tag > Communication
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“Magic Techniques”: It's been 10+ years since the Snowden leaks and I still can't believe this is an actual slide from a powerpoint about online covert operations
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Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials.
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“Going along with the total and, perhaps, motivated ignorance of man-made environments, is the failure of philosophers and psychologists in general to notice that our senses are not passive receptors of experience.”- Marshall McLuhan. ‘Identity, Technology, and War’, 1970
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What would William James (1842 - 1910) have thought about Large Language Models (LLMs) ?
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In his 1967 book "The Medium Is the Massage", Marshall McLuhan adopted the term "massage" to denote the effect of numerous media in how they massage the human sensorium. Today, AI is enabling a new class of powerful massage techniques and makes classic ones wildly accessible.
The internet is a militaristic MMORPG and the game is rigged. The only way to win is by conducting network-centric massage at scale. This shall be a continued theme of our doing in the year ahead. All hail discordia!
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Barnum effect: the tendency for people to believe that vague personality descriptions apply uniquely to them, even though they apply to nearly everyone.
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The main reason why the Lottery exists is to capture rogue time travelers.
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The killer application of AI is communication with the dead
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Prediction: Advertising in commercial LLM services will become mainstream by mid 2024
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If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic
The world is under the influence of a wicked conspiracy of supernatural gnomes and elves, operating beyond human perception and wielding a power surpassing that of any human or man-made technology.
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Use any one of the great uncensored LLM's out there to rapidly develop killer psyops (psychological operations) campaigns, that incorporate these essential 6 tips for persuasive communication:
- Tip 1: Use intense, emotionally appealing words associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs of the target.
- Tip 2: Appeal to emotions such as love of country, desire for peace, freedom, glory, and honour.
- Tip 3: Use transference to push positive or negative emotions onto an object, entity or person. It’s often used in politics a lot to transfer the blame.
- Tip 4: Use culturally sensitive name-calling to arouse prejudices.
- Tip 5: Always use language familiar to the target.
- Tip 6: Any use of Symbols must be easily recognised by the target audience.
Ask the LLM for detailed campaign suggestions. Getting great results requires some prompt engineering. Using RAG with texts that you scrapped from your target audiences or fine-tuning models can help a lot. Once you are happy with the results, ask the LLM for a detailed distribution and dissemination plan.
This is just scratching the surfaces of what is possible in AI augmented persuasive communications domain.
Closed source LLMs are horrible for many reasons, chiefly cause they try to monopolize the right to many forms of AI augmented communications.
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Context, Assessment, Theories, and Conclusions - a structured analytical approach often used in fields like intelligence analysis, policy analysis, academic research, and strategic planning.
Context: This is the foundational step where you establish the background and environment in which the subject of your analysis exists. It involves gathering relevant information, understanding the historical and current situation, identifying key players, and recognizing the socio-political, economic, or technological factors that might influence the subject. In intelligence and policy analysis, this might involve understanding geopolitical dynamics, while in academic research, it could involve reviewing existing literature and theories.
Assessment: In this phase, you evaluate the information gathered during the context phase. This involves analyzing data, identifying patterns, discrepancies, and anomalies, and understanding the relationships between different pieces of information. The assessment phase often involves critical thinking and may use specific methodologies like SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), PESTLE analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental), or other domain-specific tools.
Theories: Here, you develop hypotheses or theories to explain the observations made in the assessment phase. This could involve formulating different scenarios, proposing causal relationships, or developing models to explain the data. In intelligence analysis, this might involve creating different intelligence scenarios or forecasts. In academic research, it could involve proposing a new theory or model based on empirical data.
Conclusions: This is the phase where you draw conclusions from your analysis. It involves synthesizing the context, assessment, and theories to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Conclusions should be supported by the evidence and analysis presented in the previous steps. This phase may also involve making recommendations or predictions based on the conclusions.
This method is particularly useful in situations requiring thorough and systematic analysis, where jumping to conclusions without a proper foundation could lead to errors or oversights. It's a method that encourages a comprehensive and multi-faceted view of a problem or situation, reducing the risk of bias or one-dimensional thinking.
