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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]]
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.
* [[De-Potemkin]]
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
* [[Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack]]
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
* [[Distribution of Empathy]]
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]
* [[Doubly-Scientific Method]]


== E ==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect β€˜64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


== F ==
== Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
== Maladaptive strategies ==
* [[Fact-Checker]]
== Deaths of accountability ==
* [[Facultative Autism]]
== Adaptive landscapeΒ  ==
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
== Overton window ==
* [[Feedback Capture]]
== Selective pressures ==
* [[Follow the Silence]]
== Environmental insult ==
* [[Forced Citation]]
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== Gating function ==
== The Big Nap / The long nap ==
== Freedom is an export ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en


== G ==
== E8 ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
== Pseudo riemannian geometry ==
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
== β€œIt's a beautiful thing” ==
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
(In New York City)
* [[Goliaputian]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
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
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== Riding on a technical substrateΒ  ==
== Artificial out-teligenceΒ  ==
== ParaesthetizeΒ  ==
== Church and pike commissions ==
== Umwelt ==
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
(1 overarching crisis)
== Thinkquisition ==
== Artificial out-telligence ==
== Anti-expertΒ  ==
== 4 quadrant model ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
== De-Potemkin ==


== H ==
Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== I ==
[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
* [[Iago Media]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Inferential Clusters]]
* [[Injustice Budget]]
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
* [[Intellectual Arbitrage]]
* [[Intellectual Border Collies]]
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
* [[Intellectual Kryptonite]]
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]


== J ==
== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
Β 
== Potemkin village ==
== K ==
== Peer review ==
* [[Knarc]]
== Forced citation ==
* [[Kayfabrication]]
== Operation Cointel pro ==
Β 
== Kayfabe ==
== L ==
== Twin Nuclei ==
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
== Efficient FrontierΒ  ==
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
== The Observerse ==
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
== Anthropic capitalismΒ  ==
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
== Genius vs Excellence ==
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
== Samizdat ==
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
* [[Litella]]
== Adaptive valley ==
* [[The Locrian Era]]
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
* [[The Looting Party]]
== 4-quadrant model ==
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]
== Rent-seeking elites ==
Β 
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
== M ==
== β€œNo more heroes” Charles lindberg ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
== Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
* [[Madness]]
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
== The long nap ==
* [[Map the Silences]]
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
* [[Message Violence]]
== A theory is like a newspaper story
* [[Minus Epsilon]]
where/when -> space/time
Β 
who/what -> fermions/bosons
== N ==
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians)
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
--Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
== Teaching disabilities ==
* [[New Orchards]]
Not Learning Disabilities
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
Differential diagnosis
* [[No-Pill]]
A/B testing
Β 
== Irrationality ==
== O ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
* [[Observerse]]
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
* [[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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