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[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligations|EGOs]], [[Gated Institutional Narrative|GIN]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions. Β 
[[Eric Weinstein|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 [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligation|EGOs]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc.


'''See also:'''
__TOC__
* [[Portal Concepts]]
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World] – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
* [[Riffs to Animate]]
* [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]


== A ==
== Minus epsilon ==
* [[Abomination Ratio]]
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
* [[Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula]]
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[Anthropic Capitalism]]
* [[Anti-Expert]]
* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media |Anechoic Era]]
* [[Argument as the Frame]]
* [[Artificial Outelligence]]
* [[Audience Capture]]
* [[Audio Samizdat]]


== B ==
== There is no secret ingredient ==
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]]
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== C ==
== Don't Screw Yourself Out of Magic ==
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[Checker]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[Checksum Theory of Politics]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Chihuahua Effect]]
* [[Communication Security Complex]]
* [[Contact with the Unforgiving]]
* [[Contrast Blindness]]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]]


== D ==
== Resource capture ==
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
== Potemkin village ==
* [[Defragilization]]
== Steel-manning ==
* [[Degraded State]]
== Intellectual dark web
* [[De-Potemkin]]
== Maladaptive strategies ==
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
== Deaths of accountability ==
* [[Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack]]
== Adaptive landscapeΒ  ==
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
== Overton window ==
* [[Distribution of Empathy]]
== Selective pressures ==
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
== Environmental insult ==
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
* [[Doubly-Scientific Method]]
== Gating function ==
== The Big Nap / The long nap ==
== Freedom is an export ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en


== E ==
== E8 ==
* [[The Educational Complex]]
== Pseudo riemannian geometry ==
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
== β€œIt's a beautiful thing” ==
* [[Effect β€˜64]]
(In New York City)
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
He has steady hands.
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
* [[Extractive Elite]]
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
Β 
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== F ==
== Riding on a technical substrateΒ  ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
== Artificial out-teligenceΒ  ==
* [[Fact-Checker]]
== ParaesthetizeΒ  ==
* [[Facultative Autism]]
== Church and pike commissions ==
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
== Umwelt ==
* [[Feedback Capture]]
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
* [[Follow the Silence]]
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
* [[Forced Citation]]
(1 overarching crisis)
Β 
== Thinkquisition ==
== G ==
== Artificial out-telligence ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
== Anti-expertΒ  ==
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
== 4 quadrant model ==
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
* [[Goliaputian]]
== De-PotemkinizeΒ  ==
Β 
== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
== H ==
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
* [[High Agency]]
== Potemkin village ==
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
== Peer review ==
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
== Forced citation ==
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]
== Operation Cointel pro ==
Β 
== Kayfabe ==
== I ==
== Load-bearing fictions ==
* [[Iago Media]]
== Adult level fictions ==
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
== Twin Nuclei ==
* [[Inferential Clusters]]
== Efficient FrontierΒ  ==
* [[Injustice Budget]]
== Minus epsilon ==
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
== The Observerse ==
* [[Intellectual Arbitrage]]
== Anthropic capitalismΒ  ==
* [[Intellectual Border Collies]]
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
== Genius vs Excellence ==
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
== Samizdat ==
* [[Intellectual Kryptonite]]
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
== Adaptive valley ==
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]
== 4-quadrant model ==
Β 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
== J ==
== Rent-seeking elites ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
Β 
== β€œNo more heroes” Charles lindberg ==
== K ==
== Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
* [[Knarc]]
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
* [[Kayfabrication]]
== The long nap ==
Β 
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
== L ==
== A theory is like a newspaper story
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
where/when -> space/time
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
who/what -> fermions/bosons
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians)
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
--Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
== Teaching disabilities ==
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
Not Learning Disabilities
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
Differential diagnosis
* [[Litella]]
A/B testing
* [[The Locrian Era]]
== Irrationality ==
* [[The Looting Party]]
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]
Β 
== M ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]
Β 
== N ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]
Β 
== O ==
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]
Β 
== P ==
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]
Β 
== R ==
* [[Radical Uncertainty]]
* [[Rebel end of Corporate and Corporate end of Rebel]]
* [[Recursion Limit]]
* [[Reflexive Contrarianism]]
* [[Regulated Expression]]
* [[Rent-seeking Elites]]
* [[Reputational Violence]]
* [[Resource Capture]]
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]
* [[Riding on a technical substrate]]
* [[Rough Space]]
Β 
== S ==
* [[Seberging]]
* [[Selective Pressures]]
* [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making]]
* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]]
* [[Shockley-Test]]
* [[Smart-bait]]
* [[Snap to Grid Intellectualism|Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism]]
* [[Speaking Fee]]
* [[Split-Level Argument]]
* [[Straw-checking]]
* [[Streisand Squeeze]]
* [[Surveillance Level Data]]
Β 
== T ==
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[The Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Thinkquisition]]
* [[Thug-Review]]
* [[Totalizing Ideologies]]
* [[Transcendence Hacking]]
* [[Trauma Cluster]]
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]]
* [[Tuskegee Principle]]
Β 
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]
Β 
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]
Β 
== W ==
* [[Weaponization of Peer Review]]
* [[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]
* [[White Suit]]
* [[Woke]]
* [[Worldwide Uncle Shortage]]
Β 
== X ==
* [[Xenophilic Restrictionist]]
Β 
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