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

• A-B Testing
• Adaptive Landscape
• Adaptive Valley
• Agency
• Anti-Fragility
• Associative Property

B

• Blue on Blue

C

• Camping and Decamping
• Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
• Cardinal Utility
• Cognate
• Comparative Advantage
• Consensus

D

• Dawkins' Power of an Idea
• Don't wait for the bread to rise

E

• Economic Imperialism
• Economics Squared
• Efficient Frontier
• Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
• Environmental Insult
• Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
• Exclusion
• Event Deconfliction

F

• Fake News
• Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
• The Four Quadrant Model
• Funeral by Funeral

G

• Game B
• Gating Function
• Gauge Theory
• Gauge Theory of Economics
• Gene Drive
• Gini Coefficient

H

• Homeostatic Capacity

I

• Imposter
• Intellectual Arbitrage
• Intellectual Kryptonite
• Irrationality
• It's a beautiful thing

K

• Kayfabe

L

• Look-ahead function
• Long/Short Position

M

• Maladaptive strategies
• Matilda Effect
• Matthew Effect
• Metaclass Hacking
• Middle Finger
• Mouse Utopia

O

• Oral Torah
• Order 66
• Overton Window

P

• Peer Review
• Perception-Mediated Selection
• Potemkin Village
• Preference Falsification
• Principal-Agent Problem

R

• Russell Conjugation
• r/K selection theory

S

• Schelling point
• Scientific Method
• Seigniorage
• Selective Pressures
• Shibboleth
• 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

U

• Umwelt
• Universe 25

W

• Wu-Yang Dictionary