Genetic Modification Ever since the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago, humans have been slowly applying genetic modification to our environment. Up until very recently, this was done by selective breeding. By carefully replanting the plumpest fruits from an orchard, which, over the centuries, creates plumper and plumper fruit. This is why […]
Evil Clown Show
Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Alpha Male Productivity
Get Some If you don’t have access to oxygen for more than a few minutes, you will die. If you don’t have access to water for more than a few days, you will die. If you don’t have access to food for more than a few weeks or months, depending on how much […]
Lion Debt and Extinction Events
Hunting Documentary I saw this interesting documentary about lions and how they hunt. Lions, like all other animals, have instincts that are calibrated for their environment. And like all other animals, they need to energy to survive, and they have to expend energy to survive. This is essentially the difference between any […]
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 […]
Quantum Tube Consciousness
Pieces of Eight An octagon has eight sides. An octopus has eight legs. But October is the tenth month. Why the discrepancy? There have been a few interesting experiments done on how to grow seeds with much more efficiency. Energy In Energy Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct19Loop.mp4 Efficiency being a measure of energy […]
Rhyming Historical Destruction
Truth Is Impossible Studying history objectively is impossible. Everybody has filters and biases. It’s widely known that people who study history bring their unconscious biases with them. It’s kind of like how we choose to read from certain news sources that validate our confirmation bias. Few Venture Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16Loop.mp4 In order […]
Impending Cannibal Apocalypse
Science Fiction Story There is this really cool story by I think Ray Bradbury. It’s about this planet that has a bunch of people. The first use fire, then they discover agriculture, then they have an Industrial Revolution and then they invent nuclear weapons. Then they use the weapons on themselves, bombing […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
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. […]
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