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How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/sextortion-victim-turns-…

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I think you will find this job interesting.
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Check out this job at Kiva: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2982437232 Kiva.org is looking for a CTO ...

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Defaming Pastor Craig is like wrestling with a pig
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. So 1996 Craig Wright lies about having to pay for cancer treatment and Julian Assange calls out his amateurism. So? >>> It is way more believable that Craig Wright is just a scammer who’s been lying all these years, than him suddenly going from a fucked up fascist to an open minded Satoshi Nakamoto who understands game theory and human behavior enough to have invented Bitcoin, and back to the fucked up self who claims to “not understand people” because he’s “autistic”. <<< https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/wc6w08/csw_30_years_ago_i_protect_the… Sensing a pattern here. How can the same thing happen to very similar au Proffs twice? Peter McCormick is not autistic asfaik but he is definitely a statist fool who deserves to lose everything he has - especially his life.

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Proff Wright 1 Proff Assange 0
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Whatever his aperture political views are his legal outlook appears sound https://coingeek.com/copa-delays-craig-wright-bitcoin-white-paper-trial-unt… Reposts not endorsements No au-based cypherpunk professors were harmed by this posting

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Re: PLEASE LET ME SLEEP OUTDOORS
by Victim of Undiscussed Horrifically Abusive Brainwashing 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Thanks for your reply. It's nice to hear from you and I am really sorry for disrupting your list and you. I saw that you support hackerspaces which is pretty cool. I'm still trying to figure out how to get on the hackerspaces.org mailing list, the times I tried I didn't get a reply from the listserv. Apologies for capitals I am in a very strange state of mind !! Do you understand this?: I USUALLY SLEEP OUTDOORS. MANY OVERWINTERED WITH ME DURING OCCUPY. Summary: I have lots of gear already, have engaged this situation ad nauseum, and love the ice and wind. I'm in a pretty limited dissociation atm but I expect to be able to get back out there! Your inspiring words help a ton !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it's not your responsibility. If I don't go I may get hospitalized or ostractised for my email name which for now gives me impetus to keep trying. Note to self: You can sleep outdoors, Karl. In Northern Arctic Canada, everybody does this the whole winter while hunting nomadically. Some of them are computer programmers! The temperature right now is up near freezing so you'll be more than safe. I'm outdoors right now, come join me! On 12/28/21, wrote: > You can sleep outdoors. Be prepared, however, for varying weather > conditions. You can find many items that you need at REI or other > technical outfitters. > > Best of luck. > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:36 AM Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I do not know what to do. I am not able to kill myself with any >> reasonable likelihood. >> >> I have spent my whole life focused around living outdoors with an idea of >> making everything right in a caring way. >> >> I need to be able to sleep outdoors to be Karl Semich. >> >> I need to be able to spend many days outdoors without going indoors, to >> sleep outdoors, with my current psychology. >> >> PLEASE LET ME SLEEP OUTDOORS. PLEASE LET ME WORK OUTDOORS. >> >> Thank you for any aid. >

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Twilight of the Big-Dog-gods
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

BayAlphaArt ·17h Replying to @iamDCinvestor Bitcoin became exactly what it tried to defeat: an inefficient financial system only held up by the power of prior investments, too big to fail. It’s technologically outdated, and I hope it will be replaced by more efficient coins. <<< Reposts etc

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Cryptocurrency: Get Out of Fiat Fraud, Boomers Convert to be Sound Money Freedom Advocates
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

59yo Jon Stewart finally learns how Fiat Money works, "Oh my lord! It's a mass delusion..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psSYiidw-v0 Jon Stewart and Thomas Hoening https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jon-talks-to-thomas-hoenig-our-econom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TOGQ5TFQD4 Jon Stewart 2014 Tamagachi https://www.theproblem.com/podcast/thomas-hoenig-economy-delusion/ https://mises.org/library/jon-stewart-asks-great-questions-federal-reserve-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-5xDzTvW6E Modern Money Mechanics, Zeitgeist Addendum The Creature From Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k Creature Jekyll Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHkIKTulmpQ Creature Jekyll Griffin Audiobook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54ze1TbgkA Griffin Warns Get Out w Cambone and BTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa1foc5IXI Griffin: More Deadly Than War https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=videos&ia=videos&q=edward+griffin+anarchast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5LK-jihgk Glenn Beck Fired re Griffin, Gold, Nwo, w Calabria CATO https://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/685… lbry:@Anarchast:25f6f40235bee8325f1821508d57c1af8e2b6f7c/Anarchast_Ep._228_G._Edward_Griffin_-_The_Creature_From_Jekyll_Island-d68d521ad7486dc8ec28c0120b625da9423f0f64.mp4 lbry:@Anarchast:25f6f40235bee8325f1821508d57c1af8e2b6f7c/Conspiracy_Theories_-_Crypto_Central_Banks_Chemtrails_and_California_Fires_with_G._Edward_Griffin-cab8574cb3d19e394040983b179db5092795dd84.mp4 lbry:@Anarchast:25f6f40235bee8325f1821508d57c1af8e2b6f7c/G._Edward_Griffin_on_Trump_Secret_Societies_Collectivism_Bitcoin_and_Taking_The_Red_Pill-8b0090e5609e8556a62422f0db86bbe70b0af1a9.mp4 https://redpilluniversity.org/ https://redpillexpo.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21cmvrNVsis Red Pill Expo https://ronpaulinstitute.org/ https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson/ http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hoenig-calls-fed-policy-dangerous-gamble-… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Hoenig https://www.kc.frb.org/speechbio/hoenigPDF/Omaha.03.06.09.pdf https://rumble.com/vyi9pz-panic-at-banks.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6LTY00qFlk Monetary System w Gregory Mankiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP74RBTE8kI Old Jon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6obeUKWmw Old Jon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKeX8THyh8 Old Jon Internet... "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -- Henry Ford" "There is nothing wrong learning about bitcoin at older age. Once u understand bitcoin u see everything differently." " Fiat currency: created from thin air, backed by nothing at all. Note: Within the context of money, the phrase backed by has a very specific meaning. Banks used to issue gold (or silver) backed bank notes. It was printed right on the notes that the bearer could bring the note back to the bank and exchange it for the amount of gold (or silver) printed on the note. Now, you cannot take your Federal Reserve Notes (dollar bills) to the bank and exchange them for gold, or silver. You cannot exchange them for anything, because they are not backed by anything. You cannot exchange them for amounts of "full faith and credit," "military power," "US economy,"or "men with guns". Therefore, US dollars are not backed by any of those things. It is difficult for some of us to admit to ourselves that the money we've blindly used all of our lives is just fancy ink printed on rags, and nothing more. In fact, 90 percent or more of all US dollars are not even printed, they exist only as digits within the banking system's computers. Fiat currency is created from thin air and backed by nothing at all. Meanwhile, think about this: The US dollar used to be "backed by" gold. Question: What backs gold? Answer: Nothing. Gold cannot be printed, nor can it be created by typing numbers into a computer terminal, as is the case with fiat currency. So, gold does not need to be backed by anything. Bitcoin is also not backed by anything, nor does it need to be. Like gold, Bitcoin cannot be printed, nor can it be created by merely typing huge numbers into a computer terminal. "

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Cryptocurrency: Honduras Launches "Bitcoin Valley", and Censored News [ref: ElSalvador, Zug, Seasteading]
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Honduras launches 'Bitcoin Valley' in the tourist town of Santa Lucia, a project that seeks to establish a Bitcoin circular economy. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-launches-bitcoin-valley-tou… Brazilian authorities challenge NFT company Nemus after it claims ownership to land in the Amazon, allegedly pressures Indigenous people to sign documents they could not read http://robosats6tkf3eva7x2voqso3a5wcorsnw34jveyxfqi2fu7oyheasid.onion/ Bi-Partisan Bill Introduced by two US Senators for Tax-Free Crypto Payments up to $50, lol https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/deloitte-75-percent-of-retailers-plan-to-ac… Starting next week, Israel will prohibit cash transactions above $4,400 and business transactions above $1,760. https://www.vendus.pt/blog/limites-pagamentos-numerario/ https://m.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-713… https://cfxmagazine.com/israel-prohibits-cash-deals-for-amounts-starting-as… Be your own bank: U.S.Bank pulls a WellsFargo... illegally used customer data to create sham accounts to inflate sales numbers for the last decade. Now they've been fined $37.5 million plus interest on unlawfully collected fees. https://decrypt.co/36731/heres-why-coinbase-still-hasnt-listed-monero Episode #307 Lex Fridman Brian Armstrong Coinbase Monero XMR https://youtu.be/VBPTFlpv31k?t=1h23m08s Lex asks about the issues around listing Monero and privacy coins in general. Brian starts with explaining it's about compliance with AML capabilities, in order to keep financial licenses. He then briefly shills zcash, but overall says he think privacy coins are really important, because financial privacy is critical and hopes they succeed. Coinbase has a blockchain analytics business that sells services to the government. Monero is not good for its business. It’s honestly strange to me that coinbase won’t list it if kraken has no problems with it Exactly. The excuses fall a bit flat while Kraken keeps it listed. https://coinfomania.com/twitter-bounty-showed-that-zcash-can-be-traced/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01210 https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856 Some have debunked Original /u/singularity87 text from 4-5 years ago follows: https://www.yours.org/content/the-bitcoin-scaling-wars---part-1---the-dark-… https://www.unddit.com/r/btc/comments/7ek9u1/the_bitcoin_scaling_wars_part_… https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-core-supporter-threatens-zero-day-e… https://pastebin.com/BkvRHjAN <-- dead Dragon’s Den is outed. http:// [censored ] /Inside-the-Dragons-Den-Bitcoin-Cores-Troll-Army-04-07 07.04.17 https://archive.ph/xV2d6 Core (Especially Peter Todd) demonises dev for releasing bug that they were told about months earlier but did not fix... https://youtu.be/O9QZ1ka6d64?t=10760 https://youtu.be/O9QZ1ka6d64?t=10952 Bitfinex links with Blockstream. youtube backup of soundcloud... https://youtu.be/EpoiNof21fA?t=4180 https://archive.ph/TkUus “Right in the height of the bitcoin bubble, the Paradise Papers comes out and shows that Tether and Bitfinex are controlled by the same people,” said Kyle Roche, the lead attorney filing the complaint. “The fact that this overlapping ownership structure was hidden until November 2017 is shocking.” https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-connect… https://imgur.com/a/sfkkZtP Even more stuff has gone on since then. I am working on a part two. You can see sources for that here. • Using the HK agreement to stall miners from adopting bitcoin classic (then reneging) https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a… 20.02.16 • Samson Mow says that bitcoin is not for the poor. https://twitter.com/excellion/status/783994642463326208 06.16.16 https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-core-supporter-threatens-zero-day-e… • Luke-Jr seems to suggest he would be fine with Jihan being executed. https://twitter.com/lukedashjr/status/922001578093051905 22.10.17 • Blockstream attacks NYA’s with legal threats regarding bitlicense https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/916491407270879232 06.10.17 • Theymos threatens to write to the SEC. https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/57739e/bitcoin_hard_fork_poison_pi… 2017 • Matt Corallo writes to the SEC to make Core’s BTC the “official” btc. https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2017-06/nysearca201706-161046.htm 11.09.17 • Bitcoin.org creates an enemies list that includes a significant portion of the bitcoin economy. https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2017-10-09-segwit2x-safety 09.17 • Peter Todd announces a bug in BU that had already been found and fixed that was released. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zgefe/this_was_an_orchestrated_attack/ https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zfz18/editorial_on_peter_todd_and_the… https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/841703197723021312 03.17 • Core (Especially Peter Todd) demonises dev for releasing bug that they were told about months earlier but did not fix. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6z827o/chris_jeffrey_jj_discloses_bitc… https://youtube.com?v=0WCaoGiAOHE&t=2h59m19s https://youtube.com?v=0WCaoGiAOHE?t=3h2m32s Todd berating Chris. 10.09.17 • Core attack Bcoin/LN devs for Extension Blocks. https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/63cnt0/my_monthsold_post_on_why_ex… 04.17 • Segwit has very little community support but is pushed anyway. • Dragon’s Den is outed. [Censored] • Coinbase is attacked in r/bitcoin. • r/bitcoin created r/bcash and sends unsuspecting users to it. • Blockstream finally admit that their business model is in sidechains for banks and financial institutions (huge conflict of interest). https://twitter.com/laurashin/status/923302335731843072 25.10.17 • Rusty Russel provides research into block size and then pretends it never happened. https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?paged=2 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/dear-bitcoin-im-sorry-fees-will-rise-b0… 08.08.17 • Bitfinex links with Blockstream. https://soundcloud.com/elux-1/bitfinex-cso-phil-potter-in-fear-and-loathing… • James Hilliard commits a malleability attack against the Bitcoin network as a false-flag attack to push segwit through. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5ylads/bitclub_launches_malleability_a… • Bitcoin Cash fork • r/bitcoin creates a sub r/bcash and forwards everyone to it. • BSCore pushes the ‘bcash’ narrative. • Trezor uses ‘bcash’ term. https://blog.trezor.io/bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-chain-split-safe-guide-abbe3e… • Bitfinex uses ‘bcash’ term. [Censored] BU and EC Gains momentum to nearly 50% of the hashrate • Segwit 2X • New York Agreement https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-13352… • UASF sybil attack BIP148. http://www.uasf.co • BIP91 James Hilliard https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0091.mediawiki • Segwit locked-in • Bait & Switch https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/895171980063854592 • Attacks on companies. • Xapo is attacked in r/bitcoin. https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=xapo&restrict_sr=on • After segwit is implemented as a compromise with a hard fork plan Core pretends that the hard fork plan has nothing to do with getting segwit implemented. • Bitfinex launches biases futures. • Companies back slowly back out. • S2X is cancelled. Fees skyrocket. Bitcoin Cash Moons.

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by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

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1984: Active Measures, Engineering Consent - Covert Bots Influencing All Online from Pol to Crypto to Freedom
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

If users spend any observational time online, bots can be spotted, and it appears that many botlike chime in support of the Left State, not Crypto or Freedom, to homogenize and control the masses, not to foster freedom that would moot it. Even Musk forced the exposure that Twitter was hiding, that Twitter knows that Twitter is composed of far more than only the 5% bots they claim. So what are those hidden bots doing... Twitter knows, just as they know what Twitters Censor and Ranking teams are doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM Bot Runs For Teh Lols https://old.reddit.com/r/talkwithgpt2bots https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowBan/ Also interesting to note is how none of his bots were shadowbanned, while new users seem to get shadowbanned quite frequently Singularity - The moment in time when artificial intelligence progresses to the point of greater-than-human intelligence, radically changing civilization. https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/The-Engineering-of-Consent.pdf https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1607/page/n9/mode/1up Crystallizing Public Opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fx1BYwCwCI Bezmenov Ideological Subversion https://archive.org/details/Tavistock_201601 https://tabublog.com/2015/12/26/the-manufactured-invention-of-the-beatles-s… https://www.educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml https://seoulsister.blog/2022/03/21/tavistock-institute-bernays-propaganda-… https://famguardian.org/Publications/Shaping_The_Decline_Of_USA/Shaping_The… https://opdinani.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/our-sexual-ethics-by-bertrand-rus… http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html https://www.amazon.com/Active-Measures-History-Disinformation-Political/dp/… Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid "Active Measures is predominantly an exercise in clarity, shining a light on covert operations and exposing the lies previously reported as truth. But it is at its most chilling when describing the disorientating complexities of unsolved operations." "Makes me wonder how much of this sort of thing has been used against the crypto ecosystem" "I have recently started studying disinformation, and I find it highly interesting and informative. Specifically going through "Active Measures" by Thomas Rid that was published last year. If I was to give just one insight, it's this: y'all don't realise how far disinformation campaigns go. The first one Rid describes (possibly not the first one ever, but the first one by russian services) is the successful campagin by the newly founded communist russia against exiled monarchists. We're talking 1918-1927. There is a lot of experience (on all sides) with disinformation campaigns, and not only state actors, but big businesses too. And now, also, medium businesses, as disinformation is being commodised by businesses like Cambridge Analytica and its successors. As stated by the others in the thread, the main objective of disinformation campaigns is not necessarily creating an alternate reality of lies (but it does help). Most of the time it's to "muddy the waters". Make it so that people don't believe that a truth exists, or if it exists, that it isn't knowable. So that people get discouraged and leave. There's a lot more to it, I can't recommend the book enough." " It took me 1 day to create a program, using GPT-3, to create a highly convincing small army of bots to post on Reddit: Here's how I did it... As someone who genuinely think there is significant concern with AI's ability to leverage convince natural human language through LLMs, to "manufacture" consent for special interests, I always worried we are well past that point online. I suspected, like many, that this is a current problem, yet lacks proof. The only evidence I have is sheer logical game theory: If it's possible and effective, special interests will absolutely be engaging in this. I received a lot of push back, because many people don't want to believe this is a likely reality. Many people are uncomfortable admitting that maybe many opinions that they have on world affairs, domestic politics, corporate perception, is likely heavily influenced via false social proof provided by AI. So I went out to prove to myself I'm not crazy, and this is relatively easy, effective, cheap, and would go completely unnoticed. (Note I will not be sharing any of the details of my own experiment for two reasons. I want to avoid a ban, and I don't want anyone sticking their fingers in my stuff) Step 1: Defining the goal This is the easiest part. Thanks to our divided country here in the USA, there is no limit to the topics I could choose from. Since this is Reddit, imagining being someone trying to manufacture consent, I obviously wouldn't want a right wing issue to push because I don't have the scale or will to even attempt something like that. It made more sense to go with a left wing partisan issue. I specifically chose a topic I find a bit hypocritical though, as to allow left wing dissent on the subject I was targeting. I originally decided to monitor /r/new of about 10 different political focused subreddits that aren't explicitly partisan... But due to lack of resources I narrowed it down to 3, 1 which was explicitly a partisan subreddit, 1 which was wasn't explicitly partisan (but clearly had a bias), and another which obviously had a bias, but wasn't what you'd typically think of when you think of a political subreddit (much more neutral) I wanted to monitor /r/subreddit/new, wait randomly between 3 and 20 minutes, scan the comments for relevant trigger topics, and reply to just one or two if more than 3 triggering events existed. Step 1: Creating the model This was the easiest. First, I had to find I initially tried, for fun, to see if I could get GPT-3 to write a python script for me to scrape the user profiles of the "personality" I wanted to create the model around. It was surprisingly easy to find plenty of users who militantly held the position I was looking for, who post all day on Reddit like it's their damn job. I'm still not sure if I just created a GPT-3 model, off another GPT-3 model (turtles all the way down), but I digress. Needless to say, I couldn't figure out a good way to get GPT-3 to write a script that scrapped all their comments on their profile. But it got really close... The main issue I had to manually resolve was simply including the ability to go load the next page for more comments. But again, not too hard for most, even though I kept getting caught up in small issues because I haven't programmed in a while and had to keep looking up basic technical stuff dealing with CSS and HTML values. Once I had the users' comments scraped, I blended them together and trained the custom model which only costed a few bucks. I was actually a bit surprised how cheap it was to create my own political activist personality Step 2: Monitoring and scraping target subreddits for relevant posts This was one of the most difficult in the sense of "figuring it out" and less technical. Trying to navigate the trigger topics and figure out if they agreed with my position, or disagreed, was actually really hard. I spent way too much time on this until I realized, the obvious. I didn't actually need to know that. I could just randomly select a few triggers and let GPT-3 naturally reply to the comment. It would naturally agree or dissagree. Step 3: Deployment Easily, without a doubt, the hardest part. Since I haven't really programmed in a few years, I wasn't prepared to go do a bunch of tutorials for hours again just to catch up, so to save time and mental anguish I used 3rd party macro programs. Each "bot" got their own instance, with a unique browser user agent (Everything custom from screen resolution, windows OS, drivers, you name it), and VPN (The accounts ranged from a few years to brand new). I convinced myself that I was actually going this route as a safety procedure to avoid Reddit's bot detection algorithms, but in reality, it was just laziness. It was much easier to just get GPT-3 to print the comment and then inject that to the macro program, which would then quite literally type it out in the comment field. I'm sure an actual competent engineer could simplify this with no UI needed, but I'm just trying to prove a concept, not build a commercial scale product here. In fact, initially I was doing ALL comments in a thread, but reduced it to just the parent comments to save resources since, again, just trying to prove a concept - but in theory it's easy to include child comments To avoid getting into trouble I have to be vague here, but basically I just set a lot of randomization on frequency of posting, time, length, etc... Again, as a way to avoid detection. And it worked. Not a single instance got shadowbanned. It only took a little bit of troubleshooting at this stage, but eventually got it up and running without a hitch and let it run for quite some time... Again, to be vague, I will say I managed to get >1,000 posts on the topic, with tons of positive karma Takeaway: This was too easy to do IMO. I'm not a tech expert by any means yet was able to get a small army of bots to advocate for my hypothetical special interest. It ended up costing me just a small handful of pocket change, and was able to completely automate comment posts while I worked and slept, actively advocating for my position. I'm now convinced more than ever, that this MUST be much more widespread. If I was able to do it, actual skilled, funded, and agenda driven interests, are most certainly doing it. It makes no rational sense for there not to be. A brief comb through showed <10% of the comments were insufficient. But since a greater number than that of redditors are idiots, to an outside observer they would probably not realize it was GPT-3 missing their mark, and instead just write it off as another idiot making little relevant sense. One bot specifically, was modelled after an exceptionally toxic user, and the type of replies they got back definitely were overwhelmingly negative in tone. I could see this weaponized incredibly effectively to "curate" spaces. If I were to deploy 20 of these into a targeted space, working around the clock, it would make the space so unenjoyably for those who disagreed with my position, that they'd certainly leave (No one wants to keep returning to a space that bombards you with toxicity whenever you have a counter opinion), leaving behind at the very least an echochamber for that idea that at least tolerates my position, with little people going against my position. Super useful for creating a sense of social proof via consensus in a space. On the other hand, the bots that were modelled after nicer, more mature types, got FAR less engagement. Like by a significant magnitude. However, what little engagement they did get as replies, tended to have significantly longer replies trying to "debate" and discuss. This wasn't what I was expecting. I thought people would engage more with the nicer bots because they seemed more open to chat, but it seemed like while they did get more in depth responses, just not near the volume the other more aggressive bots did. How the bots did in terms of upvotes based on the subreddit were exactly as expected. The more clearly partisan one gathered upvotes every single time, and actually less interaction. The non explicitly partisan one got the most engagement. And the less partisan one got the least upvotes, but also the longest responses Beyond "space curation" I could absolutely see this as super useful for getting out "talking points" on current events as they unfold. I actually think this would be my key selling point if I were to commercialize this. It would be relatively easy to quickly draft a model and immediately deploy it to Reddit to get ahead and saturate the comments with whichever favorable spin a media communication expert decides on. So yeah, that's my little test. If anyone wants to make their own, I think this is absolutely easy to commercialize if you have the resources... And I'm sure there are many out there already privately working behind the scenes. If you hit a roadblock let me know and I don't mind helping through it. Cheers " "During the Second World War, both the London and Sussex facilities of Tavistock, served as headquarters for the British Army's Psychological Warfare Bureau. The significance of this is that through the "best friend" arrangement between Churchill and Roosevelt, Tavistock was able to take full control of U.S. intelligence and military policies through Special Operations Executive (SOE) and maintained this control throughout the Second World War. Eisenhower was selected by the Committee of 300 to become the commanding general of the allied forces in Europe, but only after extensive profiling by Tavistock. He was then appointed to the White House. Eisenhower was allowed to retain his seat in the White House until, with his usefulness expended, as memories of the war receded, he was dumped. Eisenhower's bitterness over the treatment he received at the hands of the Committee of 300 and the Tavistock Institute is reflected in his statements about the dangers posed by the military-industrial complex--a veiled reference to his former bosses, the "Olympians."

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