164-165) They are (a) intentionality, (b) forethought, (c) self-reactiveness, and (d) self-reflection. So how am I gonna get past this bouncer who told me that I can’t come into this nightclub? The Shadow would be all that which is...less than trustworthy? 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. Eric has referred to the Big 5 Personality Traits as a person's hedonic composition. In a recent podcast, Lex Fridman tries to get Eric Weinstein to explain his Geometric Unity theory as if he was writing "G.U. That's sorta why I'm "here.". This is what I say to every Jewish person, like, you're sitting around waiting for the bread to rise, because they all know the story, which is you eat the goddamn matzah because the people who waited for the bread to rise are no longer with us; their descendants are no longer with us. Listen to him describe how a tree grows in mass, compare that to how Weinstein tries to explain his theory. How isn’t this just insight porn? (in ethology) The world as it is experienced by a particular organism. (Source). In comparison, his explanations on podcasts would seem incomprehensible to most students of physics let alone the common person or his host -- this I think he MUST realize, but acts as if it is no issue.

In this instance I'm referring to the term 'Kayfabe' which coincidentally enough I used in the headline of a recent article. And do they really believe what they say or are they being deceptive?

I think it's impressive that this was written back in 2011, before I think this sort of thing was much more obvious...as it's not the first time I've seen this sort of analysis, although certainly sometimes it goes much deeper. 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. As Weinstein says, The people in these spaces are typically acting in ways that engage the audience while insulating themselves from actual risk of humiliation or career derailment. Four core properties of human agency were described in Bandura (2006b, pp. Note: neither group suffered for not knowing. 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. Most of them know you either publish or you keep working. From. And so we were trying to avoid deaths of accountability, which would be triage deaths. ", "A leveraging effect where a small amount of violence results in the maximum amount of preference falsification.". Weinstein says that, if you're wondering why there are no investigative journalists doing the real work they used to do and seemingly "bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts," we'd understand this better if we knew what a kayfabe is. Thanks for the kind woids, as always. ", "The meaning of my life is the progressing struggle to impart meaning to meaning."

: Of a case where the letter of the law has been arbitraged against its spirit (see Pettifog).". This might be unlikely, but what if, for personal gain or some other reason, Eric Weinstein's 'Geometric Unity' is actually him practicing Kayfabe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR88KR4sg-w, It's more about working with the e8 I think. What we don't know is what happened since Church/Pike. And we would all be better served to know this term and its mechanisms.

Edelman seemed to wonder too.)

Eric is probably a great quant in his field and could do so much to help the hapless with finances, and make Peter Thiel accessible to millions. Humankind has lived in Game A since we have escaped the Dunbar limit. However the most intelligent Physicists in recent times could at least communicate the basics of their ideas to common people (you don't have to be Richard Feynman level). We are so unprepared as a nation, and we have been sold out for so long by our self-appointed leadership class who nobody wants, that we either remember who we are and how this game is played—I mean, this is like, this is a pre-war footing. Such unwelcome sportsmanship which "breaks Kayfabe" is called "shooting" to distinguish it from the expected scripted deception called "working". 2 0 obj Meaning: You can extract money from people who have no say in the matter. This seems something like our financial system now, "an altered reality of layered falsehoods, in which nothing can be assumed to be as it appears."

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. [3], The analysis of message violence: "that there is certain violence that is committed theatrically as an instrument of transmission to induce preference falsification. Eric's go-to for this a "Xenophilic Restrictionist". : Weird Al Yankovic Tries to Make Sense of the Disastrous Trump vs. Biden “Debate”, Pendley Lawsuit Proceeds Toward Removing “De Facto” Park Service Director, The Human Error Darwin Inspired - Issue 90: Something Green, New article: "The Interstellar Corridors of Killah Priest's Rocket to Nebula", Daisy Eris offers advice for creating a show, The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry, How The CIA learned to rock by Jeet Heer (excerpt), Team Human Serialization #37 & 38: The Damage We Do to Ourselves When We Try to Function Like Computers. Now, irony and provocation being two of my favorite tropes from intellectuals, I appreciate Edelman's. ~ Eric on JRE #1453 @ 36 min.

(E Weinstein 2011) Erics Original Edge.org Response relating to Kayfabe Break it down with us here. 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. Bret Weinstein's term for the existential position humanity faces. 1 0 obj To test Weinstein's suggestion and to explore the productivity of kayfabe… Question from the OG: Where is The Shadow? The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions. I think people actively play these roles, because we innately recognize and respect what they look like, however, the conventional wisdom is that "tweener" (people who are between or outside the spectrum between those two poles) characters don't sell. As Trivers elaborated on reciprocal altruism, he began to concentrate on something that seemed to spin out of it: deception. Deception and deception-detection is isomorphic to the war between encrypton and cracking in cryptography. - 2010). We should be very, very worried. A spellbinding speaker, The late 20th century counterculture's most luminous Generalist, One of America's great public intellectuals, Explains how current neuroscience reflects on philosophy, One of the great Generalists of the 18th century, great academic Generalist & neo-pragmatist, towering Palestinian intellectual, author of Orientialism, One of my local neighborhood pathways in North Berkeley. “Consensus” is how we bully people into pretending that there’s nothing to see, move along, everyone. And it is time to revolt.

Is deceit built into the fabric of all biology? His most recent Joe Rogan interview was the same way.

The Singularitarian. he loves making up terms that he refuses to define and then uses them liberally as if everyone should know exactly what he means.

But the institutions and acts tend to serve to more or less. The more I hear from him, the more I question whether or not he wants to be understood. Good guests. 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. Lord Byron's daughter and world's first computer programmer? 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. 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. Medium article: Some thoughts on Xenophile-Restrictionism, "We Jews have a tradition that I wish everybody had, which is that we read one stupid story every God damn year, just to drill it into your head to make sure it's always fresh. Read More, 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 other words when performers stay in character when off the TV screen and are visible in the public eye in order to maintain a continuity of attempted realism, most notably that of a fake (worked) injury caused by a rival 'enemy' or just generally the sense of holding a grudge while feuding with another character. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I understand his situation as the following: He has no background in Physics but claims to have independently found the theory of everything (TOE) - something that Einstein and many others worked most of their life to solve. Eric has referred to The Big Nap as the era characterized by magical thinking and extraordinary luck between the end of World War II and 2020 the emergence of COVID-19. ~Eric on Tim Ferriss. This wisecrack video explores the idea as well.

In the 1970's, There’s no arithmetic consensus because it doesn’t require a consensus. And that’s your approach to the world. "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. 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. Mandatory link to Scott's alternative tumblr on the post about Kayfabe theology, Enkidu and Donald Trump. "I don't know Pro Wrestling terminology and I think I'm probably a lot more informed because of it" - Luke Thomas. Harvey Epstein didn’t kill Jeffery Weinstein Another WWE Hall of Famer has announced a presidential bid, but this one is not quite as clever as Trump COVID-19 can be transmitted via mandible claw, eye gouge, fish-hook, abdominal stretch, pointing at the WrestleMania sign, chanting “What?