Portal Concepts

Eric uses many concepts on The Portal and during his conversations on various platforms that may be abstract, obscure or poorly known outside of certain disciplines or fields. We collect those concepts here. These should not be confused with Ericisms.

A

• A-B Testing
• Adaptive Landscape
• Adaptive Valley
• Agency
• Anti-Fragility
• Associative Property

C

• Cognate
• Consensus

D

• Dawkins' Power of an Idea
• Don't wait for the bread to rise

E

• Efficient Frontier
• Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
• Environmental Insult
• Escher's Hands Drawing Hands
• Exclusion

F

• Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
• The Four Quadrant Model
• Funeral by Funeral

G

• Game B
• Gating Function
• Gauge Theory
• Gauge Theory of Economics
• Gene Drive
• Gini Coefficient

H

• Homeostatic Capacity

I

• Imposter
• Irrationality
• It's a beautiful thing

K

• Kayfabe

L

• Look-ahead function

M

• Maladaptive strategies
• Middle Finger

O

• Oral Torah
• Overton Window

P

• Peer Review
• Perception-Mediated Selection
• Potemkin Village
• Preference Falsification

R

• Russell Conjugation

S

• Scientific Method
• Selective Pressures
• Shibboleth
• Steady Hands
• Steel-Manning

T

• Terms of Service
• The Cosmic Spelling Bee
• The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
• There is no secret ingredient
• Type I & Type II Error

U

• Umwelt