Ericisms

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 the DISC, EGOs, GIN, Load-Bearing Fictions, etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms.

See also:

• A Modern Contradictionary: New Words for our New World – a Twitter Moment by Eric with a vocabulary adapted to our changing world.
• Eric Weinstein Quotes

A

• Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula
• Agentic Leadership
• Algorithmic Fun House
• Anthropic Capitalism
• Anti-Expert
• Anti-Interesting
• Anechoic Era
• Artificial Outelligence
• Audience Capture
• Audio Samizdat

B

• The Big Nap
• Borjas Rectangle Theory
• Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People

C

• Checksum Theory of Politics
• Contrast Blindness

D

• Deaths of Accountability
• De-Potemkin
• Dining a la Carte
• DISC
• Don't screw yourself out of magic

E

• The Educational Complex
• Edugenic Harm
• Effect ‘64
• Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
• EGOs
• Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
• Evergreening

F

• Fact Burning
• Fact-Checker
• Facultative Autism
• Far-Write / Alt-Write
• Forced Citation

G

• Gated Institutional Narrative
• Genius vs Excellence
• Goliaputian

H

• High Agency
• Hypocrisy Budget

I

• Iago Media
• Injustice Budget
• Institutional Betrayal
• Intellectual Keep-Away
• Interoperability and Exclusion
• Intersectional Shakedown

K

• Knarc

L

• The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing
• Load-Bearing Fictions
• Long-Form Podcasting
• Limbic Business Model
• Litella
• The Looting Party
• Long Term vs Short Term Optimization
• Long/short positions (nuanced positions)

M

• Macropaternalism
• Message Violence
• Minus Epsilon

N

• The N^2 Revolution
• New Gimmick Economy
• New Orchards
• No Living Heroes

O

• Observerse
• The Optics are the Substance

P

• Paranoid Creep
• Perfectly Legal
• Physics Dollars

R

• Reflexive Contrarianism
• Rent-seeking Elites
• Reputational Violence
• Resource Capture
• Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
• Riding on a technical substrate
• Rough Space

S

• Seberging
• Selective Pressures
• Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making
• Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
• Shockley-Test
• Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism
• Speaking Fee
• Split Level Argument
• Streisand Squeeze
• Surveillance Level Data

T

• Teaching Disabilities
• Tech-Carthyism
• Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)
• Thanksgiving
• The Twin Nuclei Problem
• Thinkquisition
• Thug-Review
• Totalizing Ideologies

U

• Umwelt Hacking
• Universal Basic Forgiveness
• The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)

V

• Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect

W

• White Suit
• Wu-Yang Dictionary