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Mathematical physicist and mentor to mathematically talented youth. Talent is that which bridges the gap between what can be taught and what must be learned.

Joined June 2012

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    1. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      I’ll explain this one. We think we simply want freedom. But we don’t. Government reminds us that we don’t want true freedom for reasonable reasons. But they will abuse that power we give them. Media will do the work of the establishment by creating a narrative for their use. https://twitter.com/efjaebe/status/1180560898253053959 …

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    2. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      Meanwhile there‘s math. Specifically number thy in the form of arithmetic-geometry which almost none of us know, protecting our love letters, finances, erotic photos, terrorists, weapon secrets. And we’re going to have to outlaw such abstractions to make sure Govt has backdoors.

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    3. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      So we‘ll have media create a crazy narrative that makes zero sense, to protect the coming program to outlaw truly private communication so that the government can listen in on true criminals as well as inconvenient intellectuals and political dissidents. As they have always done.

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    4. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      But Buzzfeed won’t know jack shit about elliptic curves. Nor will Vox. Nor will the NYT. So I made a joke about super abstract Topoi theory and “right adjoint functors” (related to ‘Category Theory’) as if they were related to the alt-right which is what media did to the IDW.

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    5. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      Most of that was clear from the tweet. I linked to the wiki entry for elliptic curve crypto for example. But Topoi and functors were things I used as *jargon* to make the point that generally our reporters are acting as activists who can’t often understand the stories they write.

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    6. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 5 Oct 2019
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      This is why I don’t explain tweets. It takes too long and is like explaining a joke. The real point of the tweet? We are in a serious situation which should not be up to Zuckerberg and Barr. We need a lot more voices. Including mathematicians. And we the public need to get smart.

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      Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 5 Oct 2019
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      If we really need the public to get smart, then it hardly matters what else we need, -- for that one requisite is already quite unattainable. The public will not "get smart." Expecting it to do so is rather like expecting it to hit upon the idea of an almost complex structure.

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