Humans vs. Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July07_Post.mp4 Why do people have job interviews? Particularly for highly technical jobs. Let’s assume we are visiting aliens to earth and we need to report on human behavior. We are highly advanced species, kind of like Vulcans. From a pure logical frame of mind, it seems like a […]
Shut Down Conversational Bullies
Verbal Smackdown Party https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr20_Post.mp4 Conversations are a lot of fun. Especially competitive ones between friends. Playfully combative, humorous, etc. Who can come up with the best smackdown. Who can tell the best story. Who can come up with the best insult for a mutually hated politician. These “idea contests” […]
Never Do Anything Wrong Again
Kids And Cheats https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18_Post.mp4 When I was a kid, video arcades were popular. Put in a quarter, and play as long as you could. Many games had cheats. Of course, this was long before the Internet, so to get a cheat you had to know somebody. Otherwise, you had to learn […]
Unlock Your Ancient Super Powers
Intelligent Design? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr08_Post.mp4 Whoever made us humans put a lot of thought into it. God, aliens, biologically driven natural selection, whoever or whatever. They knew what we were doing. One thing that we have that no other living creatures has is language. Sure, plenty of other animals can transmit basic information […]
Multiple Consciousness Singularity
Acting Poker Players One interesting paradox, that isn’t really a paradox when you dive a little bit beneath the surface, is celebrity poker tournaments. On one hand, these celebrities are usually actors, which means they get paid millions of dollars to purposely be congruent with fake emotions when they are playing parts of imaginary […]
Overlapping Selfishness
Basic Economics Recently I read this interesting book on economics. It talked about the basics of trade and said that nobody will trade anything with anybody else unless they want what the other person has more than what they have. If both people feel this way there will be a voluntary trade that will […]
Bees, Figure Eights, And Subconscious Social Proof
There’s a fascinating theory that humans are a lot like bees, or ants. Meaning that one way to look at human society is not as a group of individuals, but as one gigantic organism, slowly spreading across Earth. I know this is controversial, and most of us (especially yours truly) doesn’t like the idea of […]