Portal Concepts
Eric uses many concepts on The Portal and during his conversations on various platforms that may be abstract, obscure or poorly known outside of certain disciplines or fields. We collect those concepts here. These should not be confused with Ericisms.
A
B
C
- Camping and Decamping
- Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
- Capital-Labor Ratio
- Cardinal Utility
- Cashing Out
- Cognate
- Cognitive Load
- Comparative Advantage
- Complete Market
- Consensus
D
E
- Economic Imperialism
- Economics Squared
- Efficient Frontier
- Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
- Environmental Insult
- Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
- Exclusion
- Event Deconfliction
- Evolutionary Capacitance
F
- Fake News
- Fat Tail Events
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
- The Four Quadrant Model
- FU Money
- Funeral by Funeral
G
H
I
K
L
M
O
P
- Pareto Principle
- Peer Review
- Perception-Mediated Selection
- Potemkin Village
- Preference Falsification
- Principal-Agent Problem
R
S
- Schelling point
- Scientific Method
- Seigniorage
- Selective Pressures
- Shibboleth
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
- Slow Clap
- Social Darwinism
- Spiritual Bypassing
- Star Chamber
- Steady Hands
- Steel-Manning
- Straussian Communication
T
- Terms of Service
- The Cosmic Spelling Bee
- The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
- There is no secret ingredient
- Type I & Type II Error