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== Resource capture ==
== Resource capture ==
== Potemkin village ==
== Potemkin village ==
== Steel-manning ==
== 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.
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.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]


== Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) ==
== Maladaptive strategies ==
== Maladaptive strategies ==
== Deaths of accountability ==
== Deaths of accountability ==
== Adaptive landscape  ==
== Adaptive landscape  ==
== Overton window ==
== Overton window ==
== Selective pressures ==
== Selective pressures ==
== Environmental insult ==
== Environmental insult ==
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== Gating function ==
== Gating function ==
== The Big Nap / The long nap ==
 
== Freedom is an export ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en


== E8 ==
== Pseudo riemannian geometry ==
== “It's a beautiful thing” ==
== “It's a beautiful thing” ==
(In New York City)
(In New York City)
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
He has steady hands.
He has steady hands.
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
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
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
 
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
 
== Artificial out-teligence  ==
== Artificial out-teligence  ==
== Paraesthetize  ==
== Paraesthetize  ==
== Church and pike commissions ==
 
== Church and Pike commissions ==
 
== Umwelt ==
== Umwelt ==
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
(1 overarching crisis)
(1 overarching crisis)
== Thinkquisition ==
== Thinkquisition ==
== Artificial out-telligence ==
== Artificial out-telligence ==
== Anti-expert  ==
== Anti-expert  ==
== 4 quadrant model ==
== 4 quadrant model ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
== De-Potemkin ==
== De-Potemkin ==


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== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
== Potemkin village ==
== Potemkin village ==
== Peer review ==
== Peer review ==
== Forced citation ==
== Forced citation ==
== Operation Cointel pro ==
== Operation Cointel pro ==
== Kayfabe ==
== Kayfabe ==
== Twin Nuclei ==
 
== Efficient Frontier  ==
== Efficient Frontier  ==
== The Observerse ==
== The Observerse ==
== Anthropic capitalism  ==
== Anthropic capitalism  ==
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
== Genius vs Excellence ==
== Genius vs Excellence ==
== Samizdat ==
== Samizdat ==
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
== Adaptive valley ==
== Adaptive valley ==
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
== 4-quadrant model ==
== 4-quadrant model ==
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
== Rent-seeking elites ==
== Rent-seeking elites ==
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
== “No more heroes” Charles lindberg ==
 
== Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
== “No more heroes” Charles Lindberg ==
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
== The Long Nap ==


== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
== A theory is like a newspaper story
 
where/when -> space/time
 
who/what -> fermions/bosons
== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians)
 
--Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
== Teaching disabilities ==
== Teaching disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities
Not Learning Disabilities
Differential diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
A/B testing
 
== A/B testing ==
 
== Irrationality ==
== Irrationality ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
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== Pseudo riemannian geometry == -->
<!-- == A theory is like a newspaper story
where/when -> space/time
who/what -> fermions/bosons
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians) -->
<!-- == Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
== The Long Nap == -->
<!-- == Freedom is an export == -->
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Revision as of 20:35, 17 April 2020

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

Resource capture

Potemkin village

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

Maladaptive strategies

Deaths of accountability

Adaptive landscape

Overton window

Selective pressures

Environmental insult

TIM - Technology Intelligence Media

Gating function

Adjective, occupation, name

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

“It's a beautiful thing”

(In New York City) 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 substrate

Artificial out-teligence

Paraesthetize

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-expert

4 quadrant model

Long/short positions (nuanced positions)

De-Potemkin

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

Twitter

Semi-reliable communal sense making

Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically

Potemkin village

Peer review

Forced citation

Operation Cointel pro

Kayfabe

Efficient Frontier

The Observerse

Anthropic capitalism

Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Genius vs Excellence

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

4-quadrant model

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

Rent-seeking elites

Long term vs short term optimization

“No more heroes” Charles Lindberg

Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates

Escher's Hands Drawing Hands

Teaching disabilities

Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis

A/B testing

Irrationality

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