Ericisms

Eric often uses terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those only. This should not be confused with more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as the DISC, EGOs, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc.

See also: Eric Weinstein Quotes

A/B testing

A/B testing (also known as bucket testing or split-run testing) is a user experience research methodology. A/B tests consist of a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B. It includes application of statistical hypothesis testing or "two-sample hypothesis testing" as used in the field of statistics. A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable, typically by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the two variants is more effective. (Source)

Reference: [1] Discussed in the context of adding “differential diagnosis” to our educators’ toolkit so that teaching disabled educators can learn how to add to better instruct students rather than externalizations the blame for their inadequate methods onto into the students.

Adaptive landscape

• Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Adaptive valley

• Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Adjective, occupation, name

https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en

Artificial Outelligence

Artificial Outelligence, n: An unintelligent computer system that evolves by hijacking the minds it dupes & outwits.

Example:

The Bass designs false fish used by the mussels to better parasitize the bass.

It’s one thing to think & talk about the risks of unintelligent agents using *our* brains to outsmart ourselves. Another to see such examples in nature:

References

https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/867050623174295552?s=21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8s0tp9yzY

https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1116065653847285760?s=21

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0j9dxbB4Z1o

De-Potemkin

Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.

Twitter

Don't screw yourself out of magic

• https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
• https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor

The Educational Complex

A system of selective political, economic, and memetic pressures resulting in a cult of the teaching profession which prioritizes the careerist desires of the educators over the learning needs of the students.

Irrationality

Irrationality is a feature not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp

It's a beautiful thing

This originates from New York City.

Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter.

Related: "It's perfectly legal" – something ethically dubious may be going on.

Meaning

"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [2]

Minus epsilon

This originates from the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in mathematics.

Samizdat

The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.

Steady hands

This originates from Washington D.C.

"He has steady hands." You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public

Steel-manning

The steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the exact opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions.

Steelmanning

Teaching disabilities

Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis

Terms of Service

References:

• https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896
• https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071216823742291968

There is no secret ingredient

This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.

Umwelt

(in ethology) The world as it is experienced by a particular organism.