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PredictiveHistoryMar 31, 2026The Engineered Collapse: How Global Finance Manipulates Economies and Creates Reality
EconomicsBoom-bust cycleEngineered financial collapseBank liquiditySignaling mechanism (interest rates)- PredictiveHistoryMar 17, 2026
Epstein's World: Deconstructing the Global Financial Order and the American Empire as Plato's Cave
GeopoliticsCollective hallucinationPlato's Allegory of the CaveConscious attention as wealth creationWealth extraction mechanisms - PredictiveHistoryNov 27, 2025
The Divine Spark of Jesus: Reinterpreting His True Teachings and the Roman Invention of Christianity
HistoryDivine SparkApocalyptic PreacherCrucifixionSecond Coming - PredictiveHistoryNov 14, 2025
Zoroaster's Revolutionary Philosophy: Monotheism, Asha, and the Birth of the Individual
PhilosophyZoroastrianismMonadFree WillThe Individual - PredictiveHistoryJul 11, 2025
The Universal Law of Game Theory: Christian Zionism, Geopolitical Factions, and the Future of the Middle East
GeopoliticsChristian ZionismGreater Israel ProjectGlobal Financial EliteAmerican Empire (Hegemony) - PredictiveHistoryMar 25, 2025
Dante's Quiet Revolution: Unpacking the Genesis of the Renaissance
HistoryIntellectual RevolutionCultural SynthesisOpen Cooperative CompetitionMerchant Elite - PredictiveHistoryOct 22, 2024
The Trial of Socrates, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the Foundations of Western Philosophy
PhilosophySocratic dialogueHubrisDemocracyReason 
psychacksJun 22, 2023The Essence of Game: Cultivating Emotional Experiences in Dating and Sales
RelationshipsGame (social skill)Emotional experience cultivationTruest desiresSuperficial desires
HealthyGamerGGMar 9, 2023Avoiding the Friend Zone Cycle: A Scientific Approach to Understanding and Preventing Unrequited Love
RelationshipsFriend zoneGirlfriend zonePlatonic relationshipRomantic relationship
lexfridmanOct 1, 2022Michael Levin on Biology's Deep Questions: From Planarian Immortality to Xenobots and the Nature of Self
SciencePlanarian immortalityEmbryogenesisPhysics to mind transformationDNA as biological hardware- lexfridmanDec 31, 2021
Michael Malice on Beauty, Goodness, Evil, and the Nature of Human Integrity
PhilosophyBeauty as hopePlatonic theory of formsEpistemologyAesthetic beauty - lexfridmanDec 28, 2021
Elon Musk on Starship, Mars Colonization, and First Principles Engineering for Humanity's Future
TechnologyCrew Dragon Demo-2Inspiration4 MissionHuman Space ExplorationMoon Base - lexfridmanJul 26, 2021
The Interplay of Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy in Understanding Reality with Cumrun Vafa
ScienceString theoryQuantum gravityQuantum mechanicsGeneral relativity - lexfridmanMay 29, 2021
Frank Wilczek on the Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life, and the Comprehensibility of the Universe
ScienceAsymptotic freedomStrong interactionQuarksDark matter - lexfridmanDec 28, 2020
Diana Walsh Pasulka on the Interconnected Nature of Belief, Technology, Religion, and Objective Reality
PhilosophyBelief (attitudes dictating actions)Objective RealityNoumenal (Kant's 'thing in itself')Phenomenal (perceived reality) - lexfridmanJun 14, 2020
The Nature of Happiness, Meaning, and God: A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Organization and Civilization
PhilosophySuffering (as a result of caring)Happiness (as internal appraisal)Crisis of MeaningSelf-organizing systems - lexfridmanFeb 14, 2020
Vladimir Vapnik on Predicates, Invariants, and the Philosophical Essence of Intelligence in AI
ScienceStatistical learningSupport Vector Machines (SVM)VC theoryPredicates 
NewEconomicThinkingSep 11, 2019The Scientific Status of Economics: Models, Laws, and the Challenge of Reality
EconomicsPlato's Allegory of the CaveEconomic ModelingScientific Status of EconomicsInductive Hypothesis