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[[Eric Weinstein|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 [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligation|EGOs]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc.
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[[Eric Weinstein|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 [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|DISC]], [[Embedded Growth Obligations|EGOs]], [[Gated Institutional Narrative|GIN]], [[Load-Bearing Fictions]], etc., as well as many of Eric's lesser known neologisms and radical redefinitions.  


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'''See also:'''
* [[Portal Concepts]]
* [https://twitter.com/i/events/887835625402941440 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]]


== Minus epsilon ==
== A ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
* [[Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula]]
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[Anthropic Capitalism]]
* [[Anti-Expert]]
* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media |Anechoic Era]]
* [[Argument as the Frame]]
* [[Artificial Outelligence]]
* [[Audience Capture]]
* [[Audio Samizdat]]


== There is no secret ingredient ==
== B ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Don't Screw Yourself Out of Magic ==
== C ==
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[Cardinalization]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[Checker]]
* [[Checksum Theory of Politics]]
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Chihuahua Effect]]
* [[Communication Security Complex]]
* [[Contact with the Unforgiving]]
* [[Contrast Blindness]]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]]


== Resource capture ==
== D ==
== Potemkin village ==
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
== Steel-manning = <br>
* [[Degraded State]]
The steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the exact opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions.
* [[De-Potemkin]]
* [[Digital Wet-work]]
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)]]
* [[Distribution of Empathy]]
* [[Don't screw yourself out of magic]]
* [[Double Rainbow Theory]]


[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]]
== E ==
* [[The Educational Complex]]
* [[Edugenic Harm]]
* [[Effect ‘64]]
* [[Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations|Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)]]
* [[Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]


== Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) ==
== F ==
== Maladaptive strategies ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
== Deaths of accountability ==
* [[Fact-Checker]]
== Adaptive landscape  ==
* [[Facultative Autism]]
== Overton window ==
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
== Selective pressures ==
* [[Forced Citation]]
== Environmental insult ==
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== Gating function ==
== The Big Nap / The long nap ==
== Freedom is an export ==
== Adjective, occupation, name ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en


== E8 ==
== G ==
== Pseudo riemannian geometry ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
== “It's a beautiful thing” ==
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
(In New York City)
* [[Goliaputian]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
 
== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
== H ==
He has steady hands.
* [[High Agency]]
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]
== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
 
== Riding on a technical substrate  ==
== I ==
== Artificial out-teligence  ==
* [[Iago Media]]
== Paraesthetize  ==
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
== Church and pike commissions ==
* [[Injustice Budget]]
== Umwelt ==
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
(1 overarching crisis)
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
== Thinkquisition ==
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
== Artificial out-telligence ==
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]
== Anti-expert  ==
 
== 4 quadrant model ==
== K ==
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
* [[Knarc]]
== De-Potemkinize  ==
* [[Kayfabrication]]
== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
 
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
== L ==
== Potemkin village ==
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
== Peer review ==
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
== Forced citation ==
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
== Operation Cointel pro ==
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
== Kayfabe ==
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
== Twin Nuclei ==
* [[Litella]]
== Efficient Frontier  ==
* [[The Looting Party]]
== The Observerse ==
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
== Anthropic capitalism  ==
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
 
== Genius vs Excellence ==
== M ==
== Samizdat ==
* [[Map the Silences]]
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
* [[Macropaternalism]]
== Adaptive valley ==
* [[Madness]]
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
* [[Message Violence]]
== 4-quadrant model ==
* [[Minus Epsilon]]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
 
== Rent-seeking elites ==
== N ==
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
== “No more heroes” Charles lindberg ==
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
== Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
* [[New Orchards]]
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
== The long nap ==
* [[No-Pill]]
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
 
== A theory is like a newspaper story
== O ==
where/when -> space/time
* [[Observerse]]
who/what -> fermions/bosons
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians)
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]
--Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
 
== Teaching disabilities ==
== P ==
Not Learning Disabilities
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
Differential diagnosis
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
A/B testing
* [[Peer Injunction]]
== Irrationality ==
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
* [[Physics Dollars]]
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
 
== 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|Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism]]
* [[Speaking Fee]]
* [[Split Level Argument]]
* [[Straw-checking]]
* [[Streisand Squeeze]]
* [[Surveillance Level Data]]
 
== T ==
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[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]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]
 
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]
 
== W ==
*Weaponization of Peer Review
*[[White Suit]]
* [[Woke]]
 
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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.

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