Ericisms

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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.

See also:

• Portal Concepts
• 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

A

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

B

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

C

• Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs
• Cardinalization
• Checker
• Checksum Theory of Politics
• Chess-Opening Problem
• Contact with the Unforgiving
• Contrast Blindness
• Critical Feeling
• Cult of the Art of the Possible

D

• Deaths of Accountability
• Degraded State
• De-Potemkin
• Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
• Distribution of Empathy
• Don't screw yourself out of magic
• Double Rainbow Theory

E

• The Educational Complex
• Edugenic Harm
• Effect ‘64
• Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
• Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)
• Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)
• Extractive Elite

F

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

G

• Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
• Genius vs Excellence
• Goliaputian

H

• High Agency
• Hypocrisy Budget

I

• Iago Media
• Ideological Dining a la Carte
• Injustice Budget
• Institutional Betrayal
• Institutional Evergreening
• Intellectual Dark Web
• Intellectual Keep-Away
• Interoperability and Exclusion
• Intersectional Shakedown

K

• Knarc
• Kayfabrication

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

• Map the Silences
• Macropaternalism
• Madness
• Message Violence
• Minus Epsilon

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

P

• Paranoid Creep
• Pathological Goodness
• Perfectly Legal
• Physics Dollars

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

S

• Seberging
• Selective Pressures
• Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making
• Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
• Shockley-Test
• Smart-bait
• 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 Big Nap
• The Twin Nuclei Problem
• Thinkquisition
• Thug-Review
• Totalizing Ideologies
• Trauma Cluster
• Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace

U

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

V

• Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect
• Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy

W

• Weaponization of Peer Review
• White Suit
• Woke