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Reference: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbKXeVOUQYY] Discussed in the context of adding “differential diagnosis” to our educators’ toolkit so that teaching disabled educators can learn how to add to better instruct students rather than externalizations the blame for their inadequate methods onto into the students.
Reference: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbKXeVOUQYY] Discussed in the context of adding “differential diagnosis” to our educators’ toolkit so that teaching disabled educators can learn how to add to better instruct students rather than externalizations the blame for their inadequate methods onto into the students.


== Adaptive landscape ==
== Adaptive Landscape ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness


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== The Big 5 Personality Traits ==
== The Big 5 Personality Traits ==
Eric has referred to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits Big 5 Personality Traits] as a person's hedonic composition.


== Church and Pike Commissions ==
== Church and Pike Commissions ==
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== The Cosmic Spelling Bee ==  
== The Cosmic Spelling Bee ==  
Bret Weinstein's term for the existential position humanity faces.


== Critical Feeling ==  
== Critical Feeling ==  
"You're over-feeling this."
"You're over-feeling this."
Similar to critical thinking, but with emotional content. "Most of our emotions are susceptible to becoming maladaptive and because the content is not analytic thoughts they are harder to access and harder to influence." According to Jocko's philosophy, the Dichotomy of Leadership, we must remain aware of emotional balance and when to engage.
[https://youtu.be/Lmv_5I4WcNk?t=1495 #6 Jocko] @ ~25:00


== Deaths of Accountability ==
== Deaths of Accountability ==
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The concept that you can take parts of different ideologies that you find beneficial without swallowing the whole group of other ideas that typically come along with that ideology.
The concept that you can take parts of different ideologies that you find beneficial without swallowing the whole group of other ideas that typically come along with that ideology.


Erics go-to for this a "'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophilia Xenophilic] Restrictionist'''".  
Eric's go-to for this a "'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophilia Xenophilic] Restrictionist'''".  


A xenophile is a person with intense interest/love for other cultures, this is normally paired with an open borders policy.  
A xenophile is a person with intense interest/love for other cultures, this is normally paired with an open borders policy.  
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== Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism ==  
== Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism ==  


== Environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation ==


== Environmental insult ==
== Environmental Insult ==


== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
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== Game B ==
== Game B ==


== Gating function ==
== Gating Function ==


== Gene Drive ==
== Gene Drive ==
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:when Bill Clinton decided that he couldn't take yet another loss to the Republican party, he was going to start experimenting with republicanism inside of the democratic party. By that point, we had two parties that more or less were two flavors of the same thing. I refer to that collective as '''the looting party'''.
:when Bill Clinton decided that he couldn't take yet another loss to the Republican party, he was going to start experimenting with republicanism inside of the democratic party. By that point, we had two parties that more or less were two flavors of the same thing. I refer to that collective as '''the looting party'''.


== Long term vs short term optimization ==
== Long Term vs Short Term Optimization ==


== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
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== Message Violence ==
== Message Violence ==
The analysis of message violence: "that there is certain violence that is committed theatrically as an instrument of transmission to induce preference falsification."
"The idea is to create something so horrific, beyond what is necessary to silence someone through murder and death, to communicate to others the instant necessity of beginning to falsify their preferences."
"A leveraging effect where a small amount of violence results in the maximum amount of preference falsification."
[https://youtu.be/xzjqjU2FOwA?t=1728 #4 Timur Kuran] @ 28:50 Eric describes Saddam's bathhouse. @ 31:45 Eric puts forth his theory.
"The point of the violence is to be so picturesque that it works its way into your mind and it won't let you go because somebody did something that was unnecessarily unthinkable; just for the purpose of torturing your brain with knowing that is what is on the other side."
[https://youtu.be/Lmv_5I4WcNk?t=3303 #6 Jocko] @ 55:03


== Middle Finger ==  
== Middle Finger ==  
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- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/)
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/)


== Minus epsilon ==
== Minus Epsilon ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.


== New Gimmick economy ==
== New Gimmick Economy ==


[https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy]
[https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy]
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== Operation Cointel pro ==
== Operation Cointel pro ==


== Overton window ==
== Overton Window ==


== Potemkin Village ==
== Potemkin Village ==


== Rent-seeking elites ==
== Preference Falsification ==
Timur Kuran's theory brought forth in his book Private Truths, Public Lies.
References
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification


== Resource capture ==
== Rent-seeking Elites ==
 
== Resource Capture ==


== Riding on a technical substrate ==
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
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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.


== Selective pressures ==
== Selective Pressures ==
 
== Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making ==


== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
== Sharp Minds vs. Sharp Elbows ==  


== Split Level Argument ==
== Split Level Argument ==
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Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".
Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".


== Steady hands ==
== Steady Hands ==
This originates from Washington D.C.
This originates from Washington D.C.


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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]


== Teaching disabilities ==
== Teaching Disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis
Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis


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