Collapsing Anchors A very common technique for quitting smoking is a technique using anchors. Over several different sessions with a hypnotist, the hypnotist will connect positive anchors to non smoking behavior, and negative anchors to smoking behavior. So when the client sees positive things on a daily basis, those good feelings will be […]
Ukulele Preacher
Beach Magic I went down to the beach a couple weeks ago. There was a guy sitting there, staring out at the ocean, playing a Ukulele. He stopped right when I looked at him, and told me he could control people’s behaviors with his music. Music Teacher https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31Loop.mp4 There was a music […]
Music Algorithm
Loves To Code I have a friend who is a programmer, and he makes a lot of money doing it. Even though he loves programming, he also loves music. One of his hobbies recently has been creating an algorithm to create pop music that won’t be discernable from human written music. Linguistic […]
Hive Mind Control
Mythology vs. Politics I read a psychological paper recently that intended to determine the directional cause effect relationship between mythology and organized political structures. The idea is to understand whether mythological stories came first, and from them arose a political structure, or whether the political structure came first and from them arose the mythological […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Deep Rooted Jesus Tree
Drinking Party My friend has this huge tree in his backyard he’s been wanting to chop down for a long time. I was supposed to go and help him, but when I showed up he’d changed his mind. He’d hired some pros to do the job, so we’d just hang out, get hammered […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
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