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This unofficial website is a collaboration among listeners of The Portal Podcast.
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== Recent Portal Episodes ==
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* [[23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits]]
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* [[22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness]]
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* [[21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart]]
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* [[20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy]]
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* [[19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC]]
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* [[18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020]]
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== Recent Eric Sightings ==
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* [https://youtu.be/v6mmN0EXJWE The Intellectual Wild South — Eric Weinstein | #78]
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* [https://youtu.be/XbKXeVOUQYY Impact Theory: If You Want to See How Deep the Mind Can Go, Watch This | Eric Weinstein on Conversations with Tom]
* [[The Portal Podcast]]
* [https://youtu.be/i1uOeQQ-xGs The Minimalists: Ep. 212 | Community (with Eric Weinstein)]
* [[Content by Eric Weinstein]]
* [https://youtu.be/_IP1xXlEVls CoinDesk: An Interview with Eric Weinstein]
* [[Geometric Unity]]
* [https://youtu.be/dQhOgwu2eZc Art of Charm: What is the “Intellectual Dark Web”? | Eric Weinstein]
* '''[[Content by Eric Weinstein | All Appearances]]
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== Projects ==
Progress can take many forms. Pick a project and help move it forward.
* '''[[Graph, Wall, Tome]]'''
** [[Geometry]]
* [[Transcripts to be Made]]
* [[Videos to be Edited]]
* [[Riffs to Animate]]
* [[Slipping the DISC]]
* [[Gauge Theory of Economics]]
* [[Gauge Theory of Economics]]
* [[Russell Conjugation Surfacing Tool]]
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* [[The Story]]
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* [[Value Statement | Build Our Value Statement]]
* [[Quest Board]]
* [[How to Play Guitar in 5 Minutes]]
* [[Projects|All Projects]]
* [[Collected Efforts of the Group]]
* [[The Portal Group]]
* [[Curated Record of Discussions]]
* [https://wethescreamers.com/ We the Screamers]
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== Eric Weinstein ==
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[[Eric Weinstein]] is a dad, mathematician, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, and host of [[The Portal Podcast]]. His speaking on a breadth of topics ranging from physics and economics to culture and society form the basis of this wiki.
== Other Topics ==
Recurring topics worth fleshing out more.
* [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex]]
* [[Embedded Growth Obligation]]
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative]]
* [[Load-Bearing Fictions]]
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]
* [[Different Vehicles with Common Payload]]
* [[The Square Root of Capitalism]]
* [[The War on Excellence]]
* [[Theory of Death]]
* [[Theory of Markets]]
* [[Theory of Geometric Unity]]
* [[Peer Review]]
* [[Eric's Nightmare Species]]
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Eric is also developing [https://geometricunity.org/ Geometric Unity], a unifying theory of physics.
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== The Portal Community ==
We are a project-driven community spread over many interest areas and a variety of backgrounds. We are dreamers and doers who use the tension between these two states. If you are too, then find something that interests you and contribute what you can.
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== Quest Board ==
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== Community ==
== Portal Ideas ==
We are a community working together on various projects. Get to know the group.
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* [[Welcome | Welcome, Onboarding, What is this? How do I help?]]
* [[FAQ]]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sB_LTltdq8J6mIKyPRaHQWKEuLk0ZXuwYQZb78BnNuk/edit Community To Do List]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein Eric Weinstein on Twitter]
* [https://discord.gg/3MnPZSa The Portal Discord]
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePortal/ The Portal Reddit]
* [[Community Files]]
* [[Special:ListUsers | List of Users on this Wiki]]
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== Tools ==
Tools to help you work on projects.
* [https://www.audacityteam.org/ Audacity]
* [https://www.blender.org/ Blender]
* [https://www.draw.io/ Draw.io]
* [https://www.gimp.org/ Gimp]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape Inkscape]
* [https://krita.org/en/ Krita]
* [https://github.com/3b1b/manim Manim]
* [https://www.spyder-ide.org/ Spyder]
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== Reference ==
== Reference ==
Material that is commonly referenced in discussions and writings.
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* '''[[Geometry]]'''
* [https://theportal.wiki/etc/wall.svg Clickable Wall]
* [[Eric’s Most Important Books]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY Dirac Strings, Spinors, Wine Dance Video]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAXjTGr_eM Principal fibre bundles - Lec 19 - Frederic Schuller Video]
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* [https://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+Penrose%27s+three+worlds+and+three+deep+mysteries+theory Roger Penrose's three worlds and three deep mysteries theory]
* [https://wch.github.io/latexsheet/latexsheet-a4.pdf LaTeX Cheat Sheet]
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Revision as of 13:48, 27 October 2023

The Portal Community

We are a project-driven community spread over many interest areas and a variety of backgrounds. We are dreamers and doers who use the tension between these two states. If you are too, then find something that interests you and contribute what you can.

Community Projects

Graph, Wall, Tome

Fundamental physics seems unreachable for many. This project and its subprojects aim to map and convey the information necessary to understand the most vibrant realm of human knowledge. (On Discord)

Slipping the DISC

In almost any field of human activity, mechanisms emerge to suppress or downregulate low-quality ideas in order to maintain an institution's functions. These mechanisms become pathological when they are repurposed to suppress truth, research, and innovation that may upset or drastically alter the institution's structure, ultimately in betrayal of its purpose.

Quest Board

Helpful Tasks

This is the spot for those who don't have expertise in STEM, or are busy with life, but still want to help us. Whether you have only 5 minutes or unlimited time and energy, you can help us and the community.

Explore and Catalog

Transcript Editing

Wiki Editing
  • Write a strong, one-sentence description of ideas on their wiki pages
  • Rewrite disorganized pages on the wiki
  • Build out pages that are stubs (underdeveloped).

Praxis

Help to retell the story of our sciences to new generations of students

  • Read
  • Make a visualization from calculations in what you've read

Mathematics

  • Request visualizations of principles or constructions
  • Outline sequences of thought to reach a particular idea

Physics

  • Write pages on hard physical problems independent of mathematics

Engineering

  • Onboarding to CAD for mechanical engineering (elasticity and fluid sims)
  • Affordable projects/kit concepts to understand physics principles in engineering
  • Contribute to realizable engineering challenge ideas to improve our world

Computing Science

Programming

Build a useful piece of software.

Data Visualization (d3-js, chart-js, p5-js)

Discord Bots (JavaScript)

  • Discord Pin Archive + Management Bot
  • Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server
  • Bot that relays messages across servers

Instragram Bots

  • Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server

Three-js

Twitter Bots

  • Twitter Archival Bot
  • Twitter Bot that responds to tweets from Eric containing keywords with wiki articles.

Be Creative

Show us what you got!

Music

  • Learn a silly or fun drinking song, and record yourself playing or singing it, preferably with friends from The Portal
  • Make a song that incorporates the podcast's music

Visual Art

Writing

  • Write an essay, blog post, or twitter thread on a topic covered on The Portal.

Portal Ideas

General Knowledge

Reference

Video/Audio

Podcasts

Mathematics

  • 3Blue1Brown - YouTube channel for educational mathematics content
  • Richard E. Borcherds - YouTube channel for mathematics lectures by Fields medalist Richard Borcherds
  • Richard Behiel - YouTube channel for maths and physics content

Physics

Spaceflight

  • Cosmic Perspective - YouTube channel for documentaries and interviews about spaceflight
  • Everyday Astronaut - YouTube channel for spaceflight news and educational content
  • NASASpaceflight - YouTube channel for spaceflight news and video journalism
  • Scott Manley - YouTube channel for news and educational content on spaceflight and astrophysics

Websites

Portal

General Resources

Mathematics

Physics

Culture

  • Astral Codex Ten - Blog by Scott Alexander, of former Slate Star Codex
  • Common Sense - Newsletter by Bari Weiss featuring journalism, interviews, and guest columns on "curiosity about the wrong topics"
  • Continuing Ed - Blog by whistleblower Edward Snowden writing about civil liberties and technology
  • Natural Selections - Blog by evolutionary biologist Dr. Heather Heying about biology and culture
  • New Discourses - Website by James Lindsay on the workings of social justice ideologies
  • Quillette - Online magazine for free thought

Tools

Software

Audio/Image/Video Editing

  • Audacity - Free audio editing tool
  • Blender - Free 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool
  • Figma - Free web design and diagramming tool
  • Gimp - Free image editing tool
  • Inkscape - Free vector graphic tool
  • Krita - Free image editing/drawing tool
  • Resolve - Free video editing tool

Programming

  • Jupyter Notebooks - Free interactive Python environment
  • Manim - Animation python code used to create the videos on 3Blue1Brown
  • Spyder - Interactive development environment for scientific python
  • Threejs - Javascript 3D Library
  • WordPress - Free and open source software for developing websites

Productivity

Websites

Wiki Tools

Other Sites