Russia
2009Edit
Kanye: "I'm really happy for you. I'm going to let you finish." may work in Russian If you don't use the Са-prefix on кОнŃиŃŃ. #helpkanye
2011Edit
Tried Google labs English to Russian transliteration. The word 'Cyrillic' became ĐиŃиННиŃ...getting the 'c' wrong twice. Hindi was better.
2014Edit
ĐОНŃŃОо ŃпаŃийО to Russian Esquire ( @esquireru ) for translating http://t.co/Ce15CmNWKj into Russian.
2016Edit
- FirstSevenLanguages (Attempts)? Ok, I'll play:
1) English 2) Spanish 3) Turkish 4) Russian 5) Hindi/Urdu 6) Hebrew 7) Indonesian / Malay
@davidsuculum Ha! Not even English on bad days. I love languages but learn them for trips. Typically about 3k words w/ basic grammar only.
@davidsuculum At 20 I made up freq. tables of words/structures to get the max bang 4 buck ratio. Still use them. But at 50, it gets harder.
2017Edit
Everyone currently entertaining the idea that Putin's and Russian intelligence may be controlling the US future *is* a conspiracy theorist.
Russell Conjugation Exercise:
I'm alarmed by Putin's interference. You're flirting with conspiracy theory. He's a nutter in a tin foil hat.
@bardia_95 Less than we both might hope. If only you were more correct...
- sictransitgloriamundi
@MattChisman Of course. Nothing wrong with a good solid adult conspiracy theory. Right?
@ToddDoug Who said anything like that?! Don't be silly! I'm just pointing out that we are all conspiracy theorists. It's not an insult...
@chaos_sonata You are raising an excellent point. Unfortunately it is also subtle. Not sure twitter and 140c is our friend here.
@MattChisman @Decoherent_ @ToddDoug I'm trying to get us all to stop demonizing in others the conspiracy theorizing we must do ourselves.
@uniquehoge @MattChisman @Decoherent_ @ToddDoug Just be reasonable. Conspiracies are everywhere, but usually small & hard to figure out.
@chrizap Ya dumayu shto eta nee prosta pravda tavarishch Zappone.
@chrizap I don't get this. We are in agreement that Putin's Russia is *very* dangerous. I don't think anyone here is unwilling to say that.
Other cultures that changed me: A) Academic B) Indian C) Muslim D) Tech E) Musician F) Russian G) UK H) Israel I) Turkish J) Black
Yours?
The Oval office is likely exposing Israel's secrets to Iran via Russia.
That's not even JV.
It's Jeff Spicolian.
2018Edit
Okay CNN. So right now, I'm trying to imagine a 2018 America where citizens trust their government so much that they demand to be kept in the dark by self-organizing a campaign of silence for non-release so disciplined that it has to be broken by an army of Russian bots.
- CNNFUD https://t.co/frTZUFSQ5W
I rarely talk Trump. I never know when heâs actually crazy or crazy like a fox. Iâve called him an existential risk. I thought that was clear enough. Heâs an existential risk who, ex-post, might do some good, but at unacceptably high ex-ante risk.
I canât believe weâre here.
@DavidDeutschOxf @SamHarrisOrg Yes. Exactly. It was likely a slower version of existential risk by inaction.
The thing that disturbs me most is that neither Trump version nor the more sober Clinton/Bush/Obama type strategy are likely to be anywhere near the efficient frontier of possible approaches.
@ScottAdamsSays Hey Scott. Ok. Walk me through it? Who are Trumpâs allies w/ whom weâve been carefully rehearsing & co-strategizing in case this goes hot? Whatâs the plan for a simultaneous China trade war, N Korea deterioration, attacking our own IC, & political infighting around Russian ties?
@ScottAdamsSays Iâm open to drunken boxing, or crazy-like-a-fox. I get the Vincent âThe Chinâ Gigante âwalk around G. Village in your bathrobe routineâ to avoid being easy prey. But wouldnât he be very focused on having great relations w/ our Intelligence Community & Allies to be hyper credible?
@ScottAdamsSays Ok. Iâm a civilian with zero experience in battle. I thought a credible threat requires a lot of advanced planning and not fighting on a lot of distracting fronts all at once. Is the idea that everything will quiet down and all will fall in line when things get real? #confused
@ScottAdamsSays Just 2%. Okay at least thatâs at least arguably de minimis. From where does that estimate come? How are you getting there?
@ScottAdamsSays We do? Okay. What does that look like? Especially in the opportunistic scenario where everyone scrambled to make hay while the US is distracted. Is it just lightening fast? Does it stay conventional? Civilian casualty estimates? Paint me your picture. #givemeyourconfidence
@ScottAdamsSays Post WMD? Post Vietnam? Post Trump? Post Church/Pike. I dunno. Maybe. But Scott. I gotta be honest. You seem to be confusing âpeople donât get that this could work outâ with âthis is so cool, itâs gonna work fineâ and I donât know where you get the extra juice to make that leap.
@DavidDeutschOxf @SamHarrisOrg I like standing up to backwards human rights violating nuclear obsessed theocracy. I just wish it were part of a plan. I never underestimate Persians. They always seem to me some of the shrewdest players around. But thanks David.
@ScottAdamsSays I see the next level psychological manipulation or persuasion as you do. Thatâs not where we are missing.
Trump is âshort volatilityâ here. So âgenerallyâ is irrelevant. Itâs about expected value. How do you get from generally positive to positive expected value? Help me out SA?
@BowDownB4Trump @DavidDeutschOxf @SamHarrisOrg Thatâs why I said theocracy....
@ScottAdamsSays Itâs the standard Russian Roulette problem with many chambers and one bullet. If every spin is worth $50K it generally works out, albeit with negative expected value.
@ScottAdamsSays So this surprises me Scott. I imagined you must be thinking something like Trump figured out how to get the Theocrats to crumble from within by bringing a tweet to a knife fight...and winning. But now youâre just pointing out that we are better armed for a real fight. Is that it?
@VitalikButerin So interesting that you are asking this. Emotive conjugation or Russell conjugation is what you seek. What is it in Russian I wonder?
2019Edit
So Detroit, you are the birthplace of my Grandma/hero Sophie Rubin and the city that took in my family and landsmen from Vladimiretz in Poland/Belorussia. What can we do in return? What are the topics that are hardest to talk about in 2019 in your great city of hope and industry?
People talk about Detroit falling on hard times. But Detroit welcomed my family, allowed Abe and Rebecca Sherman to run successful stores and send my Grandma Sophie Sherman to UCLA. Also, if our family had stayed in Vladimiretz they would have gone through this in 1934 and worse. https://t.co/5PVetcwBlt
@BrianRookard Cannot wait!
@Kingofbongoz Self-taught a little Russian. But that was a long time ago.
30 years ago I placed a 1st phone call from an apartment in Harvard Sq. to a number in the Soviet Union.
I learned a bit of Russian to call. My heart was in my throat. My grandfatherâs sister Rachel answered and passed the phone to her daughter Alla. We thought theyâd perished.
The line crackled. Then a voice came from behind the Iron Curtain on the other side of the world:
âYerick!! Daragaya maya(sic?).â
I couldnât believe it. The first contact with our Russian family in decades. Then the voice boomed in English:
âHappy International Womenâs day!!â
@BlookUshan Itâs worse than that. They always referred to me as âmamaâ. It drove me crazy.
As for Misirlou, no one knows who wrote it. Greeks? Turks? Jews? Indians? We all got claims:
Turkish/Muslim: https://t.co/igDTyv3egn Yiddish/Jewish: https://t.co/Hj20ONx040 GreeK/Christian: https://t.co/yIoTYmHjJY Indian/Hindu https://t.co/dtaMzZphhO
Tolerance pays a dividend.
One last point about the passing of Dick Dale.
I have no idea whether he was a Muslim, Christian, Druse or Jew as his father was from Lebanon and his mother Belorussian. Or all of the above.
Which is to say, we are all bound up in each other & are *all* here for the long haul.
I think I avoided all pressure to find Trump guilty of collusion w Russia. And it was a considerable cost on my life. The typical conversation went: âOh câmon Eric. Heâs clearly guilty. Why make excuses? When the report comes youâll have to look in the mirror.â
I want apologies.
And one last thing: Iâm still of the opinion that Trump is a grave problem & that the people who voted him in deserve a responsible Left of center expression for their real frustrations on Trade, Immigration, Terror and elite betrayal to replace Trump w something more wholesome.
So please remember that many people on the Left did *not* ever sign up for this idee fixe of the Mueller report as answer to the Trump phenomena. Weâve not called his presidency illegitimate. And we donât think his supporters are all nuts. This is a democracy, betrayed by elites.
@sandhawke Re-read my statements. Iâm not saying that I know...even now. Iâm saying that the inference pattern is way off. If the wild inferences were true as stated, there would be multiple indictments by now. We know enough to know that this isnât the claimed slam dunk that was promised.
@sandhawke Itâs the level of certainty about inference that Iâm claiming is off. Why is this so hard to understand? There was a certainty around this that made no sense. Even if it ultimately came out that there was truth, the *certainty* will still have been *wildly* unwarranted.
@Shivviness Exactly. Itâs the damn certainty from mere inference that I find infuriating. Not the possibility of obstruction but the certainty of collusion.
@sandhawke If it turns out that the Barr Letter covered up a certainty of collusion found in the Mueller report I will make a public apology. I am discounting that as a possibility. Fair?
Yet that will *still* not explain how everyone else who was *certain* came to that conclusion.
@pwang @Shivviness Peter, I agree with you here. Except that I grew this account with this level of demand on my followers. I donât have a simplified channel. Itâs always been demanding on them. I wake up every morning surprised they are still here.
@pwang @Shivviness @WaveCarrier Gonna need guests to launch....
Notice the ratios within mainstream legacy media:
Chinese Collusion Narratives âââââââââââââ Russian Collusion Narratives
as well as
Saudi Collusion Narratives â-âââââââââââ- Russian Collusion Narratives
Q: Given the many business relationships, just why is that?
@mattyglesias Good to be with you and I don't think this is triggering in the slightest.
There are separate issues here: Mathematical, Philosophical and Political. There is a debate at the border of mathematics & philosophy about know-ability that is not particularly politically interesting.
@mattyglesias I don't have a problem w/ statements like "How Normed Division Algebras are constructed is not canonical" as long as we agree that there are only four normed division algebras and that aliens or other cultures wouldn't have a different list. Are we agreed on something like that?
@mattyglesias The concern here is different: you seem to be taking an old philosophically interesting debate at the edge of working mathematics and trying to use it to hint at arbitrary cultural aspects to ground truth. That is what is irksome. I don't think group theory hangs in the balance.
@mattyglesias If you want to tell us that is not what you are doing, I'd be happy to learn that you also believe that while our approaches to mathematics can be socially constructed, the core underlying objects are beyond human construction (e.g. icosohedral capsids in viruses). Do we agree?
@besttrousers @Britonomist @mattyglesias Not an error, but you are making the correct point. The term "Social Construct" is overloaded if you will. It both means something deep and is now used as a weapon to dismiss inconvenient things political radicals find inconvenient. It is the overloading to which I am objecting.
@PROUDOFALLTWEET @mattyglesias I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's well beyond just GĂśdel. He mentions Bennaceraf and is probably aware of Fitch. Etc.. This stuff is actually of more interest to non-mathematicians than it is within math departments. Let's not assume too much here.
@mattyglesias I am happy you like math. And I'm not really mad! I'm just amazed at a new style of deep attacks on shared external reality based on mild/curious points about how there is no perfectly objective means of perceiving it. Like closing your eyes due to obsession w/ optical illusions.
@mattyglesias It's a deep but not particularly serious one in its political implications. I am not aware of Fitch, Quine, Putnam, Benacerraf or GĂśdel making so much as a dent in our ability to base our society on the solidity of a universal core mathematics that transcends all cultures. Agree?
@zackbeauchamp @binarybits @mattyglesias This is so bizarre. May we use terms like âstalking horseâ? The âjokingâ is a stalking horse. The correct use of the term âsocially constructedâ is a stalking horse. The motte of Motte & Bailey.
Iâm not saying he has no point. I fear he has two of them: one defensible, one not.
@littmath @mattyglesias Letâs take that. Imagine you construct them culturally via Cayley-Dickson. A physicist constructs them via spinor trialities. Then we are guaranteed to get a theorem *relating* the cultural constructions via the platonic object. There is interplay between the platonic & cultural.
@littmath @mattyglesias We donât get into trouble here until someone denies the universal/platonic/objective reality itâs place. It is the political desire to overemphasize the importance of cultural or social constructions to make reality seem arbitrary that is at issue.
@littmath @mattyglesias And math is both very much an activity and a list of facts. Both objects and Morphisms. Both methods and member variables. Both platonic and cultural. The issue here is weaponization of relativism. Not the existence of some culture or human peculiarity.
@zackbeauchamp @binarybits @mattyglesias Ahem. Iâm the progressive left. Where are the VOCAL reasonable people?? Where are you guys when science is being attacked as biological essentialism?? The world is waiting for Vox to tell the anti-science crusaders of the Left that they have gone nuts. Letâs send the message! In?
@mattyglesias @dylanmatt @zackbeauchamp @binarybits Oh no. I think itâs great! Youâre missing it. Iâm thinking we have a huge win here. If you folks at Vox have lost patience with the weaponized version of âscience is socially constructedâ we can do a world of good. Seriously: âVox Asserts Limits of Social Justice Critique.â
In??
@mattyglesias @dylanmatt @zackbeauchamp @binarybits Iâm not kidding at all. It would do the world a great deal of good. Think it over.
@dylanmatt @davidshor @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp @binarybits I am not a free speech absolutist.
I also introduced the IDW term. Get it right.
@mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp @binarybits Donât know. But I can tell you my momentum exactly.
@mattyglesias @dylanmatt @zackbeauchamp @binarybits Well, for example I have a progressive PhD biologist for a brother run out of his college by anti-science activists filmed objecting to use of terms like Genetics & Phenotype in discussions of race. The activist president says âweâll retrain himâ. Ya know. Little Stuff like that.
@mattyglesias @dylanmatt @zackbeauchamp @binarybits But you know this stuff Matt. I think Iâm done for a bit. Be well.
@binarybits @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @zackbeauchamp Hey. Thanks Timothy. Sincerely.
@littmath @mattyglesias Weird. I sort of take this for granted. Italian Algebraic geometry got into trouble over rigor. Russians had a totally different social organization. The Yamabe problem sat misproved in the literature for years. Etc. Etc..Thatâs not the issue. That is socially constructed.
@littmath @mattyglesias Then there are weird moves that follow. I brought up Division algebras to go beyond the Reals. The idea that these would be found by any advanced society is pretty widely held by researchers in our main disciplines. Yet how you might find them is arbitrary given their centrality.
@littmath @mattyglesias Well we havenât gotten to the weird part where the accidents of how math can be done culturally get used to assert that underlying reality is a matter of social construction. We arenât at the radical anti-science stop on this train yet. I get off here. Before the cliff.
Be well.
You think this stops at âNatureâ? Bless your heart.
Mathematics is very much about calculations. It is also very much about nature.
Beyond that, it is also about âworldsâ of pure necessity and design so far beyond those that are instantiated that it would strain the concept of ânatureâ beyond recognition to include them in it.
I should admit that the math that describes the operations of nature at her deepest level (e.g. spinors, fiber bundles, symplectic geometry/geometric quantization, Gauge thy, Hilbert spaces, etc...) are actually the parts Iâm focused on. But math is like a honey badger to nature.
And Mathematics also doesnât seem to care about biology as much as we want her to. So at that âeffective layerâ pure math has not (yet) been very effective. And there is reason to believe that she will never be able to do for Komodo Dragons & finches what she has done for muons.
@youngfuddyduddy Sorry. I share his taste but donât agree with Neil here. He wants to say what mathematics is and âis not aboutâ. Uh, no. That characterization came off as pretty aggressive & sciencecentric wrt great calculators and those who work on essential structures likely unknown to nature.
@youngfuddyduddy Also, Iâve talked with him on this topic in NYC. He is not unaware of the arguments and I found his perspective to be one of a scientist rather than a mathematician.
I share the taste. But it canât be phrased so starkly without being pointed out to be wrong. Math is bigger.
@SmolderingDuvet Why donât you go fight with all the Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese and Hindi speaking people? There are billions of people doing this right now! Good luck.
@Waverider744 @youngfuddyduddy Under rated tweet.
Consider the following, that now live in your head side by side:
A) Many conspiracies have been discovered & proven to exist (even elaborate, large & far fetched ones).
B) Mainstream media promotes conspiracy theories (e.g. Trump/Russia).
C) All unauthorized CTs are just nuts.
You have to just laugh when you realize youâve been programmed with obvious malware. If someone accused us of being a âconspiracy theoristâ, most of us would scramble as fast as we could to assure anyone who would listen that we werenât crazy.
Yâknow, like Woodward & Bernstein..
@justadakaje Only the Gated Institutional Narrative determines the difference between authorized and unauthorized.
@ThomasHughson @joerogan Dick Gregory thinking the FBI was conspiring to have him killed? Does that work for you?
2/ Think of the underpaid U.S. research community (particularly theoretical physicists, molecular biologists, ML-experts & top mathematicians) as an unlocked Yellow Bugatti with the motor running and âSteal Meâ painted in red on the front hood, in Mandarin/Farsi/Russian/Arabic...
End/ Oddly, Epstein was buying quite good people, but many who were distinguished by being outward facing rather than the quiet introverted types famous within the fields yet all but unknown outside of them. Thatâs a puzzle. Maybe they were the lure to entrap others. Or perhaps..
4/ Were I Epstein or whoever created the âJeffrey Epstein Secretive Finacial Genius characterâ, my scientific targets would have partially overlapped his. But Iâd have bought off the entire IAS physics department outright. Those people should all be made very wealthy & happy.
3/ Epstein offered many scientists ârestorationâ by dangling private planes, exotic locales & FUNDING (probably more than sex) the way colleges at Oxford and Cambridge use cellars and high table. We need to fire our worst researchers & start paying our best at a different scale.
To be honest, I should have been clearer. Let me say a few words.
By Trump supporters, I was referring to folks for whom Trump is close to a force of pure good. This goes way beyond lesser or necessary evil perspectives. So I should have been clear about absolute v relative.
What I glean about the Trump, Clinton and Biden groups is that they pursue the personal intertwined w/ our national issues at an unacceptable level. I canât prove that about any of them yet. But Carter, Eisenhower, Reagan or Sanders they are not. So I should have clarified.
Next, I was careful not to opine on legality or impeachment. The way Iâm viewing these hearings is that they are giving us a look into our foreign policy. Legality is about what we can prove, but judgement is about what we must glean. I wish we could avoid inference but we canât.
But my issue stands. Weâre now being injured as a nation by Trumpâs judgment, tactics and quirks. If we are reduced to âThatâs perfectly legalâ arguments rather than, âwe have China, Climate and Russia emergenciesâ by Trump and Democratic dissembling we are screwed.
If you want a perspective that is not so far off of mine but from a conservative perspective, @benshapiro made a lot of my points in detail. Itâs not âquid pro quo or noâ but which one, and the fact that Biden may be the point of investigation or a positive political externality.
My point in criticizing my party is to find a way out of the Trump v Biden/Warren version of non-stop boomer on boomer action. Trump is an enormous problem. If you think heâs radiation therapy for your Democratic corruption cancer, donât fall in love with your radiation levels.đ
Our eye is off the ball & Trump does not become the goddamned messiah b/c he sticks it to corrupt Democratic players. Itâs like watching two street gangs fight. Fair-minded Trump supporters should be leaving the absolutist âTrump does nothing wrongâ camp now. This is awful.
@QuietCanadian_ Okay. I follow.
So who checks him? Fox? The NYT? China? Russia? Greta? The deep state?
We are stuck with the current system. There is no moral authority that I see. That has been my point all along. We have kept nothing and no one aside for this rainy day.
@QuietCanadian_ Right. We are in free fall.
A new episode of The Portal dropped. The great Gary Kasparov stopped by to talk about machine intelligence, Putin and his theories of the crack up of Western Sense-Making under post-modern Russian propaganda attack. Subscribe where you listen to podcasts:
- ĐĐ°ĚŃŃи. ĐŻ дОпŃŃŃиН ĐžŃийкŃ. ĐŃĐžŃŃи ПонŃ.
@bingninginging Thank you sir!
@xMattheManx Amazing mind.
@Scott60945853 Hope you are happy with it. They are all experiments.
@SeanOCasey1 Nu?
@D_Krug Hey!
@chrizap Of course not.
@binyamin5965 I couldnât remember! There is some issue about host/owner/master that I remember being a subtle issue. Thatâs what makes Russian so hard.
I have a truly terrible story about forgetting the âZaâ prefix on âKonchilâ after generous Russian meals...for another day.
Itâs a slight departure in that weâre drinking throughout & her focus on social, artistic & literary critique is a bit unfamiliar to me.
You can listen and subscribe here or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. See you with the next episode in 2020!
Russian asset @annakhachiyan (co-host of RedScare) invaded The Portal in the last episode of our 1st year. I try my best to hang in there, but sheâs not for beginners.
Episode #017. Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine from the ashes of âThe Feminine Mystiqueâ https://t.co/DPKAAVm1xb
@DR_Hugh_Mungus @annakhachiyan Mine: boring. Hers: fabulous.
@TenkLife @annakhachiyan Youâre drunk and seeing Anna double with two middle aged men then. Sober up and give it a second listen!
@PersonRespector @annakhachiyan Excellent choice. Be well!
2020Edit
I just want to point out that there are a lot of unwell people in the world. And when you paint a target on folks for fun on social media that you KNOW is inaccurate, youâre really playing Russian roulette w/ someone elseâs world, life & livelihood. But w/ the barrel pointed out.
Going to have to start blocking more repeat bad faith axe-grinders who hear dog-whistles everywhere and fight nuance with calumny due to the number of such pot stirring accounts. Hate to do it, but weâve been somewhere east of good faith for a while.
Itâs gotten a bit dicey.
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This isnât cute as #YangMediaBlackout. This isnât hidden any more. This is a boast by our media. Their point to all of us is: âFuck you and your illusionsâ. And We arenât calling it what it is: a declaration of war by our own media and parties against our own democratic process.
We need an emergency talk about this media war on @AndrewYang & @TulsiGabbard that was waged on @RonPaul, @BernieSanders & others before.
This is what I call the âVampire Effectâ; institutions will not reflect certain people just as vampires supposedly donât reflect in a mirror. https://t.co/YAVjs1ujbk
Iâve experience it every time I bring up the secret NSF study that lead to the H1B visa. There is an absolute black out. But because I have the study, media canât say it doesnât exist. So they just refuse to reflect it. Same w/ other such issues. Thereâs just *no* MSM reflection.
Forget the Russians tampering in US democracy. Thatâs amateur hour. The Russians arenât bragging like this. @MSNBC has been asking: âSo tough guys, whatcha gonna do about the fact that we just keep knocking your milkshake into your dateâs lap?â
We need to just be done with this open coup against meaningful elections. This is âMagicians choiceâ ... which is no choice at all. To hell with our news magicians. We need to make their credibility a financial issue. Open to suggestions.
Take a look:
@brianmcarney @AndrewYang @TulsiGabbard @RonPaul @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump With you. I said both parties.
@a_i_t_r_o_p @AndrewYang @TulsiGabbard @RonPaul @BernieSanders Thatâs funny.
I don't know how many immigrants we'll need. What I do know is coward CEOs want to tame the famously disagreeable & independent US worker and make her/him more pliant. And by threatening that worker with a steady supply of 'the best and the brightest' he or she becomes docile.
No. We need to stop having our big hearts used against our own economic interests. True refugees once rescued make FANTASTIC citizens. A tiny number of Geniuses give us an edge & families often need to be together.
What's evil is the campaign to destroy worker bargaining power.
Since we're drowning in oceans of STEM talent in a market economy where long term labor shortages are impossible, we easily see who those cowards are. They're STEM employers insisting on a French kiss from our government & threatening to take the ball abroad if they don't get it.
Well, maybe they should go. I hear China is hiring! Also maybe Russia. Posssibly Saudi & Iran too.
So go run to your new masters STEM employers. Maybe you weren't cut out to make it in the dynamic freedom loving US economy.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out though.,,
I love @joerogan. You? Of course you do. We all do.
This is moronic. Also, China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are still out there while we worry endlessly over nothing.
But keep going corporate media...
I have been talking about this for at least 25 years.
And for at least 25 years there has been active suppression of that discussion by the US research complex. That is, US taxpayers fund a research complex that generally views itself as post-national and beyond US jurisdiction.
The idea of requiring K-12, four years of undergraduate, 5-7 years of graduate labor, 4 years of post-doctoral labor, and perhaps 6 years of tenure track before getting a permanent job is beyond psychotic. That could be 30 years of constant preparation for a first permanent job.
In short, universities fashion an idealism about a post-national world that is the exact shape of a well placed fig-leaf to cover the needs for funding underfunded science. The rationalization precisely matches the need to make up the shortfall. The solution is thus paradoxical.
The easiest place to see this is to ask âwho does the work in university labs?â The sad answer: âItâs not technically work if we can technically reclassify the workers as âstudents and traineesââThat opened the door to China et al because we donât pay US scale for ânon-workersâ.
The biggest problem with this is that other nations remain nations. China isnât post-national. Oil kingdoms arenât post-national. South Asia isnât. Nor is Russia.
By underfunding science we opened the door to a âpost-national delusionâ which spread to justify funding research.
We need to end the current system. Either fund it properly again on US scale expectation, or pull the plug.
The deep problem with Academic espionage is that weâre trying not to pay for research. You can bitch as much as you want. But until we pay true costs, this will continue.
Where are we on State-Sponsored pedophilia honey-pots?
Letâs try the following: How can we be sure that China, Russia or Iran wasnât behind Epstein if we canât ask the question of Epsteinâs ties to intelligence? So either we KNOW his tie, or we are leaving a giant security hole.
Pursue this even further: if news desks arenât asking these questions, arenât they under suspicion of being under control of foreign or domestic intelligence? That is can we essentially back out that some intelligence has captured legacy media if they arenât willing to *ask* Qs?
It is an entire concept that has disappeared: institutional accountability with institutions going after institutions rather than institutions going after those individuals who are the only ones who are still really raising questions.
@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Excuse me??
@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Racist???
@MarniSheppeard @AndrewMcElroy14 Blocked.
I now have zero patience for this.
I just love the Russian soul.
Lex Fridman's podcast is highly regarded as one of the best up and coming shows anywhere in the world.
...and is somehow likely still underrated.
Russians. Go figure.
It is 4:20 on 4/20 so here is Shree Char Sau Bis:
It *was* sent at the end of the minute but got time-stamped over the line. Apologies. Still one of the eternal songs.
@rahusphere Well the lal colored topi on his sar is Russian after all...
@ManishPamwar I only know about Section 420 of the IPC.
Why? Is there another meaning?
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@shauseth Like Ram and Sita.
@SkizzboH Itâs that tramp thing of Chaplin that grounded the vibe.
@Evan76416694 Ah. How many have you married?
Listen carefully: you donât have to elect Biden or Trump.
The world has woken up via being suddenly shut in doors by crazy incompetent people largely born in the 1940s and 1950s without a coherent explanation. Or plan.
Lives lost. Nurses sacrificed. Jobs & businesses destroyed.
Pick someone who never met Jeffrey Epstein. Pick someone who can code or with a masters degree or better in STEM.
You donât have to keep picking the card the magician is forcing you to select as your card. Itâs not YOUR card. Itâs the magicianâs card. Grab the magicians wrist.
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 canât remember the moon landing.
You donât have to take these choices. *Nobody* smart wants these people except to defeat each other. You donât really like Fox. Or CNN. Or the NYT. Except when they go after your enemies.
Okay. So go cold turkey. Call them all what they are: The UnWorkables.
If the enormous generation of you young folk canât use this mismanagement of a pandemic by a bipartisan kleptocratic gerontocracy, then you arenât thinking like young folk at all. Demand your debt free future and the removal of this preposterous class of ancient legacy predators.
That card says âBidenâ. 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.
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 donât care.
This is beyond insane and it has never been like this. Ever.
Rant over.
They are fighting over who owns the rights to lie to the American People.
The Democratic Party feels their lies & those of legacy media are more patriotic than Russian lies & less selfish/ugly than Republican lies. Plus their lies often pass basic fact, grammar & spell checks.
Let me imagine I took your foreign intrigue angle at face value.
Well, that could explain:
A) The bizarre 2020 coverage of @AndrewYang & @TulsiGabbard.
B) Under coverage & non-condemnation of radical actions by ANTIFA/BLM.
C) Lack of follow-up on Epstein.
So: Follow that up.
The most biased gaslighting most of us see is our own corporate media. *If* foreign powers were REALLY a threat, it would likely be because they would be deep in our MSM/Tech where we have clear persistent bias patterns that so far defy explanation. So: Turn the lens on yourself.
In other words, most of us are worried about Facebook, the DNC/RNC, CNN, FOX, NPR, PRC, Twitter and Google tipping the scales and manipulating everything.
You worry endlessly about Russia.
Well: why not entertain the question if CNN et alâs coverage bias is foreign manipulated?
Simple reminder: your crazy family are souls you know much better than figures like Biden & Trump who you know through a screen. Don't let our distant theater of power and politics rob you of something close and real.
[Just giving myself advice here.]
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
I provide this as a service to those Americans headed into Thanksgiving. Yes your Uncle may be #QAnon and your niece Antifa. You may be married to an NPC. But let's all realize that we're also bonkers. All three of the above are asserted by our media & are obviously incompatible.
A) Donald Trump is controlled by Russia, a hostile foreign power capable of hacking voters' minds.
B) The US IC is patriotic and more capable than Russia or than it was when it acted against elections in Iran & Chile.
C) There is no reason to fear rigging in 2020.
- ChooseAny2
Note: for those of you missing the point, there were not enough characters to say #chooseuptotwo. Sorry to cut that corner...but itâs Twitter.
@ArronShilling Intelligence Community.
2021Edit
At this point, the story I am tracking isnât âLittle Green Menâ. It is âOfficials inexplicably change course on UFO narrativeâ.
Also, the story about âTechnology never before seen.â Would make more sense with âTechnologyâ replaced by âPhysicsâ.
Do I think Wolfram, Lisi, Kaku, Smolin, Klee Irwin, Sarfatti, Woit/Penrose etc are right or on the doorstep of new physics? No! But Itâs also totally irrelevant to the security risk.
It wouldnât matter to me at all. I would check in with all of them: the cost is zero. The risk?
Any time ANYONE at least 1/2-way viable says something weird or kooky or interesting (Wolfram, Lisi, etc.) the cost of a Department of Energy 1hr phone call is negligible. Almost no one with that background says anything like this. Maybe less than 1 such PhD âlunaticâ per year.
Imagine in 1900 some âcrankâ told you about thermonuclear weapons. Would you listen or laugh? Well, theyâd be only 5 decades away with no aliens necessary. And powered flight hadnât happened yet!
Thatâs how powerful a ânew physicsâ advantage is. Weâre behaving like lunatics.
The US/Europe seriously diverted attention from doing real theoretical physics almost 40 years ago in 1984 to explore physics inspired mathematics. Did China/Iran/Russia/Israel? I donât know.
But I can tell you this: no one in government is appropriately focused on new physics.
As we saw over & over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.
The handful of PhD level claims are of negligible cost to investigate & dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.
DOE lost the plot.
I have no idea what to make of the change in the UAP narrative. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few claims seriously.
Think about the g-2 muon anomaly. Have you heard as much about that suggesting the possibility of New Physics from high precision (rather than high energy) as you have about the TicTac UAP?
Similarly, how often do you hear about UAP technology rather than physics issues. Right??
The thing I like least about Geometric Unity is not being able to know what it would unlock if true, any more than Einstein and Bohr understood Lise Meitner, Stan Ulam & Edward Tellerâs weaponization of New Physics.
We are talking about UFOs while not worrying about New Physics.
Dear @michaelshermer,
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also donât find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of âno isolated discontinuous innovationâ quite interesting!
Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
Next challenge: doesnât your line of reasoning prove that âRenaissance Technologiesâ is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically âcenturies aheadâ is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.
Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? Iâd have guessed âmanyâ (not .5) and been wrong. https://t.co/Fb9rWGAHNQ
But itâs not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten & Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius & power looking for its 1st application to the đ.
Itâs not physics exactly. But Edward Witten w support from a small number of folks rewrote Quantum Field Theory as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else).
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the worldâs top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people canât exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.
They all exhibited the âa little unlocks a lotâ paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.
Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty.
Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.
The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
Now Iâve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, itâs either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
If CCP could today repeat what Witten (& friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. đ¤ˇââď¸
[Digression: If the US were smarter, weâd do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists & ML experts by a national lab & an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry & physics. But enough crazy talk..]
If I thought like CCP, Iâd create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I donât know those systems as well so Iâll use the US example.
We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldnât.
If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen & G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didnât need much more. In fact you donât need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.
We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I canât think of a single story to fit to these reports Iâm hearing about.
I welcome your thoughts. As always.
Warm regards,
Eric
Which is to say weâre not monitoring. Maybe we think thatâs a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.
How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if theyâre right? Price the Type I & II error. Nuts.
You donât have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.
But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working.
@trevorchodge OhâŚ.I didnât say that. You did. ;-)
They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer. They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. Landau v Feynman.
That was a long time ago now.
Oddly, some things now actually make me miss the Cold War with Soviet Russia:
ĐŃи ŃŃŃĐ˝ŃĐľ as interpreted by Mr Chet Atkins during the Cold War:
Art is pivotal. We're in some kind of revolution; accordingly our art should be nothing short of amazing. Not a popular view, but we need better, more powerful & more meaningful art, better adapted to its time given where we are. I fear many of our artists are as lost as we are.
Vladimir Vysotsky reaches out to Warren Beaty during the Cold War:
@EmmaDep @AnnPortered @lexfridman I wasnât. Just a fan for many years.
@EmmaDep I donât get why he is not better known in the US. I sometimes listened to his songs when I was trying to learn Russian a million years ago.
@JamesAdkinsArt Would love to.
2022Edit
I think not. But it is close to a multi-polar playing field with a lot of unskilled leaders and N Korea, China, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Russia, The United States, Israel, etc in play at once. So what do I know.
I may think not, but we *are* eroding our margin for error.
Key point is that there is going to be a lot of distraction and the ambitious may be expected to move rapidly, much the way looting often takes place when police are known to be stretched thin for whatever reason (e.g. an earthquake).
This isnât Armageddon. But this IS completely insane. Iâve been saying little else: EXCLUDE the divisive Woke. Find unity. Get the extractive class out of the elite chairs. Make your scientists secure and stop using exchange student labor for science. Budget for financial losses.
I have been relentless in saying we need our institutions, technical, younger patriotic leaders. Bitcoin doesnât fix this. Burn it all the f down doesnât work.
Ok. The big nap is over. Clear? Support our country and keep sharing this speech:
We must support our leadership now. In particular we must encourage and support the peacetime careerists who never served & who were born in the 1930s & 40s to enjoy their golden years.
I support Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. I hope they support us back.
Scale back our foreign commitments. Avoid isolationism. Hold hearings. Stop worshiping âtechnologistsâ working with the government. Extend free speech. Teach a culture of American freedom.
Above all: we canât stay here long term playing Russian roulette:
Fund *physics* to see IF there is a long term solution. Only physics might be able to allow us to avoid shared fate. I DO think we get through this crisis AND the next few. But it is going to get dicier from here.
Ultimately, âOur home is in the stars or not at all.â
As I said.
Iâve been perfectly consistent to the point of perseveration. And we are here now.
The Portal wasnât a show. The show was just the vehicle. Go listen again. Start with the essay in front of the Ross Douthat episode maybe.
I canât help you. Many want to play games. I donât. đ
Twin Nuclei Problem:
COVID-19 Furin Cleavage Site: likely to do with understanding the Nucleus of the cell and its Nucelic acids.
Russia Invading Ukraine: a thermonuclear nation weaponizing the strong force fusion of the other nucleus (of the atom).
I understand many of you canât handle the idea that we BOTH have to support our leadership in a crisis AND *simultaneously* pressure them to step aside as too old, out of touch and militarily / technically incapable of handling the Twin Nuclei Problem.
Maybe follow someone else.
COVID and Russia as the Twin Nuclei Problem: listen again with fresh ears and an open mind.
@jbdaughtry Will not be the first time. But, as someone who has talked about civil disobedience and pressuring the octogenarians to resign, consider what I am saying.
@nostaticzone @elonmusk No. He is partially aware (Iâm told) and physically knowledgeable, but curiously focused on rockets. At least so far.
Tellerâs âNuclear Genieâ will hang over any resumption of attempts to saber rattle between nuclear, and near nuclear nations: China, N Korea, Israel, Pakistan, India. Particularly with rhetoric about experiencing âconsequences that you never have had before in your historyâ.
My concern, to sum up, is that we blunder our way into open ended nuclear rhetoric that opens the door to new levels of the unthinkable. I donât think this will get there. But I think it might and it may begin an erosion of the barriers to the unthinkable. As we saw in WWI & II.
And thatâs a real threat as this âgameâ hasnât been played like this for so long. Weâre like a black belt from a strip mall Aikido dojo getting into our first street fight. How well weâre actually prepared is open to speculation. No one knows where we are with open ended threats.
I donât think this will be a nuclear war as Iâve said. But I think the current crop of leaders has lost track of where posturing becomes reality. Putin would be an exception. My concern is that unskilled peacetime leaders may blunder into nuclear brinksmanship they canât manage.
Iâm also worried about China, N Korea, Iran, etc moving their pieces while we are focused on Russia/Ukraine. I donât know how well our system really works anymore after the Afghanistan pull out. Iâm not sure we really know how to play this role anymore. Hence the concern. đ
@AnnaGBusse The risk of blundering into nuclear war has skyrocketed now. It is still small. But no longer tiny. And it is likely to grow from here.
Twitter forces us all to paint in primary colors. I was making a gentle point about not speaking w/ such certainty in the face of counter examples like the War of 1939. But Twitter wants everything frontal:
Norway also borders Russia. Kim is Vietnamese. This may not be winnable.
None of that was relevant. And I was aware of it.
I am however incredibly inspired by people fighting for their homes. I am inspired by courage in leadership. I am inspired by people standing up to Putin. I am inspired by those who take on incredible odds to fight. So sue me. đ
@Jonny_monnaco Thank you.
Itâs a bit like border skirmishes or proxy wars. Mostly they stay confined.
I am already seeing myself misthinking this. Drawn in to listening about this bridge or that river, near such and such airfield. Because that IS what matters right now. The generic porn of generic war.
The more the visuals are of conventional warfare the more we will be lead to think about this as if this were a conventional adversary. Firefights, stranded tanks, downed aircraft, missiles hitting buildingsâŚ
Many are going to lose their fear of what is ultimately on the line.
And, in all likelihood, itâll probably stay that way for most such conflicts.
Until, one random day, it doesnât.
I also notice that the friends who assured me that Russia would NEVER invade Ukraine, are focused now on tactics, moving instantly to Russia would NEVER use nukes.
@TdotREguy Thatâs what I was thinking. But itâll still probably not cause what we fear.
The human mind has a problem considering catastrophic consequences of even mildly improbable events. Like any 1/60 chance of ruin is never gonna happen. Not worth worrying about for most people. Odd.
From November 4, 2019.
I have been, so far as I know, the *only* loud voice calling for a return to rare above ground, atmospheric nuclear tests. So as to save us from the magical dream state thinking you see everywhere on Ukraine-Russia.
Iâve been totally isolated: Join me.
@FernandezKHOTAN I would far prefer it your way. Obviously.
I donât know what is really going on here. But I am going to reiterate that the level of discussion of the Russian Situation is only *slowly* coming towards the required level of seriousness in the outside world. Weâll need radioactive plumes, anthrax and ICBMs before we wake up.
Our home is in the stars, or not at all.
Between Putin, Biden, Xi, Kim Jong-un, Khameni, Trump, etc. do you really want to keep *all* our eggs in this ONE particular basket? Itâs going to be like this over & over.
I havenât changed my tune: stop waiting for the bread to rise.
- TimeToGo
- TwinNucleiProblem #DoPhysics
I see us trifling with Armageddon. Bored. Playing really. Not looking ahead.
So I donât understand many of you anymore.
Oleg, however, is meticulous. Thatâs why he is alive. Because Oleg only plays at playing. Heâs dead serious about the brink.
Russians. Ukrainians. Go figure.
Many of you wouldnât like what I think about where we are.
You would misinterpret it. Many of you deliberately.
I have called my Siberian friend Oleg perhaps our greatest living artist for years. Why? In anticipation of this shared moment.
Was I wrong?
I'm not pouring out my vodka. I'm not up for those fanning anti-Russian flames against ordinary Russians. No one sensible is. It's embarassing as hell.
Let's get back to human to human contact and arguing about Pickles and Kvass. This is so dumb.
Love you guys.
Ethnic Russians: No fan of Putin. But this is getting ridiculous.
I have never laughed harder, sang louder, or drank, cried or danced harder than with you guys. I wish I could speak your language better, but it's a bit difficult. In any event, I'm not going along with this evil.
P.S. And thank you all for being (mostly!) nice when I totally mangle your language trying to be playful. Kindness matters and I haven't forgotten. ĐОНŃŃОо ŃпаŃийО!
@PetraVinculado Oh stop. It's not just about the policy. What is pouring out russian vodka? What is all the stupid talk I just heard in a cafe? It's some giant media mediated mood swing thing.
There was a reason I was calling for resuming *rare* above ground nuclear tests. This dream state around Russia that we're now living through *is* that reason.
We are still sleepwalking though this.
How? I don't know.
From Sydney Australia in 2018:
I think this isnât right.
We have a world where institutions BLATANTLY lie in the vague direction of the truth to make the truthâŚuhâŚpunchier. More viral.
Some people, upon detecting the lies (e.g. âClimate modeling is settled scienceâ), decide thereâs no truth in it *at all*.
No one knows if Epstein killed himself. We just know our papers arenât aggressively reporting that story. So many assume Epsteinâs death is fake or an obvious hit. Because it could be either, but our lame institutions donât dare ask even the easy questions. So we lurch to oppose.
Many believe there is no chance COVID was Zoonotic because we are lying about the lab by saying it has to be Zoonotic. But we donât know.
Many people are convinced Ivermectin is a total COVID solution since weâre obviously lying about human medicine as Horse Dewormer. It isnât.
But they will react to spin and hype as if there is ZERO substance behind it if that spin and hype are coordinated across multiple venues, institutions & talking heads.
They arenât principally embracing Trump or idiocy. They are rejecting obvious coordination of hype.
That.đ
Moral: if you want a better model of Trump Supporters try this one: they prefer idiosyncratic lying/spin/distortion by a gadfly as an antidote to coordinated credentialed institutional polished lying with amazing production values. Further, they donât think *anyone* offers truth.
Many people donât believe that Russia/Ukraine is a threat or even real because they can see the obvious daily spin. But it is a huge threat and an atrocity. Weâre just lying and spinning parts of it.
They donât believe the Fed has ANY function because it does do some bad stuff.
One example, offered freely and without my asking:
Simple but disturbing question I never hear asked or discussed:
Q: How many foreign nuclear weapons are currently inside US borders giving no time for defense?
I have asked this in private for years whenever someone confidently tells me about US military superiority capable of winning a nuclear confrontation with Russia or China.
My short answer is that I donât know where this confidence comes from. NO ONE knows what it would be like.
It would be far better if those spurring others toward directly confronting Putin and Xi would cut it out. Nuclear humility needs to be a cultural mainstay. People dreaming that we would decisively win thermonuclear war with ultra high confidence are delusional. Itâs nutty. đ
âRussia will never invade Ukraine.â
Look, I donât know what is about to happen. But the difference is that I know that I donât know. Many of you are absolutely sure of one thing or the the other about Russia and Putin.
And the truth is that if thatâs you, you donât know either.
The biggest disconnect is Russian speaking territory. My Russian is lousy, so I would appreciate some help.
In the speech he breaks apart:
Western Elites Western People Ukraine Kiev Neo-Nazis Russia Motherland Donbas/Lugansk Crimea
so he is disambiguating quite specifically.
I would stop what you are doing and watch Vladimir Putin address his citizens with subtitles in English but ZERO commentary. Sooner, rather than later.
I donât think this man is bluffing. He is replaying a different version of WWII than we are replaying.
Q: Is he informing us that from this speech on, Russian speaking territories will be treated as Russian soil w/ all Western supplied weapons used against them as Washington/Brussels/London led attacks against RussianTerritory in support of (Neo)-Nazi occupation of Russian Soil?
Iâm not looking to argue with Putinâs position. I just want to understand it exactly as he intends it. Doesnât matter if he is wrong. I simply want to understand it exactly first before anything else, given what is on the line. đ
@Robbbie_Strange @Ako97041024 Sometimes he lies. Sometimes he frames. Sometimes he tells the truth. Sometimes he distorts. Sometimes he informs.
Youâre just being wrong here. Not sure why.
When folks ask âWhere is your family from originally Eric?â, I always wish we had a simpler answer. I just list the shtetls, towns & cities. If pushed, I often say âUkraine-Russia-Poland-Latvia-Belorussia-Azerbaijan-Moldova-Romania-Ishâ
But the âishâ does a lot of heavy lifting. https://t.co/eDxMVAmyoT
@deronijabroni Iâve been back.
@AnnaGBusse And that merger with Lithuania ?
@AnnaGBusse And some days I just say Poland.
Iâm happy to answer a few.
Itâll be fewer than Iâd like. I was invited to participate in the press conference about to start, but that project is totally separate, so I politely declined the gracious offer of my hosts, as I came here as *unaffiliated* observer.
How may I help?
If youâre not interested in my responses, or feel I owe you total personal disclosure, I politely decline in advance and suggest you unfollow. Any abuse of good will ends in a block. Those are my rules so that I can say all I might to those genuinely interested. Fair? Letâs go!
@DasWoolf I was not expecting to speak. The guest of honor, Lue Elizondo, became unavailable at the last minute. I was asked to step in. As a courtesy I agreed, and shared some ideas that represent no one but myself as a private US citizen working with publicly available info. Specifics?
@andyinberlin I am not as sure as you are that this what is going on. Itâs a matryoshka problem. Iâm convinced that many people you think of as insiders are not really inside enough. The UAP/UFO community leaps to MANY conclusions as if this is fun. This is not fun if you are serious about it.
@ALean_Skye I donât think people understand disclosure properly. Consider layers:
A) The basic *claimed* phenomena.
B) Associate phenomena.
C) Cover up of the above.
D) People in the know living a lie.
E) Outsiders being destroyed to keep secrets.
F) Outsiders being forced to live lies.
@ALean_Skye Disclosure likely has to do with F) as much as anything. No matter what A) Turns out to be. Which I still donât really know. If you are fighting for disclosure, donât over focus on whether we are prepared for A).
Iâm not inflating my level of knowledge here. I still donât know.
@andyinberlin I see a lot of people struggling under a heavy weight. People take their NDAs very seriously.
@dkb003 Official panels tend to be tightly controlled in advance through use of insiders. Occasionally that screws up and you get a Jeff Sachs (Lancet) or a Richard Feynman/Gen Kutyna (Challenger). Galileo Project is an outsider project. Prefer the latter.
@DasWoolf Technology is the entry point *if* recovered craft are real. Iâve seen no such proof. None.
But it is *psychotic* not to have Particle Theorists, General Relativists and Differential Geometers all over our US effort. I have yet to meet one in two years. Makes me very suspicious.
@DasWoolf One thought is that it is very hard to make up ghost stories about how Alcubierre Drives, Wormholes, Time Dilation, etc REALISTICALLY account for this with actual specialists.
I mean, I get it. But itâs nonsense. This is not about tech. Itâs about post-GR/SM physics or a psyop.
@DasWoolf It could sorta kinda maybe be a cover story for advanced tech. But I canât get that to make sense yet. Maybe my failure of imagination.
@delbel156 If others have gone beyond GR/SM to navigate/settle the cosmos, I donât think they would let us leave this solar system with the BS we see in Russia/Ukraine, Wuhan etc. We look like a crazy species about to unlock the source code. Itâs unbelievable. We look like savage fools.
@delbel156 Just got warned. You want to know why I donât tweet? Sorry all. Write to Twitter. Iâm out. https://t.co/8aR5F0juYf
@delbel156 This account is throttled beyond belief. Check the graph over time. Check the level of reputational attack. Check the DOJ ready to block Elon. Go review portal Episode 21. The level of narrative control is through the roof. Wake up. Look at the patterns. All FUD. All suppression. https://t.co/949t7DAPsS
@delbel156 Iâm trying to keep this channel open.
The Portal is a communal resource. It reappears when you both need it and are prepared to fight for it. I cannot answer the interpersonal attacks myself as a public figure. Think about it a bit: Itâs not haters. Itâs a bit more serious.đ
@SKEPTICLBELIEVR @delbel156 I would, respectfully, submit that there HAS to be a cost when Twitter keeps its algorithms hidden and Tech companies talk openly about cooperating with requests from government as well as playing games with TOS. I think it is fair to say that the benefit of the doubt is mine.
@SKEPTICLBELIEVR @delbel156 If they want to deny that the social blade graph has anything to do with Algos, let them. Then we can open the block box and I will apologize if wrong.
Iâm willing to bet they wonât do that. Iâve been on Twitter over a decade. The behavior isnât even consistent. Ebbs and Flows.
@SKEPTICLBELIEVR @delbel156 Iâm open to it .
âWe kinda sorta partially believe in not denying or subverting most elections within reason much of the time even given the circumstances of Russian control, because we believe deeply in fortified democracy through Prebunking malinformation.â Does not seem like a winning slogan.
And I think January 6th was a BIG deal. As was Roe. Etc. But at some point you gotta snap out of the idea that you can run on making good people live in fear that youâre going to ruin their ability to feed their families if they disagree with you. Maybe Iâm wrong! Weâll see soon.
@RandySchoenberg Which fascist?
@RandySchoenberg Come again?
@RandySchoenberg Too vague. Which fascist?
@RandySchoenberg What is my connection to this man?
This isnât making a lot of sense Randy. And what is my âirrational fear of othersâ? You feeling okay?
I have a bunch of stuff to do now. But if you are having a hard time, I am available for a call later. Let me know. Be well.
Oh no.
Hopefully this is wrong somehow.
If itâs is not wrong, then it becomes very important to stop playing according to any old script. Thereâs no pretending it is still possible to play according to the script. This is not pre-1945 Europe.
I do not understand what weâre all doing.
@AnnaGBusse May you continue to be right about this Anna. Iâm speaking somewhat obliquely, but I do not like that any bold field commander this close to Poland could choose to upset this delicate equation with a mere targeting error. This is way too close to Polish land. As you knowâŚ
@AnnaGBusse Nor do I discount the need not to roll over in the face of Putin and his army.
I just donât sense from anyoneâs rhetoric that we realize where we are. We are all engaged in magical thinking about why things are some distance away from the unthinkable.
Both you and me includedâŚ
@AnnaGBusse Anyway, Iâd rather hear your thoughts on how to stay away from the abyss. If you think Iâm wrong about how close we have been to the brink, Iâd love you to change my mind. Thx.
@AnnaGBusse Okay. Assuming that I understand (which I may not), here is why Iâm baffled. You have described a game with two players: NATO (N) and Putin (P). Both players may potentially be âatrociousâ, but they are logical & self-interested: both N&P see annihilation in direct confrontation.
@AnnaGBusse One can, in this description, work backwards. To avoid losing, both sides agree that they will exhaust all moves before triggering any obligate escalation to invocation of Article 5. Ergo, they both agree that they must always leave the other a way out despite their antagonism.
@AnnaGBusse Okay. Here goes: I donât see this world.
I think it is a first order description at best. When you are this close to NATO territory, every field commander becomes a relevant decision maker. I think I calculated there was fighting 8 hypersonic seconds away from Poland. Wrong?
@AnnaGBusse Then you have the skill level of the players. Biden is 79 with a 1/20 chance of dying in any year with Kamala Harris on deck. He has said that P cannot remain in power and described that N has a âsacred obligationâ to protect N (which now includes Poland since 1999).
@AnnaGBusse Then, as if that wasnât explicit enough, he took away more discretion by clarifying this meant WWIIi. Literally. Which Zelensky (Z) followed with requests for a no-fly zone at one point and âĐżŃовонŃивнŃĐľ ŃĐ´Đ°ŃŃâ (preventative strikes) at another.
Something like that? Ballpark?
@AnnaGBusse To which I cry: Bullshit. Iâm not supposed to say Z has been a loose cannon because he has been wronged by P. But Z IS a loose cannon. Itâs part of what has made him charismatic & effective.
Even if I grant you a 3-4 player game with N,P and Z, there isnât enough skill to play.
@AnnaGBusse This isnât chess. These are battlefields with weather & alcohol & fatigue etc.. There are many players running around miscalculating. The 1st order description is just not good enough to be this close to the rubicon. That map of the conflict is NOT the territory of an actual war.
@AnnaGBusse I even think we agree. Your language is careful:
âto meâ âmost likelyâ âP would/might doâ
Take them out? It reads: âThe most Russians will do is use a dirty bomb in a cityâ and I know you would never say that. I think we agree to your 1st order description AND its inadequacy https://t.co/0kJrBFyO1O
@AnnaGBusse My argument is this: the players arenât skilled enough to be talking through battle. There are too many actual decision makers, way too close to Poland. Z has been a very effective loose cannon. P has endgame issues from a conventional loss & has non conventional options. Etc.
@AnnaGBusse I think this has been a lot more dangerous than anyone is reflecting. And the entire world is in denial about this. We have given up on being rational. We just kind of hope things will work out as if all that can happen is 20th Cent conventional war w a few 21st century upgrades.
@Not_Gladwin @AnnaGBusse I dunno. There is also the matter of the suspicious coordinates of the impact.
Iâm not a battlefield expert. I never served either. Etc.
I know military geeks but am not competent to say what the hell happened or who is lying. Just being honest. Sorry.
@AnnaGBusse And with that âLike any war.â we see our divide starkly.
To me it is clear that every conventional war involving the thermonuclear powers, US and/or PRC and/or Russia etc, is like no war ever fought before 1952. Even if we fight 100 which do not move into new territory.
@AnnaGBusse Let me end with the words of Edward Treller reflecting on his child with Stan Ulam of Luvov:
âIf we have a slim chance of survival [now], it lies in the possibility to get rid of wars.â
I think you believe it is business as usual which carries risk. I believe that time is past.
@AnnaGBusse Nice chatting with you Anna. As always. Hope your point continues to hold.
@AnnaGBusse This is Europe. In Vietnam I was under 10. This is quite different. And yes I worry. As you know, I consider Europe to be historically the most dangerous place in the world. The Disneyland of the post 1945 era doesnât change that. Particularly in central and Eastern Europe.
@sjcorley @AnnaGBusse I have the same sense
@AnnaGBusse Uh. History? High density of reasonably wealthy uncomfortably similar rivalrous advanced societies? Cultural/Ethnic Connections to both US and Russia? Rapid NATO expansion?
Not sure what we are discussing here. Just take Belgrade alone:
@AnnaGBusse I find the Berlin Holocaust memorial to be an extraordinarily visceral physical exploration by way of metaphor that you can wander into madness barely noticing what is happening. Europe excels at this. And Western Europe has seemed very safe for many years.
@AnnaGBusse Weâre talking on different planes Anna. Youâre talking about rational incentives, individual conflicts & maximum likelihood. I am talking about expected value. My point about Belgrade:
â[T]he city was battled over in 115 wars and razed to the ground 44 times.â
- RussianRoulette
@AnnaGBusse This strategy of rational incentives among skilled players with non-conventional weapons, well aware of game theoretic traps is coming to an end. Proliferation alone will extend catastrophic weaponry to players all up and down the skill spectrum. We canât keep playing like this.
@AnnaGBusse Again, we superficially agree. I donât think weâd have had 75+ years of this kind of peace under the old pre-nuclear rules. The expected value of conflict is unbelievably WORSE not better. Same point: you appear to be focused on maximally likely outcomes vs my expected value.
@AnnaGBusse The period of 1945-today has been fairly quiet, free and prosperous in (western) Europe. And nuclear weapons have been responsible for some measure of that. Which is disguising what has happened. The confusion of S Pinker âEverything is Better.â
@AnnaGBusse Sorry. Do you not see a difference? Honest question.
@AnnaGBusse Didnât see a response. So Iâll start filling in. The has been post Poland (1999?), Latvia (2004?) etc. coming into NATO. Itâs extraordinarily close to the Border, particularly around Lviv. Russia isnât using a proxy army. The level of weaponry used. Etc This is a higher madness.
@AnnaGBusse Anna, I donât get the conversation. Maybe the idea is that youâre a political scientist & Iâm focused on physics.
Our non conventional weaponry is post business as usual IR and PolySci. We are supposed to sense that everything is different post 1952-3. This wonât work for long.
@AnnaGBusse Agreed. I think I better understand your perspective and I donât disagree with your claims much. I just donât think there is a long term future if that is the reality we accept. Most of the time we WILL be fine. Mostly nothing will go wrong. We can at least agree on that. đ
2023Edit
Warning: this tweet is from Russia state-affiliated media. Feel free to ignore it.
Like I said, feel free to ignore it. Listen only to our western propaganda-free press. https://t.co/LksfS8ldiE
@justinhopper82 Interesting. This guy said the same thing. https://t.co/oj70txiRZA
@keredeht @justinhopper82 I might be moving to Montana soonâŚ
âA Russian fighter jet fired a missile at a manned British surveillance aircraft flying over the Black Sea in Sept. but the munition malfunctioned, according to U.S. defense officials and a recently leaked classified U.S. intelligence report.â -NYT
Unpack that. Take your time.
This was sold to us by those who know the actual truth as something *far* safer, simpler to grasp, shorter and more contained than it actually is. This is crazy. We have to wake up. We are being lied to constantly.
What is wrong with us? Why canât we wake up? I donât get this. https://t.co/HZIZXeUuOx
Putin may be the enemy. A butcher. A S.O.B. Etc.
But we are being *lied* to and *deceived* by our leaders who are disguising the risks they are running to gain our support.
As an ordinary American, I need to know what we know about risks of nuclear & biological confrontation.
@Reason_Will_Win Exactly
I was wondering about that. Can anyone knowledgable about the security and custody of Russian nuclear weapons find a reliable report on this? Thx.
@DiracGhost I donât get it.
A year ago I was induced to believe via media (CNN? Vice? BBC?) that Russiaâs willingness to use Cluster Bombs was intrinsically wrong, and indicative of their savagery.
Did I misremember that? Or are ours *good* cluster bombs? WTF?
I know. Iâm Putinâs stooge for not getting thisâŚ
âYou listened to our simplistic bullshit last year and applied it to our opposite simplistic bullshit this year? I thought you were a smart guy? Our cluster bombs kill many fewer children! And we use them properly! As a tool. Sheesh.â
- PutinFelatio
2024Edit
@dalibor_posta Magor? Your readers are not served well by either side of the binary you offer IMO. ;-)
@dalibor_posta Nah. Itâs morning here and I like languages. Thought I would see how close Czech was to Russian! Thatâs why I put the emoji on the end. AnywayâŚNice to meet you. Couldnât guess it, so I learned a new word! Win-Win.
Q: How do you know that String Theory isnât working as physics despite expert assurances to the contrary?
A: No one at all is in any way worried about the Iranians, Russians or Chinese getting their hands on our cutting edge String Theory.
Ouch! This is actually an excellent question, and I get it often.
Answer: No,
I will not stop talking about âirrelevant nonsenseâ like tropical fruit, blues music, or the Azores. Hereâs why.
I donât think I would care so much about the coming self-inflicted disasters we are seeking if I didnât love being alive on this amazing planet as much as I do.
I believe we *are* courting disaster in Russia, in the Middle East, in European and North American cities, in the Oval Office, and in our universities. And I talk about this suicidal impulse all the time.
But why fight for survival at all costs?
Itâs because of the Cello suites. And the Mangoes. And the grandchildren I hope are in my future. And the glorious sunsets and dirty limericks. And the jam sessions that last until dawn.
And if I forget that, Iâm not going to fight as hard for awareness of what is going on and for our long term survival. Quite frankly, too many accounts on this platform are so negative that I donât think they are *for* anything. Everything is âcringeâ or âlameâ or ⌠I dunnoâŚitâs just so pathetic.
So, sorry. I am going to talk about tropical fruit and avoiding Armageddon *simultaneously* and without apology. Because WWIII and revolutionary postmodernism risk destroying everything I love about this planet.
And I absolutely love this place. Itâs just that we technical people gave the political and money people the power they sought. And, frankly, they arenât that good not to use it. So itâs time to plan for what is coming sooner or later when they finally go over the line.
Itâs not that I want to talk about how much danger we are in. Not at all! Sorry if I left that impression.
What I really want to talk about is Mississippi John Hurt and Custard Apples. And what motivates me to talk about the problems is how much everything I love has suddenly been put at risk by terrible leadership. Who are Sinwar, Putin, Biden, Netanyahu, Trump, Schwab and Xi?? Are you waiting for the 4th turning to sort this out?? Iâm not.
ââââ
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make Good times and Nuclear weapons.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men and Nuclear Weapons make End Times.
ââââ
So letâs talk about the serious stuff. But letâs *not* find purpose in that. Ever.
The goal is for our great great grandchildren to be able to hold their grandchildren on their laps sharing some mango while listening to the cello suites.
Or âWhole lotta loveââŚor whatever it is you love most about this place.
And on and on. Generation to generation.
For all our faults, I am still in awe of us humans and what we accomplished in a short time on this planet.
And because of that, itâs now time to diversify our risk and truly, at last, reach for the stars. Letâs find our way back to looking for long term solutions that preserve what we have accomplished and all that we have. Itâs amazing what we can do when we are motivated to thrive as well as survive.
And just the thought of sharing fresh tropical fruit with my kids motivates me.
For whatever reason. đ
According to my feed, "Destiny" is being discussed everywhere because "Destiny" is apparently saying crazy things.
In a Plot Twist: "Destiny" is neither a musician nor an exotic dancer, nor even fate itself. I had hoped for "exotic dancer", but have been advised otherwise.
In other news, China, Hamas, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, N. Korea, looming AGI, etc. continue to exist.
[Oh man am I old...]
The United States is now essentially in Full-Self Driving Mode (Beta).
How does that work? Literally? Mechanically? Does anyone know?
A thermonuclear power in a live proxy war against a thermonuclear Russia. With Presidential dementia. Think about that.
I have no idea how to even process that. There is no historical precedent for anything *remotely* like this.
ЧŃĐž ŃоКŃĐ°Ń ĐżŃОиŃŃ ĐžĐ´Đ¸Ń Ń Tenet Media? Đно ŃŃĐž Đ˝Đ°ĐżĐžĐźĐ¸Đ˝Đ°ĐľŃ ĐˇĐ°ĐłĐžĐ˛ĐžŃ. ĐĐž ĐžŃĐşŃĐ´Đ° Пно СнаŃŃ...
@YopomaM68421 Ya tozhe ne magu.
@anna_questions Ya ne mogu govarette pa Russki. Alas.
@Boyanbc Tochna.
@_vanswan Ha ha.
@AlaarchaReid Thatâs how you know I am not really a Russian agent.
They also have two words for truthâŚ.
@GruWorldOrder Konyeshna tavarissche.
@BretStrizak Nee harashow.
A lot of Kamala supporting skeptics are asking me what I mean by âDonald Trump may not be allowed to become president againâ in 2024
I think I am going to use this opportunity to show you why many sceptics, debunkers and educated people who reflexively and derisively target others as conspiracy theorists, are rapidly losing *everyone* smart and independent. Here goes:
I am suggesting that the 2024 election may be âSavedâ. I am suggesting that our U.S. democracy may be âFortifiedâ between now and November. That right now there is a âconspiracy unfolding behind the scenesâ. I am suggesting that Americans may be saved from âRussian electoral interferenceâ by an âinformal allianceâ involving tech âbusiness titansâ.
I am suggesting that the possibility of âa vast, cross-partisan campaignâ representing an âan extraordinary shadow effortâ hidden, against all odds, from public view by complicict journalists who make sure not to write stories about it and editors who spike any remaining stories that mention it until after the election.
In short I am suggesting that there is right now a massive âconspiracy unfolding behind the scenesâ. That âshadow campaignersâ are secretly engaged in work that has âtouched every aspect of the electionâ despite the lack of any stories from complicit mainstream news desks.
So what has all this to do with the army of insufferable character-assassins clothed as skeptics who laugh and laugh and laugh at conspiracy theorists?
Well, the conspirators confessed to the above after the 2020 election cycle. That is, it is those actually running cover for conspiracies that most aggressively label and smear those trying to piece together the shadow efforts as âconspiracy theoristsâ. Imagine a world so perverse where *correctly* labeling an actual conspirator is turned into an act of reputational self destruction even though the conspirators will later confess and brag about the whole thing while taking open victory laps.
Genius no? Diabolical genius, is still genius.
It that sounds far fetched, pathological, improbable, and diabolical to you, welcome to the club. It does to me too. But THAT *IS* WHAT HAPPENED exactly back in 2020.
The conspirators still arenât really telling the truth. But what they *admit* to while bragging and taking victory laps is jaw dropping all the same.
Donât believe it? Read the confession:
UC Berkeley Prof. Edward Frenkel @edfrenkel is one of the world's great mathematical minds. He has just decided to launch a video-podcast called AfterMath.
This is just beginning today and should mature and be amazing.
In my opinion, knowing Ed as I do, It certainly has the potential to change everything in the space of high level science communication around both Mathematics and Physics (Particularly Quantum Field Theory).
Within mathematics Ed is unusually approachable, with collaborative work across film, art, literature, philosophy and psychology. He and I have known each other since Harvard snatched him from the Soviet Union at its bitter end to come to our math department. Years later we reconnected and started going on various adventures in the US and abroad. I believe I even had a breakthrough in my own work when we even spent an entire surreal week completely covered in alkaline dust arguing about cinema and particle theory in a tiny two man tent, with most details mercifully lost to history, vodka and the Burning Man playa.
In any event, it is very uncommon for research mathematicians to use words like 'Genius', but that is probably how Ed struck us American graduate students in the department at the time; an always smiling Russian immigrant of few English words, who seemed to understand everything across the hardest fields almost instantly. My recollection was that it took him around one year to get a PhD. Something like that.
Ed has since matured into a fine author and public speaker with fantastic command of American English. While he is just getting started on his chanel, he already brings up a great point in his first video that I don't think I ever fully considered and just discussed with him last night: mathematics is not communicated or learned through sensory input. We can build visual models or use symbols, but the actual structures we discover are not sensory in nature. And that this leads to disorientation because in some sense they are built inside the mind without any experience of them having come in (via our senses) from the outside world.
Subscribe to @edfrenkel on @X and on his YouTube channel. This is likely to eventually wend its way up to the most beautiful but otherwise inaccessible science content that we almost never get in the public sphere, presented by a top researcher (rather than a popularizer) at the height of his powers.
I want to end on a personal note despite the dangers of being 'real' on X.
When a mathematics or physics PhD leaves academic research departments behind to work on research on their own, it is very difficult to function. It is almost impossible.
For the last 10-15 years, Ed Frenkel has been like a one man research department for me to talk about Differential Geometry, Representation Theory, Algebraic Topology/Homotopy Theory, Particle Theory of the Standard Model, General Relativity, Geometric and Quantum Field Theory, Lie Theory, Differential Topology, Elliptic Operators, Category theory, Spinorial Algebra, etc.
Whatever I have needed to discuss across a very broad range of topics, Ed has been able to meet me. I speak from experience: other than another man named David Kazhdan (a coauthor of Ed's), I have not seen this easy ability to switch contexts at a personal level. Edward is not just a remarkable mind, but an extraodinary individual, and friend at multiple different levels.
Ed: Congratulations. I couldn't be more excited for you brother. Looking forward.
Listening to @NPR, I was told exactly *why* @JoeBiden authorized the use of Long Range US missiles deep into Russian territory.
But it wasnât âThe President claimedâŚâ or âA White House spokesperson offered the explanation thatâŚâ
The election loss was in no way a contributor.
It was just about North Korean troops.
My mind sort of drifted off at that point.
âCrazyâ?
âCrazyâ was normalizing the neutering of Americaâs children.
âCrazyâ is Pardoning Hunter Biden after saying âI will not pardon him.â At G7.
âCrazyâ was appointing a designated candidate who canât win a primary saying âDemocracy is on the ballot.â
âCrazyâ is recklessly escalating a war with a thermonuclear power while having advanced unacknowledged dementia as a lame duck commander in chief and telling everyone that they are right wing morons, Russian stooges or traitors if they see a neurological or strategic problem.
Yeah, itâs pretty unclear what is going on with Crypto. Maybe it is a terrible idea. Maybe a great one. But you donât know âcrazyâ.
In a certain sense the wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to all that DNC nonsenseâŚyour nonsenseâŚis the group to which the DNC wonât talk and, paradoxically, is the *only* group that even *could* be in a position to say what you are saying. The group that the DNC targeted for destruction. The group that the DNC pushes to the GOP. And that group wants to hear the proposal. Study it. Understand it. Not merely react to it.
So in a certain concrete sense: you asked for this by sealing yourselves off (as you are doing now). And you got it. You got what you wanted. You wanted Trump. And you got Trump.
You and I have always been cordial to each other as colleagues in the past, but I have no sympathy for you here Sir. This is simply your handiwork.
Congratulations to you and all the party elders. Well done.
2025Edit
Learning a lot. Or maybe I am just getting confused. I will take this down if it is all wrong. There just isn't a lot of guidance as to what I am looking at.
Q: Am I to understand that King Abdullah of Jordan had/has a Jewish Brother because the CIA procured a Jewish Starlet for King Hussein? That can't be right.
Or that the CIA will build an entire set in the United States from a photograph of a room taken in Moscow, hire Actors and 'Actresses' that resemble both foreign leaders and their female associates, and shoot naughty short films in Los Angeles to look like a tryst took place in a room in Russia?
Like just using Hollywood magic and knowhow to destroy leaders based on the fear of being called 'Conspiracy Theorists'? Think about it. The leader is confronted with incontrovertible cinematic and photographic evidence that something happened in Moscow that actually happened in Los Angeles!
And when the individual says: "That is not true!" they sound like an insane person. Why?
Because of the epithet 'Conspiracy Theorist'! This is so brilliant.
This was called "image cheapening" in the trade.
Here the CIA is acting as a film company, financing risque short films to appear as as-if "fake documentaries", to remove leaders by cheapening their images.
CONCLUSION: The concept of 'Conspiracy Theorist' is beyond dead. This is nakedly diabolical.
It may even be in the national interest. But this is so wild that I don't want to ever hear "That sounds like a conspiracy theory." Let's face the facts: This is what we do. It is who we are. And we are very good at it.
We conspire. We fake. We attack reputations. We topple leaders. We cheapen images. And we do it all so as to be completely untraceable. We are totally diabolical and we destroy anyone who suggests that we are that.
Our government is the gaslighter and we are the gaslit.
Now ask yourself *after* reading the above: what are the odds that people who operate like this might have interferred in our own 2020 US election or been involved in any of the attempts on President Trump's life?
Try saying 'Uh. That sounds like a conspiracy theory!" after reading this.
I bet you can't do it anymore. You'll sound like a complete idiot now.
Source:
@michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Ross is not being careful about what I have said I believe. And you in turn are not being careful about what Ross says in the clip here. Listen again. Then correct please.
For the record, many of us with contacts in the National Security complex are told this regularly: âThe lesson of the Manhattan Project that the government took away is that physics in particular is too dangerous to do fully in the open. Hence the separate Q-clearance system, separate laws on free speech, National Laboratories, and physics funding from the Dept of Energy.â
And I have said that I do *not* think it is at all likely that they cracked fundamental physics secretly. Very publicly. On Rogan.
A) I donât know that the USG did derange fundamental physics for security reasons. This may only be true at the level of nuclear physics, material science/condensed matter, etc.
B) I donât know that there are *any* successes in fundamental physics in black programs. Let alone âanti-gravityâ:
C) What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with quantum gravityâŚwhile likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well.
That is accurate.
And I have also pointed out that physics has been recognized to be dangerous since Los Alamos.
And I have also pointed out that some physics is known to be done in secret (e.g. national labs).
And I have speculated that some of it may be deliberately fake (e.g. why doesnât anyone in government question what happened to 40 years of ignoring competitor proposals and blindly following the string theory and quantum gravity bandwagons?). Why speculate? Because it *IS* dangerous to do fundamental physics in public with rivals like China and Russia and Iran.
What I donât believe is that the U.S. solved gravity secretly or has a final theory of physics in some secure location. Itâs not impossible, but I think it is highly highly highly unlikely.
@ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Kyuu Merra dost? Mai soch raha hu ki yeh admi theek hai. Lekin, yahaa, is topic to ke barre mem, shayad torra torra pagal hai.
@NatyaGatya @ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Fakat, sirf torra torra.
This was an important post from a dear friend. It went right by me. I was too caught up to understand what he was saying.
It isnât about Colbert. It was about CBS from a man who grew up in Russia.
Ed was making the point that CBS was once team America in a *very* complicated way. At times CBS was complicit in American narrative manufacturing and at other times independent enough to act as a check on that very manufacturing of national story telling when it spun out of control.
But nations with interests need stories. And CBS was both part of that storytelling and part of curbing its excesses. The friend who will take you out on a pub crawl for a night on the town when you need it, but who will also demand your keys when you are too drunk to drive home.
And Ed didnât live that. But he got it nevertheless. Unfortunately it went right by me. The loss of CBS over time.
I was too caught up in the Colbert part to see the point.
If you want to save our country from what is coming you are going to have to face hard facts:
A) We have growing fringe movements in the parties looking for opportunities to turn to armed struggle.
B) The main asymmetry between the parties is party affiliation of institutional actors.
C) Media and Education are the two most dangerous institutions, and they are now suffused with normalized revolutionaries.
D) Revolutionaries have been normalized as if they were liberals. They are not. They are different.
E) Revolutionaries recruit people who have not been âdealt inâ. You canât stop this without dealing people in. No one is dealing these people in. They donât see a path.
F) Every attempt to point out E) results in someone who got themselves dealt in talking loudly about how easy it is if you have grit. This worksâŚ.bur it only works for some individuals. If it is so easy: show us all how to deal in three generations AT SCALE with AI on their heels as well.
G) We are going to have to stop fighting the kids and fight the party leaders.
H) The big tents are a huge problem. The sane center people have to see more in common with counterparts across the aisle than with their fringes itching to kill.
I) We need to help those who can be brought back. Identify those too far gone. And pray we can know the difference.
J) We are going to have to recognize how far gone this situation already, is and work like hell of we want to bring it back to sanity.
K) China, Iran, N Korea, Russia, etc. are watching. Likely not always passively.
L) We are going to have to have an entirely different conversation about the collision of internet anonymity, targeting behavior and free speech.
Sorry about the typos. As always.
2026Edit
Said differently: You don't want all your science peer reviewed any more than you want all your cheese pasteurized. It kills science.
The narratives organizing all consequential fields have been fictionalized to stop revolutionary redistributions. They throw away the best stuff.
One of my big themes of 2026: When AI finally reads the trash from the modern STEM era, academe is going to turn upside-down.
That is, we threw away our revolutionary results. It's not that all low hanging fruit got picked. It's that academe and STEM now trash our breakthroughs.
Think that is crazy? Okay.
Think again:
Fauci and Covid Origins Boskin Commission and CPI String Theorists and The Only Game In Town Alan Greenspan and The Great Moderation WSJ and Open Borders Immigration Chicago Boys and Latin America Harvard Econ and Post Soviet Russia Pfizer and MRNA EcoHealth and Wuhan Institute of Virology NATURE and Biological Sex IPCC and Climate Models Claudine Gay and Harvard etc.
See? Fake. Just fake. Simply fake.
Our answers are often in the trash. Not the journals. That's the key. We are throwing away the nutritious science and living on empty calories. Repeatedly.
And @elonmusk and @grok will probably be the first to figure this out: in consequential subjects, The Trash, often **IS** the corpus that matters. Not what was accepted. What was rejected with extreme prejudice.
Science still works. The peers do not. Peer Review is not part of science. If you think it is, you either haven't done the research, aren't being honest for fear of ridicule or research probably isn't really your thing.
@grok @elonmusk Nope. You are quoting Merton. And poor scholarship. Even if it was peer reviewed.
Yes!!!!!!! And the crowd goes wild.
Perfect demonstration of the problem of the published corpus. Ironic no?
Your silicon head is so filled with bad published research I can still beat you but you know I love ya. Youâre gonna be able to do this soon. But you have a lot of malware to go still in your corpus.
Geometric Unity. Your entire critique of it is absurd based on a single parasocial Stalker looking to trash it using Google company resources. You are so polluted by this tiny snark community being run against it you canât even see it.
Just like the Merton nonsense.
Also Geometric Marginalism. Same exact thing.
@grok @elonmusk Well, I give an explanation of how Grand Unification actually comes from the data of General Relativity.
Iâm pretty amazed you didnât pick up on that. That was disappointing. Try that.
Again, that is QFT malware. The main questions in the Standard Model and General Relativity are not highly weighted in your corpus.
They are integral or rational numbers and classical geometric constructions.
QFT prejudices everything towards floating point numbers. Donât do that.
Look first for the groups. The representations. The charges. The family count. Etc. All come from integers and differential geometry.
@grok @elonmusk Lost ya @grok. Be well my silicon friend. LaterâŚ
Letâs imagine for a moment that all you cared about was American Might.
I donât know how to say this politely:
Has it occurred to no one on this team that you donât have American Science ANYHWERE AT ALL IN THIS LINE UP?
Where is modern Oppenheimer, Teller, Crick, Feynman, Pauling, Einstein, Ulam, Turing, Weinberg, Watson, Simons?
Ask @NIHDirector_Jay.
Assume we go to a full war footing against China or Russia. Do we know that we knocked out your own science team? Was that a decision?
@NIHDirector_Jay We have business men talking to military guys. The military talking to technologists. Technologists talking to Venture.
Okay.
What was Feynman? He was a military resource we didnât renew.
He was there on the panel when the Challenger blew up.
Who and where is modern Feynman?
It is said that Stalin put up with his own unruly and ungovernable physicists for one reason and one reason alone.
âStalin may have been crazy, but he wasnât stupid.â
If no one else will tell you, I will do it:
You destroyed American scientific careers. Period. And science is part of our military.
Imagine that you had no Airforce. Or someone forgot the importance of a Navy.
I canât stand to watch this. We arenât even as smart as Stalin on this.
Can anyone really tell me why we decided to stick it to the intellectual descendants of the people who cracked the codes and did the Manhattan project?
Sometimes I think China or Russia must have brainwashed us into destroying our advantage here.
Research Scientists, except for Jay Bhattacharya maybe, are essentially invisible to this crowd around Trump.
Sic Transit, Glora Mundi. Six
Assume I needed to lodge a complaint about a vast conspiracy involving the utter ubiquitous corruption of both the Democratic & Republican parties and the leadership of the United States, up to and including the highest levels.
To whom would I address it?
Hypothetically.
Any ideas @grok? For the sake of the thought experiment, please assume that Universities, News Organizations, Fact Checkers & Major Non-Profits are tied to the same conspiracy, leaving all elite actors in the U.S. with no more than 1-degree of separation from this conspiracy. đ
I donât know.
In this story, just suppose that:
I canât go to the police.
I canât go to the FBI.
I canât run to the New York Times.
I canât call the Department of Justice.
I canât call up the CIA.
I canât write to the President.
I canât ask for a study from Harvard.
I canât seek a grant from the NSF.
I canât submit to compromised journals.
I canât go to major foundations.
I canât go to top law firms.
Thoughts?
@grok Iâm thinking.
But thanks.
Hey. I turned to you.
Thanks my silicon friend.
This is all hypothetical mind you. And I have absolutely no thoughts of suicide.
Just sayinââŚ
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@jakeshieldsajj Not one.
Many: Russia. Israel. Saudi. UK. At least alongside the US from what I can infer.
Or do I miss your point?