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 Ideas[edit]
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 Worldâs 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 Knowledge[edit]
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