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== Consensus == | |||
There’s no arithmetic consensus because it doesn’t require a consensus. But there is a Washington consensus. There is a climate consensus. “Consensus” is how we bully people into pretending that there’s nothing to see, move along, everyone. And so I think that in part, you should start to learn that people don’t naturally come to high levels of agreement unless something is either absolutely clear, in which case consensus isn’t present, or there’s an implied threat of violence to livelihood or self. | |||
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/) | |||
== Church and Pike commissions == | == Church and Pike commissions == | ||
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== Genius vs Excellence == | == Genius vs Excellence == | ||
== High Agency == | |||
When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it is that’s just told you that you can’t do something? So how am I gonna get past this bouncer who told me that I can’t come into this nightclub? How am I going to start a business when my credit is terrible and I have no experience? You’re constantly looking for what is possible in a kind of MacGyverish sort of a way. And that’s your approach to the world. | |||
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/) | |||
== Irrationality == | == Irrationality == | ||
Irrationality is a feature not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp | Irrationality is a feature not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp. | ||
== It's a beautiful thing == | == It's a beautiful thing == | ||
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== Meaning == | == Meaning == | ||
"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071207012493549568] | "The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071207012493549568] | ||
== Middle Finger == | |||
It's the US’s Competitive Advantage. One of the things that the US still has over, let’s say, a competitor like China is that we tolerate the middle finger. it’s really important to start respecting our marginal citizens of greatest ability, and looking for the unusual personality types that are irreverent and committed enough to making things happen and really do things. | |||
- (https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/) | |||
== Minus epsilon == | == Minus epsilon == | ||