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studies show the headline is the most read, influential, and remembered part.

you're not supposed to want to think, you're supposed to want to be able to convey to other people that you're part of the same cult they are by using key phrases while not putting in the effort to actually think, and be mesmerized by the ads while you are skimming well enough to bullshit your way through meaningless pseudo-conversation with other cult members about the headline along the paradigm of choices the puppet-masters create for you.

Of course they should just report headlines. You are the product they sell to their customers (advertisers). You think they care one little bit about informing you of the world as it is? It works out best for everyone except you if they don't. Go back to sleep, watch american gladiators, and don't think about it too much.

When i read people who assume intelligence has anything to do with perfectly mimicing others systematically, I assume it's because they read so much they can't think for themselves, and stick so closely to analyzing the text that they don't engage the ideas.

People making systematic mistakes is why we don't all speak shakespearian. It's how the DNA of ideas evolves. I'z skateboarden on yur sidewak, levin u behind. Yur Rulez u wasted yur life mastezing our obsoletest. Possible realities are like a fractal wave and evolving languages holographically in the 21st century is more useful then rigidly adhering to rules made by 20th century monkeys thinking 19th century ways. Can u deal with it, grandpa?

Post Religion anti indoctrination memetic innoculation is Kids saying:

Jesus Christ is maybe the son of god. Allah is God, maybe, and maybe mohommed was his prophet. Maybe you should kill Buddha on the path if you meet him. Maybe the world will change in 2012. Maybe the pope is the rock Christ built his church on. Maybe there is no God. Maybe earth has a soul and we are all parts of it as our neurons are parts of our brain. Maybe there was a virgin birth.

And then learning how to repeat any word the same way they chant "Allah" or "ohm" and get the same neurological effect.

yeah, I can't tell some words apart. Hooked on phonics phucked me up.

I also had speech disorders and couldn't talk so others understood me till I was four. There are still some words I never say right. I could give a shit. I lost enough sleep over it.

Are you one of the idiots who thinks spelling indicates intelligence? All U do correcting otherz is show how 1950s yur thinking iz.

You better not be thinking of closing the money hole. People like throwing money into the hole. It's an American Tradition.

Don't you know that magicians take numbers as names (crowley was 666), RAW and 23?

g94b is obviously a black magic name. Obviously it's the number he was given by Satan when he sucked Satans cock and drank blood to gain power in a skull and bones bilderberger convention. You have a superficial explanation for what is obviously a flag for other black magicians as intent on evil as he is. 94 is the number of children whose blood he had to drink to get power. That it's related to the year was synchronistic. The other black magicians called him 94 long before that.

I should of said global average rather then minimum. Too late to edit.

The world has changed that drastically that fast before. It only takes one generation.

Figure out how to really educate kids to a maximal degree. Post-religion anti-indoctrination memetic inoculation. Get everyone on the planet food. No anxiety around sex. Pain medication for anyone who needed it. Smarter technology. Less people living lives of quiet desperation. If all that stuff happens, people could get smart fast.

I think another shift the scale of widespread literacy is possible, and it might push the average center of gravity above the geniuses of the 20th century. Not the minimum. Oops.

smart ones do.

It seems to me that if the local maximum in 1940 was lower than the global minimum in 2140, interesting things would happen, and that's worth wondering about.

How to best give people nutrition, love, security and education and everything they need to develop to their full potential are all tractable problems. How to manipulate human brains to enhance performance is something we learn more about every day. A guy in australia is unlocking savant abilities is some people with TMS. It's quite possible as these ideas blend with each other, a revolution in living could happen where the average person was functioning at a higher cognitive level then einstein. It may in fact be the only way we don't all kill ourselves by blowing up the planet.

It also uses the same propaganda techniques as communist china or procter and gamble to sell people it's worldview. Not just in ads, the programs themselves are propaganda for a certain way of being and acting in the world. True, the bbc is using it's hold on your people's monkey brain to program people with a slightly elitist, more educated (to the extent an 11th grade reading level is better then the 5th grade one in the US), hiply cynical reality.

People don't understand how much or deeply their reality is created by the reality created for them that they watch for hours at a time. I don't care if your reality is programmed by whorish ads in the US or high quality satire in the UK. The point is that entering a vulnerable semihypnotic neurological state and giving control of your brain to some other people is what does the damage. It's not just the content of the electronic magic that causes you to enter that vulnerable state. It's a feature of the medium. Britan is less malevolent then the US to it's TV viewers, because what it does to it's hypnotized masses is healthier for them. People are still being brainwashed in the same way, which is a feature of the medium.

I'm that guy too. I hate TV.

Except heroes and house. Ohhh. The daily show. Colbert Report. Gotta catch south park and sarah silverman. Six feet under was pretty good, too...

Other then that TV sucks. I watch TV shows, but have no TV. The trick is to download your tv from the internet so you can dodge the ads concentrated power scientifically calibrate to manipulate you, and still get a dose of culture and electronic sedation.

The problem with online ads is that TV ads are so much easier to brainwash people with. When using internets, human primates use their thinkers (a tiny tiny bit, see youtube comments), when using TV, they don't.

So if you want to manipulate the human primates to pull the levers that get you the most bananas, and you are using online ads, you won't be able to use the decades of brainwashing techniques evolved to malevolently manipulate people's behaviors in favor of the advertiser. So the ads won't work nearly as good over large populations.

When I use the interwebs, I choose where my attention goes. That tiny amount of cognitive freedom is completely incompatible with most advertising philosophy. That's why Fox News hates bloggers, that's why ads will crash fastest online, and that's why the internet is good for humanity.

All this crap about growth rates of online ad sales is really just gloss on the relationship between the efficacy of different kinds of advertising and brainwashing. Web advertising is less brainwashing friendly, so the people who need to do brainwashing (concentrated powers) will use it less when times are tight. Google will suffer less, because it's web advertising involve stuff it's customers are looking to pay attention too.

Omnifocus for iPhone was 19.99 and worth every penny. I could of paid 199.99 and it would of been good value. This app lets me offload the kinds of thinking my brain is bad at into something I always carry. You can't put a price on having that in your pocket.

I'd hesitate to say I had any desktop apps more useful then omnifocus iPhone, which effects me more like a neural upgrade from a sci fi novel then a cell phone app. iPhone apps could be like primitive cyborg upgrades with a primitive MMI solution grafted onto the part where the human interacts with the machine part.

I hope people support apps with high prices and really cool stuff gets developed. the problem isn't price or value or anything like that, it's that no one has any interesting vision of what the future of this phone could hold.

What if einstein was just a dumb dumb compared to most of what humanity could evolve into? What if people like Einstein are like the first monkeys who spend most time on two legs and were missing fur, and our concept of intelligence in too narrow and limited to recognize that what we call genius is the lower end of the bell curve our species will evolve to occupy?

The interaction between Tai Chi and thinking about energy and moving right tells us a lot about cognitive processing. It's an interesting thing. If Tai Chi relates to cognitive processing, they are just describing as energy a real phenomena we describe in cognitive processing terms. Kind of like when we make a model of something described as a wave, and another model of that thing described as a particle. And both contradict each other but are confirmable experimentally. Tai Chi is an excellent example of this kind of thing.

I would press on you one step farther here, though. You say "still have the clarity to look at your beliefs and recognize that some of them are not, in fact, accurate models of the universe." I would press one step farther and say it's not even possible to have an accurate model of the universe, and that anything you could possibly believe would not be an accurate model about the universe. All you can say is what happens when your nervous system bumps into reality.

The lesson from quantum physics is that there is no way to discharge your instruments (whether science tools or your brain) from what you are saying about your universe. Therefore, nothing you say is an accurate model of any part of the universe.

The difference between 1984 and the way the british government would like to do things involves technological maturity and distribution of that technology. The intentions and thinking is the same.

mmm...brains...

High quality circuses for you to enjoy while the british government continues it's quest to make 1984 come a few years late and your world slides into chaos. I didn't realize "the circuses are really good" was a defense for an accusation that a culture centered around circuses is destructive to your ability to act more like a person and less like a monkey.

And you are subtly programed by the people who control the BBC rather then the american corporate interest. I fail to see a big difference.

I think you need brain scans to validate your claim about us and uk tv. I think those scans will show that the brain responds the same to uk and us tv.

Actually I'm pretty sure that if you take away the strawman (i'm not saying people don't change channels, I'm saying their remote usage isn't governed by critical thinking, it's governed by easily manipulated emotions) it is the norm, and advertising rates are determined scientifically by those data points.

Interestingly, people who feel they aren't manipulated by the meta-reality and it's subconscious suggestions are just as suspectible to being manipulated by the metareality.

You can make big generalizations about people's usage of TV because they have the same neurological responses to it, which is the reason advertising works, and the meaning of 'the medium is the message' and the subject of a bunch of scientific research done by corporations to manipulate you into thinking you need axe body spray. Did you know Procter Gamble uses the same propaganda techniques early communist china did, over the air? Politicians calculate exactly what effects an ad will have on a specific demographic based on the profile of the audience of the show they watch.

You give people to much credit. It large numbers, like in tv viewers, their behavior is very hivelike.

No I mean it's rational to go bat-shit "the lizard men would have gotten me if it weren't for the fairy tucking me into extra dimensions where my entire worldview fell apart like a glass chandelier shattering I feel like I'm dreaming but I'm wide awake get that guy some seizure meds" irrational every now and then.

It's most rational to be able to slide into any degree of irrationality that maximizes the placebo effect and evolutionary change in thought. Thinking is what you put into your brain to cocreate your reality. Irrational thinking can sometimes lead to the creation of a better reality. (It's probably irrational to feel optimistic about your business endeavor, but you're more likely to succeed if you think it anyway.) I mean a lot more then being open to new ideas. I mean having the mental flexibility to slide from completely insane to completely rational intentionally, and using that to create the best reality.

Are you aware of all the research on when exactly humans will change channels, which describes human behavior exactly as if humans were ants? The TV executives are.

Or do you think you're some special little butterfly whose behavior is not predictable in the exact same way everyone else has predictable scientifically validated patterns of responding to TV. "Select Channel" does not function neurologically the same way youtube does. TV execs have mountains of private data on that.

The difference is the activation in reasoning centers in the brain. When you watch TV, your reasoning center shuts off (and thus does not guide your remote control usage). When you use the internet to watch youtube, your reasoning center stays on.

You seem to believe people have free will and aren't walking around completely hypnotized behaving in almost completely predictable ways.

The best way to write a book is to work on it every day.

"The medium is the message."

In one case, your reality is being programmed. In the other, you are programming it.

Watching TV is different from watching youtube. "The medium is the message."

He listed 7 reasons his worldview was better than yours before covering humility. List ordering fail.

I deny that humility is a virtue and that humility corresponds to rationality.

Also, it's rational to be occasionally irrational, because that instability contributes to beneficial evolutionary changes in the structure of thought.

I've been doing that for 2 years now. Now I'm starting up a company to commercialize the work I did on a presently intractable problem. If I studied the same thing in med school, I wouldn't be able to get a job at the company I'm starting, but independent study has let me create a hypothesis about solving my unsolved problem.

All my peers who graduated and bought houses and got corporate jobs when I dropped out of school are now looking at mortgages with negative values and shaky environments. I live like a starving artist so I have no assets to lose value. It's a great life, if you don't mind living like a starving artist.

I'd love to hear your further thoughts when you have time. I agree that being isolated is the most dangerous part of being too independent.

TV is evil and will turn you into a zombi...

sorry I remembered Heroes and house was on the tivo. Those shows are good. I forgot what I was thinking. Must watch more TV. TV... Must see... No... I must see it...

Using psilocybin responsibly once every few months would be a more ideal mode for a creative pause.

The stupid fearful superstitious monkeys who run the stupid government don't want people at an ideal level of creativity and optimism, so you can't legally access the best way to have a creative pause. So, we get the result of people who know how to best foster creativity and optimism being outlaws, and people who study psychology for a living produce bullshit work like this. This kind of thing is aimed at turning you from an uncreative monkey to a slightly less uncreative monkey.

Why not wake up from your programmed modes of thinking and be a free human being instead? I guarantee you, give me 10 people and I could safely induce a better 'creative pause' with a 2 day camping trip where mushrooms were used safely, then this guy could with 100 showers.

We're at a place in human history where we are either going to get serious about fixing the problems on spaceship earth, or we're going to destroy it. Fixing the problems requires huge amounts of optimism and creativity. We don't have time for people (especially entrepreneurs) to be thinking a shower is the best way to safely enhance creativity. We can solve the problems that might destroy our planet if we safely use what the outlaws know in the right way. We can't if we're all taking showers thinking that will be what makes us creative.

The only thing I'd use a dell for is to order a mac from apple.com. Then I'd wash my hands and read a book.

Wrong. Slacking is great. You got a brain? Why not use it to figure out how not to work. Work is for people who don't know how to get everything they want without working. Slacking is surfing the path of least resistance and riding it to build up incredible momentum.

One game to play with the few waking hours you have to live is to work hard to get what you want.

I'd much rather not work hard and get what I want anyways. Relax, the structure of the universe will catch you if you do what you want and don't work.