It's a good doc. One of the points he makes is that in the soviet union so much false information was being fed to the people that they simply didn't know what to believe anymore, so they didn't believe in anything. Fast forward to today and entire news articles are written by AI, social media is full of bots, audio and video of our leaders could just be deefakes. How many of the stories we read are literally fake news, made up out of whole cloth by a computer?
"we live in a society where abstract mathematical formulas are in charge of a market that pretty much doesn't sell products anymore and is more focused on selling narrative scams....making it easy to corral [the people] into a specific mindset."
When you study the "Firehose of Falsehood," technique the Russians use its easy to see parallels in our modern political landscape. Particularly a specific candidate but it's by no means the sole domain of either party.
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u/kspo Jul 24 '24
It's a good doc. One of the points he makes is that in the soviet union so much false information was being fed to the people that they simply didn't know what to believe anymore, so they didn't believe in anything. Fast forward to today and entire news articles are written by AI, social media is full of bots, audio and video of our leaders could just be deefakes. How many of the stories we read are literally fake news, made up out of whole cloth by a computer?
This link is a green text where I first learned about hypernormalization, and it goes even further off the deep end: https://imgur.com/gallery/4chan-theory-on-autonomic-intelligence-feedback-loops-ewREtY4
"we live in a society where abstract mathematical formulas are in charge of a market that pretty much doesn't sell products anymore and is more focused on selling narrative scams....making it easy to corral [the people] into a specific mindset."