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Latest revision as of 17:48, 23 March 2024

We are friends and collaborators of Eric Weinstein. Our community is a self-selected group of high-agency misfit mutants who are interested in diversifying humanity beyond this solar system via new fundamental physics. In the spirit of The Portal, we are always looking for a way out of our perennial problems.

We Prioritize[edit]

Our Core Traits[edit]

We generally endeavor to be

Self-aware
Metacognitive
Meta-honest
Adaptive
Agentic
Hopeful
Self-teaching
Self-critiquing
Self-credentialed
Hard-working
Risk-managing
Earnest
Of Good Humor
Collegial
Imperfect
Curmudgeonly
Loyal to Friends
Loyal to Loyal Opposition
Kind, Decent & Compassionate toward others
Flexible of Mind
Generous of Spirit
Tasteful
Curious
Radically Creative
Radically Conservative
Project-driven
Ambitious
Courageous
Imposters
Responsibly Heretical
Asch, Milgram, and Zimbardo negative
Long Heroism, Short Martyrdom
Long Good, Short Nice

Harmonizing Tensions[edit]

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 Superpositions and trade-offs. As it is said in Ecclesiastes and Pete Seeger's song, "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, 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 Regulated Expression:

arrogance | humility
analysis | intuition
excellence | genius
inclusion | exclusion
diversity | commonality/interoperability
pluralism | leadership
shunning/cancellation | redemption
institutions | disintermediation
egalitarianism | recognition of differential contribution
listening | ignoring
senior leadership and wisdom | removal of those who stopped renewing
authoritative sources | heterodoxy
welcoming strangers | prioritizing family and old friends
ridicule | civility and comity
modernity | tradition
centralization | distribution
transparency | opacity
depth | breadth
individualism | collectivism
romanticism | rationalism
objectivism | relativism
realism | idealism
tribalism | cosmopolitanism
levity | gravity
dreaming | doing
tolerance | prejudice
conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism
game/frame acceptance | game/frame rejection
femininity | masculinity
violence | peace
love | hate
leading | following
left | right
religiosity | secularism

For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see Societal Superpositions.

We Value[edit]

Our Time
Abstraction
The Language of Reality (e.g., Differential Geometry)
Giving credit and attribution where due
Correcting misallocation of credit
Balancing Type I & Type II Error
Camping and Decamping
Creative competition and rivalry (e.g. RNA Tie Club, The Dozens, Cutting Contests, Guitar Battles, Poetry Slams)
Ideas over instantiations
Ideological Dining a la Carte
Evolutionary thinking
Adaptive Valley Crossing
Critical Feeling
Independent, Critical, Rigorous, First Principles thinking
Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
Public-Spirited, Ethical Elitism
Anti-Experts
Pro-social Freedom of Expression
Bespoke, High-level Curation (e.g. Z3nBlack)
Genius-level, Pro-social Trolling (e.g. Tom Lehrer, Gilbert and Sullivan)
Radical compression with minimal distortion
High signal with minimal noise
Technical language and reserved terms, where appropriate
The Double Island Rules
Estufagem processes

We Allow Ourselves[edit]

Hypocrisy budget
Injustice budget
Toxicity budget

We Downregulate[edit]

Cynicism
Chaos
Sanctimony
Specialization
Excellence
Consensus
Groupthink
Groupfeel
Interpersonal Drama
Lossy compression
Chess-Opening Problems

We Exclude[edit]

Anti-Collegial Snark
Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
Cheap, Uncharitable Trolling
Meretricious Arguments and Framings
Self-extinguishing strategies
Utopianism
Coercion
Gaslighting
Purity
Vindictiveness
Nihilism
Duplicitousness and Insincerity
Psychopathy
Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
Stalking
Physical threats
Misogyny
Anti-semitism
Impersonation
Doxxing
Harassment for sport
Muddling Arguments
Oversimplification
Absolutist and totalizing ideologies

@@ Line 41: / Line 41: @@
 * [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1534047944806002688 Imposters]
 * 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 Stanford] 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 Zimbardo] negative
 * [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1039589389309902848 Long Heroism, Short Martyrdom]
 * [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/800396512844922880 Long Good, Short Nice]
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 == 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 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, [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]:
 * [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
@@ Line 75: / Line 75: @@
 * dreaming | doing
 * [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1107499062180208641 tolerance] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1323032614962298881 prejudice]
-* conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism
+* [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw&t=3411 conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism]
 * game/frame acceptance | game/frame rejection
 * [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1608654419465482240 femininity | masculinity]
 * [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124338381809278976 violence] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1181589353182580737 peace]
 * love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
+* leading | following
+* left | right
+* religiosity | secularism
 <!-- * sobriety | inebriation
 * wild | domesticated-->
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 * Our Time
 * Abstraction
-* The Language of Reality (Differential Geometry)
+* The Language of Reality (e.g., Differential Geometry)
 * Giving credit and attribution where due
 * Correcting misallocation of credit
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 * Hypocrisy budget
 * Injustice budget
+* Toxicity budget
 == We Downregulate ==
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 * Duplicitousness and Insincerity
 * Psychopathy
-* Uncharitable Roasting
+* Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
-* Dunking and Dragging
 * Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
 * Stalking