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What's the telos/persistent goal?
What's the telos/persistent goal?
There are a few areas in which you will consume information, discuss and participate.  For starters
* [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563 The Portal Podcast]
* [https://ericweinstein.org/ Eric Weinstein's Website]
* [https://theportal.wiki This Wiki]
* [[The Portal Discord Servers]]
* [https://projects.theportal.wiki/ Portal Projects] - projects that Eric as discussed or asked people to work on
=== Where do I start?  ===
You already have by being here. If this is your first interaction with The Portal, you should probably subscribe and start listening to The Portal Podcast. Many of the topics Eric discusses are complicated, and maybe over your head.  This wiki helps document those ideas and they provide reference material and further reading.  Additionally, there are Discord Servers dedicated to discussions of the podcasts, topics, and projects.
Read through this, then go and click some of the links above, and start reading.
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Join the Discord servers and jump into one of the chats, catch up on some of the conversations and ask questions.  See if your skillset and time are gonna help contribute to the project. If you still want to join then simply provide proof of past work in the lobby-and-introductions (Discord ID : 701792384773521428) and wait for one of the rollers to accept your request.  
Join the Discord servers and jump into one of the chats, catch up on some of the conversations and ask questions.  See if your skillset and time are gonna help contribute to the project. If you still want to join then simply provide proof of past work in the lobby-and-introductions (Discord ID : 701792384773521428) and wait for one of the rollers to accept your request.  
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=== What is the end goal? ===
Return to the future. I think what we need to do is to start dreaming much more aggressively, dream much bigger, and start dreaming in public with each other, harmoniously if we can, or have our dreams fight each other, but at least start unlocking the potential of human imagination and not immediately grounding every new idea in some sort of race to see whether we can invalidate it, give it enough of a room to grow.
What we're going to do in this program is effectively to declare war. War on stasis. War on group think. War on everything that has enervated our society, and we're going to do it because we have the ability now to compete with the networks that previously grew up to distribute whatever it was that was portrayed as sense-making.
What we need to do is to return to our own future.


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* Announcements - If you'd like to be notified when we make Announcements or have Office Hours, this is a good role to give yourself. (This is one of the few roles that users can add and remove themselves.)
* Announcements - If you'd like to be notified when we make Announcements or have Office Hours, this is a good role to give yourself. (This is one of the few roles that users can add and remove themselves.)
* Acting Spammy - Doh! You don't want this.
* Acting Spammy - Doh! You don't want this.
==== Project Focused Roles ====
Each of these roles has been created for contributors to the following projects.
* Climbing the Cliff
* Convex Hull
* GWT
* Mobile App
* Portal Blog
* Portal Book Club Organizers
* Portal Clips
* Portal Merch
* Portal Visualizations
* Riffs to Animate
* Russell Conjugation
* Transcripts
* Wiki Maintenance


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How do I access the other channels?

How can I contribute?

How shouldn't I contribute?

What is the end goal?

Return to the future. I think what we need to do is to start dreaming much more aggressively, dream much bigger, and start dreaming in public with each other, harmoniously if we can, or have our dreams fight each other, but at least start unlocking the potential of human imagination and not immediately grounding every new idea in some sort of race to see whether we can invalidate it, give it enough of a room to grow.

What we're going to do in this program is effectively to declare war. War on stasis. War on group think. War on everything that has enervated our society, and we're going to do it because we have the ability now to compete with the networks that previously grew up to distribute whatever it was that was portrayed as sense-making.

What we need to do is to return to our own future.