Throw Trash Cans Behind You A very common scene in action movies is the good guy is running away from the bad guy, or the bad guy is running away from the good guy. And they always run through crowded areas, and they always throw stuff behind them, as they are running away, to […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
Nested Feedback Loops
Profit and Loss Model The profit and loss model is a very elegant, very powerful system that is responsible for nearly every invention ever created. Within an honest economic system, which is very rare, if non-existent, the only way a company, no matter the size, can stay in business is to make a profit. […]
Superstitious Alchemy Connections
Thunderbolt of Pain The other day, I was walking down the street just minding my own business when out of nowhere I was hit in the gut with an emotional sucker punch. I was in a pretty good mood, I wasn’t going anywhere in particular, my eyes just kind of wandering around on their […]
Rearview Brain Strategy
System At The Track A long time ago, long before the internet became popular, I bought this system that would allegedly teach you how to make easy money at the track. The sales letter, an old school, actual letter you’d get in the mail, made this sound like a fantastic system that would allow […]
Inter Generational Resonance
Math and Music One of the coolest overlapping areas of science is humans and music. On the one hand, humans are very subjective, logic or mathematics isn’t our strong suit. In fact, if most of us had to take a course in pure logic or any advanced math like calculus or differential equations, […]
Treasure Hunting Symmetry
Emmy Noether There was a German mathematician, Emmy Noether, who came up with a beautiful idea linking symmetry and conservation laws. She said that wherever you find any kind of symmetry, you’ll find a corresponding conservation law. And whenever you have a conservation laws, there will be an equivalent symmetry somewhere. Invisible […]
Colonization Plans
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions floating around. They are, of course, built by understanding the inefficiency of our visual perception. Most of what we see is an approximation, and by purposely creating false approximations, we will see things that aren’t really there. The field […]
Weaponized Brain Swarms
Food Inflation Rising prices can quickly destroy a society. They say that any civil society is only a three meals away from a revolution. Studies have shown that the majority of civil unrest after world war two is based on food inflation. Affordable Food Most Important https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov23Loop.mp4 The ideas about democracy, freedom, […]
Emergent Universal Consciousness
Economist I read an interesting article by an economist recently. He said that along with a global economy and financial system, there is a kind of emergent system. Kind of like a supra-national financial system that individual central banks and treasury departments aren’t really aware of. Feedback Systems https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov14Loop.mp4 Organic systems all […]
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