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[[Eric Weinstein|Eric]] often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligations|EGOs]], [[Gated Institutional Narrative|GIN]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.  
'''If you are adding a new term to this page, please use the [[Template:Ericism|Ericism Template]]''' -->[[Eric Weinstein|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 [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligation|EGOs]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc.


See also:  
'''See also:'''
* [[Portal Concepts]]
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World] – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World] – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
* [[Riffs to Animate]]
* [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]
* [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]


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== A ==
* [[Abomination Ratio]]
* [[Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula]]
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[Anthropic Capitalism]]
* [[Anti-Expert]]
* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media |Anechoic Era]]
* [[Argument as the Frame]]
* [[Artificial Outelligence]]
* [[Audience Capture]]
* [[Audio Samizdat]]


== [[A/B Testing]] ==
== B ==
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Adaptive Landscape ==
== C ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape landscapes of fitness]
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* [[Checker]]
* [[Checksum Theory of Politics]]
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Chihuahua Effect]]
* [[Communication Security Complex]]
* [[Contact with the Unforgiving]]
* [[Contrast Blindness]]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]]


== Adaptive Valley ==
== D ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
* [[Defragilization]]
* [[Degraded State]]
* [[De-Potemkin]]
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
* [[Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack]]
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
* [[Distribution of Empathy]]
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]
* [[Doubly-Scientific Method]]


== E ==
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect ‘64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Ersatz Existence]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


== Adjective, Occupation, Name ==
== F ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
* [[Fact-Checker]]
* [[Facultative Autism]]
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
* [[Feedback Capture]]
* [[Follow the Silence]]
* [[Forced Citation]]


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== G ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
* [[Geometric Marginalism]]
* [[Goliaputian]]


== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== [[Agency]] ==
== I ==
* [[Iago Media]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Inferential Clusters]]
* [[Injustice Budget]]
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
* [[Intellectual Arbitrage]]
* [[Intellectual Border Collies]]
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
* [[Intellectual Kryptonite]]
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]


== [[Agentic Leadership]] ==
== J ==
* [[Jesus Smuggling]]


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


== L ==
* [[Law of Gaslighting]]
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
* [[Lies as a Checksum]]
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
* [[Litella]]
* [[The Locrian Era]]
* [[The Looting Party]]
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]


== [[Anti-Expert]] ==
== M ==
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]


== Anti-Fragility ==
== N ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]


== O ==
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]


== [[Anti-Interesting]] ==
== P ==
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]


== [[Artificial Outelligence]] ==
== R ==
* [[Radical Uncertainty]]
* [[Rebel end of Corporate and Corporate end of Rebel]]
* [[Recursion Limit]]
* [[Reflexive Contrarianism]]
* [[Regulated Expression]]
* [[Rent-seeking Elites]]
* [[Reputational Violence]]
* [[Resource Capture]]
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]
* [[Riding on a technical substrate]]
* [[Rough Space]]


== [[Audience Capture]] ==
== S ==
* [[Seberging]]
* [[Selective Pressures]]
* [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making]]
* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]]
* [[Shockley-Test]]
* [[Smart-bait]]
* [[Snap to Grid Intellectualism|Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism]]
* [[Speaking Fee]]
* [[Split-Level Argument]]
* [[Straw-checking]]
* [[Streisand Squeeze]]
* [[Surveillance Level Data]]


== [[Audio Samizdat]] ==
== T ==
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[The Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Thinkquisition]]
* [[Thug-Review]]
* [[Totalizing Ideologies]]
* [[Transcendence Hacking]]
* [[Trauma Cluster]]
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]]
* [[Tuskegee Principle]]


== The Big 5 Personality Traits ==
== U ==
Eric has referred to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits Big 5 Personality Traits] as a person's hedonic composition.
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]


== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]


== [[The Big Nap]] ==
== W ==
* [[Weaponization of Peer Review]]
* [[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]
* [[White Suit]]
* [[Woke]]
* [[Worldwide Uncle Shortage]]


== [[Checksum Theory of Politics]] ==
== X ==
* [[Xenophilic Restrictionist]]


== [[Church and Pike Commissions]] ==
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== [[Consensus]] ==
 
== The Cosmic Spelling Bee ==
Bret Weinstein's term for the existential position humanity faces.
 
 
== [[Critical Feeling]] ==
 
== [[Deaths of Accountability]] ==
 
== [[De-Potemkin]] ==
 
== [[Dining a la Carte]] ==
 
== Don't screw yourself out of magic ==
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* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
 
== Don't wait for the bread to rise ==
"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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== [[Double Island Rules]] ==
 
== The Educational Complex ==
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.
 
 
== Efficient Frontier ==
The efficient frontier is the blending of all possible components into portfolios with the highest possible return and the lowest possible volatility.
 
'''References:'''
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier
 
 
== Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism ==
 
 
== Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation ==
 
 
== Environmental Insult ==
 
 
== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
Eric uses this drawing as a metaphor when beginning his discussion of our Source Code.
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands Wiki's article] will hopefully be growing with this community's influence.
 
== [[Evergreening]] ==
 
== Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) ==
 
 
== Forced Citation ==
 
 
== Fragility of Masculinity ==
 
 
== Game B ==
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.
 
 
== Gating Function ==
 
 
== Gene Drive ==
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.
 
 
== Genius vs Excellence ==
 
 
== Gini Coefficient ==
 
 
== High Agency ==
When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it is that’s just told you that you can’t do something? So how am I gonna get past this bouncer who told me that I can’t come into this nightclub? How am I going to start a business when my credit is terrible and I have no experience? You’re constantly looking for what is possible in a kind of MacGyverish sort of a way. And that’s your approach to the world.
 
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/)
 
 
== [[Iago Media]] ==


== Irrationality ==
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Irrationality is a feature, not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp.
 
 
== It's a beautiful thing ==
This originates from New York City.
 
Meaning: You can extract money from people who have no say in the matter.
 
 
== Injustice Budget ==
 
== [[Institutional Betrayal]] ==
 
== [[Kayfabe]] ==
 
== Knarc ==
'''Knark''' is Swedish for very hard recreational drugs, but it's also "crank" spelled backwards with a slightly different spelling.
 
[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1257372857832738816?lang=en]
 
 
== Long-Form Podcasting ==
Led by Joe Rogan, long form podcasting is where thoughts are exchanged at length among individuals in conversation. A threat to mainstream, legacy media, those who work in and around this space are often smeared.
 
[https://theportal.group/my-absence-the-tech-platforms-the-2020-election-jean-seberg-and-article-58/ Source]
 
== [[Litella]] ==
 
== The Looting Party ==
Episode 27, 1:46:00:
: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/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
 
 
== Maladaptive strategies ==
 
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== Meaning ==
"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071207012493549568]
 
== [[Message Violence]] ==
 
== [[Middle Finger]] ==
 
== [[Minus Epsilon]] ==
 
== [[The N^2 Revolution]] ==
 
== New Gimmick Economy ==
[https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy]
 
== New Orchards ==
Often people discuss the availability of "low-hanging fruit" when discussing growth and innovation. Instead of arguing over the existence of low-hanging fruit in the current paradigm, consider finding [[New Orchards]].
 
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== No Living Heroes ==
 
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== [[Operation COINTELPRO]] ==
 
== Oral Torah ==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Torah The Oral Torah] is the set of traditional laws which are associated written texts... but not written.
 
== [[Overton Window]] ==
 
== [[Perfectly Legal]] ==
 
== [[Physics Dollars]] ==
 
== [[Potemkin Village]] ==
 
== Preference Falsification ==
Timur Kuran's theory brought forth in his book Private Truths, Public Lies.
 
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
 
 
== Rent-seeking Elites ==
 
'''References:'''
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1233245397142794240?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1236164753375940609?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4358723892?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1179425234312683520?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1179425234312683520?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/947648146443714560?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/786770327225245696?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/799678548176834560?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796376216294961152?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/775737838964924417?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1177353828934377473?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1096131757538066433?s=20
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1096130594742755328?s=20
 
 
== Reputational Violence ==
 
 
== Resource Capture ==
== Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing ==
Mentioned in [[ep25]]
 
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
 
 
== Rough Space ==
''"Rough Space, n: A place to think, joke & observe that is neither safe nor tolerant of abuse."''
 
We now need rough spaces to replace safe ones.
 
== Seberging ==
"When <nowiki>[the]</nowiki> sport of personal reputational destruction is coordinated by members of the complex formed by institutional media, the intelligence community, the political parties, political consultants, finance, tech and the academy"
 
[https://theportal.group/my-absence-the-tech-platforms-the-2020-election-jean-seberg-and-article-58/ Source]
 
== Section A of the Reserve Index ==
Yes, our government developed a plan for rounding up people who could contradict the GIN. There‘s a plan for a coming total collapse of confidence in our system.
 
[[https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1166951361147092993?s=20 Source]]
 
 
== Selective Pressures ==
 
 
== Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making ==
 
There has been a breakdown in the ''Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making''. Traditionally we used institutions to guide our collective sense-making, but this is no longer the case in the media landscape – so sense-making is no longer close to fully ''communal''. Walter Cronkite was not always telling the truth, but what he said was a close approximation of the national consciousness and shared belief structure as a complex for the country to function upon, but this does not exist in the current media landscape – so it is no longer ''semi-reliable''.
 
'''References:'''
 
* https://youtu.be/URS81okN0Mc?t=927
 
== Skadoosh ==
 
* [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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== Sharp Minds vs. Sharp Elbows ==
 
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'''References:'''
* [https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/1b4a34fc-8ee2-489a-af6a-0a996b89d27b 2:16:21 in Podcast Episode 41]
 
== Speaking Fee ==
''"Speaking Fee, n: 1) Asynchronous Baksheesh received once a politician has left office. 2) (Archaic) A modest honorarium for giving a speech."''
 
 
== Split Level Argument ==
Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".
 
 
== Steady Hands ==
This originates from Washington D.C.
 
"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
 
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== 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.
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
 
 
== [[Teaching Disabilities]] ==
 
== [[Terms of Service]] ==
 
== [[Totalizing Ideologies]] ==
 
== The Twin Nuclei Problem ==
 
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1117085693883273218
 
== The Observerse ==
 
 
== There is no secret ingredient ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
 
 
== [[Thinkquisition]] ==
 
== [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]] ==
 
== [[Type I & Type II Error]] ==
 
== [[Umwelt]] ==
 
== [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]] ==
 
== [[White Suit]] ==
 
== [[Wu-Yang Dictionary]] ==
 
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Latest revision as of 05:24, 29 March 2024

Eric often coins terms or turns-of-phrase that some people may not immediately understand. This page is a reference source for those. In this list we include more general topic areas that may at first cause confusion such as DISC, EGOs, GIN, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.

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