Gods and Men https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr19_Post.mp4 What do super heroes do? Protect the weak against the evil. What do super villains do? The use their powers to amass power and wealth, at the expense of the law abiding citizens. Modern comic book superhero’s represent the absolute idealized version of a more standard, mythological […]
Custom Built Heroes
Unlimited Supply https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09_Post.mp4 The entertainment industry is a kajillion dollar a year industry. Movies, books, TV shows, music, etc. These are sometimes purely “escapism.” You watch a movie that has no bearing on reality whatsoever. But at least for a couple hours, you can forget about life. This is why […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Co-Evolving Hallucinations
Long Form Sales Letters The best form of copywriting, when it comes to long form sales letters is the story format. Especially if these stories contain relatable characters that you can identify with, so when you get to the end of this, you’ll go right along with the main character as they take action. […]
Angelic Symbols of Magic
Secret Recipe There are a lot of very complex recipes that require you put in the right ingredients, in the right order, and at the time temperature. Do everything perfect, and this comes out tasting fantastic. Make one tiny mistake, and you have a gross tasting pile of crud that even you’re dog […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
Social Proof Hallucination
End Of Stone Age The stone age ended when ancient humans figured out how to smelt ore, get the metal out and make tools and weapons. They’ve found very intricately decorated bowls in some of the oldest mines. They suspect it’s the humans giving gifts to the gods of the Earth in exchange […]
Psychic Seduction Princess
Night On The Town A couple of weeks ago I went to this open mic night. I’d been to a couple, and they are always interesting. If you’re paying to see somebody, then you have a much higher expectation of having a good time, but you’ll also see somebody who is going to […]