Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Between Two Hallucinations
Role Model Theory A very common and useful strategy for improving your skills in any competitive game or sport is to play against somebody better. This is why having a good mentor is good, but it has to be carefully calibrated. If they are too much better than you, or they aren’t too […]
White Noise Hallucinations
Confirmation Bias One of the most common biases is confirmation bias. We use it to choose our news sources, our friends, and the kinds of ideas we create and believe about ourselves. One way we can describe our confirmation bias is like an unconscious, instinctive, echo chamber generator. Thought Seed Finder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec18Loop.mp4 […]
Co-Evolving Hallucinations
Long Form Sales Letters The best form of copywriting, when it comes to long form sales letters is the story format. Especially if these stories contain relatable characters that you can identify with, so when you get to the end of this, you’ll go right along with the main character as they take action. […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Galileo’s Timepiece
Drugs and Brains For every drug you can take, that can give you an interesting mental experience, you have to have a corresponding receptor in your brain. Drugs, whether they be naturally occurring in nature, or highly synthesized and concentrated in a lab, can only work if they match with a pre-existing receptor site […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
Alpha Male Productivity
Get Some If you don’t have access to oxygen for more than a few minutes, you will die. If you don’t have access to water for more than a few days, you will die. If you don’t have access to food for more than a few weeks or months, depending on how much […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
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