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 […]
Physician’s Revenge
Global Death There was this huge international conglomerate that killed a guy’s family. He worked for the company, and lived nearby, and due to some oversight his wife and kid died. He spent ten years fighting them, essentially living off donations. This is a problem with battling these gigantic international conglomerates, they […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
Slippery Slope Dream Archetypes
Cialdini Laws A very powerful Cialdini law of influence is one we create ourselves, and operates on ourselves, but outside of our conscious awareness. Researchers demonstrated this by going into a neighborhood they’d split into two halves. The first half they went through and asked everybody if they could but a huge, very […]
Power Node Sexual Theory
VIP Doorman I have a friend who is a doorman at a very, very exclusive club. He’s worked there for a long time, more than a few years. And he’s figured out a way to leverage his job for lots of sex. But not from the girls waiting in line, hoping to […]
Return To Mars
Old School Ideas A very interesting idea from antiquity, made famous by Plato, is the idea of the lost city of Atlantis. These idea of an underwater ancient city that was far more advanced is very compelling, and surrounded in tons of mythology. We humans seem to have a very keen interest in […]
Insanity Resonance Chamber
Mass Hysteria A weird phenomenon that pop ups now and again is the idea of mass hysteria. It’s one thing if an individual has some kind of hallucination. And this hallucination is significantly different than reality. Eventually you’ll find out that this hallucination is false. Hallucination Resonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov09Loop.mp4 But when you […]
Planting Mind Seeds
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 […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
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