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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.  


See also: [[Eric Weinstein Quotes]]
'''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]]


__TOC__
== A ==
* [[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]]


== A/B testing ==
== B ==
* [[The Big Nap]]
* [[Borjas Rectangle Theory]]
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]]


== Adaptive landscape  ==
== C ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs]]
* [[Cardinalization]]
* [[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]]


== Adaptive valley ==
== D ==
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
* [[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]]


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


== Anthropic capitalism  ==
== F ==
* [[Fact Burning]]
* [[Fact-Checker]]
* [[Facultative Autism]]
* [[Far-Write / Alt-Write]]
* [[Forced Citation]]


== Anti-expert  ==
== G ==
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]]
* [[Genius vs Excellence]]
* [[Goliaputian]]


== Anti-interesting ==
== H ==
* [[High Agency]]
* [[The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice]]
* [[Hypocrisy Budget]]


== Artificial out-telligence ==
== 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]]


== Church and Pike commissions ==
== K ==
* [[Knarc]]
* [[Kayfabrication]]


== Deaths of accountability ==
== 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)]]


== De-Potemkin ==
== M ==
Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Macropaternalism]]
* [[Madness]]
* [[Message Violence]]
* [[Minus Epsilon]]


[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter]
== N ==
* [[The N^2 Revolution]]
* [[New Gimmick Economy]]
* [[New Orchards]]
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]]
* [[No-Pill]]


== Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically ==
== O ==
* [[Observerse]]
* [[Official Copy of Reality]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]


== Don't screw yourself out of magic ==
== P ==
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
* [[Paranoid Creep]]
* https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
* [[Pathological Goodness]]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Perfectly Legal]]
* [[Physics Dollars]]


== Environment of evolutionary adaptation ==
== 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]]


== Efficient Frontier  ==
== 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]]


== Environmental insult ==
== 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]]


== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands ==
== U ==
* [[Umwelt Hacking]]
* [[Unhedged]]
* [[Universal Basic Forgiveness]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]


== Forced citation ==
== V ==
* [[Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect]]
* [[Victor-Victoria Problem|Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy]]


== Gating function ==
== W ==
 
*Weaponization of Peer Review
== Genius vs Excellence ==
*[[White Suit]]
 
* [[Woke]]
== Irrationality ==
Irrationality is a feature not a bug. It gives us the ability to Camp and decamp
 
== It's a beautiful thing ==
This originates from New York City.
 
Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter.
 
Related: "It's perfectly legal" – something ethically dubious may be going on.
 
== Kayfabe ==
 
== Long term vs short term optimization ==
 
== Long/short positions (nuanced positions) ==
 
== Maladaptive strategies ==
 
== Meaning ==
"The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning." [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071207012493549568]
 
== Minus epsilon ==
This originates from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit epsilon-delta definition] of a limit in mathematics.
 
== No more heroes ==
 
== Operation Cointel pro ==
 
== Overton window ==
 
== Potemkin village ==
 
== Rent-seeking elites ==
 
== Resource capture ==
 
== Riding on a technical substrate ==
 
== Samizdat ==
The clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe.
 
== Selective pressures ==
 
== Semi-reliable communal sense-making ==
 
== Steady hands ==
This originates from Washington D.C.
 
"He has steady hands." You can count on him to do the wrong thing during an emergency to keep everyone on the inside okay Everyone on the inside is super dependent to burn all of their credibility in public
 
== Steel-manning ==
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.
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#steelmanning Steelmanning]
 
== Teaching disabilities ==
Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis
 
== Terms of Service ==
 
References:
* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896
* https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071216823742291968
 
== The Observerse ==
 
== There is no secret ingredient ==
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
 
== Thinkquisition ==
 
== TIM - Technology Intelligence Media ==
 
== Umwelt ==
''(in ethology)'' The world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
 
 
 
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where/when -> space/time
who/what -> fermions/bosons
how/why -> rules/what generates the rules (equations and lagrangians) -->
 
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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.

See also:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

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