Unspoken Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct03_Post.mp4 Linguistic presuppositions are a very useful tool. Not a lot of people have heard about them. Let alone have practiced them. But if you do manage to practice them, they will help two ways. One is they will show you the ideas people have, but aren’t really willing […]
X-Ray Love Machine
Digging For Gold https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept15_Post.mp4 Imagine two old school gold diggers. Not the modern stereotypical woman who marries dudes for their money. Old school dudes who physically dug for gold. Way back in the day. In one of the biggest migrations of human history. When they discovered gold in the hills […]
Don’t Be A Bruised Apple
Apples https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug22_Post.mp4 Once I saw a picture from the soviet union. From way back in the day. It was kind of like a Monty Python movie. Where they had one guy selling nothing. “I’ve got nothing for sale!” Funny in a movie, where everybody starving and broke in the dark […]
Real Heroes And Fake Bullies
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 […]
Telepathic Mental Momentum
Up And Down Hills I used to do a lot of bike riding. Once I had this messed up bike. It was really hard to get going. Impulse Buy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12Loop.mp4 I bought a forearm workout device. It was a ball inside a ball. You had to get the inside ball […]
Peripheral Resonance
No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
Energy Storage Strategies
Getting Ready For Winter The idea of squirrels collecting nuts for the winter is a structure than you can find everywhere. Inmates tend to hoard food in their cell, as it feels good to have a secret stash of energy if you ever need this. Preppers also store months of food in case […]
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 […]
Imaginary Paradoxes
Gabriel’s Horn There is a paradox in calculus called the Horn of Gabriel. It’s a mathematical function, a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional equation y=1/x, but rotated around the x axis. The reason it is considered a paradox is this is a three dimensional shape with infinite surface area but finite […]
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 […]
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