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== A/B | == A/B Testing == | ||
A/B testing (also known as bucket testing or split-run testing) is a user experience research methodology. A/B tests consist of a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B. It includes application of statistical hypothesis testing or "two-sample hypothesis testing" as used in the field of statistics. A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable, typically by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the two variants is more effective. ([https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing Source]) | A/B testing (also known as bucket testing or split-run testing) is a user experience research methodology. A/B tests consist of a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B. It includes application of statistical hypothesis testing or "two-sample hypothesis testing" as used in the field of statistics. A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable, typically by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the two variants is more effective. ([https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing Source]) | ||
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* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness | * Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness | ||
== Adaptive | == Adaptive Valley == | ||
* Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness | * Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness | ||
== Adjective, | == Adjective, Occupation, Name == | ||
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en | https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en | ||
== Anthropic | == Anthropic Capitalism == | ||
[https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy] | [https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy] | ||
== Anti- | == Anti-Expert == | ||
== Anti- | == Anti-Fragility | ||
== Anti-Interesting == | |||
== Artificial Outelligence == | == Artificial Outelligence == | ||
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/0j9dxbB4Z1o | https://www.youtube.com/embed/0j9dxbB4Z1o | ||
== | == The Big 5 Personality Traits == | ||
== Church and Pike Commissions == | |||
== Church and Pike | |||
Were two parallel committees run in the US House and Senate investigating illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the 1970's | Were two parallel committees run in the US House and Senate investigating illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the 1970's | ||
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[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter98_99/art07.html The CIA themselves on the Pike Committee] | [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter98_99/art07.html The CIA themselves on the Pike Committee] | ||
== Deaths of | == 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/) | |||
== The Cosmic Spelling Bee == | |||
== Critical Feeling == "You're over-feeling this." | |||
== Deaths of Accountability == | |||
== De-Potemkin == | == De-Potemkin == | ||
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[https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/833384503817101312 Twitter] | ||
== Dining a la | == Dining a la Carte Philosophically/Politically/Ideologically == | ||
The concept that you can take parts of different ideologies that you find beneficial without swallowing the whole group of other ideas that typically come along with that ideology. | The concept that you can take parts of different ideologies that you find beneficial without swallowing the whole group of other ideas that typically come along with that ideology. | ||
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A system of selective political, economic, and memetic pressures resulting in a cult of the teaching profession which prioritizes the careerist desires of the educators over the learning needs of the students. | A system of selective political, economic, and memetic pressures resulting in a cult of the teaching profession which prioritizes the careerist desires of the educators over the learning needs of the students. | ||
== Efficient Frontier == | |||
== Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism == | |||
== Environment of evolutionary adaptation == | == Environment of evolutionary adaptation == | ||
== Environmental insult == | == Environmental insult == | ||
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== Escher's Hands Drawing Hands == | == Escher's Hands Drawing Hands == | ||
== Forced | == Forced Citation == | ||
== Fragility of Masculinity == | |||
== Game B == | |||
== Gating function == | == Gating function == | ||
== Gene Drive == | |||
A genetic engineering technology that propagates a particular suite of genes throughout a population by altering that a specific allele will be transmitted to offspring from the natural 50% probability. | |||
== Genius vs Excellence == | == Genius vs Excellence == | ||
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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] | ||
== Message Violence == | |||
== Middle Finger == | == Middle Finger == | ||
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== Overton window == | == Overton window == | ||
== Potemkin | == Potemkin Village == | ||
== Rent-seeking elites == | == Rent-seeking elites == | ||
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* https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896 | * https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896 | ||
* https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071216823742291968 | * https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071216823742291968 | ||
== The Twin Nuclei Problem == | |||
== The Observerse == | == The Observerse == | ||
Revision as of 00:28, 14 May 2020
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: Eric Weinstein Quotes
A/B Testing
A/B testing (also known as bucket testing or split-run testing) is a user experience research methodology. A/B tests consist of a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B. It includes application of statistical hypothesis testing or "two-sample hypothesis testing" as used in the field of statistics. A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable, typically by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the two variants is more effective. (Source)
Reference: [1] Discussed in the context of adding “differential diagnosis” to our educators’ toolkit so that teaching disabled educators can learn how to add to better instruct students rather than externalizations the blame for their inadequate methods onto into the students.
Adaptive landscape
- Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
Adaptive Valley
- Sewall Wright's theory of adaptive landscapes of fitness
Adjective, Occupation, Name
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/955117591378329606?lang=en
Anthropic Capitalism
Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy
Anti-Expert
== Anti-Fragility
Anti-Interesting
Artificial Outelligence
Artificial Outelligence, n: An unintelligent computer system that evolves by hijacking the minds it dupes & outwits.
Example:
The Bass designs false fish used by the mussels to better parasitize the bass.
It’s one thing to think & talk about the risks of unintelligent agents using *our* brains to outsmart ourselves. Another to see such examples in nature:
References
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/867050623174295552?s=21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8s0tp9yzY
https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1116065653847285760?s=21
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0j9dxbB4Z1o
The Big 5 Personality Traits
Church and Pike Commissions
Were two parallel committees run in the US House and Senate investigating illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the 1970's
References and Links:
Church Committee
Brookings institute on the Church Committee
Pike Committee
Wikipedia on the Pike Committee
The CIA themselves on the Pike Committee
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/)
The Cosmic Spelling Bee
== Critical Feeling == "You're over-feeling this."
Deaths of Accountability
De-Potemkin
Depotemkin, verb: To create the missing reality that a façade was originally constructed to suggest was present.
Dining a la Carte Philosophically/Politically/Ideologically
The concept that you can take parts of different ideologies that you find beneficial without swallowing the whole group of other ideas that typically come along with that ideology.
Erics go-to for this a "Xenophilic Restrictionist".
A xenophile is a person with intense interest/love for other cultures, this is normally paired with an open borders policy.
Restrictionist in this context is an immigration restrictionist, that is derided as a Xenophobic perspective.
Thus a "Xenophilic Restrictionist" would be viewed as an oxymoron/contradiction in terms without decoupling them from their typically associated ideologies.
Other Commentary and Links
Medium article: Some thoughts on Xenophile-Restrictionism
Don't screw yourself out of magic
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169339966477852673
- https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milnor
The Educational Complex
A system of selective political, economic, and memetic pressures resulting in a cult of the teaching profession which prioritizes the careerist desires of the educators over the learning needs of the students.
Efficient Frontier
Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
Environment of evolutionary adaptation
Environmental insult
Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
Forced Citation
Fragility of Masculinity
Game B
Gating function
Gene Drive
A genetic engineering technology that propagates a particular suite of genes throughout a population by altering that a specific allele will be transmitted to offspring from the natural 50% probability.
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 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.
Injustice Budget
Kayfabe
"A rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe"." (E Weinstein 2011)
Erics Original Edge.org Response relating to Kayfabe
The Looting Party
Episode 27, 1:46:00:
- when Bill Clinton decided that he couldn't take yet another loss to the Republican party, he was going to start experimenting with republicanism inside of the democratic party. By that point, we had two parties that more or less were two flavors of the same thing. I refer to that collective as the looting party.
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." [2]
Message Violence
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
This originates from the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in mathematics.
New Gimmick economy
Anthropic Capitalism & the New Gimmick Economy
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
Split Level Argument
Related to the "Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine".
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.
Teaching disabilities
Not Learning Disabilities Differential diagnosis
Terms of Service
References:
- https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1071092543536848896
- https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1071216823742291968
The Twin Nuclei Problem
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.
Vampire syndrome
"Sensible people who live on the internet and are saying dangerous things cannot be reflected inside of institutional media because it's an official structure." [3]