The Portal

Wiki pages for all of the ideas in the Portal. For project pages, see Projects. For community pages, see Community.

Portal Ideas

Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)

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

Geometric Unity

• Theory of Geometric Unity
  • A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
  • The Observerse

Gauge Theory of Economics and the Square Root of Capitalism

• Economics Squared
• Gauge Theory of Economics
  • Theory of Markets
• The Square Root of Capitalism
  • Anthropic Capitalism
  • New Gimmick Economy
  • New Orchards

Theses

• Artificial Outelligence
• Deaths of Accountability
• Don't screw yourself out of magic
• Don't wait for the bread to rise
• The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World's Failure to Close
• Irrationality
• Kayfabe
• Maladaptive strategies
• Meaning
• The Optics are the Substance
• Physics Dollars
• Rulers and Protractors Become General Relativity
• Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
• Theory of Death
• Thinkquisition
• White Suit

History

• The Big Nap
• Embedded Growth Obligation
  • 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

Discourse

• Argument as the Frame
• Checksum Theory of Politics
• Chess-Opening Problem
  • Free Will vs. Determinism Debate
• Critical Feeling
• Dawkins' Power of a Theory
• Dining a la Carte
• Double Island Rules
• Litella
• Load-Bearing Fictions
• Long-Form Podcasting
  • Audio Samizdat
• Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
• Middle Finger
• Minus Epsilon
• Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
• Rough Space
• Russell Conjugation
• Split Level Argument
• Steel-Manning
• Type I & Type II Error

Education

• The Educational Complex
• Fragility of Masculinity
• 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

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

Biology

• Adaptive Landscape
• Adaptive Valley
• The Cosmic Spelling Bee
• Environmental Insult
• Gene Drive
• Selective Pressures
• Umwelt

Psychology

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

Technology

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

History

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

Culture

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