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== On X ==
== On X ==
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about '''academic freedom''', quashed as it was by the rennegade [[Boskin Commission]] idiocy.
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|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true '''academic freedom'''?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838308391
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.
|timestamp=8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838455405
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.
|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838569973
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.
|timestamp=8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838623987
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.
|timestamp=8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838700951
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.
|timestamp=8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838791487
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Academic freedom''' is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.
|timestamp=8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "[[String Theory]]", "[[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]", "[[Labor Shortages|Scientist Shortages]]" etc...leads to excommunication.
|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."
|timestamp=8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).
|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide '''academic freedom''', science needs to move homes.
|timestamp=11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.
|timestamp=11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To maintain '''academic freedom''' we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.
|timestamp=11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).
|timestamp=11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.
|timestamp=12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843869151
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.
|timestamp=12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6844057198
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.
|timestamp=12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846235134
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.
Yet that's insane.
|timestamp=1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846560285
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.
|timestamp=1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846719547
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Last point for now:
Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6860675916
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own academic freedom, you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.
|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.
|timestamp=2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861511471
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6869677070
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880681250
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.
|timestamp=3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|timestamp=3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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