Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Once Only Clothing
Cheap Traveler A friend of mine went on a trip to Thailand, and wanted to travel as cheaply as possible. He was going to backpack around, stay in hostels, etc. But he found an interesting way to save money, one he never would have predicted before the trip. Sleazy Profits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May10Loop.mp4 Recently […]
Alien DNA Determinism
Self Help Loops Any kind of self development absolutely requires an honest feedback loop. You need both success data and failure data in order to better calibrate the targeted behavior. This is true in sports, music, investing and even business, in the case of profits and losses. No Aliens https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09Loop.mp4 The Fermi […]
Planetary Murder Cult
No Lights There’s a pretty well known urban legend about head lights. As the legend goes, murderers will drive around at night with their lifts off. Whoever blinks at them to turn on their lights is their target. Scavenger hunts are pretty common and usually pretty enjoyable. Got Any Wooden Clothespins? […]
Blender Hallucinations
Home Depot Disaster I had a friend once in this class I took a couple of years ago at a community college. He told me a story about how he’d just seen the movie, “Jackass,” and was feeling inspired. So, he and a friend went into Home Depot and he took a dump […]
Secret Society Origins
Cliques and Groups Lots of people are familiar with the idea of cliques. Smaller groups within larger groups. These are primarily based around the common human tendency to demonstrate hierarchical dominance by withholding information. Four Reasons https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May06Loop.mp4 There four ideas associated with secret societies going back to the dawn of time. […]
Washing Machine Demons
Secret Porn Stars There is this love hotel in Japan that was the focus of a big scandal a few years back. It was frequented mostly by young prostitutes and wealthy businessmen. The girls were just barely out of high school and were making about $500 per session. Meditation Cult https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May05Loop.mp4 There’s […]
Subacoustic Phone Store
Gong Once… There is this auctioneer who makes twice as much money as everybody else. He travels around, kind of like a free agent. He came to my town, so I decided to figure out what the deal was. Why So Crowded? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May04Loop.mp4 I was wondering through my local mall and […]
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