Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
Science, Magic and Brainwashing
Doctor Lecture I was watching an interesting lecture by this doctor a few weeks ago. He was talking about how, when he first was a doctor working in the ER, he remembered having more compassion for some patients and less compassion for other patients. This was because he assumed that some patients were […]
Quantum Brain Matrix
Resonators One of my favorite ideas from science is the idea or resonance. A common way to apply the resonance principle is to a wine glass. If you run your fingers along the rim, the vibrations of your finger along the rim will resonate with the natural frequency of the class. Another […]
Long Game Occultist
License Scams Getting a license these days to sell something is difficult. A hundred years or so ago, if you wanted to sell something, you just sold it. An interesting problem from game theory is why it’s illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV. Why No Cigarette Ads? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Loop.mp4 Most people assume that […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]
Are You Open To Subconscious Manipulation?
It’s pretty easy these days to become manipulated without even knowing it. And when I say “these days” don’t mean just recently, I mean in the past few decades, since the explosion of advertising. I don’t how accurate they are, but there are all kinds of stories of government psychologists, some allegedly related to Freud […]