Portal Concepts

Eric uses many concepts on The Portal and during his conversations on various platforms that may be abstract, obscure or poorly known outside of certain disciplines, fields, or communities. We collect those concepts here. These should not be confused with Ericisms.

A

• A-B Testing
• Adaptive Landscape
• Adaptive Valley
• Agency
• Ant Mill
• Anti-Fragility
• Arbitrage
• Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
• Associative Property

B

• Bathos
• Blue on Blue

C

• Camping and Decamping
• Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
• Capital-Labor Ratio
• Cardinal Utility
• Cardinalization
• Cashing Out
• Cognate
• Cognitive Load
• Comparative Advantage
• Complete Market
• Consensus

D

• Dawkins' Power of an Idea
• Decision Tree
• Don't wait for the bread to rise
• Double Spend Problem

E

• Economic Imperialism
• Economics Squared
• Efficient Frontier
• Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
• Environmental Insult
• Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
• Exclusion
• Event Deconfliction
• Evolutionary Capacitance

F

• Fake News
• Fat Tail Events
• Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
• The Four Quadrant Model
• FU Money
• Funeral by Funeral

G

• Game B
• Gating Function
• Gauge Theory
• Gauge Theory of Economics
• Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
• Gene Drive
• Gene Expression Regulation
• Gini Coefficient

H

• Homeostatic Capacity

I

• Image Cheapening
• Imposter
• Information Asymmetry
• Interference Competition
• Irrationality
• It's a beautiful thing

K

• Kafkaesque
• Kayfabe

L

• Look-ahead function
• Long/Short Position

M

• Maladaptive strategies
• Misinformation-Disinformation-Malinformation
• Matilda Effect
• Matthew Effect
• Metaclass Hacking
• Middle Finger
• Mouse Utopia

N

• Nothing Burger

O

• Oral Torah
• Order 66
• Overton Window

P

• Pareto Principle
• Peer Review
• Perception-Mediated Selection
• Potemkin Village
• Prebunked Malinformation
• Preference Falsification
• Principal-Agent Problem

R

• Rent-Seeking
• Russell Conjugation
• r/K selection theory

S

• Schelling point
• Science as a Two-Front War
• Scientific Method
• Section A of the Reserve Index
• Seigniorage
• Selective Pressures
• Shibboleth
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• Slow Clap
• Social Darwinism
• Social Welfare Function
• Spiritual Bypassing
• Star Chamber
• Stay In Your Lane
• Steady Hands
• Steel-Manning
• Straussian Communication

T

• Terms of Service
• The Cosmic Spelling Bee
• The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
• There is no secret ingredient
• Type I & Type II Error

U

• Umwelt
• Universe 25

W

• WTF Happened in 1971
• Wu-Yang Dictionary

Z

• Zero Day Exploit