The Portal
The Portal encompasses a broad range of ideas that can transform one's perception of the world. This page is a non-exhaustive index of those ideas.
For an index of project pages, see Projects.
Portal IdeasEdit
Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
Gauge Theory of Economics and the Square Root of Capitalism
Riffs
- Artificial Outelligence
- Deaths of Accountability
- Don't screw yourself out of magic
- Don't wait for the bread to rise
- Ericisms
- Faster Than Light Travel
- Intellectual Dark Web
- The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World's Failure to Close
- Kayfabe
- Maladaptive strategies
- The Optics are the Substance
- Physics Dollars
- Rulers and Protractors Become General Relativity
- Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
- Snap to Grid Intellectualism
- Theory of Death
- The United States of Absolutely Nothing
- The Universal Trade
- White Suit
Discourse
- Argument as the Frame
- Checksum Theory of Politics
- Chess-Opening Problem
- Critical Feeling
- Dawkins' Power of an Idea
- Different Vehicles with Common Payload
- Double Island Rules
- Ideological Dining a la Carte
- Litella
- Long-Form Podcasting
- Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
- Minus Epsilon
- Reflexive Contrarianism
- Regulated Expression
- Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
- Rough Space
- Russell Conjugation
- Split Level Argument
- Steel-Manning
- Streisand Squeeze
- Superposition
- Type I & Type II Error
Artists are vital for translating the ideas of The Portal into mediums understandable by any.
General KnowledgeEdit
History
- Article 58
- Bayh-Dole Act (1980)
- Church and Pike Commissions
- Eilberg Amendment (1976)
- Image Cheapening
- IMMACT90
- Mansfield Amendment (1969)
- Operation COINTELPRO
- Science Since Babylon
- Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)
- Section A of the Reserve Index
- The Evolution of U.S. Science and Defense Research Policies
- Twin Nuclei Problem