Ericisms

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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

Maladaptive strategies

Deaths of accountability

Adaptive landscape

Overton window

Selective pressures

Environmental insult

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

E8

Pseudo riemannian geometry

“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-Potemkinize

Semi-reliable communal sense making

Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically

Potemkin village

Peer review

Forced citation

Operation Cointel pro

Kayfabe

Load-bearing fictions

Adult level fictions

Twin Nuclei

Efficient Frontier

Minus epsilon

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

Gated institutional narrative (GIN)

(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)

The long nap

Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates

== 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) --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