Subjecting someone to an actual mob or conspiracy, trite as the circumstances may seem to outside observers (YouTube demonitization, meh - letting your job for saying it's racist to kick white people off campus, bigger deal) is a great way to send someone down a paranoid path.
What do you think of Eric? Is he nutty as well? Case study: He…
Subjecting someone to an actual mob or conspiracy, trite as the circumstances may seem to outside observers (YouTube demonitization, meh - letting your job for saying it's racist to kick white people off campus, bigger deal) is a great way to send someone down a paranoid path.
What do you think of Eric? Is he nutty as well? Case study: He thinks his wife was ousted from economics to prevent a new physics-informed econ theory (that he helped with) from yielding a more accurate CPI calculation ... so that the bureau of labor statistics can continue to lie about the cost of living in order to keep academic wages low ... so that STEM departments can keep hiring cheap foreign exchange students ... resulting in US talent being wasted (something like that, there might be more branching implicationsi haven't captured). Personally, I find a lot of his observations extremely compelling, especially about the frustrating stagnation of scientific progress, the smothering influence of gerontocracy, and the abandonment of liberal ideals and meritocracy in elite institutions. But I'm not sure I'm capable of adjudicating his ideas as explanatory theories, so much as I'm just glad someone is at least calling the emperor naked and bringing the level of conversation up a notch to this higher vantage point.
I saw Eric Weinstein on Rogan claiming pompously to have created a "theory of everything" that would, well, like unify physics and explain all the universe.
I think that's more than enough to make your mind up about the guy.
Subjecting someone to an actual mob or conspiracy, trite as the circumstances may seem to outside observers (YouTube demonitization, meh - letting your job for saying it's racist to kick white people off campus, bigger deal) is a great way to send someone down a paranoid path.
What do you think of Eric? Is he nutty as well? Case study: He thinks his wife was ousted from economics to prevent a new physics-informed econ theory (that he helped with) from yielding a more accurate CPI calculation ... so that the bureau of labor statistics can continue to lie about the cost of living in order to keep academic wages low ... so that STEM departments can keep hiring cheap foreign exchange students ... resulting in US talent being wasted (something like that, there might be more branching implicationsi haven't captured). Personally, I find a lot of his observations extremely compelling, especially about the frustrating stagnation of scientific progress, the smothering influence of gerontocracy, and the abandonment of liberal ideals and meritocracy in elite institutions. But I'm not sure I'm capable of adjudicating his ideas as explanatory theories, so much as I'm just glad someone is at least calling the emperor naked and bringing the level of conversation up a notch to this higher vantage point.
I saw Eric Weinstein on Rogan claiming pompously to have created a "theory of everything" that would, well, like unify physics and explain all the universe.
I think that's more than enough to make your mind up about the guy.