WEINSTEIN BROTHERS REACH-AROUND
(UPDATE: The institute site has a must more ‘unkind and explicit’ and longer version of this post. It is unsuitable for facebook, but please visit http://propertarianism.com/blog to read it)
Watch any Brett or Eric Weinstein video and count how many times they 1) use ‘heaping undue praise’. 2) use a ‘test of reasonableness instead of truth’, 3) use ‘critique of the system’ that they cannot create, or get access to (loyalty, commons defect). 4) Use “pilpul to cover a presumption” someone didn’t know something prior, or that a concept wasn’t known, or a tradition didn’t exist in western civ. 5) ‘straw man’ a group of people and their incentives. 6) Using dialectic to commit all of the above frauds in order to position themselves as capable.
Once you know what they’re doing it’s unbearable. they’re gossiping. And they’re just gossiping about interesting nerdy stuff.
a) Eric does not grasp the foundations of mathematics which is why he can’t discern its limits. b) he doesn’t address that wolfram’s new math is more likely correct, and that above wolfram’s ‘point’s there is a geometric version of his work that doesn’t have the problem of time and sequence – although he might discover it c) or that Eric’s deduction (from his lectures) was a failure – he hasn’t solved it and no one including has run with it. d) or why eric is right that economics is ‘using the wrong calculus’ but that even if they use the right calculus the information doesn’t exist to calculate with, and they still aren’t accounting for changes in all capital so we’re in far worse shape than what the productivity data shows. e) that the interesting mathematics is the emergency of symmetries that could compensate for the lack of information – at least at the macro scale.
b) Brett panders to him. But for example, look at the conservative crab-bucket dragging all others down, and the Jewish ant-ladder to help people up.
Dialectic = Pilpul = Gossiping.
Source date (UTC): 2020-07-18 20:34:00 UTC
Leave a Reply