tag > Communication
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It's very useful and kind of magical, that LLM's can take any text and perform a Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) on it, a forensic linguistics and investigative psychology technique used to detect deception and gather more info from a person's words. Interview with its inventor Avinoam Sapir
#KM #ML #Military #NeuroScience #Communication #Augmentation
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Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. What's the SNR on platforms like X feel like these days?
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Computers that auto-translate languages were early signs of the coming communication revolution. Today, it is becoming possible to capture and translate complex contextual meanings and making cross-boundary communication truly effective.
Generative AI is fueling a communication revolution, the media artefacts are just fun side effects. It will fundamentally redefine how people express themselves and relate to each other. For example, translate will expand from lingo2lingo now, to complex cultural context2context
"Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras." - Jeremy Rifkin
The future of email with ChatGPT
Anthony Burgess on translation
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Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
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Silence is the best answer to a fool's noise.
Silence is more powerful than proving a point. -
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” - George Orwell, 1984 🤡🤡🤡
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Reminder to self: The reason to keep posting stuff online after all this time - despite all channels being horrible cesspools - is to make that one special person smile & think, who has been silently paying attention for years or just spotted the signal. I salute you stranger 🙏
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“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.” ― Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
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The art of attentive listening & asking great questions is hard & underrated
"We have time for just one long-winded, self-indulgent question that relates to nothing we've been talking about"
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I used to write long blog posts & regularly give talks on complex ideas, with the goal of structuring my own mind & changing yours. Eventually came to the insight that in most cases practicing Qigong instead of talking is far more effective - as the medium is the massage.
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The work of running a small social media platform is primarily social, rather than technical.
Unlike big platforms, which are largely differentiated by technical affordances and whose work mostly involves building and maintaining technical infrastructure, small platforms are largely differentiated by social factors and most of their work involves building and maintaining social infrastructure.
So, what is small? We think it’s platforms that serve roughly a few dozen to a few thousand people. Essentially, anything that could conceivably be a group chat but that lives on its own platform. At that scale, running a platform is more like hosting a dinner party than building a rocket. The distinct and valuable thing you’re building isn’t a new technology, it’s a community. The central tasks are recruiting people to join the community and keeping them involved once they’ve joined. The former requires outreach and the latter requires social scaffolding, like facilitation and moderation.
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Doing business without marketing is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you're doing, but no one else does.
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To send material to Cryptome "anonymously":
- Consider that the odds are very high that Cryptome or any other disclosure initiative (anonymizer, leak site, paste, doc-drop, torrent) is a deception operation, witting or unwitting, and avoid their use.
- Protect yourself and never trust any method proposed by a receiver of your material. Never believe assurances of privacy and security for it is customary to deceive about them, witting or unwitting, and inevitable failures are never fully admitted.
- Presume there are no secure means to anonymously transmit online due to the basic design of the Internet to minutely track transmitted data despite illusory promises of anonymizing, cloaking and hiding services.
- Presume undisclosed sysadmin surveillance throughout the online transmittal path.
- Presume there are no fully secure means to encrypt digital material due to the unbridgeable gap between programming limitations of digital data and the engineering indequacies of analog devices to handle it.
- Presume every program, device and system has a traceable embedded unique ID or electromagnetic performance signature.
- If a host is used, run a series of test submssions of provocative but benign material to see what happens. Place "dye markers" in the material to trace its movement. Expect tampering, ruse, subterfuge, false assurance.
- "Not traceable to you," repeated below, is the hardest part only you can do.
