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== Our Core Traits ==
== Our Core Traits ==


We generally endeavor to be
We endeavor to be


* Self-aware
* Self-aware
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* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1534047944806002688 Imposters]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1534047944806002688 Imposters]
* Responsibly Heretical
* Responsibly Heretical
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments Asch], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Milgram], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment Zimbardo] negative
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments Asch], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Milgram], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment Stanford] negative
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1039589389309902848 Long Heroism, Short Martyrdom]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1039589389309902848 Long Heroism, Short Martyrdom]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/800396512844922880 Long Good, Short Nice]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/800396512844922880 Long Good, Short Nice]
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== Harmonizing Tensions ==
== Harmonizing Tensions ==


We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see [https://theportal.group/35-superposition/ Superpositions] and trade-offs. As it is said in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_3 Ecclesiastes] and Pete Seeger's song, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xzyhoeu1Y "To Everything There Is a Season], and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers that adaptively, [https://thebasics.guide/facultative-adaptation/ facultatively] balance these tensions through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and [https://thebasics.guide/gene-expression-regulation/ Regulated Expression]:
We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see [https://theportal.group/35-superposition/ Superpositions] and trade-offs. As it is said in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_3 Ecclesiastes] and Pete Seeger's song, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xzyhoeu1Y "To Everything There Is a Season], and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers that adaptively balance these tensions through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and [https://thebasics.guide/gene-expression-regulation/ Regulated Expression]:


* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
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* dreaming | doing
* dreaming | doing
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1107499062180208641 tolerance] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1323032614962298881 prejudice]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1107499062180208641 tolerance] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1323032614962298881 prejudice]
* [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw&t=3411 conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism]
* conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism
* game/frame acceptance | game/frame rejection
* game/frame acceptance | game/frame rejection
* [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1608654419465482240 femininity | masculinity]
* [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1608654419465482240 femininity | masculinity]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124338381809278976 violence] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1181589353182580737 peace]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124338381809278976 violence] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1181589353182580737 peace]
* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* leading | following
* left | right
* religiosity | secularism
<!-- * sobriety | inebriation
<!-- * sobriety | inebriation
* wild | domesticated-->
* wild | domesticated-->
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* Our Time
* Our Time
* Abstraction
* Abstraction
* The Language of Reality (e.g., Differential Geometry)
* The Language of Reality (Differential Geometry)
* Giving credit and attribution where due
* Giving credit and attribution where due
* Correcting misallocation of credit
* Correcting misallocation of credit
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* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* Evolutionary thinking
* Evolutionary thinking
* [[Adaptive Valley Crossing]]
* [https://theportal.group/2013-edge-excellence/ Adaptive Valley Crossing]
* [[Critical Feeling]]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/844198341189627904 Critical feeling]
* Independent, Critical, Rigorous, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle First Principles] thinking
* Independent, Critical, Rigorous, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle First Principles] thinking
* Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
* Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
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* Hypocrisy budget
* Hypocrisy budget
* Injustice budget
* Injustice budget
* Toxicity budget


== We Downregulate ==
== We Downregulate ==
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* Duplicitousness and Insincerity
* Duplicitousness and Insincerity
* Psychopathy
* Psychopathy
* Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
* Uncharitable Roasting
* Dunking and Dragging
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Stalking
* Stalking
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