Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician and former hedge fund manager. Weinstein was a managing director of Thiel Capital from 2013 until 2022.
Weinstein coined the term intellectual dark web (IDW), a social movement associated with anti-transgender activism and extremism. Weinstein has expressed fairly nuanced views of trans issues compared to most people considered part of the intellectual dark web.
Background
Eric Ross Weinstein was born on October 26, 1965 and has a younger sibling, Bret Weinstein. They grew up in Southern California.
Eric Weinstein earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Pennsylvania, then attended Harvard, earning a master’s degree, then a doctorate in 1992.
After teaching at MIT and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weinstein served as a managing director for Peter Thiel at Thiel Capital from 2013 until 2022.
Intellectual dark web
Weinstein coined the term intellectual dark web (IDW) in 2017 as a name for a loose alliance described as a “gateway to the far right.” Many are opponents of transgender rights. Members typically get money and attention by claiming to be “canceled” or silenced by the minorities and progressive movements they criticize (called DARVO in general; see also the Dregerian Narrative in relation to trans issues, named after IDW inaugural member Alice Dreger.
Podcast
Weinstein hosted a podcast called The Portal from 2019 to 2020. Guests included several critics of the transgender rights movement and their supporters, including Douglas Murray, J. D. Vance, Ross Douthat, James O’Keefe, Bret Weinstein, Anna Khachiyan, Tyler Cowen, Sam Harris, Bryan Callen, and Peter Thiel.
42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
- None 1 December 2020
41: Douglas Murray – Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization
- Douglas Murray 23 October 2020
40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club – What if everyone is simply insane?
- None 12 August 2020
39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.
- Kimberly de la Cruz 29 July 2020
38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A
- None 10 July 2020
37: Surfing the Wake of The Woke
- Andrew Marantz 1 July 2020
36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
- Stephon Alexander 11 June 2020
35: Balaji Srinivasan – The Heretic & The Virus
- Balaji Srinivasan 21 May 2020
34: Zev Weinstein – On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z
- Zev Weinstein 13 May 2020
33: Josh Wolfe – The Mind Financing The Future
- Josh Wolfe 3 May 2020
32: J. D. Vance – American Dreams and Nightmares
- J. D. Vance 29 April 2020
31: Ryan Holiday – Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes
- Ryan Holiday 23 April 2020
30: Ross Douthat – The Rave Before the Fall
- Ross Douthat 16 April 2020
29: Jamie Metzl – The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not
- Jamie Metzl 12 April 2020
Special A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
- None 2 April 2020
28: Eric Lewis – The Singular Genius of Elew
- Eric Lewis 28 March 2020
27: Daniel Schmachtenberger – On Avoiding Apocalypses
- Daniel Schmachtenberger 27 March 2020
26: James O’Keefe: What is (and isn’t) Journalism in the 21st century
- James O’Keefe 19 March 2020
25: The Construct: Jeffrey Epstein
- None 7 March 2020
24: Kai Lenny – To Play and Flirt with Giants
- Kai Lenny 28 February 2020
23: Agnes Callard – Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
- Agnes Callard 24 February 2020
22: Ben Greenfield – Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness
- Ben Greenfield 15 February 2020
21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) – The mogul and brains behind America’s Sweetheart
- Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) 31 January 2020
20: Sir Roger Penrose – Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
- Sir Roger Penrose 24 January 2020
19: Bret Weinstein – The Prediction and the DISC
- Bret Weinstein 18 January 2020
18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020
- None 15 January 2020
17: Anna Khachiyan – Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”
- Anna Khachiyan 20 December 2019
16: Tyler Cowen – The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
- Tyler Cowen 16 December 2019
15: Garrett Lisi – My Arch-nemesis, Myself
- Garrett Lisi 6 December 2019
14: London Tsai – The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians
- London Tsai 30 November 2019
13: Garry Kasparov – Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics
- Garry Kasparov 23 November 2019
12: Vitalik Buterin – The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
- Vitalik Buterin 21 November 2019
11: Sam Harris – Fighting with Friends
- Sam Harris 15 November 2019
10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree
- Julie Lindahl 31 October 2019
9: Bryan Callen – Cracking Wise
- Bryan Callen 30 October 2019
8: Andrew Yang – The Dangerously Different Candidate the Media Wants You to Ignore
- Andrew Yang 2 October 2019
7: Bret Easton Ellis – The Dark Laureate of Generation X
- Bret Easton Ellis 29 September 2019
6: Jocko Willink – The Way of the Violent Intellectual
- Jocko Willink 7 September 2019
5: Rabbi Wolpe – “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast…”
- Rabbi David Wolpe 31 August 2019
4: Timur Kuran – The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception
- Timur Kuran 20 August 2019
3: Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog 25 July 2019
2: What is The Portal
- None 19 July 2019
1: Peter Thiel
- Peter Thiel 17 July 2019
Welcome to The Portal
- None 24 June 2019
References
-https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1104080066139500544
Joe Rogan #1320 Gender Binary is a Form of Oppression – Eric Weinstein | Joe Rogan -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl9SBJ4JsAw
Resources
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Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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Twitter (twitter.com)
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Edge (edge.org)
- Eric R. Weinstein
- edge.org/memberbio/eric_r_weinstein