Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
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Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
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Re: Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
#2So true and a great way to think of it.
I moved to weighing the benefits of proving someone wrong vs. ignoring and nodding. Will help to reduce the number of arguments you get into and make room for the important ones.
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#3Just wait till bots/ai gets good enough to spout bullshit. Just fill forums with thousands of argue-bots and you might be able to make the noise ratio so bad the internet is unusable.
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#4Just wait till bots/ai gets good enough to spout bullshit. Just fill forums with thousands of argue-bots and you might be able to make the noise ratio so bad the internet is unusable.
That's already the case, I think.
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#5Decent article. If you want more along these lines try Cryptome: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
The strategies of information are fundamentally the same as for other forms of warfare, but the operational calculus is very different.
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#6Just wait till bots/ai gets good enough to spout bullshit. Just fill forums with thousands of argue-bots and you might be able to make the noise ratio so bad the internet is unusable.
"Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755
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#7I would have expected the article to say something about election meddling via social media. Citizens are denied access to true information by drowning it in fake news.
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#8Decent article. If you want more along these lines try Cryptome: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm The strategies of information are fundamentally the same as for other forms of warfare, but the operational calculus is very different.
Excellent link. This is what people whose job is to protect fair and safe elections should be reading.
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#9Decent article. If you want more along these lines try Cryptome: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm The strategies of information are fundamentally the same as for other forms of warfare, but the operational calculus is very different.
Thank you for this link! I knew others must have covered this ground more systematically than I could.
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#10See also the Gish Gallop - a debating technique named after the creationist Duane Gish, which involves making as many specious arguments as quickly as possible. An unprepared opponent is likely to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of points they need to refute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
A variant of this technique is now standard in competitive debating, creating a truly absurd spectacle; most teams speak as quickly as humanly possible to fit the greatest number of arguments into a fixed time limit, creating a barely-intelligible blur of words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/09/26/corr...