Simulation Origin Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun04_Post.mp3 One big-brained dude from a while ago is Descartes. He was a scientist and a mathematician and a philosopher. He’s the original guy who came up with the “are we living in a simulation or not” question. This is called “Descartes’ Demon.” Suppose there was a demon […]
Egyptian Trigonometry
Pay Attention Once there was a farmer. Who lived next to the Nile. In Ancient Egypt. The farming was stable. The production was vast. But it was not determined by men. Nor by Gods. But by the Nile itself. Go With The Flow https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov26Loop.mp4 Every year. […]
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 […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]