Ericisms
Eric often uses terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those only. This should not be confused with more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as the DISC, EGOs, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc.
See also:
- A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World â a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
- Eric Weinstein Quotes
A/B Testing
Adaptive Landscape
- Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
Adaptive Valley
- Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula
Agency
Agentic Leadership
Anthropic Capitalism
Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy
Anti-Expert
Anti-Fragility
Anti-Interesting
Artificial Outelligence
Audience Capture
Audio Samizdat
The Big 5 Personality Traits
Eric has referred to the Big 5 Personality Traits as a person's hedonic composition.
The Big Nap
Checksum Theory of Politics
Church and Pike Commissions
Consensus
The Cosmic Spelling Bee
Deaths of Accountability
De-Potemkin
Dining a la Carte
Don't screw yourself out of magic
Don't wait for the bread to rise
Double Island Rules
The Educational Complex
Efficient Frontier
Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
Environmental Insult
Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
Eric uses this drawing as a metaphor when beginning his discussion of our Source Code.
He also uses the drawing as a metaphor for how the universe began.
Wiki's article will hopefully be growing with this community's influence.
Evergreening
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
Forced Citation
Fragility of Masculinity
Game B
Humankind has lived in Game A since we have escaped the Dunbar limit. Humankind has never seen or fully imagined Game B. People like Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, and Jordan Hall speak about this process of dialogue and its risks on Rebel Wisdom. A fundamental shift from adversarial processing to opponent processing.
Gating Function
Gene Drive
A genetic engineering technology that propagates a particular suite of genes throughout a population by altering that a specific allele will be transmitted to offspring from the natural 50% probability.
Genius vs Excellence
Gini Coefficient
High Agency
When youâre told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it is thatâs just told you that you canât do something? So how am I gonna get past this bouncer who told me that I canât come into this nightclub? How am I going to start a business when my credit is terrible and I have no experience? Youâre constantly looking for what is possible in a kind of MacGyverish sort of a way. And thatâs your approach to the world.
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/)
Iago Media
Irrationality
Irrationality is a feature, not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp.
It's a beautiful thing
This originates from New York City.
Meaning: You can extract money from people who have no say in the matter.
Injustice Budget
Institutional Betrayal
Kayfabe
Knarc
Knark is Swedish for very hard recreational drugs, but it's also "crank" spelled backwards with a slightly different spelling.
Long-Form Podcasting
Led by Joe Rogan, long form podcasting is where thoughts are exchanged at length among individuals in conversation. A threat to mainstream, legacy media, those who work in and around this space are often smeared.
Litella
The Looting Party
Episode 27, 1:46:00:
- when Bill Clinton decided that he couldn't take yet another loss to the Republican party, he was going to start experimenting with republicanism inside of the democratic party. By that point, we had two parties that more or less were two flavors of the same thing. I refer to that collective as the looting party.
Long Term vs Short Term Optimization
Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
Maladaptive strategies
Meaning
"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [2]
Message Violence
Middle Finger
Minus Epsilon
The N^2 Revolution
New Gimmick Economy
Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy
New Orchards
Often people discuss the availability of "low-hanging fruit" when discussing growth and innovation. Instead of arguing over the existence of low-hanging fruit in the current paradigm, consider finding New Orchards.
No Living Heroes
Operation COINTELPRO
Oral Torah
The Oral Torah is the set of traditional laws which are associated written texts... but not written.
Overton Window
Perfectly Legal
Physics Dollars
Potemkin Village
Preference Falsification
Rent-seeking Elites
References:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1233245397142794240?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1236164753375940609?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4358723892?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1179425234312683520?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1179425234312683520?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/947648146443714560?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/786770327225245696?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/799678548176834560?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796376216294961152?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/775737838964924417?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1177353828934377473?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1096131757538066433?s=20
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1096130594742755328?s=20
Reputational Violence
Resource Capture
Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
Mentioned in ep25
Riding on a technical substrate
Rough Space
Seberging
"When [the] sport of personal reputational destruction is coordinated by members of the complex formed by institutional media, the intelligence community, the political parties, political consultants, finance, tech and the academy"
Section A of the Reserve Index
Yes, our government developed a plan for rounding up people who could contradict the GIN. Thereâs a plan for a coming total collapse of confidence in our system.
[Source]
Selective Pressures
Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making
There has been a breakdown in the Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making. Traditionally we used institutions to guide our collective sense-making, but this is no longer the case in the media landscape â so sense-making is no longer close to fully communal. Walter Cronkite was not always telling the truth, but what he said was a close approximation of the national consciousness and shared belief structure as a complex for the country to function upon, but this does not exist in the current media landscape â so it is no longer semi-reliable.
References:
Skadoosh
Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
Speaking Fee
"Speaking Fee, n: 1) Asynchronous Baksheesh received once a politician has left office. 2) (Archaic) A modest honorarium for giving a speech."
Split Level Argument
Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".
Steady Hands
Steel-Manning
Teaching Disabilities
Terms of Service
Totalizing Ideologies
The Twin Nuclei Problem
The Observerse
There is no secret ingredient
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.