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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 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]
* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
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* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* leading | following
* 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 (Differential Geometry)
* The Language of Reality (e.g., 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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* 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 Roasting
* Uncharitable or low-level (bot-like) Roasting, Dunking, and Dragging
* Dunking and Dragging
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
* Stalking
* Stalking