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17:02, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Why does an economy need derivatives? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''Economies need derivatives and speculators because of the need to transfer uncertainty from those who require stability to those with an ability to bear and manage risk. ''The question could be better phrased, as derivatives are not actually speculative instruments. They are financial instruments which are sometimes used by speculators. To see the importance of this point, imagine a world without in...")
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16:57, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What are some of the most badass photos ever taken? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> In an effort to draw attention to the plight of the homeless, Robert Overacker traded his life for a single breathtaking shot of a lone man careening over the edge of sanity and into eternity......on a Jetski. We share in this picture, his exaltation and frozen moment of greatest triumph with his fist held high above his head, as he soars above the maelstrom. A split s...")
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16:56, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Last-photo-of-robert-overacker-as-he-jet-skies-off-niagara-falls.jpeg.webp
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16:50, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What is Gauge Theory (intuitively)? (Created page with "<blockquote> ''A gauge theory is a geometric theory of differentiation in which the Rise in Rise/Run is computed as the Rise above a reference level determined endogenously within the theory.'' - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [https://www.quora.com/What-is-Gauge-Theory-%28intuitively%29/answer/Eric-Weinstein-1?ch=10&share=6b553738&srid=uqwOWv Quora] </blockquote> Category:Quora Answers")
04:22, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Go Virtual Young Man (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''"GO VIRTUAL YOUNG MAN"''' Oddly, the Internet is still invisible to the point where many serious thinkers continue to doubt whether it changes modern thought at all. In science we generally first learn about invisible structures from anomalies in concrete systems. The existence of an invisible neutrino on the same footing as visible particles was predicted in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli as the error term necessary to save the principles of conservation of en...")
04:21, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page The Last Question (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> Does something unprecedented happen when we finally learn our own source code? </blockquote>")
04:20, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Russell Conjugation (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Russell Conjugation''' We are told that we are entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts. This leaves out the observation that the war for our minds and attention is now increasingly being waged over neither facts nor opinions but feelings. In an era in which anyone can publish anything, the quest to control information has largely been lost by institutions, with a race on to weaponize empathy by understanding its basis in linguistics and tweak...")
04:19, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy''' Consider a thought experiment: If market capitalism was the brief product of happy coincidences confined in space and time to the developed world of the 19th-20th centuries, (but that were no longer true under 21st century technology) what would our world look like if there were no system to take its place? I have been reluctantly forced to the conclusion that if technology had killed capitalism, econom...")
04:18, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page M-theory or String Theory is the Only Game in Town (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town''' If one views science as an economist, it would stand to reason that the scientific theory that should be first retired would be the one that offers the greatest opportunity for arbitrage in the market place of ideas. Thus it is not sufficient to look for ideas which are merely wrong, as we should instead look for troubled scientific ideas that block progress by inspiring zeal, devotion, and what biolog...")
04:16, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Kayfabe (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Kayfabe''' The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling. Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our t...")
04:15, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Einstein's Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Einstein's Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum''' The modern theory of the quantum has only recently come to be understood to be even more exquisitely geometric than Einstein's General Relativity. How this realization unfolded over the last 40 years is a fascinating story that has, to the best of my knowledge, never been fully told as it is not particularly popular with some of the very people responsible for this stunning achievement. To set the stage,...")
04:14, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Excellence (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Excellence''' Over the past two decades I have been involved with the war on excellence. I know that those few of us actively involved in the struggle are deeply worried about the epidemic of excellence precisely because excellence compels its hosts to facilitate its spread by altering their perception of its costs and benefits. Most educated people have come to revere the spending of the fabled '10,000 hours' in training to become respected jacks of on...")
21:05, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Issues-of-Legislation-and-Merit-in-Scientific-Labor-Markets.png
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21:00, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Extension of Self Dual Yang-Mills equations across the 8th dimension (Content) (Created page with "thumb Eric Weinstein's dissertation, ''"Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension,"'' extends self-dual Yang-Mills equations from four-dimensional spaces to eight-dimensional manifolds, aiming to broaden the applicability of these foundational equations in mathematical physics. The dissertation formulates a system of elliptic partial differential equations defined over eigh...")
20:58, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Thesis-Extension-of-Self-Dual-Yang-Mills.png
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20:42, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Phantom Prices & Liquidity: The Nuisance Of Translucence (Created page with "thumb The 2002 article "Phantom Prices & Liquidity: The Nuisance of Translucence" by Adil Abdulali, Leslie Rahl, and Eric Weinstein, explores the complexities of measuring and quantifying liquidity, especially within hedge funds and other financial markets where liquidity is not always straightforward. It introduces the concept of the liquidity continuum, which ranges from highly liquid assets like U....")
20:42, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Phantom-Prices-and-Liquidity-The-Nuisance-of-Translucence.png
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18:55, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Adil-Abdulali-RISK-Vol-15-No-6-June-2002.png
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18:52, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Competition and Careers in Biosciences (Created page with "thumb Richard Freeman, Eric Weinstein, Elizabeth Marincola, Janet Rosenbaum, and Frank Solomon's paper ''"[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/freeman/files/science-2001-freeman-2293-4.pdf Competition and Careers in Biosciences]"'' discusses the challenges facing young scientists in the biomedical field, despite the sector's rapid progress. The authors identify a "crisis of expectations," where career oppor...")
18:50, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Competition-and-Careers-in-Biosciences.png
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18:40, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page An Extension of Intertemporal Ordinal Welfare To Changing Tastes: Economics As Gauge Theory (Content) (Created page with "thumb Eric Weinstein and Pia Malaney's 2021 draft paper ''"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230223205927/https://economics.uchicago.edu/sites/economics.uchicago.edu/files/Welfare_Chicago_Draft.pdf An Extension of Intertemporal Ordinal Welfare To Changing Tastes: Economics As Gauge Theory]"'', first presented at the University of Chicago Money And Bankin...")
18:37, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Weinstein-Malaney-An-Extension-of-Intertemporal-Ordinal-Welfare-To-Changing-Tastes-Economics-As-Gauge-Theory.png
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18:19, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Issues of Legislation and Merit in Scientific Labor Markets (Content) (Created page with "Eric Weinstein's 2003 Sloan Workshop report "Issues of Legislation and Merit in Scientific Labor Markets" examines the challenges facing scientific labor markets, particularly in the U.S., due to changes in immigration policy and labor market conditions. It highlights the significant rise in unemployment rates for new PhDs in the 1990s, arguing that an influx of foreign scholars, incentivized by immigration laws and economic disparities, has contributed to a glut of scie...")
18:01, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Hedge fund transparency: quantifying valuation bias for illiquid assets (Created page with "The 2002 paper "Hedge Fund Transparency: Quantifying Valuation Bias for Illiquid Assets" by Eric Weinstein and Adil Abdulali introduces a framework called "phantom pricing" to address the challenges in valuing illiquid, or "translucent," assets. These assets lack consensus pricing due to infrequent or private trading, which complicates the use of standard risk measures like the Sharpe ratio. The authors propose treating pricing uncertainty as an additional risk that inve...")
17:56, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein Adil-Abdulali RISK Vol 15 No. 6 June.2002.pdf (Eric and Adil's paper titled "Hedge fund transparency: quantifying valuation bias for illiquid assets")
17:56, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs uploaded File:Eric-Weinstein Adil-Abdulali RISK Vol 15 No. 6 June.2002.pdf (Eric and Adil's paper titled "Hedge fund transparency: quantifying valuation bias for illiquid assets")
17:13, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Tracking Changes in Bilateral Trading Patterns in the Absence of PPP (Content) (Created page with "thumb Eric Weinstein's 2021 paper ''Tracking Changes in Bilateral Trading Patterns in the Absence of PPP'', originally presented and hosted at the University of Chicago on November 10, 2021, addresses the complexities of measuring changes in trade between two nations when the law of one price and purchasing power parity (PPP) do not hold. Traditional...")
17:12, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Chicago-Trade-Index-Draft-Tracking-Changes-in-Bilateral-Trading-Patterns-in-the-absence-of-PPP.png
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04:58, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Migration-for-the-Benefit-of-All-Towards-a-New-Paradigm-for-Migrant-Labor.png
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04:48, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Migration For The Benefit of All: Towards a New Paradigm for Migrant Labor (Content) (Created page with "The 2002 paper "Migration for the Benefit of All: Towards a New Paradigm for Migrant Labor" by Eric Weinstein advocates for a fundamental overhaul of migrant worker programs (MWPs). It argues that while MWPs offer significant benefits, such as increased productivity, lower costs, and cultural exchange, they are plagued by systemic issues like inefficiencies, wage depression, rights abuses, and public resistance. These problems arise primarily from structural flaws, such...")
17:44, 8 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-How-and-Why-Government-Universities-and-Industry-Create-Domestic-Labor-Shortages-of-Scientists-and-High-Tech-Workers.png
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04:10, 8 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers (Content) (Created page with "Eric Weinstein's 1998 NBER paper, ''"[https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers],"'' argues that the perceived labor shortages in the U.S. science and engineering fields are deliberately manufactured. He explains that key stakeholders—government, universities, and industry—manipulate the labor market by artif...")
17:14, 29 September 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page We Need A Scientific Revolution (YouTube Content) (Created page with "{{InfoboxAppearance |title=We Need A Scientific Revolution |image=File:20231223-IAI-Eric-Weinstein-We-Need-A-Scientific-Revolution-(zHAl1PHcQyU).jpg |guests=Eric Weinstein |length=00:17:31 |releasedate=23 December 2023 |youtubedate=23 December 2023 |customlabel1= |customdata1= |customlabel2= |customdata2= |customlabel3= |customdata3= |customlabel4= |customdata4= |link1title=YouTube |link1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHAl1PHcQyU Watch] |link2title=Portal Blog...")
17:13, 29 September 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:20231223-IAI-Eric-Weinstein-We-Need-A-Scientific-Revolution-(zHAl1PHcQyU).jpg
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17:10, 13 September 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page “The Entire Political Charade Has Come Crashing Down” Eric Weinstein On US Election (YouTube Content) (Created page with "{{InfoboxAppearance |title=“The Entire Political Charade Has Come Crashing Down” Eric Weinstein On US Election |image=File:20240910-Piers-Morgan-Uncensored-(Trrp-tgKvR0).jpg |host=Piers Morgan |guests=Eric Weinstein |length=00:41:29 |releasedate=10 September 2024 |youtubedate= |customlabel1= |customdata1= |customlabel2= |customdata2= |customlabel3= |customdata3= |customlabel4= |customdata4= |link1title=YouTube |link1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trrp-tgKv...")