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.

Minus epsilon

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

There is no secret ingredient

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

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

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

Adaptive landscape

• Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Adjective, occupation, name

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

“It's a beautiful thing”

This originates from New York City. Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter

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

Umwelt

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

Semi-reliable communal sense-making

(1 overarching crisis)

De-Potemkin

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

Twitter

Samizdat

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

Adaptive valley

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879

• Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

4-quadrant model

https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp

Teaching disabilities

Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis

Irrationality

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