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

See also:

A/B Testing

Adaptive Landscape

Adaptive Valley

Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula

Agency

Agentic Leadership

Anthropic Capitalism

Anti-Expert

Anti-Fragility

Anti-Interesting

Artificial Outelligence

Audience Capture

Audio Samizdat

The Big 5 Personality Traits

The Big Nap

Checksum Theory of Politics

Church and Pike Commissions

Consensus

The Cosmic Spelling Bee

Deaths of Accountability

De-Potemkin

Dining a la Carte

Don't screw yourself out of magic

Don't wait for the bread to rise

Double Island Rules

The Educational Complex

Efficient Frontier

Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation

Environmental Insult

Escher's Hands Drawing Hands

Evergreening

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)

Forced Citation

Fragility of Masculinity

Game B

Gating Function

Gene Drive

Genius vs Excellence

"The essence of genius as a modality is that it seems to reverse the logic of excellence." WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

Gini Coefficient

High Agency

Iago Media

Irrationality

It's a beautiful thing

Injustice Budget

Institutional Betrayal

Kayfabe

Knarc

Long-Form Podcasting

Litella

The Looting Party

Long Term vs Short Term Optimization

Long/short positions (nuanced positions)

Maladaptive strategies

Meaning

Message Violence

Middle Finger

Minus Epsilon

The N^2 Revolution

New Gimmick Economy

New Orchards

No Living Heroes

Operation COINTELPRO

Oral Torah

Overton Window

Perfectly Legal

Physics Dollars

Potemkin Village

Preference Falsification

Rent-seeking Elites

Reputational Violence

Resource Capture

Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing

Riding on a technical substrate

Rough Space

Seberging

Section A of the Reserve Index

Selective Pressures

Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making

Skadoosh

Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows

Speaking Fee

Split Level Argument

Steady Hands

Steel-Manning

Teaching Disabilities

Terms of Service

Totalizing Ideologies

The Twin Nuclei Problem

The Observerse

There is no secret ingredient

Thinkquisition

Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)

Type I & Type II Error

Umwelt

Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect

White Suit

Wu-Yang Dictionary