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• Introduction to The Portal
• The Portal
• About The Portal Wiki

• The Portal Podcast
• Content by Eric Weinstein
• Geometric Unity

• Quest Board
• All Projects
• The Portal Group

Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, and host of The Portal Podcast. His speaking on a breadth of topics ranging from physics and economics to culture and society form the basis of this wiki.

Eric is also developing Geometric Unity, a unifying theory of physics.

The Portal Podcast

Featured: A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look

42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions

41: Douglas Murray – Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization AAAAAA AAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA

40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?

39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.

All Episodes

Recent Appearances

Featured: Eric Weinstein: A Revealing Conversation About Geometric Unity

Eric Weinstein & Michael Shermer: An honest dialogue about UFOs.

Eric Weinstein on Bitcoin

Eric Weinstein & Lee Smolin: A conversation on Theories of Everything

All Content by Eric Weinstein

The Portal Community

We are a project-driven community spread over many interest areas and a variety of backgrounds. We are dreamers and doers who use the tension between these two states. If you are too, then find something that interests you and contribute what you can.

The Portal Group

The Portal Discord Servers

The Portal Blog

Community Projects Page

All Projects

Physical Portals

History of the Portal

Community Projects

Graph, Wall, Tome

Fundamental physics seems unreachable for many. This project and its subprojects aim to map and convey the information necessary to understand the most vibrant realm of human knowledge. (On Discord)

• Book List
• Hub Page
  • Decoding the Graph-Wall-Tome Connection
  • Editing the Graph
  • Defacing the Wall
  • Rewriting the Tome
• Porta - On Discord
• Portal Book Club - On Discord
  • The Road to Reality Study Notes
• Theory of Geometric Unity - On Discord

Slipping the DISC

In almost any field of human activity, mechanisms emerge to suppress or downregulate low-quality ideas in order to maintain an institution's functions. These mechanisms become pathological when they are repurposed to suppress truth, research, and innovation that may upset or drastically alter the institution's structure, ultimately in betrayal of its purpose.

• Hub Page
• Early Voices of the Coronavirus - On Discord
• Russell Conjugation Illuminator - On Discord
• Science Since Babylon
• Science, The Endless Frontier

Meta Projects

Tracking the Portal's many ideas can be difficult. These projects organize and reconvey those ideas, or develop technology to convey them.

• 3D Printing for the Portal - On Discord
• Eric’s Most Important Set of Books
• Eric's Nightmare Species
• Ericisms
• Eric Weinstein Quotes - On Discord
• Episode Highlights
• The Portal Clips - On Discord
• Portal Mobile App - On Discord
• Portal VR
• Portal Player - On Discord
• The Portal Essay Club
• The Portal Wiki - On Discord
• Predictions Eric Got Right - On Discord
• Riffs to Animate - On Discord
• The Portal Transcripts - On Discord
• Tribal Drinking Songs - On Discord

Quest Board

Helpful Tasks

This is the spot for those who don't have expertise in STEM, or are busy with life, but still want to help us. Whether you have only 5 minutes or unlimited time and energy, you can help us and the community.

Explore and Catalog

• Eric has a lot in his mind. Help us find and collect riffs, references, concepts, and neologisms that Eric creates, or that come up in relation to The Portal.

Transcript Editing

• Some Portal episodes and many Eric Appearances are still in need of a transcript, or have transcripts that need further editing.
• Have a look at our Portal Media spreadsheet to find the current status of any transcript.
• Let Brooke or Aardvark know which you'd like to work on. They will provide you with the necessary materials.
• Follow our Transcript Style Guide.

Wiki Editing

• Write a strong, one-sentence description of ideas on their wiki pages
• Rewrite disorganized pages on the wiki
• Build out pages that are stubs (underdeveloped).

Praxis

Help to retell the story of our sciences to new generations of students

• Read
• Make a visualization from calculations in what you've read

Mathematics

• Request visualizations of principles or constructions
• Outline sequences of thought to reach a particular idea

Physics

• Write pages on hard physical problems independent of mathematics

Engineering

• Onboarding to CAD for mechanical engineering (elasticity and fluid sims)
• Affordable projects/kit concepts to understand physics principles in engineering
• Contribute to realizable engineering challenge ideas to improve our world

Computing Science

• Foundations of computing for physics, Numerical Analysis
• Geometric Complexity Theory

Programming

Build a useful piece of software.

Data Visualization (d3-js, chart-js, p5-js)

• Make visualizations with the users.theportal.wiki data

Discord Bots (JavaScript)

• Discord Pin Archive + Management Bot
• Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server
• Bot that relays messages across servers

Instragram Bots

• Bot that cross posts from Eric's Instagram to the server

Three-js

• Make our Portal Map work similar to the "Follow Dragon" section on SpaceX's website.

Twitter Bots

• Twitter Archival Bot
• Twitter Bot that responds to tweets from Eric containing keywords with wiki articles.

Be Creative

Show us what you got!

Music

• Learn a silly or fun drinking song, and record yourself playing or singing it, preferably with friends from The Portal
• Make a song that incorporates the podcast's music

Visual Art

• Are you an artist inspired by The Portal? Show us what you've made!
• Help us make visualizations and animations to go along with Eric's riffs and mathematical concepts of interest
• See what others have created on our Featured Artists page

Writing

• Write an essay, blog post, or twitter thread on a topic covered on The Portal.

Portal Ideas

Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)

• Distributed Idea Suppression Complex
  • Fact-Checker
  • Forced Citation
  • The Four Quadrant Model
  • Goliaputian
  • Message Violence
  • Peer Review
  • Preference Falsification
  • Reputational Violence
  • Scientific Method
  • Seberging
  • Thinkquisition
  • Vampire Syndrome or Vampire Effect
• Gated Institutional Narrative
  • Anti-Interesting
  • Consensus
  • De-Potemkin
  • Iago Media
  • Knarc
  • Overton Window
  • Potemkin Village

Geometric Unity

• Theory of Geometric Unity
  • Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity on the Joe Rogan Experience April 2021
  • Geometric Unity on Into the Impossible April 2021
  • A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
  • Observerse

Gauge Theory of Economics and the Square Root of Capitalism

• Gauge Theory of Economics
• Economics Squared
• The Square Root of Capitalism
  • Anthropic Capitalism
  • New Gimmick Economy
  • New Orchards
• The Physics of Wall Street

Riffs

• Artificial Outelligence
• Deaths of Accountability
• Don't screw yourself out of magic
• Don't wait for the bread to rise
• Ericisms
• Faster Than Light Travel
• Intellectual Dark Web
• The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World's Failure to Close
• Kayfabe
• Maladaptive strategies
• The Optics are the Substance
• Physics Dollars
• Rulers and Protractors Become General Relativity
• Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
• Snap to Grid Intellectualism
• Theory of Death
• The United States of Absolutely Nothing
• The Universal Trade
• White Suit

History

• Embedded Growth Obligations
  • Science Since Babylon
  • Science, The Endless Frontier
• Evergreening
• The N^2 Revolution
• No Living Heroes
  • Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People
• Twin Nuclei Problem
  • The Big Nap
    • Big Napper

Culture

• Exclusion
• Fragility of Masculinity
• Irrationality
• Load-Bearing Fictions
• Meaning
• Middle Finger

Discourse

• Argument as the Frame
• Checksum Theory of Politics
• Chess-Opening Problem
  • Free Will vs. Determinism Debate
• Critical Feeling
• Dawkins' Power of an Idea
• Different Vehicles with Common Payload
• Ideological Dining a la Carte
• Double Island Rules
• Litella
• Long-Form Podcasting
  • Audio Samizdat
• Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
• Minus Epsilon
• Reflexive Contrarianism
• Regulated Expression
• Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
• Rough Space
• Russell Conjugation
• Split Level Argument
• Steel-Manning
• Streisand Squeeze
• Superposition
• Type I & Type II Error

Education

• The Educational Complex
• Edugenic Harm
• Genius vs Excellence
  • Kung Fu Panda
    • Skadoosh
    • There is no secret ingredient
  • The War on Excellence
• Teaching Disabilities

Art & Artists

Artists are vital for translating the ideas of The Portal into mediums understandable by any.

• Boqu Designs
• markersniffen
• morgansculp
• Ms Jo Designs
• Peasnriz
• XX Sulla XX Designs

General Knowledge

Mathematics & Economics

• Book List
• Associative Property
• Efficient Frontier
• Gauge Theory
• Geometry
  • Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics
• Gini Coefficient
• Wu-Yang Dictionary

Biology

• Adaptive Landscape
• Adaptive Valley
• C Elegans
• The Cosmic Spelling Bee
• Environmental Insult
• Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
• Environment of Evolutionary Novelty
• Gene Drive
• Selective Pressures
• Cancer vs Senescence as Design Tradeoffs
• Umwelt

Psychology

• A/B Testing
• Agency
  • Agentic Leadership
  • High Agency
• Anti-Fragility
• Audience Capture
• Facultative Autism
• Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
• Game B
• Learned Helplessness
• Rent-seeking Elites
• Schelling Point

Technology

• Electronic Tribalism & Electronic Feudalism
• Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)
• Terms of Service

History

• Article 58
• Church and Pike Commissions
• Operation COINTELPRO
• Section A of the Reserve Index

Culture

• Cargo Cult
• Degraded State
• It's a beautiful thing
• Oral Torah
• Perfectly Legal
• Totalizing Ideologies
• Zugzwang

Reference

Video/Audio

Podcasts

• Dark Horse Podcast - YouTube channel
  • Dark Horse Podcast - Odysee channel
• Into the Impossible Podcast by Dr. Brian Keating - YouTube channel
• Jocko Podcast - YouTube channel
• Joe Rogan Experience - YouTube channel
• The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - YouTube channel
• Lex Fridman Podcast - YouTube channel

Mathematics

• 3Blue1Brown - YouTube channel for educational mathematics content
• Richard E. Borcherds - YouTube channel for mathematics lectures by Fields medalist Richard Borcherds

Physics

• Air on a Dirac String - YouTube video explaining spinors
• Sabine Hossenfelder - YouTube channel for educational physics content

Spaceflight

• Cosmic Perspective - YouTube channel for documentaries and interviews about spaceflight
• Everyday Astronaut - YouTube channel for spaceflight news and educational content
• NASASpaceflight - YouTube channel for spaceflight news and video journalism
• Scott Manley - YouTube channel for news and educational content on spaceflight and astrophysics

Websites

Portal

• The Portal Group
• Portal Projects Webpage
• Eric's Webpage
• Eric on Edge.org

General Resources

• Archive.org - Online archive of books, media, and websites
• The Ellsberg Archive Project - Online archive of Daniel Ellsberg's whistleblowing activities
• Project Gutenberg - Repository for digitized books out of copyright
• Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia

Mathematics

• Euclid's Elements
• LaTeX Cheat Sheet
• Math3ma - Blog by mathematician Dr. Tai-Danae Bradley with educational material

Physics

• BackReaction - Blog by Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder

Culture

• Astral Codex Ten - Blog by Scott Alexander, of former Slate Star Codex
• Common Sense - Newsletter by Bari Weiss featuring journalism, interviews, and guest columns on "curiosity about the wrong topics"
• Continuing Ed - Blog by whistleblower Edward Snowden writing about civil liberties and technology
• Natural Selections - Blog by evolutionary biologist Dr. Heather Heying about biology and culture
• New Discourses - Website by James Lindsay on the workings of social justice ideologies
• Quillette - Online magazine for free thought

Tools

Software

Audio/Image/Video Editing

• Audacity - Free audio editing tool
• Blender - Free 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool
• Figma - Free web design and diagramming tool
• Gimp - Free image editing tool
• Inkscape - Free vector graphic tool
• Krita - Free image editing/drawing tool
• Resolve - Free video editing tool

Programming

• Jupyter Notebooks - Free interactive Python environment
• Manim - Animation python code used to create the videos on 3Blue1Brown
• Spyder - Interactive development environment for scientific python
• Threejs - Javascript 3D Library
• WordPress - Free and open source software for developing websites

Productivity

• Draw.io - Free flowchart and diagramming tool
• Mind Maps

Websites

Wiki Tools

• List of Pages on this Wiki
• List of Categories on this Wiki
• List of Users on this Wiki
• List of Files on this Wiki
• API Access to this Wiki

Other Sites

• Geogebra - Math visualization site.
• Shadertoy - Repository and API for coding shaders, such as this hopf fibration.