Portal:Ericisms

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:
 * Portal Concepts
 * 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

A

 * Adjective, Occupation, Name Formula
 * Algorithmic Fun House
 * Anthropic Capitalism
 * Anti-Expert
 * Anti-Interesting
 * Anechoic Era
 * Argument as the Frame
 * Artificial Outelligence
 * Audience Capture
 * Audio Samizdat

B

 * Baby-on-Cobalt
 * The Big Nap
 * Borjas Rectangle Theory
 * Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People

C

 * 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

D

 * Deaths of Accountability
 * Degraded State
 * De-Potemkin
 * Digital Wet-work
 * Distributed Denial of Cognition Attack
 * Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
 * Distribution of Empathy
 * Don't screw yourself out of magic
 * Double Rainbow Theory
 * Doubly-Scientific Method

E

 * The Educational Complex
 * Edugenic Harm
 * Effect ‘64
 * Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
 * Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs)
 * Environment of Evolutionary Novelty (EEN)
 * Extractive Elite

F

 * Fact Burning
 * Fact-Checker
 * Facultative Autism
 * Far-Write / Alt-Write
 * Forced Citation

G

 * Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
 * Genius vs Excellence
 * Goliaputian

H

 * High Agency
 * The Hilbert Problem of Social Justice
 * Hypocrisy Budget

I

 * Iago Media
 * Ideological Dining a la Carte
 * Injustice Budget
 * Institutional Evergreening
 * Intellectual Arbitrage
 * Intellectual Dark Web
 * Intellectual Keep-Away
 * Interoperability and Exclusion
 * Intersectional Industrial Complex
 * Intersectional Shakedown

J

 * Jesus Smuggling

K

 * Knarc
 * Kayfabrication

L

 * Law of Gaslighting
 * 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)

M

 * Map the Silences
 * Macropaternalism
 * Madness
 * Message Violence
 * Minus Epsilon

N

 * The N^2 Revolution
 * New Gimmick Economy
 * New Orchards
 * No-Living-Heroes Theory
 * No-Pill

O

 * Observerse
 * Official Copy of Reality
 * The Optics are the Substance

P

 * Paranoid Creep
 * Pathological Goodness
 * Peer Injunction
 * Perfectly Legal
 * Physics Dollars

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

S

 * Seberging
 * Selective Pressures
 * Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making
 * Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
 * Shockley-Test
 * Smart-bait
 * Snap-to-Grid Intellectualism
 * Speaking Fee
 * Split Level Argument
 * Straw-checking
 * Streisand Squeeze
 * Surveillance Level Data

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

U

 * Umwelt Hacking
 * Unhedged
 * Universal Basic Forgiveness
 * Universal Institutional Betrayal
 * The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)

V

 * Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect
 * Victor-Victoria Problem, a.k.a. Pre/Trans Fallacy

W

 * Weaponization of Peer Review
 * White Suit
 * Woke