Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Parasitic Brain Demons
Street Stall Delicacy There’s a very tiny street downtown that has tons of food stalls. They sell very cheap, and very delicious food. Way better, and way cheaper than in any restaurant. A common type of private equity is the leveraged buy out. Often called LBO. Uninvited Guests https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15Loop.mp4 This […]
Fractionated DNA Re-Activation
Tech Expo I went to a pretty cool expo recently. It was for people who use Adobe products. I use Photoshop, Audition and Premiere. But only fro the most basic things. They had a lot of very advanced demos. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13Loop.mp4 They also had a raffle. […]
Long Game Occultist
License Scams Getting a license these days to sell something is difficult. A hundred years or so ago, if you wanted to sell something, you just sold it. An interesting problem from game theory is why it’s illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV. Why No Cigarette Ads? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Loop.mp4 Most people assume that […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Zombie Invasions and Split Testing
Problems and Solutions A famous quote from Einstein says that you can’t solve a problem from the same mindset that created the problem. When the space shuttle blew up in the late 80’s it was a tragedy for a lot of reasons. One because it killed a lot of people. Two because […]
Ancient Emergent Consciousness
Open Mic Night? I went to a local club a couple nights ago. I thought it was an open mic night, but I wasn’t sure. The guy I saw did some pretty interesting magic tricks. He had a lot of sleight of hand skills, he was very smooth. Good Storyteller https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug01Loop.mp4 […]
How To Become Psychic
Rapport Seminar I went to a free sales seminar a couple weeks ago. It was pretty basic stuff, but it was also pretty useful. The first half all we did were these fairly straightforward rapport exercises. Rapport is extremely important, but it’s also kind of dangerous. Easy To Forget https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July30Loop.mp4 Dangerous […]
Psychic Memory Repair
Broken Car A couple weeks ago my car started making some funny noises. It sounded pretty bad, so had to find a place to drop it off. I asked around and found a place that had a pretty good reputation. I took it by, the guy said it would take a couple […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
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