The Portal Community
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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