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== Harmonizing Tensions ==
== Harmonizing Tensions ==


We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see [https://theportal.group/35-superposition/ Superpositions] and trade-offs. As it is said in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_3 Ecclesiastes] and Pete Seeger's song, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xzyhoeu1Y "To Everything There Is a Season], and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and [https://thebasics.guide/gene-expression-regulation/ Regulated Expression]:
We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see [https://theportal.group/35-superposition/ Superpositions] and trade-offs. As it is said in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_3 Ecclesiastes] and Pete Seeger's song, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xzyhoeu1Y "To Everything There Is a Season], and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers that balance these tensions through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and [https://thebasics.guide/gene-expression-regulation/ Regulated Expression]:


* arrogance | humility
* arrogance | humility
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* tribalism | cosmopolitanism
* tribalism | cosmopolitanism
* levity | gravity
* levity | gravity
* dreaming | doing


For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see [[Societal Superpositions]].
For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see [[Societal Superpositions]].
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* Balancing [[Type I & Type II Error]]
* Balancing [[Type I & Type II Error]]
* Camping and Decamping
* Camping and Decamping
* Healthy competition and rivalry (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_Tie_Club RNA Tie Club])
* Creative competition and rivalry (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_Tie_Club RNA Tie Club], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens_(game) The Dozens], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_contest Cutting Contests], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_battle Guitar Battles], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam Poetry Slams])
* Ideas over instantiations
* Ideas over instantiations
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]

Revision as of 19:53, 10 September 2023

We are friends and collaborators of Eric Weinstein. Our community is a self-selected group of high-agency misfit mutants who are interested in diversifying humanity beyond this solar system via new physics. In the spirit of The Portal, we are always looking for a way out of our perennial problems.

We Prioritize

Our Core Traits

We endeavor to be

  • Self-aware
  • Metacognitive
  • Meta-honest
  • Agentic
  • Hopeful
  • Self-teaching
  • Self-critiquing
  • Self-credentialed
  • Earnest
  • Collegial
  • Imperfect
  • Of Good Humor
  • Tolerant
  • Curmudgeonly
  • Loyal to Friends
  • Loyal to Opposition
  • Kind & compassionate toward others
  • Flexible of Mind
  • Generous of Spirit
  • Tasteful
  • Curious
  • Radically Creative
  • Radically Conservative
  • Project-driven
  • Ambitious
  • Courageous
  • Imposters
  • Responsibly Heretical
  • Asch, Milgram, and Stanford negative
  • Long Heroism, Short Martyrdom
  • Long Good, Short Nice

Harmonizing Tensions

We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see Superpositions and trade-offs. As it is said in Ecclesiastes and Pete Seeger's song, "To Everything There Is a Season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers that balance these tensions through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and Regulated Expression:

For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see Societal Superpositions.

We Value

We Allow Ourselves

  • Hypocrisy budget
  • Injustice budget

We Downregulate

  • Cynicism
  • Chaos
  • Snark
  • Sanctimony
  • Specialization
  • Expertise
  • Consensus
  • Groupthink
  • Groupfeel
  • Lossy compression
  • Oversimplification
  • Chess-Opening Problems

We Exclude

  • Anti-collegiality
  • Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
  • Cheap, Uncharitable Trolling
  • Meretricious Arguments and Framings
  • Self-extinguishing strategies
  • Utopianism
  • Coercion
  • Purity
  • Vindictiveness
  • Nihilism
  • Duplicitousness and Insincerity
  • Psychopathy
  • Uncharitable Roasting
  • Dunking and Dragging
  • Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
  • Stalking
  • Physical threats
  • Misogyny
  • Anti-semitism
  • Impersonation
  • Doxxing
  • Harassment for sport
  • Absolutist and totalizing ideologies
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