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Does anyone else feel like we're already in WWIII and these are asymmetric attacks?
Could very well be. Chip away at the infrastructure and the wherewithal and all it'll take is promises and a little free cheese then subjugation is your reward for being unaware.

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Look into Palantir. Basically using AI with tons of data to try and apply the butterfly effect to warfare.

Sorta like killing some duke in a far away land resulting in the launch of a world war. Nothing new here. It's been done.

One snowflake can trigger an avalanche.

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Sorta like killing some duke in a far away land resulting in the launch of a world war. Nothing new here. It's been done.

One snowflake can trigger an avalanche.

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Sort of, but way more subtle. Think like causing a key general to have a bout of depression by showing him a picture of a duck.

We know it works because of the 2016 election, we just don't quite know the full extent. Like the duck example, we don't know if something that sophisticated is possible, but it would seem so.

So let's say regarding the grease factory, maybe that could delay delivery on some armored personnel carriers. Then let's say the pentagon needs to strategically move some armor somewhere, and they're forced to go to plan B because 1st division didn't get its delivery, meaning they have to stand them down and call in 2nd division. Maybe 2nd division is the B team, or maybe they're further away and take more time to mobilize, who knows. Or maybe their commander is the one who's going to see the duck on invasion night.
 

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Sort of, but way more subtle. Think like causing a key general to have a bout of depression by showing him a picture of a duck.

We know it works because of the 2016 election, we just don't quite know the full extent. Like the duck example, we don't know if something that sophisticated is possible, but it would seem so.

So let's say regarding the grease factory, maybe that could delay delivery on some armored personnel carriers. Then let's say the pentagon needs to strategically move some armor somewhere, and they're forced to go to plan B because 1st division didn't get its delivery, meaning they have to stand them down and call in 2nd division. Maybe 2nd division is the B team, or maybe they're further away and take more time to mobilize, who knows. Or maybe their commander is the one who's going to see the duck on invasion night.

I think you mean "duke" instead of "duck" or am I missing something?

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I think you mean "duke" instead of "duck" or am I missing something?

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Haha, no. If there's one thing we learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal it's that this AI stuff is really effective at getting inside people's heads. It can process millions of times more information than we can and notice patterns that we miss just because our brains aren't capable of processing that much data.

So like for example, you could write an algorithm that instructs the AI to find weaknesses in a targeted individual. Let's say your humint operations have revealed that General Soandso is prone to depressive episodes, during which he makes bad choices. Drinks too much, bets on the ponies, uses prostitutes and pornography, whatever.

A human would maybe try to like sneak a honey pot in or something like that. Whereas an AI might actually be able to trigger a depressive episode. Let's say the guy's depression stems from something that happened to him as a kid. Maybe his dad abused him. Maybe something bad happened on a duck hunting trip. The AI doesn't even have to have that information to notice a trigger. All it has to do is process lots of data and notice patterns, like seeing ducks or references to duck hunting correlate to this guy's pornography consumption.

And I'm sure that's an extremely simplistic example. In reality it's way more subtle than that even. In truth, I don't think anyone really understands how it works, just that it does. That's actually a common thread with AI. Nobody really knows how it does what it does, and it can't explain it to us obviously. All we know from the CA scandal is that it works really well, and in very mysterious ways.
 

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Haha, no. If there's one thing we learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal it's that this AI stuff is really effective at getting inside people's heads. It can process millions of times more information than we can and notice patterns that we miss just because our brains aren't capable of processing that much data.

So like for example, you could write an algorithm that instructs the AI to find weaknesses in a targeted individual. Let's say your humint operations have revealed that General Soandso is prone to depressive episodes, during which he makes bad choices. Drinks too much, bets on the ponies, uses prostitutes and pornography, whatever.

A human would maybe try to like sneak a honey pot in or something like that. Whereas an AI might actually be able to trigger a depressive episode. Let's say the guy's depression stems from something that happened to him as a kid. Maybe his dad abused him. Maybe something bad happened on a duck hunting trip. The AI doesn't even have to have that information to notice a trigger. All it has to do is process lots of data and notice patterns, like seeing ducks or references to duck hunting correlate to this guy's pornography consumption.

And I'm sure that's an extremely simplistic example. In reality it's way more subtle than that even. In truth, I don't think anyone really understands how it works, just that it does. That's actually a common thread with AI. Nobody really knows how it does what it does, and it can't explain it to us obviously. All we know from the CA scandal is that it works really well, and in very mysterious ways.
Makes me wonder what it thinks of me ...

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