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The issue with Nixon's "Madman theory" is that "Any sufficiently advanced simulation of insanity is indistinguishable from insanity” and then 'We become what we behold', as William Blake put it.
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Visualizations of Hamlet's Stages of Insanity: Mapping the gradient between "sane" & "insane" over time is a powerful tool one can use to make sense of current affairs.
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Advertising - the pinnacle of human mass-communication technology in the early 21st century
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Incredulity: The quality of being indisposed to believe; a refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief.
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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI - Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini's Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Art by Sketchplanations - #Culture #InfoSec #Media
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The "Influence Maximization Problem" (IMP) is considered to be NP-Hard. Yet given a large enough training data set, heuristics perform surprisingly well. "Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win." - Robert A. Heinlein
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The Term "Weblog" Is 25 Years Old
The Wikipedia article for “Blog” says that the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. Reading the Wikipedia article about Jorn Barger, we learn:
On December 17, 1997, inspired by Dave Winer's Scripting News and running on Winer's Frontier publishing software, Barger began posting daily entries to his Robot Wisdom Weblog in the hope of finding "an audience who might see the connections between [his] many interests." These postings featured "a list of links each day shaped by his own interests in the arts and technology," thus offering a "day-to-day log of his reading and intellectual pursuits” and coining the term "weblog" as a novel form of web publishing.
A “log of daily activities published on the web” became a “weblog” which then became a “blog”. I started what we now call “blogging” back in 2001 on a site called Robidog and been on and off blogging ever since, and since 2018 consistently on this site. Time flies. Happy Birthday to “weblog”!
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FilterBubble Trap
The FilterBubble creates a tiny world of safety and security, but it also traps people in their own fears and anxieties. By only allowing people to see what they want to see, it can limit their understanding of the world and lead to a lack of empathy for those different from them. It also creates an “echo chamber” of sorts, in which people only hear their own opinions and views reinforced and never have a chance to learn and explore different perspectives. (This text was generated by GPT3)
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Today in the fall of civilization: AI "Friends" (and what ReplikaAI's vision is for them) 🤡
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QAnon Radicalization Pathways (*Method applicable to any other current online social engineering effort)
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Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Comic by Wondermark: "Pardon me, I couldn't help but overhear..."
