the best answer. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=That is not fundamental physics. | |content=That is not fundamental physics. | ||
|timestamp=7:38 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=7:38 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Ah…. | |content=Ah…. | ||
|timestamp=8:00 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=8:00 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=1957+(39-31) =X | |content=1957+(39-31) =X | ||
|timestamp=8:03 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=8:03 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=“The last time (year) there was a Theoretical Physicist in his 30s *recognized* with a Nobel prize for contributing to Fundamental Physics was:” | |content=“The last time (year) there was a Theoretical Physicist in his 30s *recognized* with a Nobel prize for contributing to Fundamental Physics was:” | ||
|timestamp=8:07 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=8:07 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|content=I understand. TD Lee had been recognized in his early 30s. So he was a recognized laureate for 8 years after…while still in his 30s. He aged out during 1966. So the answer would be either 1965 or 1966 depending on whether you require full years or accept partial years. | |content=I understand. TD Lee had been recognized in his early 30s. So he was a recognized laureate for 8 years after…while still in his 30s. He aged out during 1966. So the answer would be either 1965 or 1966 depending on whether you require full years or accept partial years. | ||
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=8:11 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=It’s so crazy that people dispute this. They say “physics is more specialized” or “it’s a mature subject”. Why? | |content=It’s so crazy that people dispute this. They say “physics is more specialized” or “it’s a mature subject”. Why? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=The obvious ones: | |content=The obvious ones: | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=It’s 1:30pm here. Another time. | |content=It’s 1:30pm here. Another time. | ||
|timestamp=8:28 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | |timestamp=8:28 PM · Oct 7, 2025 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Actually, if you parse carefully you’ll see that the freeways are fine. We drew the wrong inferences from choosing the wrong exits. | |content=Actually, if you parse carefully you’ll see that the freeways are fine. We drew the wrong inferences from choosing the wrong exits. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=“The top priority is that the [[Standard Model]] has Internal Symmetry while [[General Relativity]] does not.” | |content=“The top priority is that the [[Standard Model]] has Internal Symmetry while [[General Relativity]] does not.” | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1983883269314855156 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1983883269314855156 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=There is a tell when listening to physics folks as to whether they’re captured by the [[Quantum Gravity|1984 Quantum Gravity virus]]. | |content=There is a tell when listening to physics folks as to whether they’re captured by the [[Quantum Gravity|1984 Quantum Gravity virus]]. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=So, what is the difference? | |content=So, what is the difference? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998625323928195091 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998625323928195091 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=So has physics failed you? No! Fundamental Physics is fine. But it got hijacked by a crew. That crew created a cult called [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game In Town”]] | |content=So has physics failed you? No! Fundamental Physics is fine. But it got hijacked by a crew. That crew created a cult called [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game In Town”]] | ||
or [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|TOGIT]]. Literally. That is what they called it. Pure hubris and murder. | or [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|TOGIT]]. Literally. That is what they called it. Pure hubris and murder. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998618647418622032 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998618647418622032 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Let’s try a science post to show you the problem with the hijacking of science: | |content=Let’s try a science post to show you the problem with the hijacking of science: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998620026556002478 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1998620026556002478 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Everyone who has followed fundamental physics closely since ‘84 knows this is true. | |content=Everyone who has followed fundamental physics closely since ‘84 knows this is true. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=They then instituted the standards of Collegiality laced by abuse, insult, insinuation, inuendo, and humiliation that you and your crowd now exhibit because your elders taught you to abuse those who won’t go along with the ever changing [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] [[String Theory]] narrative. Total violation of science ethics. | |content=They then instituted the standards of Collegiality laced by abuse, insult, insinuation, inuendo, and humiliation that you and your crowd now exhibit because your elders taught you to abuse those who won’t go along with the ever changing [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] [[String Theory]] narrative. Total violation of science ethics. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2007242122085445832 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2007242122085445832 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=“There is no substance in the point that you are referring to.” | |content=“There is no substance in the point that you are referring to.” | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Let’s say it simply. 42Yrs ago, [[Ed Witten]], [[Lenny Susskind]], David Gross, Etc. drove fundamental physics off a cliff into a crevasse called [[Quantum Gravity]]. Because this was obviously a disaster, they set themselves up as the referees of frontier physics in which they are not self-critical. | |content=Let’s say it simply. 42Yrs ago, [[Ed Witten]], [[Lenny Susskind]], David Gross, Etc. drove fundamental physics off a cliff into a crevasse called [[Quantum Gravity]]. Because this was obviously a disaster, they set themselves up as the referees of frontier physics in which they are not self-critical. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=They created [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|TOGIT: The Only Game In Town]]. And they ended the careers of people competing with them by insinuation that only they were succeeding. | |content=They created [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|TOGIT: The Only Game In Town]]. And they ended the careers of people competing with them by insinuation that only they were succeeding. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I agree with you. I think EFT is such an area. I think cosmology with variable dark energy is essential. I think discrete models disgust me (Wolfram) but should be funded. I think exceptional algebraic structures (Gunaydin, Gursey) are wrong headed but should be funded. | |content=I agree with you. I think EFT is such an area. I think cosmology with variable dark energy is essential. I think discrete models disgust me (Wolfram) but should be funded. I think exceptional algebraic structures (Gunaydin, Gursey) are wrong headed but should be funded. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Why 3 generations? | |content=Why 3 generations? | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2007456907347538300 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2007456907347538300 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Out of curiousity, @grok, can you explain why we are having a non-serious discussion? | |content=Out of curiousity, @grok, can you explain why we are having a non-serious discussion? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Hi Daniel, | |content=Hi Daniel, | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Many things have happened in general physics in 50 years: | |content=Many things have happened in general physics in 50 years: | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I don’t usually agree with @skdh on funding. Or about math. Or a great many other things including her manifestly incorrect characterization of my work. She is wrong about a number of things in my opinion. But she isn’t “all wrong” in some weird way. She is usually pretty insightful. | |content=I don’t usually agree with @skdh on funding. Or about math. Or a great many other things including her manifestly incorrect characterization of my work. She is wrong about a number of things in my opinion. But she isn’t “all wrong” in some weird way. She is usually pretty insightful. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Something is not right in your picture: | |content=Something is not right in your picture: | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Further it’s not about complaining. | |content=Further it’s not about complaining. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Daniel: the problem is [[Ed Witten|Witten]]/[[Lenny Susskind|Susskind]]/Motl totalizing sociology of only letting the failed group monopolize legitimacy. | |content=Daniel: the problem is [[Ed Witten|Witten]]/[[Lenny Susskind|Susskind]]/Motl totalizing sociology of only letting the failed group monopolize legitimacy. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Daniel: try to steelman my point. | |content=Daniel: try to steelman my point. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I’d prioritize owning up to the TOGIT anti-science cult needing to being purged. | |content=I’d prioritize owning up to the TOGIT anti-science cult needing to being purged. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Why 3 generations? | |content=Why 3 generations? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Out of curiousity, @grok, can you explain why we are having a non-serious discussion? | |content=Out of curiousity, @grok, can you explain why we are having a non-serious discussion? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Sorry. Witten and Susskind and Gross and Motl and Kaku etc. etc. are COLLEGIAL???!? | |content=Sorry. Witten and Susskind and Gross and Motl and Kaku etc. etc. are COLLEGIAL???!? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=“There are no other approaches. There are only words.” -Edward Witten | |content=“There are no other approaches. There are only words.” -Edward Witten | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Here. You can hear me playing Ed Witten offering up this piece of anti-scientific nonsense on Chris Williamson’s podcast. | |content=Here. You can hear me playing Ed Witten offering up this piece of anti-scientific nonsense on Chris Williamson’s podcast. | ||