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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 that adaptively 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]:
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 adaptively, [https://thebasics.guide/facultative-adaptation/ facultatively] 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]:


* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
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* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* leading | following
* leading | following
* left | right
* religiosity | secularism
<!-- * sobriety | inebriation
<!-- * sobriety | inebriation
* wild | domesticated-->
* wild | domesticated-->
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* Our Time
* Our Time
* Abstraction
* Abstraction
* The Language of Reality (Differential Geometry)
* The Language of Reality (e.g., Differential Geometry)
* Giving credit and attribution where due
* Giving credit and attribution where due
* Correcting misallocation of credit
* Correcting misallocation of credit
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* Independent, Critical, Rigorous, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle First Principles] thinking
* Independent, Critical, Rigorous, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle First Principles] thinking
* Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
* Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
* [[Extractive Elite| Public-Spirited, Ethical Elitism]]
* [https://x.com/ericexplainer/status/1842746722902286398 Public-Spirited, Ethical, Scientific Elitism]
* [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/831025834215354368 Anti-Experts]
* [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/831025834215354368 Anti-Experts]
* Pro-social Freedom of Expression
* Pro-social Freedom of Expression
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* Hypocrisy budget
* Hypocrisy budget
* Injustice budget
* Injustice budget
* Toxicity budget
* Accuracy budget
* Inconsistency budget


== We Downregulate ==
== We Downregulate ==
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* Lossy compression
* Lossy compression
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]s
* [[Chess-Opening Problem]]s
* [https://youtu.be/C6zViXwQqkI Muddling Arguments]


== We Exclude ==
== We Exclude ==


* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618522889690714118 Anti-Collegial Snark]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1618522889690714118 Anti-Collegial Snark]
* [[Streisand Squeeze|Streisand Squeeze Strategies]]
* Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
* Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
* Cheap, Uncharitable Trolling
* Cheap, Uncharitable Trolling
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* Duplicitousness and Insincerity
* Duplicitousness and Insincerity
* Psychopathy
* Psychopathy
* Uncharitable Roasting
* Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
* Dunking and Dragging
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Stalking
* Stalking
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* Doxxing
* Doxxing
* Harassment for sport
* Harassment for sport
* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=2256 Muddling Arguments]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1421494565056389124 Oversimplification]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1421494565056389124 Oversimplification]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1234534122908864514 Absolutist and totalizing ideologies]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1234534122908864514 Absolutist and totalizing ideologies]


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Latest revision as of 02:20, 6 October 2024

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 fundamental physics. In the spirit of The Portal, we are always looking for a way out of our perennial problems.

We Prioritize[edit]

Our Core Traits[edit]

We generally endeavor to be

Harmonizing Tensions[edit]

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 adaptively, facultatively 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[edit]

We Allow Ourselves[edit]

  • Hypocrisy budget
  • Injustice budget
  • Toxicity budget
  • Accuracy budget
  • Inconsistency budget

We Downregulate[edit]

We Exclude[edit]

  • Anti-Collegial Snark
  • Streisand Squeeze Strategies
  • Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
  • Cheap, Uncharitable Trolling
  • Meretricious Arguments and Framings
  • Self-extinguishing strategies
  • Utopianism
  • Coercion
  • Gaslighting
  • Purity
  • Vindictiveness
  • Nihilism
  • Duplicitousness and Insincerity
  • Psychopathy
  • Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
  • Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
  • Stalking
  • Physical threats
  • Misogyny
  • Anti-semitism
  • Impersonation
  • Doxxing
  • Harassment for sport
  • Oversimplification
  • Absolutist and totalizing ideologies
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