Eric Weinstein
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Eric Weinstein is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 19, 2022 and January 06, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “The couple of people who joined the movement out of genuine conviction when it was unpopular or made them look weird (eg Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein)”; “One example of such an “iron grip” from my colleague Eric Weinstein”. It most often appears alongside 00s, 70s, 80s.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 19, 2022
- Last seen: January 06, 2026
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- Americans (1 shared issues)
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- anti-racist movement (1 shared issues)
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- atheist movement (1 shared issues)
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- Baby Boomer (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The NYT piece Meet The Renegades Of The Intellectual Dark Web is a great example of what it looks like when a movement is starting its growth phase. Newspapers write articles about how edgy and cool you are and how the establishment is afraid of your growing power. The couple of people who joined the movement out of genuine conviction when it was unpopular or made them look weird (eg Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein) get catapulted to superstardom.
Inline links: Meet The Renegades Of The Intellectual Dark Web
One example of such an “iron grip” from my colleague Eric Weinstein: Of the 67 top research universities in the US, 62 have Baby Boomer presidents (three are Silent Generation and only two are Generation X). Today, the median age of these 67 university presidents is 65 years-old... And this is very different from the recent past. Only thirty years ago, in 1990, the median age of these same university presidents was a much lower 52-years old; the older generation did not completely refuse to give up power; and therefore much greater generational diversity was to be found in university leadership.”