Ericisms

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.

A/B Testing

Adaptive Landscape

Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Adaptive Valley

Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula

Agency

Agentic Leadership

Anthropic Capitalism

Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy

Anti-Expert

Anti-Fragility

Anti-Interesting

Artificial Outelligence

Audience Capture

Audio Samizdat

The Big 5 Personality Traits

Eric has referred to the Big 5 Personality Traits as a person's hedonic composition.

The Big Nap

Checksum Theory of Politics

Church and Pike Commissions

Consensus

The Cosmic Spelling Bee

Deaths of Accountability

De-Potemkin

Dining a la Carte

Don't screw yourself out of magic

Don't wait for the bread to rise

Double Island Rules

The Educational Complex

Efficient Frontier

Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation

Environmental Insult

Escher's Hands Drawing Hands

Evergreening

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)

Forced Citation

Fragility of Masculinity

Game B

Gating Function

Gene Drive

Genius vs Excellence

Gini Coefficient

High Agency

Iago Media

Irrationality

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

It's a beautiful thing

Injustice Budget

Institutional Betrayal

Kayfabe

Knarc

Long-Form Podcasting

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

Meaning

"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [1]

Message Violence

Middle Finger

Minus Epsilon

The N^2 Revolution

New Gimmick Economy

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.

No Living Heroes

Operation COINTELPRO

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

Rent-seeking Elites

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Reputational Violence

Resource Capture

Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing

Mentioned in ep25

Riding on a technical substrate

Rough Space

Seberging

"When [the] 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"

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.

[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.

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