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• Chiral
  ...image is asymmetric. The example often used to demonstrate this concept is one's own hand: ...shape. The thumb and the pinky trade places and the front is distinct from the back.
  594 bytes (99 words) - 17:10, 28 June 2021
• Litella
  ...o become politically & publicly outraged by one's own misinterpretation of the opinions of others."''
  261 bytes (32 words) - 00:01, 14 February 2021
• Preference Falsification
  ...nts under perceived social pressures, and it deliberately aims to disguise one's motivations and dispositions. ...ely unpredictable effect on the entire field because it is at the level of the substrate." [https://youtu.be/xzjqjU2FOwA?t=4023 #4 Prof. Timur Kuran] @ 1:
  917 bytes (134 words) - 02:47, 13 September 2021
• Cognate
  Example: The Yiddish word for one hundred and twenty, "Hundert und Tsvantsig"
  209 bytes (30 words) - 17:10, 9 September 2021
• The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World's Failure to Close
  ...or "the invisible world" by searching for "holes" or a lack of closure in the visible world. He originally discussed this concept publicly in [https://tw
  1,005 bytes (114 words) - 18:48, 8 September 2021
• Audience Capture
  ...ience capture''' is a self-reinforcing feedback loop that involves telling one's audience what they want to hear and getting rewarded for it. ...think I've counseled many people that you have to put poisonous tweets for the people who follow you, who you wish would not follow you, you know, you hav
  1 KB (161 words) - 06:39, 6 September 2021
• New Orchards
  ...innovation. Instead of arguing over the existence of low-hanging fruit in the current paradigm, consider finding New Orchards. ...at doesn't even work as an analogy. What if the idea is we only picked all the low-hanging fruit here and then we're having this stupid argument about low
  2 KB (359 words) - 21:35, 1 February 2021
• Entering “The Portal” with Eric Weinstein (Audio Content)
  |title=Entering “The Portal” with Eric Weinstein |image=[[File:Eric on The One w Greg Gutfeld Cover.jpg]]
  1 KB (171 words) - 17:13, 28 June 2021
• Terms of Service
  ...en a user and a service provider. Almost every service on the internet has one.
  304 bytes (38 words) - 00:02, 3 September 2021
• Advice for Beginners: Choosing Your Arch-Nemesis to Last a Lifetime (YouTube Content)
  |prev=Looking Beyond the Millennials: A brief discussion with my son Zev Weinstein at 13 (YouTube Co |next=Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web - filmed interview w Eric Weinstein (YouTube Content)
  2 KB (256 words) - 17:01, 28 June 2021
• Yang-Baxter equation
  ...was first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics. It depends on the idea that in some scattering situations, particles may preserve their momen ...two different ways, the Yang–Baxter equation enforces that both paths are the same.
  1 KB (183 words) - 17:39, 1 November 2020
• Pseudo events
  ...rought about merely for the sake of the publicity it generates, especially one designed to appear spontaneous or unplanned. Coined by Daniel J. Boorstin in ''The Image: a guide to pseudo-events in America'', published in 1961 in New York
  317 bytes (48 words) - 01:03, 7 September 2021
• Anthropic Capitalism
  ...describe current economic theory as an effective theory, not a fundamental one, in analogy to anthropic arguments used in physics.
  349 bytes (49 words) - 21:15, 24 May 2021
• Kepler's 1st law
  The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
  451 bytes (66 words) - 17:38, 1 November 2020
• Big Napper
  ...s of [[The Big Nap]] and remained intellectually coherent, at least within the class of Big Nappers. - [[Eric Weinstein]], [[ep30|Episode 30]] of [[The Portal Podcast]]
  391 bytes (60 words) - 15:15, 15 April 2021
• Einstein’s mass-energy equation
  ...rgy and vice versa, with these fundamental quantities directly relating to one another by Albert Einstein's famous formula
  483 bytes (61 words) - 17:37, 1 November 2020
• Load-Bearing Fictions
  ...earing” & “adult-level” fictions over the truth & request examples. Here’s one: it’s likely structurally important that Supreme Court Justices continue
  610 bytes (80 words) - 18:19, 3 September 2021
• C Elegans
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Brenner Sydney Brenner], beginning in the 1960s. ...ness of the under-appreciated biological resources available to us through the study of this organism.
  3 KB (463 words) - 05:38, 9 September 2021
• Kung Fu Panda
  ...e movies because of its treatment of self-teaching. Eric wrote an essay on the topic of self-teaching inspired by Kung Fu Panda, which you can read on [ht * [[The War on Excellence]]
  451 bytes (69 words) - 21:05, 8 September 2021
• The Portal Discord Servers
  There are several Discord servers that make up The Portal Community. ...e Portal community. Focused on building projects that Eric muses about and the math behind [[Geometric Unity]].
  610 bytes (99 words) - 16:58, 11 March 2021

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