Ericisms
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Eric often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as DISC, EGOs, GIN, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.
See also:
- Portal Concepts
- A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
- Riffs to Animate
- Eric Weinstein Quotes
A
- Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula
- Agentic Leadership
- Algorithmic Fun House
- Anthropic Capitalism
- Anti-Expert
- Anti-Interesting
- Anechoic Era
- Argument as the Frame
- Artificial Outelligence
- Audience Capture
- Audio Samizdat
B
C
- Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs
- Cardinalization
- Checker
- Checksum Theory of Politics
- Chess-Opening Problem
- Contact with the Unforgiving
- Contrast Blindness
- Critical Feeling
- Cult of the Art of the Possible
D
- Deaths of Accountability
- Degraded State
- De-Potemkin
- Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
- Distribution of Empathy
- Don't screw yourself out of magic
- Double Rainbow Theory
E
- The Educational Complex
- Edugenic Harm
- Effect ‘64
- Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
- Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)
- Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)
- Extractive Elite
F
G
H
I
- Iago Media
- Ideological Dining a la Carte
- Injustice Budget
- Institutional Betrayal
- Institutional Evergreening
- Intellectual Dark Web
- Intellectual Keep-Away
- Interoperability and Exclusion
- Intersectional Shakedown
K
L
- The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing
- Load-Bearing Fictions
- Load-Bearing Hornets
- Long-Form Podcasting
- Limbic Business Model
- Litella
- The Looting Party
- Long Term vs Short Term Optimization
- Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
M
N
O
P
R
- Radical Uncertainty
- Rebel end of Corporate and Corporate end of Rebel
- Recursion Limit
- Reflexive Contrarianism
- Regulated Expression
- Rent-seeking Elites
- Reputational Violence
- Resource Capture
- Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
- Riding on a technical substrate
- Rough Space
S
- Seberging
- Selective Pressures
- Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making
- Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
- Shockley-Test
- Smart-bait
- Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism
- Speaking Fee
- Split Level Argument
- Streisand Squeeze
- Surveillance Level Data
T
- Teaching Disabilities
- Tech-Carthyism
- Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)
- Thanksgiving
- The Big Nap
- The Twin Nuclei Problem
- Thinkquisition
- Thug-Review
- Totalizing Ideologies
- Trauma Cluster
- Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace
U
- Umwelt Hacking
- Unhedged
- Universal Basic Forgiveness
- The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)
V
W
- Weaponization of Peer Review
- White Suit
- Woke