Secret Library Once there was a book. Inside a library. A very large library. A friendly library. Staffed with friendly people. And happy colors. In this book. Were two people. Talking to each other. One of them was saying. To the other person. Embedded […]
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, […]
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 […]
Hallucinating Wealth Strategy
YouTube Genius I saw this dude on YouTube the other day. He could look at something for a quick second. And close his eyes and make a finger painting of that exact thing. Somebody would hold out an easel with all the paints, and they would stand in front of him. […]
Sexy Witch Librarian
Human Memory Human memory is a very squirrely concept. Everybody has memories of studying hard for a test, and getting a C. This is case of knowing exactly what to remember, but not being able to remember this effectively. Other times things happen unexpectedly, and don’t know how to remember this. […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]
Long Term Vampire Cons
Breakup I have a friend who recently broke up with her boyfriend of two years. She’s really hot, and pretty smart, and I’d been expecting this for a quite a while. I’m not really sure why they were together, but you could tell she was dating way below her market value. In […]
Magic Horse Mind Control
Six Plus Two About fifty years ago there was this guy who had a magic horse. He wasn’t really magic, but he could do basic addition and subtraction. Some guy would ask what’s two plus six, and the horse would stamp is hoof eight times. Then he’d ask what’s three minus one, […]
Mental Push Power
House Party I went to a house party a couple weeks ago. It was a friend of a friend of a friend. Big house. Nice neighborhood. Tons of people. A lot of very attractive females. It took me a while before I met the owner. I wanted to meet this guy since it was […]