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We endeavor to be | We endeavor to be | ||
* | * Self-aware | ||
* | * Metacognitive | ||
* | * Meta-honest | ||
* | * Agentic | ||
* | * Self-teaching | ||
* | * Self-critiquing | ||
* | * Self-credentialed | ||
* | * Earnest | ||
* | * Collegial | ||
* | * Imperfect | ||
* | * Of good humor | ||
* | * Tolerant | ||
* | * Curmudgeonly | ||
* | * Loyal to friends | ||
* | * Loyal to opposition | ||
* | * Kind & compassionate toward others | ||
* | * Flexible of Mind | ||
* | * Generous of Spirit | ||
* [https://theportal.group/34-the-importance-of-taste/ | * [https://theportal.group/34-the-importance-of-taste/ Tasteful] | ||
* | * Curious | ||
* | * Radically Creative | ||
* [https://projects.theportal.wiki | * Radically Conservative | ||
* | * [https://projects.theportal.wiki Project-driven] | ||
* | * Ambitious | ||
* | * Courageous | ||
* | * 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 Stanford] negative | ||
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1039589389309902848 long heroism, short martyrdom] | * [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1039589389309902848 long heroism, short martyrdom] | ||
Revision as of 05:41, 10 September 2023
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 planet.
We Prioritize
Our Core Traits
We endeavor to be
- Self-aware
- Metacognitive
- Meta-honest
- Agentic
- Self-teaching
- Self-critiquing
- Self-credentialed
- Earnest
- Collegial
- Imperfect
- Of good humor
- Tolerant
- Curmudgeonly
- Loyal to friends
- Loyal to opposition
- Kind & 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 Stanford negative
- long heroism, short martyrdom
- long good, short nice
Harmonizing Tensions
We recognize the following natural Superpositions/Trade-offs/Tensions/Dialectics:
- arrogance | humility
- analytic approaches | intuitive approaches
- inclusion | exclusion
- diversity | commonality/interoperability
- pluralism | leadership
- centralization | decentralization
- transparency | opacity
- depth | breadth
- excellence | genius
- 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
- individualism | collectivism
- romanticism | realism
- tribalism | cosmopolitanism
We Value
- Our Time
- Abstraction
- Giving credit and attribution where due
- Correcting misallocation of credit
- Balancing Type I & Type II Error
- Camping and Decamping
- Healthy competition and rivalry (e.g. RNA Tie Club)
- Ideas over instantiations
- Ideological Dining a la Carte
- Evolutionary thinking
- Adaptive Valley Crossing
- Independent thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical feeling
- Constructive Criticism & Dialogue
- Radical compression with minimal distortion
- High signal with minimal noise
- Technical language and reserved terms, where appropriate
- The Double Island Rules
- First Principles thinking
We Allow Ourselves
- Hypocrisy budget
- Injustice budget
We Downregulate
- Cynicism
- Trolling
- Chaos
- Snark
- Sanctimony
- Specialization
- Expertise
- Consensus
- Groupthink
- Groupfeel
- Lossy compression
- Oversimplification
- Conversation involving Opening Chess Moves
We Exclude
- Anti-collegiality
- Cheap, Uncharitable Criticism
- Self-extinguishing strategies
- Utopianism
- Coercion
- Purity
- Vindictiveness
- Nihilism
- Duplicitousness
- Psychopathy
- Uncharitable Roasting
- Dunking and Dragging
- Destructive/Anti-social Gamer Culture
- Stalking
- Physical threats
- Misogyny
- Anti-semitism
- Impersonation
- Doxxing
- Harassment for sport
- Absolutist and totalizing positions