Global Death There was this huge international conglomerate that killed a guy’s family. He worked for the company, and lived nearby, and due to some oversight his wife and kid died. He spent ten years fighting them, essentially living off donations. This is a problem with battling these gigantic international conglomerates, they […]
Mind Control Pheromones
Hare Krishna Magic Once upon a time, the Hare Krishna’s were a bunch of broke hippies. They were founded in the sixties in New York, and their entire business model was based on begging for money and trying to teach people their philosophy. There were always broke, because they didn’t really apply any […]
Subliminal Conspiracy Industrial Complex
TV Smack Down I saw this interesting interview the other night. It started off cordial and polite, but it ended in a beat down by the host. The host kind of lured him into his trap, like TV talk show hosts like to do. The poor guy didn’t really prepare, and this […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
Greek Plays I would have been cool to be alive back in ancient Greece when they had local plays put on at local amphitheaters. From today’s perspective, this doesn’t seem very special. This doesn’t seem very extraordinary. But today, we have access to tons of material to satisfy our story instinct. […]
The Butter War Demon
Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
The Missing Gorilla Paradox
Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]
Whose Thoughts Do You Think?
Hot Neighbor I have this really hot but kind of messed up neighbor. She’s not what you would call an intellectual type, but she’s friendly, perhaps overly so. Kind of naive, in that she let’s herself get taken advantage of. She just got dumped in a pretty horrible way and it kind […]
Advice From Imaginary People
Grandmaster Theory I have a friend who has a very interesting hobby. He plays chess, but in a very unique way. He has this chess software on his PC, and this chess software is hooked up a huge database. This database has every game every played. So he’ll watch a game, […]
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