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.

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

Adaptive Valley

• Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness

Anthropic Capitalism

Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy

Oral Torah

The Oral Torah is the set of traditional laws which are associated written texts... but not written.

Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing

Mentioned in ep25

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.

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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

Split Level Argument

Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".