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Eric Weinstein Profile picture
@EricRWeinstein
Aug 4, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
You're probably thinking: 'Well, mass shooting arrivals probably follow a Poisson process modified for copy cat effects...so this is a false "bad luck streak" with an N of 2 presented without context."

And this is why I can't really hang with rationalists, despite a math PhD.
Our emotions are telling us something here. They're part of extending our rationality.

Let me make a simple observation: our previous relationship to powerful firearms is simply not going to survive the new trend in lethality we're seeing. That's just an obvious apolitical fact.
Like many Americans, I have both strong pro-gun rights & pro-gun control positions in conflict with each other that I've never really worked out. Many of us carry this internal conflict. Each mass US shooting tilts that argument. I'm tiring of our own helplessness to stop this.

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Jun 12
The title of this @joerogan clip from #1945 is literally: "We might be faking a UFO situation."

OBVIOUSLY.

As I have said before, "When we do something secret and cool, we generally pair it with something fake." This is standard operating proceedure (e.g. Operation Overlord was D-Day/Operation Fortitude was a Faked Norway Invasion). This is what 'Covert' means. Covert means 'Deniable'. Not secret, but *deniable*.

youtu.be/gMJ4cbO88F4?si…
Imho, This @nypost article is **NOT** the big story. That is coming.

CLAIM: We will find that there is a minimum of *one* pair of fake/real programs and that it is much much bigger than the hazing ritual being reported. But, more importantly, there are likely many more such pairs of REAL/FAKE programs in this area.

Yes: we fake UFOs. And yes, there is a REAL Aerospace program that hides under cover of the FAKE UFO program.

But this is not about an Air Force Hazing ritual. This isn't a prank. This is a whole life ruining program where we will find that we regularly destroy the minds of our own people with disinformation and threats to their mental health and families. Military heroes. Scientists. IC spooks.

The real FAKE programs are bigger than this. And the REAL program is also bigger than just conventional Aerospace. I wish to mark this claim now: eventually, this is going to be about the actual SCIENCE of Physics.

I don't think Quantum Gravity as it is practiced is a real research program. It is the obvious candidate for the "inhibitor" that, when added to research, stagnated physics...and it didn't come out of some longstanding program from the birth of quantum mechanics. It came out of nowhere right before we stopped making progress on the Lagrangian of the real world.Image
This is going to explain what @pmarca keeps talking about with @bariweiss, @bhorowitz and others: we took whole areas of physics off line after the Manhattan project and that was *NOT* limited to just the Nuclear Physics of nuclear warheads.
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Apr 15
Your Economics department took orders from 2 senators (Packwood (R) & Moynihan (D)) as an extension of the USG to bury my research w/ P Malaney so that it could fake a 1.1% CPI overstatement to raise Taxes (via indexed brackets) and cut SS payments (via COLAs)!

You are lying. Image
Let me explain the previous slide of Boskin Commissioner Prof. Robert Gordon in plain English.

Harvard’s Samuel W. Morris Professor Dale Jorgenson told the Boskin Commission (created by the senators) that to shave an even one TRiLLION dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) off of social security payments they would merely need to justify an oddly specific 1.1% overstatement in the consumer price index.

Which they did. “Somehow”.

“Somehow” involved destroying anyone who said “CPI doesn’t work like that at all! It’s not a number you can dial to get consequences you like.”

@Harvard: if you want to have me back, I will debate anyone in your economics department as a former member myself that Harvard Economics frequently has acted as an arm of the USG to bury research or dissenting experts that contradicted the narratives set in DC.

We can discuss trade as well as immigration.

If you were standing for academic independence, I would be shoulder to shoulder with you. But you are disguising the actual relationship between Harvard and the Federal Government where Harvard often academically launders government narratives to push policy objectives down the throats of ordinary Americans as favors to power and DC.
So how do the big boys play?

First: Peer review before publication is for the little people: Image
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Mar 19
Learning a lot. Or maybe I am just getting confused. I will take this down if it is all wrong. There just isn't a lot of guidance as to what I am looking at.

Q: Am I to understand that King Abdullah of Jordan had/has a Jewish Brother because the CIA procured a Jewish Starlet for King Hussein? That can't be right.

Or that the CIA will build an entire set in the United States from a photograph of a room taken in Moscow, hire Actors and 'Actresses' that resemble both foreign leaders and their female associates, and shoot naughty short films in Los Angeles to look like a tryst took place in a room in Russia?Image
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Like just using Hollywood magic and knowhow to destroy leaders based on the fear of being called 'Conspiracy Theorists'? Think about it. The leader is confronted with incontrovertible cinematic and photographic evidence that something happened in Moscow that actually happened in Los Angeles!Image
And when the individual says: "That is not true!" they sound like an insane person. Why?

Because of the epithet 'Conspiracy Theorist'! This is so brilliant.

This was called "image cheapening" in the trade.

Here the CIA is acting as a film company, financing risque short films to appear as as-if "fake documentaries", to remove leaders by cheapening their images.Image
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Jan 31
Q: How do you know someone does not know mathematics?

A: They are focused on beating China/India in math rather than France.

Q: How do you know if they don’t understand labor markets?

A: They claim we need “The best and the brightest!” when it’s actually a *value* competition. Image
We are having a discussion about mathematics led by business people who don’t actually themselves believe in mathematical expertise or labor market analysis or even free markets.

I don’t know what they think mathematics is. It’s very expensive to hire The Best & The Brightest. Image
Looking to China/India in math is the *same* problem as looking up to Super Models and Boxers as role models.

I don’t think this is about mathematics.

I think this is about value for employers.

And I want it debated.

Mathematics remains dominated by Europe and North America: Image
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Dec 13, 2024
People want my speculation on 'drones' over the East Coast.

Let's take note of the following: I am not hearing ANYONE say "Let's get smart people together with resources."

At this point I don't take *anyone* seriously in USG who doesn't ask to convene smart people & resources.
This is simple.

A) You call up smart people & tell them it's urgent.
B) You tell them where you want them to go.
C) You send transport to go get them.
D) You tell them they have full access to information.
E) You tell them they have whatever resources they need.

If not, that says it all.
If they are not trying to figure this out, then there is some *reason* they are not trying to resolve this. But I see no signs of trying to quickly resolve this…even if the claim is that it is a panic or mass psychosis.
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Oct 1, 2024
Iran
Israel
Ukraine
S. Lebanon
Yemen

All in play at the same time.

The U.S. has something like 11 Carrier Strike Groups. At some point, this becomes opportunistic, as the game theory goes multipolar. Similar to when police forces or hospitals are stretched by surge demand. Image
Who is the de facto commander in chief?

It can’t be Biden.

Same question I have been asking since the 2020 election. I know it’s boring. But it matters. And it could matter a whole lot more on *very* short notice.

Let’s hope it doesn’t go that way.
I’ve never seen war. I have seen peacetime and peacetime extraction.

Joe Biden is a peacetime president.

Think about what is going on and reaction times in the era of hypersonics.

Should more theaters enter into play (e.g. N Korea, Taiwan) The person at the helm needs to be 100% percent present with razor sharp decision making on low information.

On very little sleep. Night after night.

Now watch this again:
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