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
A/B Testing
Adaptive Landscape
Adaptive Valley
Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula
Agency
Agentic Leadership
Anthropic Capitalism
Anti-Expert
Anti-Fragility
Anti-Interesting
Artificial Outelligence
Audience Capture
Audio Samizdat
The Big 5 Personality Traits
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
It's a beautiful thing
Injustice Budget
Institutional Betrayal
Kayfabe
Knarc
Long-Form Podcasting
Litella
The Looting Party
Long Term vs Short Term Optimization
Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
Maladaptive strategies
Meaning
Message Violence
Middle Finger
Minus Epsilon
The N^2 Revolution
New Gimmick Economy
New Orchards
No Living Heroes
Operation COINTELPRO
Oral Torah
Overton Window
Perfectly Legal
Physics Dollars
Potemkin Village
Preference Falsification
Rent-seeking Elites
Reputational Violence
Resource Capture
Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
Riding on a technical substrate
Rough Space
Seberging
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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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:
Skadoosh
Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
Speaking Fee
Split Level Argument
Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".