08 / November 9

Police and Thieves

“The generative model can be thought of as analogous to a team of counterfeiters, trying to produce fake currency and use it without detection, while the discriminative model is analogous to the police, trying to detect the counterfeit currency.”
— Ian J. Goodfellow, et al.

Topics

GANs, discriminative models, transformers, diffusion models; SBF, FTX, effective altruists / effective accelerationists / Zizians; psyop to mindwar to likewar; hybrid war, asymmetry, and 4GW; Equation Group v. Shadow Brokers — DANDERSPIRITZ, EWOKFRENZY, WANNACRY; exfiltration doxware; Clearview AI, Flock/Deflock; memetic warfare, social credit, affective computing, and pseudoPSI; autoasymmetry — the Inversion, bots, celeb followbots; arcana imperii, secretum, mysterium; hidden layers in neural nets, walled gardens, encrypted comms; reciprocal panopticism — Reddit karma, 4chan degraded threads, 8kun tripcodes; one-way mirrors — DARPA’s Lifelog to Meta Portal; criminogenic banks, BCCI to In-Q-Tel; Meta captology and BJ Fogg’s persuasive computing

Readings 1

from Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do BJ Fogg

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3

Generative Adversarial Nets Ian J. Goodfellow, et al. Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis Andrew Brock, et al. The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

Lab

TBD