The Buddha Never Disparaging:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad%C4%81paribh%C5%ABta
Old doc. Anon doesn't recall the original source.
"Unverified Pedowood Gossip"
a robot programmed with my own aesthetic migrams; the shimmering mist fountain; a
grove of hybrid peach-almond trees, forever in bloom and fruiting.
My visitor gazed perfunctorily across the harmonious scene. Alas, it clearly did not stir his
human heart.
Well, I thought, charitably. Each modern soul has many homes. Perhaps his true spirit
resides outside the skull, in parts of him that are not protoplasm.
http://fennetic.net/pub/david_brin_-_stones_of_significance.pdf
Wonder if McChrystal is using same social media manipulation software developed in Rand Waltzman's 200 M at DARPA program?
Such software may interest Ghidra
> July 14, 2011 – while I was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – I published a Broad Agency Announcement (DARPA‐BAA‐11‐64), a call for proposals, for a program I created called Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC). The BAA said the program would be funded in the amount of $42M and with additions of various types it ended up at about $50M by the time it basically concluded four years later. This was a remarkable program and, I believe, somewhat ahead of its time. I am extremely proud to have organized and managed SMISC. The real credit, of course, goes to the researchers who achieved the many fantastic results and made them available to the entire world. Over 200 papers were published and I am including, at least a partial, bibliography of these publications with this post. And there are many more results that I will describe in a future posting. No classified work of any kind was supported in connection with SMISC. Everything was completely public and out in the open.
https://information-professionals.org/the-darpa-social-media-in-strategic-communication-smisc-program/
>The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base. Through the program, DARPA seeks to develop tools to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information, reducing adversaries' ability to manipulate events.
To accomplish this, SMISC will focus research on linguistic cues, patterns of information flow and detection of sentiment or opinion in information generated and spread through social media. Researchers will also attempt to track ideas and concepts to analyze patterns and cultural narratives. If successful, they should be able to model emergent communities and analyze narratives and their participants, as well as characterize generation of automated content, such as by bots, in social media and crowd sourcing.
SMISC researchers will create a closed and controlled environment where large amounts of data are collected, with experiments performed in support of development and testing. One example of such an environment might be a closed social media network of 2,000 to 5,000 people who have agreed to conduct social media-based activities in this network and agree to participate in required data collection and experiments. This network might be formed within a single organization, or span several. Another example might be a role-player game where use of social media is central to that game and where players have again agreed to participate in data collection and experiments.
Researchers will be required to certify that no personally identifiable information (PII) for U.S. participants was collected, stored or created in contravention to federal privacy laws, regulations or DoD policies. SMISC researchers will not be provided PII from any other government agency or outside source.
DARPA conducts its works within legal and ethical constraints and has taken a leadership role in the science and technology community to address privacy and ethical, legal and societal implications (ELSI).
https://www.darpa.mil/program/social-media-in-strategic-communication>>9036842
Social Media in Strategic Communication
Dig it.
> Proposers submitting classified proposals or requiring access to
classified information during the lifecycle of the effort shall ensure all industrial,
personnel, and information system processing security requirements (e.g., facility
clearance (FCL), personnel security clearance (PCL), certification and accreditation (C&A))
are in place and at the appropriate level, and any foreign ownership control and influence
(FOCI) issues are mitigated prior to submission or access.
https://cryptome.org/dodi/dod-smisc.pdf
https://information-professionals.org/the-darpa-social-media-in-strategic-communication-smisc-program/
The difference between what we know and what we think we know.
>9036897
>Every mammal on the planet has antibodies for coronavirus.
Coronavirus is a class of viruses. There are hundreds we know of. Not only are they all different, they're able to change the protein markers used by the immune system to identify them
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronaviruses>Every mammal on the planet has antibodies for coronavirus.
Deliberately or negligently introducing error (misinformation, lies etc) into a communications network is a crime against every user of that network.
The slow deliberate introduction of error into information networks overtime is "subversion". Eventually the error content of the information circulating on a network becomes high enough to degrade cognition of the users. We rely of the accuracy of information to make critical decisions affecting the safety of our families - and everything else.
False information does more than the damage we see. False climate change information doesn't just affect agriculture - information is used in all kinds of different ways and every lies in the information supply is eventually used as the basis for a decision.
Information Poisoning is real. It does real continuous incremental damage to civilization and to us all individually.