Eric Weinstein is a Mathematician, Economist, and a frequent public speaker on a variety of subjects within the sciences. Slate Star Codex is a blog by Scott Alexander about human cognition, politics, and medicine. I don't know. Yes, our government developed a plan for rounding up people who could contradict the GIN. Rather, something solemn about Justice and Freedom and Democracy and The Good and Fairness and Meritocracy is being upheld. And the info theory list? "Litella, v: to become politically & publicly outraged by one's own misinterpretation of the opinions of others. He proposes that our current cultural predicament was caused by our loss of Semi-Reliable Communal Sense-making. 2005), technological ("What is the most important invention in the last two thousand years ... and why?" Someone will reword what they've said in explanation to him and he'll just say no no no it's more than that too though. This originates from the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in mathematics. And do they really believe what they say or are they being deceptive? Where are we going? Let us consider this list as The Shadow of ourselves, vis a vis what we'd. They both have a narrative. So then, you know, the issue was that the limbo bar was so low because we didn't want people dying to show that we were completely incompetent. And in both, my vision for the future is one where we understand that for reasons, there are politics, there are philosophies, there are aesthetics that we find compelling. ", etc): the system is preserved. The Big Nap—at least in the developed free world—was essentially characterized as a run of extraordinary relative good luck and serenity (at least by the historical standards set by previous world wars, pandemics, depressions, and depressions), where the new gathering storm clouds of the Cold War threatened and menaced in the distance, but the skies directly above remained unprecedentedly clear. And now, after a few decades of writing and thinking about it, he's maybe the foremost thinker on deception from biology on up to humans. Wait, there's more. Rumor Roundup: Undisputed ERA plans, Peyton Royce, NXT call-ups, more! Can anyone use kayfabe-theory to make any real world predictions? The Overton Window doesn't describe everything about how politics works, but it does describe one key thing: Politicians will not support whatever policy they choose whenever they choose; rather, they will only espouse policies that they believe do not hurt their electoral chances. In the blogpost from four days ago, I briefly discussed Edward O. Wilson. I mean, how else do you square the statement that Eric made about how his whole immediate family deserve Nobel prizes for their thinking? That is, the portrayal of professional wrestling as being genuine or not worked. And we would all be better served to know this term and its mechanisms. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. And if that sounds crazy to you, you actually have a problem because this is fully documented.
They may as well be different species, different goals, misaligned. He might or might not be making sense but he uses almost exclusively technical jargon and makes no effort to use common speech in his explanations. 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. It sounds a lot to me like E8 and quasi crystals which are legitimate theories in quantum gravity research. Back in the day when I used to use a lot of speed me and friends would talk in riddles like that when we were charging through day 3 of a bender.
Restrictionist in this context is an immigration restrictionist, that is derided as a Xenophobic perspective. He has made me question my role in the political Show, and now I'm far more ironic about it all, but I'm verging away. As you mentioned, Eric similarly did this with his “unpublished” (read: unpublishable) unifying theory of quantum and classical mechanics—despite being told by the physics community that his theory is unfalsifiable and not backed by anything analytically or empirically based. Weinstein is great at managing investments and he's certainly a skilled mathematician but insufferable. It appears so. A "scientific concept" may come from philosophy, logic, economics, jurisprudence, or other analytic enterprises, as long as it is a rigorous conceptual tool that may be summed up succinctly (or "in a phrase") but has broad application to understanding the world. The No Name Revolution, or N^2 Revolution, is the name Eric has given crisis we are currently facing. He mentioned on Rogan he would take this approach and while I understand he doesn't want to get into a confrontation he gave Weinstein an easy out here.
So everybody should stay home so that we don't have deaths due to triage, as opposed to deaths due to the Coronavirus." Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. "It's perfectly legal" – something ethically dubious may be going on.
But there is a Washington consensus. Perhaps this is the case with Eric. Or between a legal proof, a proof in the behavioral sciences, a proof in physics, a mathematical or logical proof, or a parody of any of the above. This is the sum total of the DISC, EGOs, and Load-Bearing Fictions being realized. Theoretical physics practically created the modern economy: These are not simply taxpayer dollars. When ants communicate via very elaborate pheromones, the lying has its limits, it seems, at least compared to our signaling systems.
"Unintimidated by power or authority." The last universal polymath? Is deceit built into the fabric of all biology? It thus describes a rule according to which the actors in this This idea was shared with Eric on Dec, 07, 2017. Who knew Pro Wrestling had the potential to be intellectually stimulating? They began as physics dollars. ), "spin," fakes, secrecy, claims of "transparency," the information deformations that occur within status hierarchies, advertising and PR and hypnotic techniques, etc. It's a shame because he is very bright and when he manages to be more coherent and humble he is actually very interesting. It occurred to me, reading this in conjunction with Ribbonfarm's The Maginot Line, the kayfabe goes a way towards explaining the current "battle" between journalism and social media - with the primary motivation being not commitment to truth but annoyance that the locus of ideological control has shifted away from reporters - "Activists with Bi-lines" - towards social media trolls - "Activists without blue checkmarks" (The trolls caused Brexit!!).
A xenophile is a person with intense interest/love for other cultures, this is normally paired with an open borders policy. So here we have a reason for truthfulness that's not lame-brained ("The Bible sez..." or "good people tell the truth! 4 0 obj The Overweening Generalist is largely about people who like to read fat, weighty "difficult" books - or thin, profound ones - and how I/They/We stand in relation to the hyper-acceleration of digital social-media-tized culture. The reality is—for both brothers—that smarter people than them have actually looked at what seem on the surface to be these structural problems with how we interpret their respective subfields, they just don’t care because most of their ideas are relatively inconsequential.
The default should be that this is the way the world normally works: that wasn't an anomaly. Each year Edge poses a question in an attempt to get various thinkers from various backgrounds around the world to chime in with their own answers and interpretations.
Here's 7 minutes of Chomsky and Trivers, riffing on the topic of deception: Inventor of the essay form, a proto-Overweening Generalist, unacknowledged pioneer in neurolinguistics, San Francisco-based independent scholar of contemporary esoterica, Philip K. Dick, author of Techgnosis. He's trying too hard to be profound. This created a bizarre developmental environment where the serenity of the Big Nap led to a worldwide epidemic of magical thinking among the expert and leadership classes that were raised during this time.