Keep This Secret Once there was a scientist. Who gave a lecture. About the history of life. The history of food. And the history of extinctions. Based on ancient evidence. And future predictions. Based on statistics. All life forms. Have a 100% chance. Of going […]
Behind The Veil of Power
Cereal Misdirection I bought this box of cereal that said inside you a ring that let you talk to angels. The cereal flavor seemed enticing enough to take the risk on the angelic communication ring. My first surprise was how utterly delicious the cereal was. Every bite was like an explosion of […]
Custom Built TV Shows
Goofy Prank Kids There’s this group of graduate students who are in a psychology club. And they like to do these really interesting public pranks, just to see how the public will react. In one recent stunt, they went to a bowling alley, and they separated into two groups of equal number. […]
Cake Baking Trifecta
Three Cakes There are three ways to bake a cake. From scratch, which takes a while, but gives you maximum flexibility. From a box of cake mix, which is much quicker, much cheaper but comes with the cost of not really knowing, for sure, what the ingredients are. Redefining Markets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun03Loop.mp4 One […]
Fake Planet
Backwards Strategy The impending financial disaster and potential societal collapse is based on a very simple idea. If the economy, or even if your individual income is growing, it is a potentially legitimate idea to borrow money. As you or the economy continues to grow, your earning or earning potential will be greater […]
Crashing Into Dirt
The Wedge There’s a beach in Newport Beach called The Wedge. It’s a perfect example of wave interference patterns, how when waves cross orthogonally, the peaks combine, as do the troughs. This means the waves rise quick and high, but they also suck up all the water to do so, so when they […]
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 […]
Social Proof Frame Strength
Persuasion Experiments There have been a lot of cool experiments done to demonstrate the various triggers of influence that operate outside of our conscious awareness. In a social proof experiment, they had a guy stand on a corner, and stare up into an empty sky, but pretending that he was looking at something incredibly […]
The Fourth Level
Energy Discoveries There have been three major energy breakthroughs in the history of humanity. The first was fire, which allowed humans to hunt much more effectively. The second was agriculture, which allowed humans to repeatedly produce food energy much more safely, and on a much larger scale. There are plenty of conspiracy […]
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 […]