Filter People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb27_Post.mp4 Humans have tons of biases. These are generally thought to be bad. Things that are somehow “wrong” with us. But these were very useful. These still are very useful. One common “bias” is we tend to assume we have much more agency than we really do. […]
Temporary Complete Knowledge
Magic Bookstore Once there was a bookstore. A very special bookstore. A magic bookstore. Very hard to find. Very easy to forget. But if you did manage. To find this bookstore. And be allowed into this bookstore. Which wasn’t easy. You would be taught. Listen […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
Cracks In The Foundation
Next Door Construction I have this next door neighbor that has decided, he and his wife have decided, to tear down and rebuild their entire house. He let everybody in the neighborhood know how long this would take and what to expect from the construction company. I was just curious why he decided to […]
Never Trust Satan
Laundry Room Issue So the other day I was sitting in my local laundromat because the machines in my apartment complex were being repaired. I had just put my clothes in the dryer and I was sitting there waiting for my clothes to finish drying and I noticed there was a woman sitting next to […]