The Portal encompasses a broad range of ideas that can transform one's perception of the world. This page is a non-exhaustive index of those ideas.
For an index of project pages, see Projects.
Portal Ideas
Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
Gauge Theory of Economics and the Square Root of Capitalism
Riffs
- Artificial Outelligence
- Deaths of Accountability
- Don't screw yourself out of magic
- Don't wait for the bread to rise
- Ericisms
- 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
Discourse
- Argument as the Frame
- Checksum Theory of Politics
- Chess-Opening Problem
- Critical Feeling
- Dawkins' Power of an Idea
- Different Vehicles with Common Payload
- Dining a la Carte
- Double Island Rules
- Litella
- Long-Form Podcasting
- Long/short positions (nuanced positions)
- Minus Epsilon
- Regulated Expression
- Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing
- Rough Space
- Russell Conjugation
- Split Level Argument
- Superposition
- Steel-Manning
- Type I & Type II Error
Art & Artists
Artists are vital for translating the ideas of The Portal into mediums understandable by any.