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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 ==
* [[Deaths of Accountability]]
* [[Degraded State]]
* [[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]]


== Potemkin village ==
== 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]]


== Steel-manning ==
== F ==
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.
* [[Fact Burning]]
* [[Fact-Checker]]
* [[Facultative Autism]]
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
* [[Forced Citation]]


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
== G ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
* [[Goliaputian]]


== Maladaptive strategies ==
== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== Deaths of accountability ==
== I ==
* [[Iago Media]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Injustice Budget]]
* [[Institutional Evergreening]]
* [[Intellectual Dark Web]]
* [[Intellectual Keep-Away]]
* [[Interoperability and Exclusion]]
* [[Intersectional Industrial Complex]]
* [[Intersectional Shakedown]]


== Adaptive landscape  ==
== K ==
* [[Knarc]]
* [[Kayfabrication]]


== Overton window ==
== L ==
* [[The Least Interesting, Interesting Thing]]
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
* [[Load-Bearing Hornets]]
* [[Long-Form Podcasting]]
* [[Limbic Business Model]]
* [[Litella]]
* [[The Looting Party]]
* [[Long Term vs Short Term Optimization]]
* [[Long/short positions (nuanced positions)]]


== Selective pressures ==
== M ==
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]


== Environmental insult ==
== N ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]


== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
== O ==
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]


== Gating function ==
== P ==
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]


== Adjective, occupation, name ==
== R ==
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en
* [[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]]


== “It's a beautiful thing” ==
== S ==
(In New York City)
* [[Seberging]]
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
* [[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]]


== Steady hands (in Washington) ==
== T ==
He has steady hands.
* [[Teaching Disabilities]]
You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay
* [[Tech-Carthyism]]
Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
* [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)]]
* [[Tensionist]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[The Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Thinkquisition]]
* [[Thug-Review]]
* [[Totalizing Ideologies]]
* [[Trauma Cluster]]
* [[Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace]]


== EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]


== Riding on a technical substrate ==
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]


== Artificial out-teligence  ==
== W ==
 
*Weaponization of Peer Review
== Paraesthetize  ==
*[[White Suit]]
 
* [[Woke]]
== Church and Pike commissions ==
 
== Umwelt ==
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
 
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
(1 overarching crisis)
 
== Thinkquisition ==
 
== Artificial out-telligence ==
 
== Anti-expert  ==
 
== 4 quadrant model ==
 
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
 
== De-Potemkin ==
 
Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
 
[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
 
== Semi-reliable communal sense making ==
 
== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
 
== Potemkin village ==
 
== Peer review ==
 
== Forced citation ==
 
== Operation Cointel pro ==
 
== Kayfabe ==
 
== Efficient Frontier  ==
 
== The Observerse ==
 
== Anthropic capitalism  ==
 
== Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness ==
 
== Genius vs Excellence ==
 
== Samizdat ==
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
 
== Adaptive valley ==
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
 
== 4-quadrant model ==
https://www.google.com/amp/s/everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/four-quadrant-model-eric-weinstein/amp
 
== Rent-seeking elites ==
 
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
 
== “No more heroes” Charles Lindberg ==
 
== Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates ==
 
 
== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
 
== Teaching disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities
Differential diagnosis
 
== A/B testing ==
 
== Irrationality ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug.
It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
 
 
<!-- == E8 ==
== Pseudo riemannian geometry == -->
 
<!-- == A theory is like a newspaper story
where/when -> space/time
who/what -> fermions/bosons
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians) -->
 
<!-- == Gated institutional narrative (GIN) ==
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
== The Long Nap == -->


<!-- == Freedom is an export == -->
<!-- == Freedom is an export == -->


<!-- == Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) == -->
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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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