Self Sabotage Origins https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar24_Post.mp4 Self sabotage is a common problem. And often it happens before we do anything. It’s commonly described when somebody is playing out of their league. A common TV or movie trope is the guy or gal who is dating somebody THEY think is way out of their league. […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Free Will Paradox
Never See It Coming It’s common for large companies to keep their employees in the dark as long as possible before any large layoffs. They want to keep them from knowing so they can get a maximum amount of productivity out of them. Individually, this is much easier to manage. God vs. […]
Energy Gradients
No New Energy The first law of thermodynamics says energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy must increase. At the same time, there is simple reason for systems, such as planet Earth, that have a consistently decreasing entropy. Money Flows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27Loop.mp4 Hedge fund managers, so […]
Structural Permutations
Pasta Machine I have a friend that just bought a pretty cool pasta machine. It comes without about 50 different attachments, so all you need to do is put dough in, and whatever pasta you want will come out the front. She said it’s cool to use, but really difficult to clean. […]
Sliding Into Amnesia
Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
Rigged System Exploitation
Football Guy I used to work with this guy a long time ago that loved to bet on Football. Every Monday he’d tell us how he almost made a ton of money, but he ended up losing everything. Funny thing was he had this idea that every single game was rigged, that the […]
MLM Universe
Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
Emergent Soul Theory
Unconscious Influence Cialdini has long studied the forces of influence that exist outside of our conscious awareness. The most common is social proof, but this one is a bit tricky, since everybody knows what social proof is, and every tends to try to leverage social proof in their favor. But all of us […]
Emergent Financial Parasites
Black Jack System Before the advent and widespread use of facial recognition technology, a group of MIT students developed a very lucrative blackjack system. They made a movie about it, but the movie was necessarily altered to make room for good guys and bad guys and back stories and character arcs. But the […]
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