Here’s how I would do it.
We have established on another forum that I’m a bad person.
Not Evil, Just Bad. I think I also mentioned that my hobby
is world domination through psycho-eeeleeectronic methods.
While I can admire the equipment and methods Mr. Dice outlines below from a professional standpoint my hobbyist budget precludes me from utilizing such extravagant solutions.
So, how would I do it on the Cheap using the Keep it Simple principal?
I came across a patent many, many years ago for a method to manipulate frequencies a monitor produced to induce certain responses from subjects in proximity to those monitors.
As in a pulse of frequency of ‘X’ will produce general irritation in the subject.
A little different pulse might produce anxiety.
Maybe a pulse of frequency ‘Y produces fear.
And so on.
Cool. So I really don’t need all that subliminal stuff, those embedded messages in videos or any voice embedding technology – just a little duct tape, a bad attitude and I’m gonna MacGyver you up some Conditioning that would make Skinner blush.
Next I need to identify susceptible subjects – maybe via what news they watch, media they consume, websites visited, or games played. Pretty easy if you are one of the big guys – they just pull your profile, remember though I’m working on a budget and am going to have to get the information the way everyone else does – buy it from the big guys. Wining.
At this point we will have identified subjects favorable towards our conditioning – maybe they lean politically towards our goals or are more vulnerable emotionally to conditioning in general.
Now (finally) we connect the pulse (stimulus) that produces the response with a topic.
It goes like this: The subject is surfing the web minding their own business when they play a video, news clip, commentary, podcast and the video concerns the Topic of the day: ‘Trump’.
The site delivering the video identifies (knows) the viewer as a certain type and delivers the appropriate ‘pulse/stimulus’ during the presentation. This allows tailored stimulus down to the individual level.
The monitor is pulsed and the subject receives a stimulus of fear or anxiety directly into their brain (triggering an adrenaline rush? Don’t go there yet lol).
Let’s say on an average day the subject receives 20 news ‘pulses’.
Trump = Pulse X 20 × 365. Every Day.
Soon you have a group of people who just want the topic of ‘Trump’ to stop.
To just go away.
Don’t care how or why just make ‘Trump’ end.
The topic becomes intolerable.
Observation shows that when the stimulus is removed the subjects demonstrate astonishing indifference/disinterest in the outcome or any follow up to the topic for or against what was moments ago a strongly held opinion.
Subjects seem to go inert until the programming starts anew with a new target or topic.
To sum up -
While I think the technology Mr. Dice is talking about below is elegant and sophisticated and seriously appeals to the juvenile delinquent in me, realistically I’ll never get to play with it.
I do think however that with the general concepts I’ve presented above I can deliver a programming solution just as effective, with value added that is quickly re-targetable (re-programmable) with granularity from large groups down to individuals – providing for various levels of stimulus, producing a wide range of desired responses — for a tenth the cost of big players. ;-)
In all seriousness.
We are bags of protoplasm. Mostly water. And giant antennas.
Forget AI – we are vulnerable to lowly algorithms and the immense speed advantages that computers provide when your credit and a few other indicators are checked before a price for your next flight is quoted by unscrupulous corporations. ‘Roadkill on the internet highway.’
What I have outlined here is a crude tool (the pulse) that can be used in a fine tuned fashion by (only because of) the use of systems to provide organization/categorization/information processing and response.
We Are All Part Of The Feedback Loop Now.
Think what a corporation might do with unfettered access to your psychological profiles, an ability to manipulate your emotions to an extreme degree unknown to you and no morals or ethics at all in pursuit of profit and power.
You Are Being Programmed. All the Time. From Everywhere.
We have established on another forum that I’m a bad person.
Not Evil, Just Bad. I think I also mentioned that my hobby
is world domination through psycho-eeeleeectronic methods.
While I can admire the equipment and methods Mr. Dice outlines below from a professional standpoint my hobbyist budget precludes me from utilizing such extravagant solutions.
So, how would I do it on the Cheap using the Keep it Simple principal?
I came across a patent many, many years ago for a method to manipulate frequencies a monitor produced to induce certain responses from subjects in proximity to those monitors.
As in a pulse of frequency of ‘X’ will produce general irritation in the subject.
A little different pulse might produce anxiety.
Maybe a pulse of frequency ‘Y produces fear.
And so on.
Cool. So I really don’t need all that subliminal stuff, those embedded messages in videos or any voice embedding technology – just a little duct tape, a bad attitude and I’m gonna MacGyver you up some Conditioning that would make Skinner blush.
Next I need to identify susceptible subjects – maybe via what news they watch, media they consume, websites visited, or games played. Pretty easy if you are one of the big guys – they just pull your profile, remember though I’m working on a budget and am going to have to get the information the way everyone else does – buy it from the big guys. Wining.
At this point we will have identified subjects favorable towards our conditioning – maybe they lean politically towards our goals or are more vulnerable emotionally to conditioning in general.
Now (finally) we connect the pulse (stimulus) that produces the response with a topic.
It goes like this: The subject is surfing the web minding their own business when they play a video, news clip, commentary, podcast and the video concerns the Topic of the day: ‘Trump’.
The site delivering the video identifies (knows) the viewer as a certain type and delivers the appropriate ‘pulse/stimulus’ during the presentation. This allows tailored stimulus down to the individual level.
The monitor is pulsed and the subject receives a stimulus of fear or anxiety directly into their brain (triggering an adrenaline rush? Don’t go there yet lol).
Let’s say on an average day the subject receives 20 news ‘pulses’.
Trump = Pulse X 20 × 365. Every Day.
Soon you have a group of people who just want the topic of ‘Trump’ to stop.
To just go away.
Don’t care how or why just make ‘Trump’ end.
The topic becomes intolerable.
Observation shows that when the stimulus is removed the subjects demonstrate astonishing indifference/disinterest in the outcome or any follow up to the topic for or against what was moments ago a strongly held opinion.
Subjects seem to go inert until the programming starts anew with a new target or topic.
To sum up -
While I think the technology Mr. Dice is talking about below is elegant and sophisticated and seriously appeals to the juvenile delinquent in me, realistically I’ll never get to play with it.
I do think however that with the general concepts I’ve presented above I can deliver a programming solution just as effective, with value added that is quickly re-targetable (re-programmable) with granularity from large groups down to individuals – providing for various levels of stimulus, producing a wide range of desired responses — for a tenth the cost of big players. ;-)
In all seriousness.
We are bags of protoplasm. Mostly water. And giant antennas.
Forget AI – we are vulnerable to lowly algorithms and the immense speed advantages that computers provide when your credit and a few other indicators are checked before a price for your next flight is quoted by unscrupulous corporations. ‘Roadkill on the internet highway.’
What I have outlined here is a crude tool (the pulse) that can be used in a fine tuned fashion by (only because of) the use of systems to provide organization/categorization/information processing and response.
We Are All Part Of The Feedback Loop Now.
Think what a corporation might do with unfettered access to your psychological profiles, an ability to manipulate your emotions to an extreme degree unknown to you and no morals or ethics at all in pursuit of profit and power.
You Are Being Programmed. All the Time. From Everywhere.