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A/B testing (also known as bucket testing or split-run testing) is a user experience research methodology. A/B tests consist of a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B. It includes application of statistical hypothesis testing or "two-sample hypothesis testing" as used in the field of statistics. A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable, typically by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the two variants is more effective. ([https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing Source])

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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.

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* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

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* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

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Four core properties of human agency were described in Bandura (2006b, pp. 164-165) They are (a) intentionality, (b) forethought, (c) self-reactiveness, and (d) self-reflection. Intentionality deals with the forming of intentions that “include action plans and strategies for realizing them” (Bandura, 2009a, p. 8). [https://principlesoflearning.wordpress.com/dissertation/chapter-3-literature-review-2/the-human-perspective/an-agentic-theory-of-the-self-bandura-1997/ Source]

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Agentic leadership derives from the term agency. This leadership style is generally found in the business field by a person who is respected by subordinates. This person demonstrates assertiveness, competitiveness, independence, courageousness, and is masterful in achieving their task at hand.

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* [https://theportal.wiki/wiki?search=agentic&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go References to "agentic" in this wiki]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentic_leadership Agentic Leadership on Wikipedia]

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

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''"Anti-Expert, n: 1. A person with expert training & credentials, yet who rejects consensus/institutional positions that cannot bear scrutiny."''

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[https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1220179687340572672?s=20 Source]

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* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1220179670802395137?s=20 Full Tweet Storm]

It’s one thing to think & talk about the risks of unintelligent agents using *our* brains to outsmart ourselves. Another to see such examples in nature:

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

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

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

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The Big Nap—at least in the developed free world—was essentially characterized as a run of extraordinary relative good luck and serenity (at least by the historical standards set by previous world wars, pandemics, depressions, and depressions), where the new gathering storm clouds of the Cold War threatened and menaced in the distance, but the skies directly above remained unprecedentedly clear. This created a bizarre developmental environment where the serenity of the Big Nap led to a worldwide epidemic of magical thinking among the expert and leadership classes that were raised during this time. [[The Big Nap|Read More]]

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Were two parallel committees run in the US House and Senate investigating illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the 1970's

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'''Church Committee:'''

There’s no arithmetic consensus because it doesn’t require a consensus. But there is a Washington consensus. There is a climate consensus. “Consensus” is how we bully people into pretending that there’s nothing to see, move along, everyone. And so I think that in part, you should start to learn that people don’t naturally come to high levels of agreement unless something is either absolutely clear, in which case consensus isn’t present, or there’s an implied threat of violence to livelihood or self. ~[https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/ Eric on Tim Ferriss]

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Bret Weinstein's term for the existential position humanity faces.

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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.

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"What the hell is wrong, it is time for these people to resign and it is time for us to remember that we have the ability to turn over our own government. We are so unprepared as a nation, and we have been sold out for so long by our self-appointed leadership class who nobody wants, that we either remember who we are and how this game is played—I mean, this is like, this is a pre-war footing. And this can easily lead to war, the transmission mechanism is you have everybody stay indoors, because you're worried about deaths of accountability, which is, you know, I don't think they're worried about the number of deaths. I think they're worried about deaths that result from triage, and that would result in career ending action.... If we all have to stay home while they replenish our supplies, then the economy goes into recession, recession can become depression, depressions lead to armed conflict and armed conflict leads to war. That would be a transmission mechanism from these stupid masks to stop something that nobody can handle." ~ Eric on [https://youtu.be/wf0_nMaQ6tA?t=2140 JRE #1453 @ 36 min]

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1247266936045494272?s=20

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[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]

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Thus a "'''Xenophilic Restrictionist'''" would be viewed as an oxymoron/contradiction in terms without decoupling them from their typically associated ideologies.

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Other Commentary and Links  

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor

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"We Jews have a tradition that I wish everybody had, which is that we read one stupid story every God damn year, just to drill it into your head to make sure it's always fresh. And this is: when it's time to leave, when it's time to change, don't wait for the bread to rise. This is what I say to every Jewish person, like, you're sitting around waiting for the bread to rise, because they all know the story, which is you eat the goddamn matzah because the people who waited for the bread to rise are no longer with us; their descendants are no longer with us. And it is time to revolt. ~ Eric on [https://youtu.be/wf0_nMaQ6tA?t=2210 JRE #1453 @ 36 min]

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A system of selective political, economic, and memetic pressures resulting in a cult of the teaching profession which prioritizes the careerist desires of the educators over the learning needs of the students.

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The efficient frontier is the blending of all possible components into portfolios with the highest possible return and the lowest possible volatility.

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands Wiki's article] will hopefully be growing with this community's influence.

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The Evergreening of an institution occurs when younger employees are hired with the expectation that their views will become more moderate and tempered by the institution, and instead the institution is overtaken and radicalized by the individuals that it was hoping to exploit.

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'''Source:''' [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=2259 YouTube]

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Humankind has lived in Game A since we have escaped the Dunbar limit. Humankind has never seen or fully imagined Game B. People like Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, and Jordan Hall speak about this process of dialogue and its risks on [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQ6Gptuq-sLflbJ4YY3Umw Rebel Wisdom]. A fundamental shift from adversarial processing to opponent processing.

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A genetic engineering technology that propagates a particular suite of genes throughout a population by altering that a specific allele will be transmitted to offspring from the natural 50% probability.

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

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[https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=2868 Source]

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

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Meaning: You can extract money from people who have no say in the matter.

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'''[https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783 Erics Original Edge.org Response relating to Kayfabe]'''

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[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1257372857832738816?lang=en]

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''"Litella, v: to become politically & publicly outraged by one's own misinterpretation of the opinions of others."''

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/901853610274807809?s=20

: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'''.

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1088644373615542272?s=20

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"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071207012493549568]

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[https://youtu.be/Lmv_5I4WcNk?t=3303 #6 Jocko] @ 55:03

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It's the US’s Competitive Advantage. One of the things that the US still has over, let’s say, a competitor like China is that we tolerate the middle finger. it’s really important to start respecting our marginal citizens of greatest ability, and looking for the unusual personality types that are irreverent and committed enough to making things happen and really do things.

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* https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein

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

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*https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1234174756338798593?s=20

"...there was enough complex for us to function as a country and I think that has gone away. So I think that this (our loss of Semi-Reliable Communal Sense-making) is the parent of the crisis which I increasingly think of as, what I call it is: The No Name Revolution or the N squared revolution. We are in some sort of new regime which doesn't look like revolution we have seen before. It's much physically violent, so far. It is digitally extremely violent. And it has to do with the fact that we cannot make sense of things communally at some semi-reliable level."

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* [https://youtu.be/M2F__2-NdAg The N^2 Revolution] on The Portal Clips

* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1269061879122456576?s=20 Sept 2017, Eric's initial tweet] about the "previously unknown form of revolution"

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

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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The Overton Window doesn't describe everything about how politics works, but it does describe one key thing: Politicians will not support whatever policy they choose whenever they choose; rather, they will only espouse policies that they believe do not hurt their electoral chances. And the range of policy options available to a politician are shaped by ideas, social movements and shared norms and values within society.

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* https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow

''"Perfectly Legal, adj.: Of a case where the letter of the law has been arbitraged against its spirit (see [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pettifog Pettifog])."''

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/915649019388428288?s=20

[https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1111073864774107136?s=20]

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In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better.

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Eric contests that the theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification Preference Falsification] is Intellectual Kryptonite. "Because your theory can be accommodated within the standard theory... the problem is that it is a ready made upgrade to the existing theory in which nothing is lost but new degrees of freedom are gained; and that could have an absolutely unpredictable effect on the entire field because it is at the level of the substrate." [https://youtu.be/xzjqjU2FOwA?t=4023 #4 Prof. Timur Kuran] @ 1:07:03

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

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We now need rough spaces to replace safe ones.

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[[https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1166951361147092993?s=20 Source]]

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P4DgkW9Ns The Wuxi Finger Hold]

* [https://qr.ae/pN28mq Eric discusses Kung Fu Panda on Quora]

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/858342790161244160?s=20

''"Speaking Fee, n: 1) Asynchronous Baksheesh received once a politician has left office. 2) (Archaic) A modest honorarium for giving a speech."''

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Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".

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*https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/508994608185880576

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

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*https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/592049989334863872

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1117085693883273218

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

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"In the Inquisition, the Jews of Spain were chased by the Spanish Inquisition into, say, Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. My claim is that a lot of analytic lefties have been chased into the center right by the madness of these progressive lunatics, and that thing I'm calling "The Thinkquisition" is that people who are worried about, you know, homophobia or xenophobia, and all these things, but don't for a second sign up for the progressive, revolutionary sort of pseudo-Maoist agenda, those people are now hanging out as if they were in Turkey, even though their home, you know, was originally in the analog of Spain. The center right has become the Ottoman Empire to receive people chased out of the madness of Spain."  ~Eric on [https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/ The James Altucher show #472]

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We have to imagine that fundamentally we're all vulnerable to having all of our email in a Gmail account, all of our personal interactions in our Facebook account, what we are doing with direct messages, being read by Twitter engineers. You know, I don't love James O'Keefe, but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgyPpsX2B0g he seems to have unearthed some stuff at Twitter]. We should be very, very worried.

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

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"Sensible people who live on the internet and are saying dangerous things cannot be reflected inside of institutional media because it's an official structure."

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* [https://www.pscp.tv/EricRWeinstein/1RDGlQrpqmMJL?t=5m32s]

* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646270364504066?s=20

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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/980671434153275393?s=20

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chen-Ning C. N. Yang on Wikipedia]