Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

According to many of the participants these three conferences (but particularly Shelter Island) were the most important conferences of their entire careers. Feynman was in his late 20s. This is how you get unstuck. How you build leadership. How you stop failing year after year... — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The Pocono Manor Inn meeting in Pennsylvania & the Oldstone conference in Peeskill NY were around $1200 each in 1948 and 1949 respectively. As it turned out, the electron mass in the QED theory and the measured mass had been set equal when they were distinct quantities. Who knew! — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

So why do I suggest Hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands? Good question! First, it is harder to get rid of the failed leadership because our stagnation as of Februrary 2023 is 50 years old not 19. But also, Shelter Island needed two companion conferences in 1948-9. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

So by simply getting rid of most of the failed 1928-1947 leadership and focusing on the most promising untested physicists, a $12K slush fund in today's dollars changed history ending a two decade stagnation debuting Feynman's Path Integral, the Lamb Shift & the two Meson theory. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Beginning on June 1, 1947 at the Rams Head Inn on Shelter Island NY and ending on Weds June 4th, 24 mostly untested participants "hung out" together. The actual cost of the meeting was...[drum roll please]...$872.00 in 1947 dollars. Which is about $12,000.00 in 2023 dollars. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to Frank Jewett a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders. As head of the National Academy of Sciences, Jewett allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter Duncan McInnes. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist. I'm guessing you have no idea of how the stagnation in Quantum Field Theory of 1928-47 was broken. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The virus could be moved laterally and then a new vaccine would be created to move with it like model and mimic respectively. Bottom line: 1. Pay attention. 2. Call for hearings. 3. Avoid conclusions by being patient. This doesn’t get settled tonight. 4. Accept findings. Thx. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

So you could see “Directed Drift”. The relationship between vaccine and virus is similar to the mirroring one sees in Bayesian Mimicry. The model species can move laterally and the mimic then has to move to mirror the phenotype of the model. Do I don’t think this *has* to be GoF. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Also, what I said in the space about Gain Of Function: Even though the subject says “Directed Evolution” I do not believe a priori that he is technically describing GoF. A better term would be “Directed Selection” because the virus could move laterally on a fitness landscape. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@Liv_Boeree Same. Just exactly the same Liv. But we just need to dig. This doesn’t get resolved tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

In all cases, the cure is hearings. We may need to bury PV. We may need to bury Pfizer. Or we may have a first date type meeting that went wildly out of control as many people exaggerate to create intrigue and drama. We don’t need to guess. We just hold hearings. It’s simple. 🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The Tree: Branch A: Project Veritas is completely misrepresenting this video. They get *totally* destroyed for doing so. Branch B: The video is real but the individual is totally exaggerating to make himself seem like a powerful insider. Branch C: It’s basically accurate. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

I have been asked to reiterate what I just said in a Twitter Space about this. What we have here is a decision tree with three branches. All three are totally distinct in implication. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

I don’t know honestly know what we are watching. I can only pray that it is not remotely what it appears to be. Hearings. That is all I have. There have to be deep and painful hearings. I have no other words. We need hearings. #Hearings — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Did you lose anyone irreplaceable to COVID? To myocarditis? Have Brain Fog? Lose a year or two of your life? Fail to attend a funeral? Wonder how the vaccines appeared so quickly? Have your reputation destroyed over conspiracy theorizing? Get called a Sinophobic racist? Watch: — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@jwellsX UMich? You must be Gordon Kane’s colleague. Talk to him first and let me know when you are done Straw-manning and clowning? I’d love to hear your real perspective then. Let’s try this again. I’m Eric. Nice to meet you. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you: https://t.co/ODDRBN2Y4U — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@martinmbauer Everyone who needs funding in physics agrees with you and disagrees with me. Also, *exactly* how do I apply for travel, meals, and housing for such a 4-5 day conference for 25 speakers and 100-200 attendees? ;-) I hear it is super easy. And have heard so for years…. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@alexbilz @DrBrianKeating History major. McGovern campaign worker. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DrBrianKeating Electro-Weak theory is indeed sui generis due to massive vector bosons. Good point. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DrBrianKeating Ed is brilliant. He should come. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@ZubyMusic I exclude it. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DaveLevine0com But heretics need to know basics of GR and the standard model. No loopy astrology, finger painting or spirituality. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DaveLevine0com Start with a conference: 25 (leading heretic) speakers and an equal number of mandarins. 4 days. Videography. Mandarins write up their critiques. Publish proceedings. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@Meijers_Maurice Nima is great. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DrBrianKeating Let’s find out. You’re an experimentalist after all. Why not hold an inverted conference as an experiment. If we CANT hold it, that’s our proof right there. If we can, we can see if everyone claiming to have a different path collapses. Then we could prove that there are no ideas! — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DinosaurTaxes Seconded. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@VikChatterjee @seanmcarroll Great idea. I’d also like to hear @seanmcarroll’s most far out ideas. Or João Magueijo’s. Or Itzhak Bars’. Anyone else who is 1/3 competent with a pulse and creative ideas for escape from stagnation. Love to hear @skdh’s wildest hopes. Things people are afraid to share. — PolitiTweet.org