Ericisms
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.
Minus epsilon
This originates from the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in mathematics.
There is no secret ingredient
This is a line from Eric's favorite movie, Kung Fu Panda.
Don't Screw Yourself Out of Magic
Resource capture
Potemkin village
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.
Intellectual Dark Web (IDW)
Maladaptive strategies
Deaths of accountability
Adaptive landscape
Overton window
Selective pressures
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
Pseudo riemannian geometry
“It's a beautiful thing”
(In New York City) Meaning: You can extract money from people with no say in the matter
Steady hands (in Washington)
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
EEA environment of evolutionary adaptation
Riding on a technical substrate
Artificial out-teligence
Paraesthetize
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.
Semi-reliable communal sense making
Dining a la carte philosophically/politically/ideologically
Potemkin village
Peer review
Forced citation
Operation Cointel pro
Kayfabe
Twin Nuclei
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
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
Gated institutional narrative (GIN)
(https://en.everybodywiki.com/Gated_Institutional_Narrative)
The Long Nap
Russell conjugates / Emotive Conjugates
== 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) --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