The Portal Community

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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


Harmonizing Tensions

We recognize the following natural Superpositions/Trade-offs/Tensions/Dialectics:

  • arrogance | humility
  • 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

We allow ourselves

  • Hypocrisy budget
  • Injustice budget

We Downregulate

  • Cynicism
  • Trolling
  • Chaos
  • Snark
  • Sanctimony
  • Specialization
  • Expertise
  • Consensus
  • Groupthink
  • Groupfeel

We Exclude

  • Anti-collegiality
  • Self-extinguishing strategies
  • Utopianism
  • Coercion
  • Purity
  • Vindictiveness
  • Nihilism
  • Duplicitousness
  • Psychopathy
  • Roasting
  • Dunking and dragging
  • Gamer culture
  • Stalking
  • Physical threats
  • Misogyny
  • Anti-semitism
  • Impersonation
  • Doxxing
  • Harassment for sport