illusionists

Grifters and illusionists work in much the same way; the plot is full of holes, but over and over people see what they want to see.

We need them for food safety, but they blew their budget harrassing children and illusionists about bunnies.

Like illusionists stuff is so cool to me even though I realize I’m just getting played the fool.

Back in the vaudeville days, stage illusionists would commonly protect their illusions through patents.

So are illusionists who're creating innovative cultural expressions of their art ceasing to create for want of funding and because others are following their lead?

It doesnt seem to me that illusionists actually deny conscious phenomena.

Setting up functional subsidiaries like this will absolutely not happen with private equity chopshops, all run by the same financial illusionists that have crushed Intel and Boeing.

All this makes me really wonder if some of us truly are p zombies and thst the illusionists have managed to figure out a test for it.

And to make it all even more exciting, not all of the illusionists are aware of their actual, often hybrid role in the big scheme of things.

That's what very good illusionists want you to think.

Common sense can be gamed and exploited; that's how social engineering and other tricks (like illusionists) work.

> they blew their budget harrassing children and illusionists about bunnies Blew their entire $155 billion budget on bunny inspections, did they?

There's a reason why the science community demands rigorous papers and not "you saw it with your own eyes so it must be true." See also: Professional illusionists.

> “challenging our relationship to the truth“ I’ve seen a lot of great illusionists who never claimed to be doing real magic, and they were no less entertaining or mystifying.

If consciousness, or rather, "philosophy of mind" interest you, and you like thinking about it, your position about "consciousness isn't real" (i simplify here) is a more and more talked about position, and the tenants are called "illusionists".

The "software industry" doesn't just contain engineers doing engineering (well or poorly); it also contains prototypers and illusionists and tinkers and scientists, all working to their own criteria of art, none of whom will have any reason to pick up a single shred of engineering knowledge, even with decades spent in their own industries.

Illusionists and magicians taught covert agents how to use deception and surreptitiously deliver drugs or toxins.

But there are Evokers, Universalists, Conjurers, Diviners, Illusionists, Transmuters, Enchanters, Necromancers, and more.