Tech Expo I went to a pretty cool expo recently. It was for people who use Adobe products. I use Photoshop, Audition and Premiere. But only fro the most basic things. They had a lot of very advanced demos. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13Loop.mp4 They also had a raffle. […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Deep Deception and Sexual Influence
Curve Ball Killer An inside out curve ball is a very vicious and insidious pitch. Normal curve balls appear to be on their way to cross the plate, but then the curve away from the batter. Inside out curves appear to be slightly inside, but they curve toward the batter. These are […]
How To Become Psychic
Rapport Seminar I went to a free sales seminar a couple weeks ago. It was pretty basic stuff, but it was also pretty useful. The first half all we did were these fairly straightforward rapport exercises. Rapport is extremely important, but it’s also kind of dangerous. Easy To Forget https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July30Loop.mp4 Dangerous […]
Twin Flame Hallucination Technique
Jigsaw Man I have a friend who has a lot of old school hobbies. He’s actually got no tech allowed game room. He’s in his sixties, and he’s fairly tech savvy, but he needs to escape to this special non tech room in his house. He’s got a huge bookcase filled with […]
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, […]
The Once And Future Hallucination
The Demon There was this philosopher guy a couple hundred years ago named Descartes. He came up with a problem that was unsolvable then, and unsolvable now. The problem was how do we know whether what is happening all around us is real, or just a hallucination? His idea was that our […]
Memory Confusion Experiment
Watch Closely Researchers did an interesting memory study. They had a guy pretending to be a thief come into a large classroom while a professor was lecturing and steal a bag off the desk in front. A common understanding is that winners of wars write the history books. We might assume that […]
Why Be Yourself Is Excellent Advice
Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
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