Football Guy I used to work with this guy a long time ago that loved to bet on Football. Every Monday he’d tell us how he almost made a ton of money, but he ended up losing everything. Funny thing was he had this idea that every single game was rigged, that the […]
AI Time Travel
Robot Factories There have been a lot of advancements recently in robot assisted manufacturing. One article I read recently was about a completely automated pizza crust factory, that could make 1000 pizza crusts per minute or something. Robots are very efficient, and they have already started creeping into the our common experience. […]
MLM Universe
Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
Immortal Monkey Apocalypse
Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]
Poltergeist Origin Story
Drug Dealers There was this drug dealer, a friend of a friend, who started dealing just enough to support his habit. Then he started dealing enough to support his and his friends’ habit. Pretty soon he was making a lot of money, so much he quit his job and became a full time […]
Pythagorean Mysticism
Triangle Cult Pythagoras is credited with discovering the secrets of the right triangle, namely A^2+B^2=C^2, but this is not likely true. Not only was Pythagoras likely a fictional creation of the Pythagorean cult who worshipped numbers, but this same idea was discovered by plenty other ancient cultures. For example, long before the Greeks […]
Telepathic Triangulation
Where Am I? Triangulation is a pretty cool thing to be able to do, both from the inside and the outside. From the inside, like if you were hiking somewhere and you didn’t have a GPS locator, you could triangulate your location. You’d need a map and a compass, but it’s pretty easy. […]
Emergent Chaos
Ice Volcano There are these cool structures called ice volcanoes. They form where it’s cold enough for the ice to from on beaches. Eventually the waves will come into the beach under the large sheet of ice. If the ice sheet is big enough, it will create enough pressure for the water […]
Emergent Soul Theory
Unconscious Influence Cialdini has long studied the forces of influence that exist outside of our conscious awareness. The most common is social proof, but this one is a bit tricky, since everybody knows what social proof is, and every tends to try to leverage social proof in their favor. But all of us […]
Emergent Financial Parasites
Black Jack System Before the advent and widespread use of facial recognition technology, a group of MIT students developed a very lucrative blackjack system. They made a movie about it, but the movie was necessarily altered to make room for good guys and bad guys and back stories and character arcs. But the […]
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