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

Revision as of 00:29, 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 planet.

We Prioritize

Our Core Traits

We endeavor to be

Harmonizing Tensions

We recognize the following natural Superpositions/Trade-offs/Tensions/Dialectics:

  • arrogance | humility
  • inclusion | exclusion
  • diversity | commonality/interoperability
  • pluralism | leadership
  • centralization | decentralization
  • transparency | opacity
  • depth | breadth
  • excellence | genius
  • shunning/cancellation | redemption
  • institutions | disintermediation
  • egalitarianism | recognition of differential contribution
  • listening | ignoring
  • senior leadership and wisdom | removal of those who stopped renewing
  • authoritative sources | heterodoxy
  • welcoming strangers | prioritizing family and old friends
  • ridicule | civility and comity
  • modernity | tradition
  • individualism | collectivism
  • romanticism | realism
  • tribalism | cosmopolitanism

We Value

  • Abstraction
  • Giving credit where due
  • Correcting misallocation of credit
  • Healthy competition and rivalry (e.g. RNA Tie Club)
  • Ideas over instantiations
  • Ideological Dining a la Carte
  • Evolutionary thinking
  • Adaptive Valley Crossing
  • Independent thinking
  • Critical thinking
  • Critical feeling
  • Radical compression with minimal distortion
  • High signal with minimal noise
  • Technical language and reserved terms, where appropriate
  • The Double Island Rules
  • First Principles thinking

We allow ourselves

  • Hypocrisy budget
  • Injustice budget

We Downregulate

  • Cynicism
  • Trolling
  • Chaos
  • Snark
  • Sanctimony
  • Specialization
  • Expertise
  • Consensus
  • Groupthink
  • Groupfeel
  • Lossy compression
  • Oversimplification
  • Conversation involving Opening Chess Moves

We Exclude

  • Anti-collegiality
  • Self-extinguishing strategies
  • Utopianism
  • Coercion
  • Purity
  • Vindictiveness
  • Nihilism
  • Duplicitousness
  • Psychopathy
  • Roasting
  • Dunking and dragging
  • Gamer culture
  • Stalking
  • Physical threats
  • Misogyny
  • Anti-semitism
  • Impersonation
  • Doxxing
  • Harassment for sport