Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
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 […]
Inorganic Portal Destruction
Tech Advances We live in a time of massive technological advances. Some of the stuff that is coming in the near future is even better. Most of us would not enjoy living a thousand years ago with no electricity, no penicillin, and much shorter life expectancies. There is a troubling trend that […]
Power Node Sexual Theory
VIP Doorman I have a friend who is a doorman at a very, very exclusive club. He’s worked there for a long time, more than a few years. And he’s figured out a way to leverage his job for lots of sex. But not from the girls waiting in line, hoping to […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
Time Travel Brain Entropy
Word Order Critical If you compare a dictionary and a bible, the two are vastly different. One is filled with words and definitions. The other is filled with ancient stories and metaphors about the nature of human existence. But both are filled only with words. Words ordered one way will create […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Zombie Invasions and Split Testing
Problems and Solutions A famous quote from Einstein says that you can’t solve a problem from the same mindset that created the problem. When the space shuttle blew up in the late 80’s it was a tragedy for a lot of reasons. One because it killed a lot of people. Two because […]
Advice From Imaginary People
Grandmaster Theory I have a friend who has a very interesting hobby. He plays chess, but in a very unique way. He has this chess software on his PC, and this chess software is hooked up a huge database. This database has every game every played. So he’ll watch a game, […]
Future Life Regression Hypnosis
Powerful Seminar I went to a really cool past lives regression hypnosis seminar a couple weeks ago. It was more advanced than any other past life regression training I’d been to. Most of them treat past lives metaphorically. As a way to get rid of limiting beliefs that are based on childhood […]